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Live In-Person Performances
Created by Griffin Sciarra
Seymour, IN
Scoundrel & Scamp – Thurs, Jan 8, 8:30pm, Sat, Jan 10, 3:30pm, and Sun, Jan 11, 6:30pm.
Griffin Sciarra wonders and wanders in this hilarious storytelling show. Sifting through a past of breakups, dead end jobs, and a grueling stand-up career–the comedian decides if it’s all been worth it or if this is his last show ever. Plus, what’s the deal with bipolar disorder? This show includes cameos from Kanye West and Randy Savage.
Content Warning: 18+.
Created by Adrian Cory
Tucson, AZ
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Thur, Jan 8, 7pm.
Amy, an intersectional feminist, begins to attract online abuse when she broadens her writing career as an op-ed columnist. While Amy accepts trolling as a necessary evil in her line of work, her world spirals out of control when her husband becomes a victim of doxxing. In Amy’s pursuit of the troll terrorizing her, she seeks help from an employee of Y? – a social media platform whose anti-woke owner is all about the first amendment. Can Amy draw the troll out and appeal to him to stop his onslaught or will the online threats break out into a real-world calamity?
Content Warning: 18+, Strong Language, Depictions or Discussion of Violence, Sexual Content.
Created by Amber Preston
Los Angeles, CA
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Sat, Jan 10, 5pm.
How do you grieve the life you planned while living the life you have? Veteran stand-up comic Amber Preston holds no punchlines and gets deeply personal about infertility in this truthful and frank solo show. Preston’s show FERN is a blend of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and plant facts. You’ll laugh, you might cry, but you’ll definitely want to call your mom. Or your favorite aunt. Or you’ll run out and buy a new plant. Amber Preston would be a fun mom. But she’s not.
Content Warning: 18+, Strong Language.
Two 20 minute long performances that will leave you wanting more.
Scoundrel & Scamp – Sat, Jan 10, 7pm
Omni Tutu (“Cool Waters”)
Created by Kimberly Miguel Mullen; San Diego, CA.
OMI TUTU (“Cool Waters”) is a ritual offering, a portal into the sacred waters that birth life, ancestral memory, and healing.
Content Warning: All Ages.
Re Turning
Created by FUNHOUSE movement theater; Tucson, AZ
Turning/Re Turning is a group work by Billbob Brown, with dancers Billbob Brown, Itzel Mecias, Sherry Mulholland and Bethanne Rose, based on spinning, reversing, reflecting, and remembering those who’ve passed on, through various folk-dance forms like the cárdás and contra dances.
Content Warning: All Ages.
Created by Pamela Leahigh
Washington, DC
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Sat, Jan 10, 3:30pm and Sun, Jan 11, 5pm.
“Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?” is a two-person show where the second person changes each show. That performer is given the script 24 hours before and is told on stage which part they are playing. Part scripted, part improvised, mostly comedy where we explore the two sides of a person and the struggle to sometimes balance the two. Given 4 stars and picked Best of Fringe by DC Theatre Arts, the play has been called a “tribute to the comedy gods.”
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Scott Cohen
San Francisco, CA
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Sat, Jan 10, 7pm and Sun, Jan 11, 2pm and 6:30pm.
Eccentric grandparents played a significant role in Scott’s childhood development. In this unapologetically nostalgic piece, he revisits memories from days gone by in the form of two stories. The first focuses on the centrality of black & white television and his grandfather’s love for it, the second on his grandmother’s unconventional views regarding the relative nature of time. Although Scott thinks he is just a narrator telling funny stories from long ago, he discovers that the border separating the past from the present is not so clearly marked.
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Leslie Goddard
Darien, IL
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Sat, Jan 10, 2pm and 8:30pm; Sun, Jan 11, 3:30pm.
Comedienne Lucille Ball captured the hearts of television audiences across the nation in the 1950s. Her wacky hijinks and plucky enthusiasm kept thousands laughing. Offscreen, she and real-life husband Desi Arnaz ran their own studio and broke new ground in television technologies. But what does it mean when a TV star’s on-screen legend clashes with her off-screen reality? In this biopic play, historian and actress Leslie Goddard brings Lucy to life, paying tribute to both the comic legend and the actual woman behind the myth.
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Old Pueblo Playwrights
Tucson, AZ
Scoundrel & Scamp – Fri, Jan 9, 7pm and Sat, Jan 10, 5pm.
Each of our two shows in the Fringe Festival present staged readings of different short plays. Each show is different, so see them both!
Friday night, Jan. 9, is David Rochon’s play “Boredom is Hell” – a 45-minute play about angels, demons, existential angst… and pie.
Saturday night, Jan. 10, we present three plays:
“Randy” by Mel Hector – a 10-minute play about the responsibility of dog ownership.
“Honey Nuts” by Mel Hector – a 30-minute play about bucking the trend in our society of humanizing monsters.
“Child Free” by Leslie Powell – a 10-minute play in which a mother’s decluttering reveals a daughter’s long buried secrets.
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Esperanza Dance Project
Tucson, AZ
Scoundrel & Scamp – Fri, Jan 9, 8:30pm.
ProjectRISE: Respect, Inspire, Support, Empower uses dance, music, and narrative to discuss issues of concern brought up by youth between the ages of 11 and 14 including unhealthy relationships, trauma, poor mental health, negative body image, safe social media use, and bullying. Following the performance, there will be an anonymous Q&A facilitated by our dancers who are trained Peer Advocates. We will also have corresponding curriculum packets available which include journaling prompts and resources.
Content Warning: All Ages.
Created by Harold Pinter and Performed by Ariel Pinkerton and Rob Ward.
Minneapolis, MN
Scoundrel & Scamp – Thur, Jan 8, 7pm; Sat, Jan 10, 8:30pm, and Sun, Jan 11, 3:30pm.
Two hit men wait in the basement of a long-abandoned restaurant for the arrival of their next victim. But when the ancient dumb waiter descends, it brings with it equal amounts of tension and absurdity, bringing them into violent conflict with each other.
Content Warning: 13+, Depictions or Discussions of Violence.
Created by Nicole Costantini
Atlanta, GA
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Thur, Jan 8, 8:30pm and Fri, Jan 9, 7pm.
The Emo Show traces one woman’s almost 25 year love affair with emo music. This performance explores the cultural phenomenon that was the early 2000s emo/pop-punk scene and what it means to grow up alongside the music you love. Starting with her experiences as a high schooler on the fringes of the New Jersey scene and ending with questions about what it means to now be an “elder emo,” the performer weaves together her personal narratives and the lessons she’s learned to demonstrate that it has always been more than “just a phase.”
Content Warning: 18+, Sexual Content.
Created by Rabbi Jenny “Skylark” Steinberg-Martinez, JD CHT
Joliet, IL
Scoundrel & Scamp – Sat, Jan 10, 12:30pm and Sun, Jan 11, 2pm.
Join Rabbi Jenny on a wild journey of story and song through twelve powerful Feminine Goddess and Archetypal energies and how they affected her personal transformation from trauma to wholeness. Using her powerful vocal instrument and authentic expressive ways, Rabbi Jenny takes the audience on a deep exploration, with laughter and love, in a glorious expression to bring the awareness of the Feminine to the world for transformation and balance.
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Sackerson
Salt Lake City, UT
Scoundrel & Scamp – Sat, Jan 10, 2pm and Sun, Jan 11, 12:30pm and 5pm.
Michael and Anna just click. On their first date, they find themselves staying up late, laughing, gabbing, and wide-eyed at their incredibly good luck in finding each other. Only weeks into their relationship, Anna wants to move in with him – but Michael has a secret that will change the course of their thirties. The Words At The Door is a trip through memory and a surrealist tour through guilt, grief, the white-hot heat of love, and what it means to finally let go.
Content Warning: 18+, Strong Language, Sexual Content.
Created by Rick “Wind” Herrera
Coolidge, AZ
Historic Y 2nd Floor Lobby – Fri, Jan 9, 8:30pm.
Rick goes on a funny and heartfelt journey reflecting on his childhood to fatherhood. His vivid memories growing up in Brooklyn New York and colorful characters, embraces the highs and lows of his life.
Rick is facing the fears of becoming a new father, while revisiting the anger and abandonment of not having his father around.
Content Warning: 13+, Strong Language.
Virtual Performances
Created by Philip Simondet
Minneapolis, MN
Vimeo – VOD from Thur, Jan 8 – Wed, Jan 14.
A multimedia solo show that looks at the American education system through the lens of the artist’s mental illness.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: child sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide.
Content Warning: 18+, Strong Language, Depictions or Discussion of Violence, Sexual Content.
Created by Kleo Pullin
Stillwater, OK
Live on Zoom – Thur, Jan 8, 7pm and Fri, Jan 9, 7pm.
‘More Porridge’ asks whether Johnson’s War on Poverty was truly any better than England’s Victorian workhouses. The United Kingdom’s New Poor Law designed foul spaces to deter the poor from seeking food or housing. More than a century after Dicken’s workhouses ignominiously disappeared, America’s War on Poverty remains tainted by long-term harm from equally inhumane policies. Can we discuss how to support the unhoused, the poor, and the nutritionally deficient in the United States today? How can we give both Oliver Twist and Olivia Johnson more than a second helping of thin gruel?
Content Warning: 18+, Loud Noises, Bright or Flashing Lights, Strong Language, Depictions or Discussion of Violence, Strong Political Content.
Created by Lisa Krol
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Vimeo – VOD from Thur, Jan 8 – Wed, Jan 14.
Enter the parlor of a forgotten age, where the veil between worlds grows thin. If the spirits are willing, your mysterious hostess, Lenore Kilgrave, will share strange phenomena, unsettling revelations, and moments that challenge your very eyes. Blending historical storytelling with atmospheric illusion, this immersive experience echoes a bygone era and will leave you questioning what really lies beyond. The table is set, and the whispers are waiting for you.
Content Warning: 13+.
Created by Parker Haynes
Seattle, WA
YouTube – VOD from Thur, Jan 8 – Wed, Jan 14.
After a traumatic incident, Bert seems to have his life back on-track. He’s a full-time student, an accomplished athlete, and an event coordinator…. He’s also an international trading expert, a distinguished doctor, an aircraft technician, andmaybe a bit too many other roles. The only thing he isn’t? Happy. One day, his workload coping finally fails, forcing him toaddress the worst habits (and memories) keeping him from a brighter future. Written and directed by Parker Haynes over the course of a week, the dramedy Whirlwind is a classic tale of re-claiming oneself from a spiral into misery.
Content Warning: 13+.