Dark Humor

Brainwashed is a dark comedy about growing up in dictatorship. Alina creates absurd reality on stage to explore brainwashing techniques with the audience while sharing her experience of living in Belarus under a brutal regime. It's silly, bizarre, but also dark and vulnerable.

In 1977, Alfred Hitchcock, in the twilight of his career, meets with Mel Brooks to discuss a script that becomes High Anxiety. Loosely based on the lunches between two Hollywood legends, Pure Cinema explores their search for accountability, forgiveness, and tolerable hard boiled eggs.

The true story of how a comedian for teens convinced himself that he got Donald Trump elected.

When Duncan throws a dinner party for his long term partner, a secret that threatens to derail his entire life threatens to rear its ugly head. Having serious consequences for himself, and the people he claims to care for the most. A blend of Mystery, rom com, and psychological thriller.

3 Short Plays Concerning LOVE & DEATH

When recovering alcoholic Brianna gets an art show gig out of state she has to rely on her peppy yet overbearing mom Carrie for a ride there. A road trip comedy that turns into a chaotic unveiling of skeletons in their closets.

It's mostly jokes... mostly. Growing up with a bipolar father and a schizophrenic older brother left Aaron Foster with a comb of survivor's guilt, depression and anxiety that has invalidated his every accomplishment, destroyed his every relationship and invaded his every waking thought. A comedy!

A love song radio show where women (drag queens) call in and share their erotic adventures with radio personality, Shaniah. As the caller shares her story, the viewer is transported into her world. What's your love song dedication?

Siren Song is a solo show starring Dylan Jones who invokes acting icons Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Greta Garbo to knock what being a woman should look like off its pedestals with a little help from the myth of the Sirens and a ukulele. Fasten your seatbelt, it’ll be a bumpy night!

That grief, that anxiety, those intrusive thoughts, they all have nothing on you...right? OBSESSED explores the humor and pain that coexist when grief knocks down the walls we have up and compels the people we love to see right through us, even when we desperately don’t want them to.

Sunny & Finn are a rowdy queer couple living in a broken-down van in Venice Beach. When a nearby murder causes the city to issue a 48-hour sweep of their encampment, Sunny and Finn must rely on their wits and community to fix the van or lose everything they own.

Six strangers are invited to a wealthy man's 80th birthday dinner at home. Before long, it is revealed to them that they are much closer to one another than they thought. Chaos ensues as the guests participate in several activities which will determine who is most deserving of a very large prize!

A PRESENT-DAY WAITING FOR GODOT... HIGH ABOVE MANHATTAN, NEW YORK.

HFF DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP WINNER 2024. When Amireh, the matriarch of a British-Iranian family goes missing, her husband and children are thrust into an off-beat spiritual journey that forces them to contend with secrets, infidelity, death ceremonies, an investigation and the psychedelic drug DMT.

Experience Edgar Allan Poe’s signature dark, dismal, and depressing side. And also his little-known humorous side, when we take poetic license in imagining him doing parodies of himself! Also includes live music, a song about Poe, a clown raven dream dance, and Poe’s tribute to … Bob Dylan??