Past Productions

2024

Workshop: The Planet Earth Farewell Concert
The One
In the 2024 Hollywood Fringe:
-The Planet Earth Farewell Concert
-This Show Is Surrounded by True Events
-TYT 5

Special Events: Summer Theater Camp

2023

"The Misguided Gay Odyssey" from A TGNC READING FESTIVAL. Photo: Jase Alan

Raise Your Hand... From the DEAD!! -at the Hollywood Fringe
A TGNC Reading Festival
Workshop: mothers of god

Ongoing Projects: Ladder Up

Special Events: Summer Theater Camp

Season 25 (2021-2022)

Artistic Directors:
Scott Golden, Marc Antonio Pritchett & Vanessa Stewart

Photo from "How We Got On" by Jessica Sherman Photography

The Word
How We Got On
Staged Reading: There Is Evil In This House
Three Guys, One Groupon -at the Hollywood Fringe
Musical Workshop Presentation: A Midsummer Nightmare: The Musical Sequel to A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ongoing Projects: Ladder Up

Special Events: Start Now: Young Storyteller One-Act Play Contest, Summer Theater Camp

Season !? (2020-2021)

Artistic Directors:
Adriana Colón, Aviva Pressman, Marc Antonio Pritchett & Vanessa Stewart

Screenshot from "The Value of Moscow," edited by Chris Wehba

All events this season streamed online.

Reprise: Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine's
Reprise: Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Reprise: The Value of Moscow
Fakespeare -for the Together LA Virtual Stage Festival
Reprise: Watson
Reading: You, Me, & Adam Levine
Deadlift

Ongoing Shows & Projects: The Reprise Series, We the People, Foolish Films, NAKED Storytelling, Story Circle

Special Events: Sacred Fools' Virtual Holiday Open House, April 1 Zoom Donor Gala,  Summer Theater Camp

Season 23 (2019-2020)

Artistic Directors:
Adriana Colón, Scott Leggett, Aviva Pressman & Vanessa Stewart

Photo from "Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine's" by Jessica Sherman Photography

Deadly
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
The Sacred Lab: Pagliaccis
Impeachment LIVE!
Gifted
Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine's

Ongoing Shows & Projects: Fast & Loose, The Sacred Lab, Serial Killers, SFNW: The Sacred Fools New Works Reading Series, Foolish Thursdays (The League of Fools, The Joe & Joshua Show, We the People, SING! & Ten Tops)

Special Events: "Finding Your Voice: Season 23 Launch Party", Singing in SolitudeSummer Theater Camp

Season 22 (2018-2019)

Artistic Directors:
Adriana Colón, Bryan Bellomo, Scott Leggett & Aviva Pressman

Photo from "Too Heavy For Your Pocket" by Matt Kamimura

Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk -with Burglars of Hamm
The Value of Moscow
Too Heavy For Your Pocket
The Sacred Lab: In For a Penny
Tangerine Sunset
Foolery at the Fringe 2019:
-Come Back!
-The Birds
-Jordan Maverick, History Teacher

Ongoing Shows & Projects: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops, We the People, The Joe & Joshua Show, The League of Fools, SFNW: The Sacred Fools New Works Reading Series, The Sacred Lab

Special Events: Season Launch Party ("Community Revival")Summer Theater Camp

Season 21 (2017-2018)

Artistic Directors:
Bryan Bellomo, Scott Leggett & Aviva Pressman

Photo from "The Art Couple" by Darrett Sanders

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
The Sacred Lab: The Last Twelve Years of Phineas Gage
Denim Doves
Disasteroid!
The Art Couple
Akuma-shin
Monster Mash at the Fringe:
-Crunch
-Dracula's Taste Test
-Jane Austen's Emma Frankenstein

Ongoing Shows & Projects: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops, We the People, The Sacred Lab, The Joe & Joshua Show

Special Events: Season Launch Party ("Take a Foolish Journey"), International Women's Voices Day: Art Is Useless When You're Being Mauled By a Bear, Intimacy For the Stage WorkshopSummer Theater Camp

Season 20 (2016-2017)

Artistic Directors:
Bryan Bellomo, Scott Leggett, Danielle Ozymandias & Alicia Conway Rock

Photo from "Skullduggery" by Jessica Sherman Photography

20/20: King of Kong
Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet
Thanks a Lot: My Gratitusical!
20/20: Sacred Fools Musical Revue
Mom's Dead
20/20: His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley
20/20: Big Men, Little Women (A Holiday Special)
Rose and the Rime
The Box: Los Angeles
The Sirens of Titan

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Season Launch Party, 20/20, After Orlando, Summer Theater Camp

Season 19 (2015-2016)

Artistic Directors:
Bryan Bellomo, Paul Plunkett & Vanessa Stewart

Photo from "Past Time" by Jessica Sherman Photography

Candide
Miravel
Past Time
A Gulag Mouse

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Season Launch Jamboree - with Theatre of NOTE and the Bootleg Theater, Summer Theater Camp

Season 18 (2014-2015)

Artistic Directors:
Tifanie McQueen, Guy Picot & Ben Rock

Photo from "The Behavior of Broadus" by Geoffrey Wade Photography

The Behavior of Broadus -with Burglars of Hamm, in association with Center Theatre Group
Easy Targets
The Poe Show
A Woman of No Importance
Spotlight: Charles presents "A Trip Through the Multiverse"
The Christmas Present -presented by WASif Productions in association with Sacred Fools
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is
Occupation
Astro Boy and the God of Comics
The Box

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Season 18: Barely Legal (Our 18th Season Launch Party), 7th Annual Donor Gala Dinner (@ Kirk Douglas Theatre), Summer Theater Camp, Workshop Series (including Deadly and Dance of Angels...)

Season 17 (2013-2014)

Artistic Directors:
Rebecca Larsen, Jonas Oppenheim & Ben Rock

Photo from "Taste" by Jessica Sherman Photography

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Poe Show
His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley
Live! From the Last Night of My Life
Bill & Joan
China: The Whole Enchilada
Taste
Ryan is Lost
Absolutely Filthy -at South Coast Repertory
Hamlet Max -at the Hollywood Fringe; with Schkapf
The Mother Ship

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Caught Darkly Dreaming: Our 17th Season Launch Party, 6th Annual Donor Gala Dinner, Summer Theater Camp, Workshop Series (including Suffragette! and Weaver)

Season 16 (2012-2013)

Artistic Directors:
Alyssa Preston, Leon Russom & French Stewart

Photo from "Absolutely Filthy" by Shaela Cook

A Kind of Love Story
The Coarse Acting Show
The Christmas Present
Absolutely Filthy
Neverwhere
Spotlight: Red Bastard
Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini
Spotlight: Exorcistic

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Our Super-Sweet 16th Season Launch Party, 5th Annual Donor Gala Dinner with 2012-13 Artistic Committee Members French Stewart & Leon Russom, Summer Theater Camp, Workshop Series (including Everybody's Got the Plague)

Season 15 (2011-2012)

Artistic Directors:
Julia Griswold, Michael Holmes & JJ Mayes

Photo from "Stoneface" by Shaela Cook

CarnEvil: A Gothic Horror Rock Musical
Spotlight: Four Clowns
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
The Christmas Present
A Sacred Fools Holiday at Home (2011 Edition)
Richard III
The Magic Bullet Theory
Stoneface
Richard Levinson's "Unchartables Vol. 2"

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Magnum Opus Theatre, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: A Midsummer Night's Fever Dream (Season Launch Party), 4th Annual Donor Gala Dinner with French Stewart & Vanessa Claire Stewart, Summer Theater Camp

Season 14 (2010-2011)

Artistic Directors:
Jeremy Aldridge, Michael Holmes & JJ Mayes

Photo from "Watson" by Brian Taylor

Don Giovanni Tonight, Don Carlo Tomorrow
Watson
Spotlight: The Stories of Cesar Chavez
A Sacred Fools Holiday at Home
Puzzler
FREE $$$: How To Manifest Your Dreams on Zero Dollars a Day
Endgame
Voice Lessons
Spotlight: Four Clowns
Spotlight: Katie's Corner: Live!
Easy Targets (Benefit for Uma) -with Burglars of Hamm

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Creepy Carnival (Season Launch Party), 3rd Annual Donor Gala Dinner with Leon Russom & the Cast of Endgame, Musical Theater Summer Camp

Season 13 (2009-2010)

Artistic Directors:
Jaime Andrews, Scott Leggett & JJ Mayes

Photo from "Forbidden Zone" by Anousha Hutton

Summer Camp 2009
Savin' Up For Saturday Night
Art Explained!
A Cat Wrote This Play.
Elvis Prestello & the Tractionaires
Natascha Corrigan Band
Hamlet Shut Up
Baal
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
I Made Out With Him Anyway
Forbidden Zone: Live in the 6th Dimension
Hamlet Shut Up -at the New York Fringe

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Magnum Opus Theatre, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Season 13 Launch Bash, 2nd Annual Donor Gala Dinner with Richard Elfman & French Stewart, Musical Theater Summer Camp

Season 12 (2008-2009)

Artistic Directors:
Brandon Clark, Christopher Gyre & Suzanne Karpinski

Photo from "Land of the Tigers" by Jon Beauregard

Summer Camp 2008
43 Plays For 43 Presidents
A Mulholland Christmas Carol -with Theatre of NOTE
Resignation Day
Forever: The Musical
Shoshinz and Ten West
Land of the Tigers -with Burglars of Hamm
Madness in Valencia

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Magnum Opus Theatre, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Chainsaw Santa's Halloween/Christmas Party, 1st Annual Donor Gala Dinner with Patrick Duffy & Taylor Hackford, Step Into Madness

Season 11 (2007-2008)

Artistic Directors:
Padraic Duffy, Joe Jordan, Paul Plunkett & Ruth Silveira

Photo from "Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara" by Haven Hartman

Constant Motion Pictures
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Gas House
The Retro Radio Christmas Cavalcade
Urgent & Confidential: Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam -12" Dance Remix Edition
What the Butler Saw
Puttin' on the Fritz
BeaverQuest! The Musical
Tallgrass Gothic
Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
Welcome to the Moon and other plays

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Magnum Opus Theatre, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Drood Rocks You!, Murder!  Mystery!  Music!, 1960s "Play Doctor" Party, BeaverQuest! Hoedown, One Night in Vegas

Season 10 (2006-2007)

Artistic Directors:
Padraic Duffy, Joe Jordan & Paul Plunkett

Photo from "Act a Lady" by Haven Hartman

Bukowsical! -Revised & Expanded
Richard Levinson's "Unchartables Vol. 1"
Ten West in "Nights Errant"
Jenelle Riley's "Seven Deadly Sins"
A Mulholland Christmas Carol -with Theatre of NOTE
The Best of Ten West / The Cody Rivers Show / The Weekly Armenian
Wintertime
Act a Lady
Sex & Imagining
365 Days / 365 Plays
The Swine Show
Brendan Hunt: Five Years in Amsterdam
Little Mary of the Rose & the Giant Baked Bean

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: Act a Lady, Act a Fool, A Night For Fools (Ten-Year Anniversary Gala!), Guitar Hero Tournaments

Season 9 (2005-2006)

Artistic Directors:
Padraic Duffy, Joe Jordan & Jenelle Riley

Photo from "Gorey Stories" by Peter McCabe

Goose & Tomtom
Ed Goodman Is Angry
Slow & Tight 3
Billy the Mime
The Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid -with Tricklock Company
Gorey Stories
Kookamonga Falls
Fast & Queer
A Dr. Jeuss Christmas
I Wrote This ! / Ten West
Claire Z.
Bukowsical! -Late-Night Edition
Poona the Fuckdog
La Bête

Ongoing Shows: Serial Killers, Fast & Loose, Ten Tops

Special Events: 360x3, Professor Woland's Valentine Extravaganza, A Night For Fools

Season 8 (2004-2005)

Artistic Directors:
Padraic Duffy, David LM McIntyre & Paul Plunkett

Photo from "Ivona, Princess of Burgundia" by Blake Gardener

[sic]
Underneath the Lintel
Triple Crown
Dubya 2004
Laura's Bush
Urgent & Confidential: Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam
Quiet, Please
Finer Noble Gases
Love Tapes
My Uncle Sam
F.L.E.A.S.H.O.W.
Ivona, Princess of Burgundia
The Michael Rayner E.P. (Extended Play) Show

Ongoing Shows: Fast & Loose, Triple Crown, Ten Tops

Special Events: 360x2, A Night For Fools Art Auction

Season 7 (2003-2004)

Artistic Directors:
Joe Jordan, Meredith Anne Patt & Paul Plunkett

Photo from "Tell the Bees" by Haven Hartman

Don Juan in Chicago
Tabloid Frenzy
The Wench Upon the Stage
A Night at the Fights
A Mole, A Mongrel & a Dueling Denizen of the Deep
Frankenstein in Love
Holon
Frankenstein, Vicki
Mad Blue Demon of the Night
Hollywood Macabre -with Theatre Movement Bazaar
Naked Holidays
Harm For the Holidays
Tell the bees.
Overheard
View of the Dome
Slow & Tight 2
Midnight Brainwash Revival
Cïrque Pïcníque -two night return engagement
Get Lit!

Ongoing Shows: Fast & Loose, Music Night

Special Events: 360

Season 6 (2002-2003)

Artistic Directors:
David Grammer, Joe Jordan & Gerald McClanahan

Photo from "Dracula: A Musical Nightmare" by Desi Doyen

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Cïrque Pïcníque -with Theatre Movement Bazaar
Dracula: A Musical Nightmare
Backyard Fruit
Heaven
Naked Holidays
Peer Gynt
The Big Shows: "Big Shot" & "Big Blonde"
The Mechanical Rabbit
Valparaiso
Strange Beliefs -with Theatre Movement Bazaar
Swampland

Ongoing Shows: Crime Scene, Fast & Loose, Music Night, Ten Tops, Listen to This, Retro Radio Monthly

Season 5 (2001-2002)

Artistic Directors:
Stephanie Bell, Bryan Bellomo/Crystal Keith & Scott Rabinowitz

Photo from "Crazyface" by Kim Gottlieb-Walker

Uncle Vanya
The Comedy of Errors
The Saturday Summer Series
   including...
   J's Cinema Paradiso
   Retro Radio
   Hollywood Now!
The Caliban
Retro Radio -Later became an ongoing series
Caprice
Tongue Tied Tales
The Santaland Diaries / The Long Christmas Dinner
Watch -with Theatre Movement Bazaar
The Violinist
Drama Dept's Uncle Tom's Cabin
dumbshOw -with Theatre Movement Bazaar
Jack
Slow & Tight -Programmed by Season Six's Artistic Directors
Crazyface

Ongoing Shows: Crime Scene, Fast & Loose, Music Night, Ten Tops, Listen to This

Special Events: Carnival of Fools, Alternapalooza

Season 4 (2000-2001)

Artistic Directors:
Bil Garrity, Gerald McClanahan & John Sylvain

Photo from "Dubya 2000" by Desi Doyen

2G'S
Sweet & Sour Tears
Icarus and Aria
Cut, Poison & Burn
Dubya 2000
Movie Night
Darkfall
It's a Wonderful Death
Chopin in Space
Grimm!
Listen to This
Feet
Hot Fool Injection

Ongoing Shows: Crime Scene, Fast & Loose, Music Night, Ten Tops, Listen to This

Season 3 (1999-2000)

Artistic Directors:
Lauren Hollingsworth, Paul Plunkett & John Sylvain

Photo from "The Adding Machine" by Bob Klemow

Dead Lawyers
Me and Eddy Swami Nerup and Other Obituaries
Seagull
The Adding Machine
Burning Chrome
Virtual Motion -two night return engagement
Naked Holidays
Jacques and his Master
Four Letter Words
The Brides

Ongoing Shows: Crime Scene, Fast & Loose, Music Night, FoOL, Ten Tops

Special Events: SF2K Fundraiser at the 3 of Clubs

Season 2 (1998-99)

Photo from "Want's Unwished Work"

Artistic Directors (Apr - Aug. '98):
M.E. Dunn, Eric Perlmutter & John Sylvain

The Swine Show
Six One Acts
The Handwriting, The Soup and the Hats
The Illuminati
Cornography
Virtual Motion

Artistic Directors (Sept. '98 - April '99):
Rik Keller, Scott Rabinowitz & John Sylvain

The Fictionist!
Blue Plate Specials
Timon of Athens
Masque of Poe
Dangerous Corner
Preying on Puritans
Want's Unwished Work or A Birthday Play
4 By Chekhov - Programmed by Season Three's Artistic Directors

Ongoing Shows: Crime Scene, Fast & Loose, Music Night, FoOL, Ten Tops, Flicker Cinema

Season 1 (1997)

Artistic Directors:
Jonathan Goldstein, Lauren Hollingsworth & John Sylvain

Program cover from "The Fatty Arbuckle Spook House Revue"

The Fatty Arbuckle Spook House Revue
Short Works Series! Summer '97 -with Theatre 19
Tuesday
Nicholas DeBeaubien's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
A Pound of Flesh
Catching Hell
A Bunch of Very Short Plays...

Ongoing Shows: FoOL, Ten Tops