Part of the 10th Annual LA Get Down Festival 2026. A night of storytelling and improv with featured guests from LA's theater and comedy scene along with UCB's all trans/nonbinary improv team, QTs! Our monologists will share stories of trans joy and improvisers will bring those experiences to life in spontaneous scenes.

Host: Maddox Pennington

Storytellers

• B Alexander

• Natalie Marceau

• Audrey Kuo

• Metzli Villa 

• Levi Angel Garcia 

• Nina Nguyen

Improvisers

• DJ Mausner 

• Lyndsey Frank

• Ruha Taslimi

• Charlie James

• Chris Renfro 

• PT Jones 

Part of the 10th Annual LA Get Down Festival 2026
Celebrating Los Angeles's arts communities through spoken word in honor of U.S. National Poetry Month 
The month-long festival opens Friday, April 10th and closes Sunday, April 26th

“Danielle She/Her” is a one-woman sketch dramedy. It takes inspiration from the real-life period during which the creator and performer, Danielle Steger, quit drinking and realized, “Oh dear, I’m trans.” Over the course of 50 minutes, you’ll learn what it took for her to go from being a drunk, closeted guy to a sober, happy gal. Along with jokes about La Croix and hormone replacement therapy, the show features original songs and music videos. 

Just a bunch of cute trans/GNC/NB improvisers playing make-em-up together

What do you have when you let long-denied adults live out their bunk-bedding, game-playing, campfire-singing dreams? You’ve got some happy campers - or, should we say, Snappy Campers.

Snappy Campers is a musical improv show about a summer camp for those who never got to go to summer camp. Why did they never go to summer camp? What are their unrealized camp dreams? And how is this one special summer going to change everything? All that & more you’ll discover alongside the cast as they sing, dance, and sweat through the greatest summer of their lives.

Archive of Our Prov is an improv comedy show inspired by the highest of art forms, fan fiction. Help us make up new fics, completely on the spot.

Eat,Pray, Bathe in Edib Farhan’s intergalactic bathhouse with their ancient desert ancestor, pondering: What kind of future ancestor do I wish to become? How can I express myself fully? How much cheese is it ok to binge in front of other people? Receive channeled messages, serenades, and maybe if you’re lucky, a little shimmy from your favorite ancestor who will remind you…your healing goes back 7 generations—but so do your f*ck-ups!

Directed and co-devised by Natasha Mercado, Creative consulting from: Claire Woolner, Zahra Noorbakhsh, and Andel Sudik

No Access + Banana Man: LIVE / Double Feature brings together two short, comedic works that center queer and trans perspectives onstage

No Access | Diana Hurtado's comedy shadow puppetry piece “No Access” is a peek into the absurdity of navigating life as a disabled person.

Banana Man: Live! | Ari Fromm presents Banana Man: Live! Banana grew up in a world where there were only two kinds of fruits: apples and bananas... or so Banana thought. Once closed-minded, this new fruit ally wants to tell you and all your fruity friends about its journey into inclusivity. Performed by one actor, Banana Man LIVE will bring you on Banana’s misadventures through the fruit world, featuring such surprising fruits as Strawberry, Plantain, Orange, and more! Whether you’re an apple ally or a complicated fruit salad, this wacky little show is for you. Come share a laugh and a little bit of hope from Banana’s well-intentioned mishaps!

A live table read of Fifi Dosch's trans-centric comedy feature film "Holy Mother." It is a film about a militant Texas trans woman who miraculously becomes pregnant, and a cult of Christians starts following her thinking she is the mother of the Second Coming of Jesus.

Two very hot, sexy, charming and healed (yes fully healed) Libra bros take a night off from being perfect to lean into their judgmental dark side in a night of raucous comedy. With the help of their audience, Libros Petey and Vico shamelessly judge their pals on their life choices, past behaviors, and - of course - their signs. With hilarious special guests Dylan McKeever, Griffin Kelly, Jiavani and Ruha Taslimi!

A sketch show by UCB all-stars: Dani Schindler, Tirosch Schneider, Fin Argus, Riley Westling, and Jeung Bok! The coziest, warmest, loving-est comedy variety show we could physically make. Each piece will make you feel warm and fuzzy and audience members are encouraged to arrive in their comfiest attire. The bits and pieces in the show are meant to make everyone laugh, feel safe, and enjoy ourselves while we all forget our problems for a little while.

Hosts Charlie James (Second City, Funny or Die) and Laser Webber (the Doubleclicks) host an incredibly (trans)masculine evening of good old-fashioned queer comedy. Expect some crooning, some standup, some characters, and a lovely evening of comedy from an all-transgender ensemble.