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

Ebenezer Scrooge, embittered about his divorce from Jacqueline Marley—who left him years ago for a woman—is set in his miserly ways when he is visited by the three Christmas Ghosts: Past (who reveals repressed memories of Scrooge wanting to be a woman), Present (who reveals visions of loving queer families such as the lesbian Marleys and the trans Tiny Tina Cratchit), and Might Have Been (who shows Scrooge an alternate reality if she had been allowed to embrace her identity).

Access Denied is like KPop Demon Hunters mixed with Sorry, Baby but led by neurodiverse non-binary best friends with a platonic love powerful enough to survive giant robots and mutant pigeons that feast on eyeballs. It's a scifi dramedy feature film but on April 5, we bring it to you liiiiive as a staged reading of all GNC and trans actors! No actual mutant pigeons involved, so not to worry!

A reading of a Scifi Dramedy Film, written by Heather Muriel Nguyen.

Starring Heather Muriel Nguyen, Valerie Rose Lohman, Vico Ortiz, Chris Lam, Imani Alis, Jerry Ng, Zoe Yale, and Skylar Gaines. 

In a world where murder is legal, a cybernetic waitress is used to assassinate anyone the mega-company known as “Corporate” wants out of the way. But a personal catastrophe spurs her to defy her programming and expose Corporate to save others like herself. A full-cast live reading of a trans, queer, cyberpunk action dramedy pilot! Full of action, humor and heart, and about how society controls our bodily autonomy, and pits us against each other to keep us from rising up.

Written and Directed by Tilly Bridges & Susan Bridges

Starring: Griffin Kelly, Jacks McLaughlin, Kacy Boccumini, Olabisi Kovabel, and Ari Villalon!