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. 

Interactive! Poetry! A trans guy named Tom accidentally summons the Spirit of Time to his door.

Theo tries to escape from inside a Nolan film, persuade you that your fave director hates women, and confront the harms of his own Sacred Art Dude.

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.

Late Night TV is back from the dead in this series of improvised interviews with celebrity monsters.

A Variety Show For All Ages

A Showcase Reading of brand new work from eleven new and emerging trans/nonbinary playwrights!

TWO SHOWS: ONE NIGHT, LET'S FIGHT (sort of)

"Hear Us Out" is a debate-style show where three guest judges will rank a series of hear us outs (a weird or niche crush that you might have to defend if questioned about it — think the Great Deku Tree from Zelda).

"Please Be Nice To Me" is a game show centered on cutthroat kindness and radical empathy.

A Trans and GNC Mini Music Festival!

Join us for an evening concert of hot, heartfelt, and hilarious original music from a stacked lineup of trans and GNC musicians and performers. Hosted by your favorite viral comedic musicians, Couplet and their fake son who's also funny and can sing good, Dahlya Glick. Featuring: Ricky Abilez (they/them), Mitchell Gerard Johnson (he/they), Sam Oh (he/him), Aurora Zenith (she/her), Fin Argus (they/she), MC Macadar (they/them), and 8tps!

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. 

Twink Death Of The Universe and The Alleged Travels of Marco Polo bring together two short, adventurous works that center queer and trans perspectives onstage

The Alleged Travels of Marco Polo is an absurdist, zeitgeisty, intentionally historically inaccurate retelling of Marco Polo's travels to China. It's a story about how the "winners" who history is told by are actually kind of losers.

TWINK DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE is a dark comedy that follows a skincare-obsessed Korean American gay trans guy trying to outrun his twink death. 

In this solo show by Boone Williams, six very different people find common ground through their shared struggle with addiction.

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.

Urgent Care is an intimate play that tells the story of Al and Ellis. Al recently broke up with Ellis, and let's just say, it was not pretty. In the aftermath of their split, Al distracts himself as he prepares for an upcoming, and long-awaited, hysterectomy. The pair’s paths converge when Ellis appears on Al’s doorstep, bringing news sure to put Al’s life on hold, forcing him to further question the body he was just beginning to understand.

Smitten is a psychological horror following Dolly, a young waitress, as she battles an anonymous suitor and generational mental illness.

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 choose-your-own-adventure style play. I will give a short speech about consent, then I will leave and come back out on stage again, and I will make eye contact with each person in the audience, then choose one and put my hand out to them and say, "Should we spend our lives together?" and they will come up on stage and date me. It will start like a real date, and then we will play constraint games (dice, cards, spinning wheels) to determine what happens both in the world and between us. Does the pandemic happen? Do I get pregnant? Do we buy a house? Do you stop drinking? Do I? At any point, we can decide to break up, and I can try to date somebody else. Ultimately, the experience will end with us dying together, divorcing, etc etc. It's meant to explore free will in relationships--what can we control and what is beyond us? How do we make decisions within the confines of our own experience?

Syrian Cheese is a multi-genre solo show weaving clown, standup, and character. It is about being my ancestor’s worst nightmare because I’m queer and do comedy, and the year I accidentally came out, lost my relationship with my dad, and got my homeland back.

Join Nazi-fighter artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore as they transgress identity and time in this swirling, shifting, theatrical collage.

Marnina and Micah are a married musical comedy duo called Couplet. People think they're straight, people think they're siblings, but people should know that they're married, and in their brand-new hour, they're asking the big questions like "when are we gonna make time to folk?" It's a work-in-progress... but aren't we all?

A drag-hosted comedy sitcom staged like a live house party, where stand-up comedians appear as “commercial breaks”, then get trapped onstage and forced into an improvised play until the next comic arrives.

Join us for Trans Community Day with Joy Who Lived 🎭 at the LGBTQ Center in Hollywood, CA! Watch and support trans improv, trans film, access trans healthcare information and resources, and hang out with community!

• Gender Affirming Care Fair!

  • Tables with healthcare information and resources

  • No-cost and pay-what-you-can WPATH-compliant gender-affirming care letters

• Joy Who Lived Shows! Get individual tickets or just come by - we will have free / pay-what-you-can tickets available at the door as long as we have capacity!

  • 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Archive Of Our Prov: Improv Show

  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Snappy Campers: A Musical Improv Show

  • 2:30pm - 3:15pm | An Improv Trans-travaganza: Improv Show

  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Gendermation: An Hour of Trans and Nonbinary Animation

• Food!

• Crafts!

Archive of Our Prov is an improv comedy show inspired by the highest of art forms, fan fiction.

A long-form musical improv show set within the world of a musical summer camp called Snappy Campers, hosted by Blake and Kami

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

A full hour of animation by trans and nonbinary filmmakers, curated by Tucker Wooley and featuring shorts from all over the world!

“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. 

A tantalizing cabaret celebrating bodies of all types, genders, with proud sensuality, desire, and so much more produced by Warumono.

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).

“I Don’t Get It and It’s a Trans Sexual Life / Two Trans Tales” brings two intimate trans stories to the stage—raw, funny, and specific, not sanitized. 

Her true life child custody battle poses how “best interest of the child” is weaponized to attack trans parents, and how one trans mom’s fight for her daughter helped a 1995 Los Angeles court affirm that gender identity does not define parental fitness.

Gender Euphoria Cabaret is a night of trans joy, story, and performance featuring Joy Who Lived volunteers in sing-a-long karaoke!