Is the performance of gender in your everyday life weighing you down? Shake up gender, mock gender, flaunt gender, & fulfill your greatest gender euphoria desires with the FACE you see in the mirror! In this Drag 101 workshop, drag prince Vik Floyd will facilitate a safe, brave space for us to create drag personas together. We will play around with drag make-up, costume, & backstory to bring light to our shadow selves. In queer punk fashion, we will liberate our shadows to enlighten ourselves on how we bring our everyday gender presentations forward in the world.

About your instructor: Vik Floyd (he/they) is East LA's drag prince of madness. Chaotic rockstar at stage entrance, tender vulnerability at eye contact - Vik Floyd inspires all to be fearless facing the darkside of their moon. Vik joined drag kings, queens, & things in October 2018 to tackle their gender dysphoria being born two-spirit and gender fluid. Honest about the madness that comes from sorrow, many of their drag performances also serve as an ode to losing their personal king, their rockstar dad Mickey Floyd. Vik firmly believes in the power of drag to release, empower, and connect.

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

Are you stymied about what makes a good pilot script for a television show? Are you terrified of pitching projects, because we writers just want to sit in a dark coffee cave to write our stories in peace? Then you’re in luck, because I'm here to help! With experience in television, animation, film, comics, podcasts, games, and more, we’ll discuss what executives and producers are looking for, and how to deliver those things on a professional level. Because we need more queer creators to get our projects made! Max enrollment of ten super fab trans/nonbinary/gnc/queer folks!

About your instructor: Tilly Bridges, as part of a team with her wife Susan, wrote Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming at IDW, six episodes of Monster High (for which their Monster Fest special won an inaugural Velma Award for LGBTQIA+ representation in children’s media), consulted on Star Trek Prodigy, and their YA queer trans romcom graphic novel Just Another Summer releases this summer. Their award-winning short film, Long Away, is presently playing film festivals around the world. Tilly’s book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix is available now, and you can find Tilly’s weekly essays on trans life at TillysTransTuesdays.com.

In this workshop we'll use techniques developed by Rain Valdez & Jase Alan to help actors quickly get into character for auditions with a quick turnaround. Through a series of exercises actor will go from cold read to virtually off book in the span of 15-20 minutes. This is for working actors wanting to improve their auditions.

About your instructor: Jase Alan(they/them) is a writer/actor & also the Director of Operations at ActNOW (@actnowla), a queer-centered, trans-led acting & creative arts training studio where they also teach Scene Study for film/tv. They hold a BA in Theatre from CSULB. Jase has trained with Alexandra Billings, Rain Valdez, Jamie Clayton, Brian Michael Smith, Jett Garrison, & more. In addition to training at Groudlings, Steppenwolf, & UCB. They love to build community & create space for their TGI2S+ family to grow in their creativity.

The Audacity to Embody Trans Joy: Creative Healing for Liberation is a trans-led, trauma-informed, consent-based Zoom workshop for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive folks (and those who love us). In hard times, the body can feel like a battleground. This session offers practical tools to help your nervous system settle, reconnect to choice, and remember joy as an embodied form of resistance.

We’ll begin with gentle grounding and sensory-flexible regulation practices (breath, orienting, micro-resourcing), then move into low-pressure expressive arts: guided visualization, image/gesture work, and short writing prompts. You’re welcome to participate quietly with camera off, while resting, stretching, stimming, or taking breaks. No performance experience is needed, and personal disclosure is never required.

You’ll leave with repeatable practices you can use during stress, burnout, grief, or transition—plus a personal “future anchor” to return to when things feel intense.

Scope note: skills-based creative wellness facilitation (not psychotherapy or crisis services).

About the Facilitator: Dr. Axel Renée Winget (they/he) is a queer, transmasculine drama therapist (RDT), theatre artist, and educator. Founder of Queer Healing Space, Axel facilitates trauma-informed, consent-based somatic and expressive arts workshops for queer and trans communities. Axel has supported LGBTQI+ refugees through RFSL Stockholm and has taught at universities including LMU and USC.

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

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.

“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. 

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).

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

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

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.

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. Sign up here!

• 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!

“Beloved 80s TV show host” Alfie is still the icon you remember, warming the hearts of weirdos like yourselves for somewhere between 4 to 18 seasons (depending on who you ask). Sure, the cameras stopped rolling after PBS pulled the plug (a grudge she actively holds). But Alfie hasn’t technically left The Play’s House since. And she’s absolutely, definitely, 100% convinced that any day now an audience will return for one more magical taping.

Guess what?! It’s probably you! (Unless you aren’t planning to buy a ticket? Even a sliding scale one? Wow! Do you work for PBS?) With a fresh suggestion from the live studio audience, Alfie and the Play’s House Cast will attempt to solve whatever pressing problems you have the only way we know how: through brightly colored chaos, deeply questionable wisdom, and a portal that pulls comedians right in on the fun.

PT Plays House features comedians Enor Bishop, Alice Brenner, and Quei Tann. Plus a fully improvised storyline by the Play’s House Cast: Christine Fang, David Leppert, Mariel Sena, Richy Storrs, and PT (as Alfie). 

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?

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

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

A play about you and me and us. We start with a date. Maybe we fall in love. We try our best to make it work—in front of a live audience. It might be messy. It might not work. But it'll definitely never happen like this again! 

Should we spend our lives together? is a choose-your-own-adventure-style show about trying to make a relationship work, in spite of life's obstacles. Over the course of an hour, Chloe Badner will attempt to date, marry and grow old with an audience member that gets the vibe just right. Could it be you?

Created by Chloe Badner she/they/he (Dropout, King of Drag, Donny & Donnie)

Devised with Adam Smith he/him (RERUN, Play about a Woman, New York & San Francisco Neo-Futurists)

Directed by Maddox Pennington he/they (LOVE CHICKEN, White Rabbit Red Rabbit)

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!

Smitten is a psychological horror designed to make you question your reality. Our protagonist, Dolly, is a young, small-town waitress at the Coffee Cup Cafe. She finds herself the target of a stalker after receiving anonymous letters and mysterious polaroids. Throughout the show, we come to find out Dolly has battled with generational mental illness her entire life, causing those close to her - her boss, Marlene, and best friend, Margot - to become wary, even skeptical of the ongoing threats. Now we - and Dolly - must decipher what is real and what is not.

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.

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.

The popular UK teatime words-and-numbers game Countdown, possibly better known to American audiences as part of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, played with queer comedians including JOAN AND RAFT, hosted by BEN PADDON. 

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!

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