THREE PERFORMERS. THREE DIFFERENT WORLDS ON FILM. FIRST EVER FESTIVAL. 🎬
Solo Theatre Film Festival
Experience the raw electricity of solo performance at the inaugural Solo Theatre Film Festival—a celebration of artists who can make an entire world unfold through one extraordinary voice, body, and story.
We watched 50 submissions from around the world. Three unforgettable films rose to the top, and now we’re bringing them to the big screen for our very first festival!
Come see what stopped us in our tracks.
Doors open 5:00 PM · First screening 5:30 PM
GET YOUR FESTIVAL PASS!!
Your pass includes all 3 screenings, post-screening Q&As, and one concession.
Single-show tickets also available.
Three films. Three singular visions. One night celebrating the power of a performer to hold a room.
Explore the lineup below, and join us for our very first year!
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 〰️
A CIRCUS MEMOIR
Circus · 50 minutes · Q & A to follow
Junru Wang traces a childhood in military circus training and a career with Cirque du Soleil that began at age nine — through humor, pain, reclamation and astonishing, jaw-dropping physical performance.
Hollywood Fringe Splash Award winner
“Moving, funny, jaw-droppingly awe-inspiring, and true.”
— Hollywood Fringe audience review
At the 2026 Hollywood Fringe, Body as an Archive won the Splash Award and received six nominations. It was also a Frontrunner for the Audience Choice Award at Philadelphia Fringe.
Written & performed by Junru Wang
Directed by Camillia Monet
Produced by Almanac Projects
A COMEDIC DISCO
Musical Comedy · 45 minutes · Q & A to follow
What if you could go back and do the worst day of your life over? Rachel Austin’s The Do Over takes the day her mother died — a day that didn't go as planned and still stings — and transforms it into a comedic disco romp complete with genuine heart. It’s a show about grief that refuses to be solemn about it. It dances instead.
“The day my mom died sucked. She was sick for 18 years, and was gone in an instant; nothing went how we had planned. I spent a long time wishing I could do it over. So I did — onstage, in a sequined fever dream!”
Written & performed by Rachel Austin
Directed by Shayne Eastin
Original songs co-written by Philip Labes and
Tony Gonzalez
A SURREALIST LABYRINTH
Surrealist · 60 minutes · Q & A to follow
Loosely inspired by Italo Calvino, Gregory Nussen’s QFWFQ explores the stories we inherit through queerness, Judaism, family, culture, and history in a funny, emotional piece that refuses to travel in a straight line.
“A well observed and powerful show that keeps you guessing, wondering. It delivers a mix of meta humor and raw emotionality that really makes it stand out.” — Cameron Scheetz, Entertainment Editor, Queerty
Best Solo Theatre & Sydney Fringe Exchange
-2025 Hollywood Fringe
Written, co-directed & performed by Gregory Nussen
Co-directed by Hannah Pilkes
Co-produced by Daniel Segura & KJ Johantgen
THE BLUE DOOR
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THE BLUE DOOR 〰️
ONE NIGHT. THREE SHOWS.
5:00pm DOORS OPEN
5:30pm The Do Over
6:15pm Q&A
7:00pm Body As An Archive
7:45pm Q&A
8:30pm QFWFQ
9:30pm Q&A
THE BLUE DOOR
9617 Venice Blvd.
The Blue Door is the theatrical home of ArtsUP! LA,
a nonprofit theater and arts program
serving people with disabilities,
military veterans, and opportunity youth in
Greater Los Angeles.
CO-FOUNDERS
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CO-FOUNDERS 〰️
We envision this festival as one stop along the journey of a solo show—a chance for a performance to reach new audiences, take on a new life on screen, and continue to be discovered and celebrated for years to come as part of this festival’s ongoing legacy.
One of the great things about solo performance is the creative autonomy it offers: performers can shape their own work and take it into the world on their own terms.
But solo artists are often also their own producers, carrying the full weight of bringing a show to life and finding its audience.
We want to make that easier.
No additional production work.
No new performance to mount.
Just an opportunity for work to be seen.
