Shame-Full (in LA)

Nina never asked to be born, and now that she’s here, she’s spent her entire life feeling bad about it. Through a hybrid of intimate storytelling and characters, Nina explores the areas of shame that she has experienced as a woman who is forever trying to escape her own reality. In this autobiographical hour-long show, Nina introduces the audience to different parts of herself that all have the running through-line of shame: her childhood obsession with suffering and martyrdom, being a prolific fanfiction writer at 13 and her subsequent fall from fanfic grace, getting “saved” at age 16 and being a born-again Christian until age 23, and the effect said Christianity had on her sexuality, and more. “Shame-Full” is a vulnerable and eccentric solo show from a neurotic Latina that asks the question: are we born with shame, or are we taught to feel it?

Written & Performed by Nina Concepcion

Directed by Haley Hepworth

Bio:
Nina Concepción is an award-winning Latina actress, writer and Upright Citizens Brigade performer in Los Angeles. You can currently catch her performing in the cast of UCB”s critically acclaimed signature improv show, Asssscat. Nina has a recurring role on FOX’s “9-1-1 Lone Star” and recently starred in the second season of Starz’s horror comedy “Shining Vale”. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has the student loans to prove it, honey!

Starts 5:30PM PT