

What if every stranger at open mic was a ghost from your past?
A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.
Acting
Arianna Basco shape-shifts between roles like she's trying on inherited pain.
Direction
Jerry White Jr. turns a cramped open mic into infinite emotional space.
Writing
Poetry that actually hurts — not performative, just wounded.

Director
Jerry White Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jerry White Jr. developed this through actual LA open mics, casting performers he discovered live — several kept their real stage names.
The 87-minute runtime mirrors a typical open mic evening; White Jr. wanted audiences to feel the same restless intimacy as waiting for your own name to be called.