Mortified Live = Teen Angst as Performance

If you ever had nightmares of someone reading your teen diary in public, you'll appreciate these souls who get on stage to read from their angst-filled teenage memoirs. Mortified Live is a comic (and courageous) exploration of youthful artifacts -- journals, diaries, love letters, poems -- performed by the original authors, in a live show.

Writer-Producer David Nadelberg founded Mortified after coming upon a "creepy" love letter he himself wrote in the 10th grade. He and co-producer, Neil Katcher, turned the concept into a multi-city project that struck a chord with audiences. Mortified regularly plays to capacity crowds -- with a changing line-up of readers revealing their deepest, adolescent thoughts.

Read more about Mortified Live with comments from Scott Lifton, producer of the San Francisco show.

Mortified Live is at the Make-Out Room on August 23 and 25, and again on September 5 and 6. You can purchase tickets for $12 online, or $15 at the door. Shows are at 8:00pm.

^{Photo © Brian Evans - Courtesy of Mortified}