30 Minutes or Less Festival

Welcome to the 30 Minutes or Less Festival!

🎭 Experience the Energy of Live Performance — in 30 Minutes or Less!

The 30 Minutes or Less Festival returns January 15–25, 2026 at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Los Angeles — showcasing bold, original, and wildly diverse short works that prove big impact doesn’t need a long runtime. From theatre, comedy, and dance to music, multimedia, and experimental hybrids, each piece delivers its punch in half an hour or less. With dozens of shows or all genres and styles, the festival celebrates creativity, community, and the thrill of live performance in its most concentrated form.

🎟️ Tickets on sale now — come see what artists can do in just 30 minutes or less!

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TESTIMONIALS FROM PERFORMERS

"A big shoutout to producer/techie/co-creator Matt Quinn and publicist/co-creator Bertha Rodriguez for pulling off their inaugural theatre festival, 30 Minutes Or Less. Due to the fires, they almost canceled their two-weekend event at Steph Feury Studio Theatre. From my perspective as both performer and judge, I'm so happy they decided to plow forward! And what a success, both in execution AND quality. I saw about half of the shows and most exceeded my expectations. And what I especially liked about this shorter format is the audience was spared the torture of dragging scene transitions and overlong vanity projects. In many standard length shows, I would often find myself fantasizing about shooting everyone on stage and in the audience as well as myself from either enduring 1) the horror of those slow, dead minutes between scenes or 2) an unnecessarily long play. Not here! These were 15, 20, 25-minute blasts of solid entertainment and a diversity in content and performers. Furthermore, the efficiently run 15-minute load-in/load-out break between shows allowed audiences to enjoy stacking multiple performances within 90 minutes and for a very reasonable price. I also enjoyed the adjacent taco bar "Tu Madre" and the Indonesian vegan, gluten-free ice cream shop, "Awan." Overall, a great success and I'm happy the festival is returning next year! Bravo to Matt & Bertha's vision, congratulations to all the award winners and no, I wasn't paid to write this" -Brian Knudson

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"The 30 Minutes or Less Festival was one of the greatest acting experiences of my life. I was feeling a bit down as a new actor in Los Angeles. I found myself ready to work but not finding as much opportunity as I had hoped, and thats when the Festival came into my life. It was suggested to me by my acting coach as a way to get myself and my story out there and I am so grateful for that! I wrote and performed a one person show i really believed in. Performing was within reach and I whole heartedly suggest it to any actor in LA! Your creativity will be loved and cherished here! Working on turning the show into a short with Diversity Entertainment has been so rewarding. I feel like they really care about telling my story. I really cherish the opportunity. I mean how many opportunities like this are there out there? The 30 Minutes or Less Festival has truly blessed my life and I can't wait to perform for them again! - Ashley Diaz