Short Film Night, March 2025

  • Paradise Short Film Night

  • Paradise Factory Artistic Director Joan Mathieu introduces Shorts Night 2025

  • Ken Forman, producing director, discusses upcoming one-act festival Workplace Injuries

  • Rhonda Keyser alum makes bid for much-needed financial support

  • Paradise Factory hosts its third successful event -- and momentum is building!

First Shorts, March 2025

  • First Shorts packed in the crowd!

  • Producing Director Ken Forman, Max Sharam and Artistic Director Joan Mathieu

  • Scene from Adam Davidson's LUNCH DATE

What Happened Was… 30th Anniversary Screening

  • What Happened Was... Screening and Party

  • Karen Sillas (What Happened Was...) back at Paradise Factory

  • Jim Gaffigan (The Skinny), Tal Shamir (The Vermeers), Ken Forman (New Moon)

  • “What Happened Was, which began in this very theater, shows us that a great film can and should be incubated within the beautiful constraints of the stage.” – Artistic Director Joan Mathieu

  • Jay O. Sanders (Girl from the North Country, Apple Family Plays) and Joan Mathieu

  • Playwright Risa Mickenberg (Egg) and director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Sopranos)

“Whether you encounter Tom Noonan through his writing, his performance or his direction, the result is the same – you will look at the performing arts in a way that’s more honest and intense than it was before.”

– Jim Parsons