CROSSROADS: From One Stage to Many! Three Nights. One Story. A National Mission.

A SPECIAL THREE-NIGHT EVENT BRINGING TOGETHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS, ADVOCATES, AND AUDIENCES TO LAUNCH THE NEXT CHAPTER OF CROSSROADS!

 “A raw, riveting journey through the foster care system, surviving assault, and the road to sobriety—told with sharp wit and unapologetic truth from a liberal, lesbian lens. You will laugh, cry and get up and cheer as Renée gives you everything she's got."

Media and Press Inquiries: EYC PR: queries@embraceyourcape.com 310-498-5214

THREE NIGHT'S ONLY on Friday, August 21, 2026 at 8:00pm, Saturday, August 22 at 7:00pm and Sunday, August 23 at 4:00pm at Atwater Village Theatre: 3269 Casitas Ave Theatre 4 Los Angeles, CA 90039.

CROSSROADS LAUNCH is made possible through your fiscal sponsorship and community partnerships. This isn't a fundraiser...this is a movement! 

“The stage is where I make an offering of everything I’ve survived—the wreckage, the laughter, and the life I built afterward. But somewhere along the way, I realized CROSSROADS was asking me to carry it beyond the stage, into the rooms and communities where these conversations belong. Fiscal sponsorship gives the work a road to travel. And when you buy a ticket to this run, you’re not just coming to see a show—you’re helping me build that road while I’m still walking it.” ~ Renée Santos

🎭 General Admission — $35 Experience CROSSROADS

Join us for an unforgettable evening of storytelling, humor, and reflection as we explore survival, resilience, recovery, and belonging.

🌱 Pay It Forward Ticket — $50 Help Bring the Story Forward

Your additional support helps make it possible for CROSSROADS to reach more communities, conferences, and advocacy spaces.Includes:

• General admission ticket
• A digital thank-you from Renée after the performance
• Recognition as a supporter of the CROSSROADS journey (optional)

✨ Champion Ticket — $100 Become a CROSSROADS Champion

You’re not just attending a performance—you’re helping launch the next chapter of this story.Your support helps CROSSROADS continue its journey beyond the stage and into communities, conferences, and conversations across the country.Includes:

• VIP SEATING 
• A commemorative photo with Renée and the CROSSROADS creative team on the event Step & Repeat
• Signed CROSSROADS postcard or personal thank-you note from René
• Recognition as a Founding Supporter of the next chapter of CROSSROADS 

The most astonishing thing about Renee Santos’s “Crossroads,” a solo show about her life, is that she not only survived everything that happened to her but that it became her superhero origin story. Because to me, after sitting, often slack jawed in utter shock at the details of her journey, it is stunningly clear that she has the super power to still be here with us at all.

But there’s far more to this show than just the story behind it. There is a truly phenomenal artist who cracked open her heart and wrote it, developing a series of beautiful and terrifyingly enchanting techniques to connect every single pivotal unfolding moment to the transformative effect it had on her. She could have taken a simpler approach, a more linear narrative. But instead, she craftily weaves through her life a golden thread of truth and it takes us back and forth in time, through people and events and returns again and again to her present and her profound sense of who she really is…a strength of character as well as a wondrous physical strength and an unmatched grace.

Renee dances, or rather she moves herself in powerful rhythmic ways, holding her body almost still in unbelievable positions that literally show us what her mind and spirit went through. It feels purgative. As an audience, I felt as close as I have ever come to actually experiencing someone else’s pain in a solo performance. She has a magical performative way of silently drawing you into her most intimate discoveries about herself, and these moments that changed her in turn change us. There is no barrier between us. Like the most exquisite interpretation of a psyche, twisted and broken and raw. Her triumphant healing success was utterly transformative to her and if you are fortunate enough to see this brilliant show it may well have the same unforgettable effect. On the night I was there I know I was absolutely not alone in my deeply felt experience, although still, somehow, I felt as if I were the only other person in the room.

Under the genius guidance of the caped crusader herself, Kimleigh Smith, Renee Santos’s revelatory “Crossroads” is an extraordinary epic journey through the life of one woman. Through foster care, brutal assaults, a minefield of gender dysmorphia and on and on, this beautiful, intelligent, funny truth-teller warrior woman opens up her soul for us to see and it is breathtaking… Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros

Kimleigh Smith Director, Producer and Owner of Embrace Your Cape Enterprises says, " I created EYC to help artists own their stories, expand on their creativity, their ability to determine their own artistic path and understand they have a RIGHT to influence social change for themselves and others. This is why it was so important for me to work with Scot Zeller on his beautiful show. He truly embraces all of his story and without pushing, he takes his RIGHT and influences social change for himself and for others. It was a pure honor to watch Scot grow on the stage and I am forever changed by him and his story."

Thank you in advance for coming out and supporting the Crossroad Launch. All Profits go to helping forge the next level of solo show transformation...Crossroads!