[NoHo Arts District, CA] – Fresh off sold-out performances across the country, Moth StorySLAM winner Dara Kosberg brings her hit dark comedy solo show, Homecoming, to the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
After Years Helping Others Navigate Grief, Dara Kosberg Confronts Her Own in Homecoming
About Homecoming
The dark comedy explores grief and identity, following Kosberg’s journey of losing a parent and finding herself.
For years, Kosberg helped people navigate grief through storytelling and community building. Then Kosberg gets the call that her mom is dying while studying abroad in Australia, and their already complicated mother-daughter relationship suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. On a winding path full of humor, absurdity, and connection, Kosberg faces the impossible question: How to make amends with a dead mom? What she discovers is deeply personal, universal, and surprisingly hopeful. Just because someone is gone, it doesn’t mean you can’t heal your relationship with them.
ADMISSION: 18+
About Kosberg has spent more than 15 years building inclusive communities in the grief and end-of-life space, creating opportunities for conversations around loss, healing and connection. She is a founding team member of Reimagine and The Dinner Party and has produced and performed comedy and storytelling events centered on grief and resilience.
“I believe humor is one of the most powerful ways to explore difficult topics. The lightness and connective power of humor creates a gentle gateway into grief and pain. Complicated grief, especially the kind shaped by guilt, shame and unresolved relationships, is rarely talked about even in grief spaces,” says Kosberg. “I want to change that. One of the most meaningful responses I hear after performances is people coming up to tell me they’ve never heard their experience spoken out loud before,” continued Kosberg.
Homecoming: A Darkly Funny Tale About Losing My Mom and Finding Myself… Again
Directed by David Ford, with original direction by Iris Bahr (NYC debut) and David Crabb (LA debut), Homecoming has resonated with audiences nationwide.
What Audiences Are Saying
“It was a captivating portrait of the human experience in its purest form.”
“It’s rare to see something that feels so raw yet so carefully crafted.”
“Beautiful, touching show. I laughed. I cried. I thought deeply. The show masterfully touched on heavy topics, striking just the right tone.”
“Everything about the show felt straight from the heart. I left feeling special for having received her story and having lived it with her.”
“The one-woman show “Homecoming” by Dara Kosberg was a deeply moving and thought-provoking evening that skillfully explored the intersections of life, loss, and love.”
“Dara is infinitely watchable, warm and compelling.”
The Team
Dara Kosberg is a storyteller, comedian, writer, and actor whose work has appeared at venues including Under St. Mark in New York and Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles, as well as in Chicago and Atlanta. She’s a Moth StorySlam winner and has performed at San Francisco’s Punch Line Comedy Club and Brooklyn’s Union Hall. As part of the Reimagine End of Life arts festival in SF and NYC, she’s produced and performed in comedy shows about grief and loss that demonstrate the healing power of humor. For more information visit: www.darakosberg.com
Director David Ford has collaborated on new and unusual theatre for more than three decades and has been an artist-in-residence at The Marsh in San Francisco. His award-winning solo productions have toured internationally.