For seven years a certain boy wizard attended a school of female magic and male magic and conquered evil over insurmountable odds. The Puffs were also there. Puffs follows three unlikely friends and their house of loyal, well-meaning, socially awkward classmates who share an affinity for badgers and a talent for herbology. Set in a magical universe during seven eventful years-that may seem familiar to some-the Puffs become far more than secondary characters in someone else’s grand story. Puffs is a fast-paced comedy with an ensemble cast that takes a whimsical look at what life looks like for the people never destined to save the world. Puffs opened at People’s Improv Theatre in New York in 2015 and enjoyed a record-breaking run off-Broadway at New World Stages, as well as running in Melbourne, Australia where it has become the longest-running play of the last century.
In 2019 Fenix Theatre Collaborative (as The Eastern) brought these magical misfits, who are just trying to make it through a magic school that is very dangerous for children, to San Diego for the first time with the West Coast Premiere of Puffs.
While Puffs is chock-full of homages to a familiar magical world, it’s also a standalone story with as much heart as hilarity that examines what it means to be a perennial underdog in a world of braves, smarts, and...rich, blond assholes.
We are excited to bring Puffs back to our San Diego audience once again and to continue to grow our #SDPuffs family. We hope to establish this San Diego tradition as a celebration of all things PUFFS each and every summer during Comic-Con.
Artists and Storytellers, Fenix Theatre Collaborative exists to provide artists with a space to collaborate, create and grow. Fenix focuses on actor training and artist development while providing paid opportunities for theatre artists to work on diverse, professional shows with manageable rehearsal schedules. Fenix Theatre Collaborative is helmed by the three-person creative team of Stephen Schmitz (Artistic Director), Justin Allen Slagle (Managing Artistic Director), and Rhiannon McAfee (Producing Artistic Director).
