Chance Lang

I’m a story teller who wishes to use narrative story telling as a mirror to showcase the raw beauty of the unedited human soul with childlike humor, ferocious passion, and viciously vulnerable truth telling.

I wish to spread love and empathy through exploring unworthiness, abandonment, grief, addiction, and generational cycles not traditionally accessible in day to day life.

I do this by being an actors writer, creating tour de force ensemble pieces with minimal staging and effects, prioritizing character driven stories about life changing events.

My last piece was a feature film titled Finding It. Finding It  is an indie version of Birdman based on a 1980’s award winning mafia drama I wrote and starred in at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2025. In the play, Going Home, “Tommy, a passionate lost soul, reliving the grief of his regrets, is recruited by the Fibinacci’s to assassinate a rival. But when the time comes to pull the trigger, and no one and nothing are as they seem, will he figure out the truth before the lies kill him?” In the movie Finding It, the original cast of Going Home performs the play, sandwiched between the context of the stress, pressure, and excitement of; 

“Minutes before the curtain rises on his debut play, an LA theater maker learns a powerful artistic director may be watching, forcing him to confront his fears of failure while chasing the performance of a lifetime…”

My next piece is Dinner At Nonna's. A modern tragedy about a dysfunctional family gathering at a local Italian restaurant to celebrate their matriarch's birthday. And all she wants is to be happy with her family. But when painful old traumas reveal shocking new secrets, will this family survive being torn apart at the seams?

It's is a heinous pressure-cooker with razor sharp wit and belly laughing humor relentlessly exploring the deep dark unspeakables of an American dysfunctional family. And with an explosive, shocking, and ultimately tender ending, it’s a nightmare with a poignant wash of empathy.

I hope to encourage people to open their hearts. Live with love, creativity, and vulnerability. And after leaving the theatre, practice little by little to live with the empathy we all wish to see in the world.

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