Saturday, August 8, 2026
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Show
18+
$30 ($38.07 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$35 ($40 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable
Kirsten Vangsness comes to The Parkway with Outdated. When a feminine-bent creature named Kirsten entered the forest of dating, she made recordings of her dates and her various experiments on dating apps, and has come out with a magical realism solo play including very pragmatic (and hilarious!) steps to keep yourself intact (and hopeful) in the swamp that is the search for partnership. Written and performed by Vangsness, Outdated is a dating guide veiled as a one-woman fringe show for your average insecure, super fantastic, bi, queer, demisexual, femme creative with a disorganized attachment style.
Kirsten Vangsness is best known for her portrayal of the bespectacled tech kitten “Penelope Garcia” on the long-running hit drama Criminal Minds, which is currently in its twentieth season. On the film side, Kirsten starred as the torch-singing femme fatale in the critically-acclaimed film noir spoof Kill Me, Deadly, which she also executive produced. Her other film appearances include The Amish Stud, Dave Made a Maze, and Diane & Devine Meet the Apocalypse.
She tours regularly with Selected Shorts, which you can hear on the Selected Shorts podcast. Kirsten is a proud member of the Los Angeles theatre community, where she has originated roles in Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch, Erik Patterson’s I Want to Hold Your Hand, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig at the Geffen Playhouse.
Kirsten began writing in a journal in 5th grade as a result of her deep crush on Harriet the Spy, which spun into co-writing five episodes of Criminal Minds and a basketful of plays, including Potential Space (Best Playwright of the Year nomination — LA Weekly), Mess, and Cleo, Theo & Wu (both produced by Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe).
Outdated is the result of Kirsten sharing a dating story with her friends and national treasures Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, both of whom told her she needed to write a play about dating because it would help people. Outdated premiered at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe, then went on to San Francisco Sketchfest, and now finds itself at The Parkway Theater — which Kirsten is DEEPLY DELIGHTED about.
You can find Kirsten speaking on her passions and creativity on her YouTube show Kirsten’s Agenda, currently in its fourth season. She is also the creator and host of Bits!, a monthly creativity salon in Hollywood that raises money for local causes and gives the community a space to create new art.
She is the recipient of the Open Fist Excellence in the Arts Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award, and the HRC Visibility Award — and she has a monkey enclosure named after her at the Wildlife Learning Center.