In December 2020, forced to cancel her theater project due to the Covid-19 pandemic, writer/director Andrea Kleine (along with composer Bobby Previte) moved into The Chocolate Factory Theater and lived in the shuttered New York City performance venue for two weeks. Every night they performed on stage for no one. Completely unscripted, the result is a comedic film about what it means to be a performer without an audience.

Official Selection: 2022 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Opus Bonum Competition

Commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Andrea Kleine is a writer, director, and performance artist. She is the author of the novels, CALF, described by Publishers' Weekly as "unsettling, scary, and often brilliant" and named one of their Best Fiction Books of 2015; and EDEN, named one of "Summer's Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers" by Vanity Fair and a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award. She is a five-time MacDowell fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her performance works have been presented extensively in New York City. She has been described as an "enigmatic and eccentric" (The New York Times), "brainy, allusive Downtown artist" (The Village Voice), whose work is "wry, poignant" (The New York Times) and "something like genius" (ArtVoice). The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be is her first feature-length film.