Empower the Vote: Suppression to Expression
Empower the Vote: Suppression to Expression is a devised virtual and theatrical labyrinth created by Design and Production students at the USC School of Dramatic…
2020/21 Season
Knave of Hearts Presents: An Experience Like No Other
The Knave of Hearts invites you to an online experience like no other! Discover an online world you didn’t know was possible, and explore the…
The Distance Project
There is a widening gap of a culture that is increasingly distanced from the human experience. Issues of race, class, gender, nationality, religion, ability and,…
Hidden Stories
Hidden Stories is a digital theatrical experience created in partnership with the USC Libraries. Pulling from the archives, a group of designers from the USC…
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
In this American masterpiece, Anna Deavere Smith uses the verbatim words of people, who experienced the Los Angeles riots, to expose and explore the devastating…
Maker Project: BFA Juniors
The talents of our BFA Junior class will be on display in this developmental maker process in which the students were asked to take creative…
P.O.P.’s “The White Plague”
This multi-media web experience is a deconstruction of Karel Capek’s incredibly prophetic 1937 play The White Plague, about what happens when a global pandemic strikes…
Our American Heartbeat
Over the course of the semester, the seniors of the BFA in Acting for Stage, Screen and New Media program will explore and create theatrical…
New Theatre for Right Now
New Theatre for Right Now is an inaugural collaboration between the USC School of Dramatic Arts’ MFA Dramatic Writing and Acting cohorts designed specifically to…
The Motherf**ker with the Hat
The Motherf**Ker with the Hat is a high-octane, verbal cage match about love, fidelity and misplaced haberdashery from the playwright of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’…
Pipeline
Nya is a single mom and dedicated teacher at a high-poverty city school, who is determined to give her teenage son Omari opportunities that her…
Macbeth3
Something wicked this way comes — but it’s not what you think. This lean, stripped-down adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth highlights the play’s intensity and breakneck…
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles
Developed in collaboration with Arts in Action (USC’s program to activate intensive arts projects between community partners, students, and faculty), Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles is…
The White Plague
On the brink of a world war, a mysterious plague begins to kill everyone older than 45. A young doctor finds a cure, but what…
New Works Festival Year 2
NWF Year 2 showcases the emerging voices of the School’s second-year MFA in Dramatic Writing students with workshop productions. New Works Play 1: Sick Boys…
The Comedy of Errors
Shipwrecked and separated 25 years earlier, two sets of long-lost twins miraculously find themselves in the same city on the same day. What could possibly…
SCetch Comedy
Through discussion, improvisation, and writing, the SCetch Company will develop comedy pieces specifically for an online environment. Collaboratively written, these sketches will address topical issues…
A Midsommer Night’s Dream
A delightful tale of merriment, mishaps and magic, four young lovers and a troupe of actors find themselves caught in the middle of a feuding…
Spring 2021 Virtual Theatre Festival
Join the USC School of Dramatic Arts for our Spring 2021 Virtual Theatre Festival, a limited engagement screening several of our productions from this semester…
New Works Festival Year 3
The thesis plays of the graduating MFA in Dramatic Writing cohort are presented as concert readings with professional actors and directors. NWF Year Three is…