Past Productions

Our American Heartbeat art

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…

P.O.P. show artwork

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…

Maker Project: BFA Juniors art

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…

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 art

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…

The Distance Project art

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 art

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…

Empower the Vote art

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…

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…

Camino Real

Camino Real


The Camino Real is a dead end—the end of the road in a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition.…