Past Productions

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday Photo

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday


On the eve of his late wife’s birthday, a young widower remains a captive of his grief and spends his evenings with her ghost.

©2014 Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging for the USC School of Dramatic Arts

4.48 Psychosis


Sarah Kane’s drama is the haunting journey of a woman in the throes of a terrifying psychological ordeal.

New Works Festival

The End Times


Born and raised in the Lord’s Recovery, Tim has always been a devout follower to the movement. However, after his best friend Evan leaves the Local Churches, Tim’s life slowly unravels as he begins to question the foundations of his beliefs.

Henry and the Hippocampus reading

Henry and the Hippocampus


After suffering a traumatic brain injury, Henry loses the ability to form new memories.

Pairi Daiza reading

Pairi Daiza


When 24-year-old Independent-Fighter Zahra learns she is 7 months pregnant in the heat of the Iran-Iraq war, she rejects her maternal instincts and chooses to continue engaging in combat.

New Works Festival

New Works Festival: Year Three


A festival of plays by the graduating playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing program. The readings, which will each have two public performances, will be…

Scene from Brokers at Massman Theatre

Brokers


Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2 that features exciting and diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.

Kokoro

Kokoro (True Heart)


Kokoro (True Heart) explores the struggle of a young Japanese mother adapting to the very foreign culture of the United States.

The Dining Room

The Dining Room


A mosaic of scenes set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household – which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

scene from Disappearing Act

Disappearing Act


Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2 that features exciting and diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.