Past Productions

The Wolves


From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, a competitive high school soccer team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim…

New Works Festival

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…

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…

A Midsommer Night's Dream

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…

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…

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…

The White Plague art

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…

Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles art

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…

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…