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…
Past Productions
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
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
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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.’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…