Theatre Roscius is an independent, Los Angeles-based experimental movement, performance & visual arts, and physical research company founded on the idea that the body can heal through storytelling. Theatre Roscius believes these stories must be shared and physically released. The simple act of sharing, when individuals gather to explore the many facets of being human, ultimately reveals our hidden similarities, and people otherwise easily mistaken for strangers, foreigners, or outcasts, when put together in one room, can find they have always known one another. Theatre Roscius aims to create innovative, relevant, and compassionate visual art.
At Theatre Roscius we produce work that focuses on and enriches the mental and physical health and lives of women of all kinds. We seek to educate, support, and inspire female theatre artists at all levels of artistic development in order to produce theatre that enriches the mental + physical well-being of Black women and women of all backgrounds.
At Theatre Roscius we produce work that focuses on and enriches the mental and physical health and lives of women of all kinds. We seek to educate, support, and inspire female theatre artists at all levels of artistic development in order to produce theatre that enriches the mental + physical well-being of Black women and women of all backgrounds.
Constance Strickland is the Creative Director of Theatre Roscius, that she founded with her college theatre school friend Memory Willis. We focus and create visual pieces that reflect on past, present and future social issues facing the lives of women. Constance has appeared in the films RITE & Play by artist Dara Friedman, presented at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, Migros Museum in Switzerland, the Hammer Museum and the Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles.
Theatre Roscius merges movement with performance art using the body as the main vehicle to understand how generational trauma, grief, memory, mental health, and joy live in the body via the Black female perspective. We investigate physically, using movement to see how memories, trauma, and isolation live in the body. Do we pass down memories from one generation to the next? How does this exhibit itself gesturally into the lives of women who carry these stories in their bodies? Our work digs deep, and unflinchingly reflects upon the emotional lives of women. We use movement to explore our curiosities: fragility, femininity, security, tension and fear within the female story. Theatre Roscius's work is bold, brave, uncompromising, yet always honest and authentic.
Our short film Dear Nina was awarded the juror's choice award at the Women of African Descent Film Festival for Outstanding Achievement 2015. Our short film Out of the Dark / Into the Light had its U.S. premiere in 2018 at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Theatre Roscius's new movement play The Death of Medea will premiere in the Spring of 2025.
Our work is dedicated to the amplification of avant-garde theatre by Black women, and women of color locally and globally. We are actively in the continuum of building and re-imagining what theatre is in Los Angeles and throughout America by focusing on the empowerment of women. We engage the body on a cellular and somatic level using movement as the catalyst to healing. The work we create is informed, inspired, and in service to the women in our community, artists, and our audiences.
NEW PLAY SUBMISSIONS
Experimental Playwrights + Movement Artists interested in developing work with Theatre Roscius may submit a synopsis and no more than 15 pages for consideration. Please submit electronically at [email protected] with PLAYWRIGHT SUBMISSION in the subject line. No submission of complete manuscripts, please.
Theatre Roscius merges movement with performance art using the body as the main vehicle to understand how generational trauma, grief, memory, mental health, and joy live in the body via the Black female perspective. We investigate physically, using movement to see how memories, trauma, and isolation live in the body. Do we pass down memories from one generation to the next? How does this exhibit itself gesturally into the lives of women who carry these stories in their bodies? Our work digs deep, and unflinchingly reflects upon the emotional lives of women. We use movement to explore our curiosities: fragility, femininity, security, tension and fear within the female story. Theatre Roscius's work is bold, brave, uncompromising, yet always honest and authentic.
Our short film Dear Nina was awarded the juror's choice award at the Women of African Descent Film Festival for Outstanding Achievement 2015. Our short film Out of the Dark / Into the Light had its U.S. premiere in 2018 at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Theatre Roscius's new movement play The Death of Medea will premiere in the Spring of 2025.
Our work is dedicated to the amplification of avant-garde theatre by Black women, and women of color locally and globally. We are actively in the continuum of building and re-imagining what theatre is in Los Angeles and throughout America by focusing on the empowerment of women. We engage the body on a cellular and somatic level using movement as the catalyst to healing. The work we create is informed, inspired, and in service to the women in our community, artists, and our audiences.
NEW PLAY SUBMISSIONS
Experimental Playwrights + Movement Artists interested in developing work with Theatre Roscius may submit a synopsis and no more than 15 pages for consideration. Please submit electronically at [email protected] with PLAYWRIGHT SUBMISSION in the subject line. No submission of complete manuscripts, please.
