Theatre Roscius is an independent, Los Angeles–based transdisciplinary performance and visual arts organization dedicated to physical research, movement investigation, and the creation of original work centered on the lives of women. Our work does not begin with scripts or seasons, but with questions — about memory, inheritance, loss, survival, and what can be
Founded on the understanding that the body is both archive and instrument, Theatre Roscius investigates how memory, grief, joy, trauma, and inheritance live in the body, particularly within the lived experiences of Black women. Our work emerges through movement, sculptural practice, spatial composition, and performance, rather than through traditional, colonized theatrical production models.
At Theatre Roscius we produce original work that focuses on and enriches the mental and physical health and lives of women. Theatre Roscius focuses on female-centered physical narratives that unearth women’s emotional lives, women whose stories often go unheard,
unseen, and misunderstood. We seek to educate, support, and inspire female artists at all levels of artistic development in order to produce work that enriches the mental + physical well-being of Black women from all backgrounds.
Founded on the understanding that the body is both archive and instrument, Theatre Roscius investigates how memory, grief, joy, trauma, and inheritance live in the body, particularly within the lived experiences of Black women. Our work emerges through movement, sculptural practice, spatial composition, and performance, rather than through traditional, colonized theatrical production models.
At Theatre Roscius we produce original work that focuses on and enriches the mental and physical health and lives of women. Theatre Roscius focuses on female-centered physical narratives that unearth women’s emotional lives, women whose stories often go unheard,
unseen, and misunderstood. We seek to educate, support, and inspire female artists at all levels of artistic development in order to produce work that enriches the mental + physical well-being of Black women from all backgrounds.
"I was instantly drawn into the whirlpool ahead of me, as all three women hypnotically circled the stage. Steady and silent tears streamed down my face, which I attributed to sheer fatigue, until I realized that the entire audience had been equally moved by what they were vicariously experiencing. I was transported to a different place entirely; specifically, any black box theater in San Francisco, where art and activism go hand-in-hand.
I was reminded of exactly why I love theater in the first place.
I was reminded of exactly why I love theater in the first place.
At Theatre Roscius, we believe that gathering, even briefly, becomes an act of radical undertaking. When bodies share space, what is often rendered invisible or unspeakable is given form. Theatre Roscius creates environments where stories are not explained or linear, but physically revealed.
For the past twelve years, our practice centers female-led physical narratives and prioritizes artists whose work exists outside institutional legibility. We operate as a site of research, experimentation, and public investigation, presenting studies, unveilings, and interdisciplinary events rather than conventional plays.
Theatre Roscius is committed to amplifying avant-garde work by Black women and women of color locally and globally. Our projects examine the present, past, and future social realities shaping women’s lives, asking how memory is passed, how trauma is carried, and how the body remembers what language cannot.
Past works have been recognized and supported by the Women of African Descent Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Department of Cultural Affairs, and NEFA.
Theatre Roscius is bold, rigorous, and uncompromising in its inquiry, not to shock, but to tell the truth. Our work is created in service to artists, audiences, and communities who seek depth, resonance, and transformation through embodied practice.
