Theatre Roscius, is an independent, Los Angeles-based experimental performance art / physical theatre and research company that was founded on the simple idea that stories must be shared. That 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, outcasts, when put together in one room, can find they have always known one another. Theatre Roscius aims to create innovative, relevant, and compassionate theatre.
At Theatre Roscius we produce theatre that focuses 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 Creative Director of Theatre Roscius, an experimental physical theatre company that she founded with her college theatre school friend Memory Willis. We focus and create pieces reflecting past/present 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. We merge theatre with performance art using the body as the main vehicle to understand how generational trauma, 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, if 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 fragility, femininity, fear of the female condition. Theatre Roscius work is bold, brave, uncompromising, yet inviting. 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 it's U.S premiere in 2018 at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Theatre Roscius's new play The Death of Medea will premiere Spring 2023.
Our work is dedicated to the amplification of avant-garde theatre by Black women, women of color, and women of all backgrounds locally and globally. We are building and re-imagining what theatre is in America by focusing on the empowerment of women using physical theatre as the catalyst to healing. The work we create is informed, inspired, and in service to our community, our theatre artists, and our audiences.
NEW PLAY SUBMISSIONS
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 theatreroscius@yahoo.com with PLAYWRIGHT SUBMISSION in the subject line. No submission of complete manuscripts, please.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Constance Strickland
Vice Chair
Phillip-Paul
Treasurer
Blanca Esparza
Secretary
Francisco Montenegro
Community Memeber
Breigh-Ann Walls
Our work is dedicated to the amplification of avant-garde theatre by Black women, women of color, and women of all backgrounds locally and globally. We are building and re-imagining what theatre is in America by focusing on the empowerment of women using physical theatre as the catalyst to healing. The work we create is informed, inspired, and in service to our community, our theatre artists, and our audiences.
NEW PLAY SUBMISSIONS
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 theatreroscius@yahoo.com with PLAYWRIGHT SUBMISSION in the subject line. No submission of complete manuscripts, please.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Constance Strickland
Vice Chair
Phillip-Paul
Treasurer
Blanca Esparza
Secretary
Francisco Montenegro
Community Memeber
Breigh-Ann Walls
