PREVIOUS WORK GALLERY
A collaborative experience between professional directors, designers, other professional theatre artists and students. Our work expands over many seasons of student-written work through original theatre productions and yearly series.
2023-2024 Season
Bunmi & Babajide Much Ado in Lagos, 1963
2022-2023 Season
The Speaker Series
Sept. 21, 2022 and Oct. 19, 2022
Feb. 15, 2023 and March 22, 2023
Dahlberg Theatre
The ultimate networking event where students connect with professionals in the entertainment industry, hear insider stories and ask their burning questions.
Sweat
Directed by Olubajo Sonubi
Nov. 9 – 13, 2022
Dahlberg Theatre
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores what happens to the relationships of several women and men, who were childhood friends and coworkers, as news of an impending factory closure begin to circulate. Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the poorest cities in the U.S. circa 2000 to 2008, the play examines how classism, racism, addiction and violence can take its toll on even the strongest of bonds.
Give Back Series - You Are Not Alone
Georgia State Original Work
Feb. 23 – 25, 2023
Performances focused on bringing awareness to issues that affect students and the Georgia State community. This year’s subject focuses on mental health awareness and acceptance of treatment without stigma. Considering the pandemic’s crushing effect on our students’ already fragile psyche, we feel this is a necessary subject to highlight.
*Funded in part by CTC mini grant
Ruthless!
Directed by Paul Conroy
Georgia State co-production with Out Front Theatre
March 29 – April 2, 2023
Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. “Anything” includes murdering the leading lady!
2021-2022 Season
Crash Theatre
Sept. 19, 2021
Online Performance
Georgia State student actors, writers and directors create a night of original short plays in just 24 hours! It’s highly unpredictable, always energetic and full of surprises that you don’t want to miss.
Xanadu
Georgia State co-production with Out Front Theatre
Nov. 10 – 14, 2021
The journey of a magical Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens to Venice Beach, California in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time – the first ROLLER DISCO! But, when Kira falls into forbidden love with the mortal Sonny, her jealous sisters take advantage of the situation and chaos abounds.
Give Back Series – Food Justice 2022
Feb. 24 – 27, 2022
Performances focused on bringing awareness to issues that affect students and the Georgia State community.
The Speakers Series
Sept. 22, 2021 and Oct. 27, 2021
Feb. 23, 2022 and March 23, 2022
Dahlberg Theatre
The ultimate networking event where students connect with professionals in the entertainment industry, hear insider stories and ask their burning questions.
She Kills Monsters
April 6 – 10, 2022
Dahlberg Theatre
In this hilarious, action-packed romp through the music and fantasy world of 1995, Agnes’ journey to know her late sister plummets her into the sword fighting world of Dungeons and Dragons. There, Tilly and her friends slay the Dragons of exclusion and discover a world where it is okay to be exactly who you are.
Night of Sexy Shorts- Awards Ceremony
April 20, 2022
Dahlberg Theatre
An opportunity to dress up and see a showcase of student work from the season and celebrate student accomplishments.
2020-2021 Season
- Crash Theatre- 24-Hour Play Festival, Viral Monologues – Online
- Out of Hand Collaboration – Online
- Online Reading of Canfield Drive – Online
- Speakers Series – Online
Artscape
Susan G. Reid, Professor of Practice in Acting/Directing at the School of Music’s Film, Media & Theatre directed the new film, “artscape 2021.” The collaborative theatrical project was devised and created by Georgia State students using Atlanta street art as a stage for a mix of spoken word and theatrical scenes, focusing on subjects that are front and center today: the pandemic, societal inequalities and the BLM movement. Reid gives insight into the film’s fruition and the messages “artscape 2021” hopes to convey.
2019-2020 Season
- Crash Theatre – Sept. 14, 2019
- The Speaker Series – Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 12, 2019 and Feb. 12, March 11, April 8, 2020
- The RHO Nov. 6 – 10, 2019
- Trafficked – Dec. 5, 2019
- The Vagina Monologues – Feb. 13, 2020
- Bull in a China Shop – March 4 – 8, 2020
- Collision Project – April 15-19, 2020, Cancelled due to COVID-19
- A Night of Sexy Shorts – April 28, 2020, Cancelled due to COVID-19
- Study Abroad Ireland – Cancelled due to COVID-19
Bull in a China Shop
March 4 – 8, 2020
2018-2019 Season
- Crash Theatre
- Lysistrata
- Vagina Monologues
- Flyin’ West
- A Night of Sexy Shorts
- Sexual Perversity in Chicago
- Study Abroad- Ireland