The thesis plays of the 2020 graduating MFA in Dramatic Writing cohort are presented as (virtual) concert readings with professional actors and directors. NWF Year Three is a partnership with The Pasadena Playhouse, a continuation of the theatre’s 100-year commitment to cultivating playwrights and original works.
Please consider making a donation in support of the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Donate HERE.
Lena Passes By
by Amanda L. Andrei
Performance Date/Time : Friday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m.
To save her Romanian father, find her Filipina mother, and lift an ancestral curse, Lena Bala journeys to her father’s homeland for medicinal magic.
Nan
by Noa Gardner
Performance Date/Time: Saturday, May 23, at 2:30 p.m.
Nan centers on the lives of three Hawaiians in their small family. Nan, the matriarch, gives her daughter, Alice, an impossible task – to help plan Nan’s suicide, forcing Alice to come to terms with her life and relationship with her mother.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, and SAG-AFTRA
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.
