Discover upcoming theatre and film productions and performances. All shows are produced, performed, and directed by the talented students in our programs.
2025/2026 SEASON
All artwork by Jonathan Wood
Join us for a season of playful, thought-provoking theatre that explores identity, storytelling, and the art of adaptation. Featuring the wacky and wildly imaginative Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a contemporary take on the pied piper of Hamelin with Pyper, and a guest presentation of Women of the Fur Trade produced in association with Touchstone Theatre, this year’s lineup is full of humour, heart, and big questions.
What’s On Stage:
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
by Anne Washburn
Score by Michael Friedman
Lyrics by Anne Washburn
Directed by Larisse Campbell (MFA Candidate)
November 19–December 6, 2025
Frederic Wood Theatre
In the near future, after the collapse of society as we know it, survivors gather around a campfire, trying to recall the Simpsons episode “Cape Feare”, seeking solace and entertainment. As time passes, that half-remembered episode, plus other fragments of pop culture, becomes the unlikely foundation for new forms of performance and a means of preserving the memory of a world long gone. Blending dark comedy, music, and theatrical experimentation, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is a uniquely imaginative exploration of pop culture, storytelling, and what endures.
Pyper
by Susanna Fournier
Directed by Leora Morris
March 11–28, 2026
Frederic Wood Theatre
Ten cyborg-AI teens try to build a time capsule to prove they exist in case they’re “retired” before graduation. Tracing their origins back to a mysterious piper in the town of Hamelin and an old puppet maker who discovers a talking block of wood, these algorithmic adolescents search for meaning in an ever-accelerating world of rapid obsolescence and hyperconnectivity. The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi odyssey about youth, identity, and what it means to be human in a digital-dependent world.
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