03/05/2026
The Drama Therapy Program at NYU is pleased to announce six thesis performances this spring, March 13-15, 2026. Each performance is once piece of a culminating thesis project, investigating a correlating research question.
Please see the links in bio for ticket information to select performances.
THE SPACE BETWEEN explores the experience of splitting and isolation that can attend invisible illness, while attempting to find some sort of peace among the chaos.
Object Lesson (written and performed by Brea Glosson and directed by Kristin Long & Rachel Sabo-Hedges) is an autoethnographic theatre piece that examines the author’s experience of being born and raised in a homeschooling evangelical Christian group in rural North Carolina, and delves deep into what it means to question everything you thought you knew as absolute truth using music, humor, and visual aids.
“The Fascist Me” by Camila Klas and directed by Adam Stevens, is an auto ethnographic therapeutic performance that explores the roles of fascism that live within. The performance follows the life of a naturalized citizen in the current political climate.
LA PUERTA EN LA SELVA (The Door in the Jungle) is an autobiographical therapeutic performance that explores the transformative healing of looking behind the door of the inner self and reclaiming what was once lost and erased within the complexities of the adoption experience.
Between Us – A Performance by Jingxin Shi is an autobiographical therapeutic performance exploring loss, culture, and silence through embodied storytelling, integrating drama therapy with her developing Body Architect practice to reveal how the body carries memory, relationship, and what remains unspoken between us.
Survivor, the Game, or Something Else: The Mandarin musical developed from a women empowerment board game(WEB) and created by an all–Asian women team, exploring how a high-functioning neurodiverse Asian woman moves from survival to flourishing. (with Chinese and English subtitles; content note: references to themes such as blood vengeance, sexual violence, cannibalism, infanticide, and flashing disco lights, please take care).
