CPP Festival of New Student Plays

In the fall semester of 2023, Dr. Truett taught “Introduction to Playwriting” in the Department of Theatre and New Dance, Cal Poly Pomona. In this class, students learn how to imagine, create, and complete a short play or performance piece using the building blocks of Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama. Class exercises also expand the discussion of dramatic structure beyond the standard Western dramatic structure … Continue reading CPP Festival of New Student Plays

Directing: Remote

Written by Daniel Marcozzi (Created/Developed in Dr. Truett’s Playwriting class) Remote is a surreal and absurdist original play using sound, imagery, and physical theatre to explore anxieties about modern life, relationships, and love. This original experimental performance is inspired, in part, by Samuel Becketts’ Act Without Words I and Act Without Words II, as well as dance theatre techniques and Grotowski’s Poor Theatre. Included in … Continue reading Directing: Remote

Directing and Devising “Portillos and Pitas” by Joshua Truett and Elias Feghali

Portillos and Pitas is a devised performance created by undergraduate and graduate actors at California State University, Los Angeles. It explores immigration, racism, sexism, and terrorism through the lens of the family. A collaboration with a Lebanese filmmaker and director. The play mixes video, text, and movement in its examination of the walls and borderlands from the American Southwest and the Middle East. The text … Continue reading Directing and Devising “Portillos and Pitas” by Joshua Truett and Elias Feghali

“Spectacles of Disappearance: Migration, Man, and Machine”

“Spectacles of Disappearance: Migration, Man, and Machine.” Published in the journal Latin American Theatre Review. Download Article: LATR Performance Review 2018 Photos of Article 13, an immersive installation first created in 2012 by Mexican theatre company Teatro Línea Sombra in collaboration with the French group Cie Carabosse and performed outdoors in March 2016, as part of the Kimmel Center’s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. All … Continue reading “Spectacles of Disappearance: Migration, Man, and Machine”

Creative Project in Oaxaca, Supported by the Global Mobility Project @ OSU

Read the Original Post @: https://u.osu.edu/globalmobility/2017/12/23/research-update-transnational-performance/ My mission as an artist/scholar is to create work that expands social discourse and instigates introspection about social and political issues. I was born in San Diego, less than twenty miles from the Mexican border. During my childhood in Southern California, I became fascinated by intersections: the places where peoples, cultures, and ideologies converge. This is reflected in my academic … Continue reading Creative Project in Oaxaca, Supported by the Global Mobility Project @ OSU