2021 Season Announcement
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2021 Season Announcement

We are thrilled to announce our first-ever combined onstage and digital season!

OSF 2021 is a celebration of our commitment to producing world-class theatre on our stages combined with presenting groundbreaking new digital programming to audiences around the world. Whatever the medium, our ambitious new season centers and elevates the unique voice and vision of our best artists.

The 2021 season features streaming favorite productions from our archives, imaginative and illuminating new works presented on our digital platform O!, and a Fall 2021 live season in Ashland.

Streaming Favorites on O!

Watch beloved productions from OSF’s archives in high-quality video. Three shows are on sale now, and more titles will be announced soon. Buy one, or purchase a package of all 3 and save!


Julius Caesar

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Shana Cooper

This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare’s political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and means lead to unexpected consequences they cannot control.
(streaming March 1 through March 27)

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Manahatta

By Mary Kathryn Nagle
Directed by Laurie Woolery

This 2018 world premiere by celebrated playwright, activist, and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of the Lenape people and the attempted eradication of their culture that gave rise to the America we know today. This brilliant production, directed by Laurie Woolery, defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.
(streaming March 29 through April 24)

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Snow In Midsummer

By Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig 
Based on the classical Chinese drama The Injustice to Dou Yi That Moved Heaven and Earth by Guan Hanqing  
Directed by Justin Audibert 

This 2018 U.S. premiere production interweaves two stories—of a young woman who curses her city from beyond the grave and of a wealthy businesswoman who must face the parched, locust-plagued city. This modern ghost story beautifully reimagines a classic myth and explores the legacy of trauma, the heart of injustice, and the lengths to which we go for love.  
(streaming May 3 through May 29)

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And more shows will be announced soon!

$15 for an on-demand ticket, good for streaming any time during the run. 

Or SAVE and get all 3 OSF spring streaming shows for $40. Get Julius Caesar (March 1–27), Manahatta (March 29–April 24), and Snow in Midsummer (May 3–29) for one low price.

Live on Stage

We’re planning to be back on our stages in the Fall, and for the first time ever, we will perform through December. OSF will hold off announcing specific dates and ticket sales for onstage productions until there is more clarity around reopening, gathering, and social distancing guidelines.  


How I Learned What I Learned
Co-conceived by Todd Kreidler
Directed by Tim Bond
Featuring Steven Anthony Jones 
Originally performed by Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir charting one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a Black artist in America.

 


unseen
By Mona Mansour 
Directed by Evren Odcikin

West Coast Premiere
Mia, an American conflict photographer, wakes up at the site of a massacre in Syria, not sure how she got there. With her Turkish girlfriend Derya and her Californian mother Jane, Mia must slowly and painfully piece together the details of her past to find out what happened. An amazing showcase for three actresses, unseen asks what it would mean for our souls—personally and as a nation—if we were to see the impact of our actions.  


Confederates
By Dominique Morisseau 
Directed by Nataki Garrett 
American Revolutions 
Co-commission with Penumbra Theatre
World Premiere
Sara, an enslaved woman turned Union spy, and Sandra, a brilliant professor in a modern-day private university, are facing similar struggles, though they live over a century apart. This play leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and explore the reins that racial and gender bias still hold on American systems today.


The Green Show
The Green Show stage comes back to life with concerts, dance, and community performances, on a schedule to be announced in the coming weeks—and, as always, free and open to the public.


And introducing our first-ever winter special
It's Christmas, Carol
by Mark Bedard, Brent Hinkley, and John Tufts 

On Christmas Eve, three ghosts take miserly theatre producer Carol Scroogenhouse through time and space to reckon with how she’s abandoned artistry for hollow commerciality. Whisked to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, her cousin Fred’s swinging party, and a pandemic Zombie future, will Carol find her soul with the help of these apparitions? From the twisted minds of your favorite OSF clowns, this showcase of the OSF Acting Company promises to be a silly and uplifting way to mark the holidays and celebrate OSF’s return to live performance.


Streaming New Works on O!

These four groundbreaking projects are only a portion of what we have planned for O! Stay tuned over the coming months for these exciting new productions!


The Cymbeline Project
by William Shakespeare 
Conceived by Nataki Garrett

Created and directed by Scarlett Kim 
This rarely performed exploration of power and jealousy comes to life in a multi-episode digital production by award-winning immersive artist Scarlett Kim. Released over two years with a collage-like visual approach, Kim’s vision mines Shakespeare’s text to explore the deceit and the violence of the play within today’s aesthetic and political realities.

You Go Girl!
A new short film directed by Shariffa Ali 
Written by Zoey Martinson

O! Resident Artist Shariffa Ali (Ash Land, The Copper Children at OSF) brings her second short film to OSF’s digital platform. In You Go Girl!, a Black stand-up comedian finds herself in the beautiful forests of Southern Oregon to distribute the ashes of her late mother. Can this city woman overcome her fear of stillness, and in the process take control of her own healing? You Go Girl! is created in partnership with producers Adrian Alea (ALIALEA Productions), Kamilah Long (The Black Whole, Inc.), and Courtney Williams, and is made possible, in part, by an “Outdoor Adventure Grant” from the Oregon Made Creative Foundation, Travel Oregon and Oregon Film.

"19" Micro Commissions
New transmedia digital art

OSF has invited artists from a wide range of disciplines to create a short piece of digital art in response to themes drawn from the acronym of C.O.V.I.D.: Community, Offering, Vitality, Identity, Determination. These digital art commissions will start to bear fruit through 2021 on O! Artists commissioned for “19” include Christina Anderson; Scenic G/Gabriel Barrera; Kit Yan and Melissa Li; Erika Chong Shuch, Rowena Richie, and Ryan Tacata.

The Visual Sovereignty Project
Curated by Chava Florendo

Recognizing that Indigenous people have a story to tell, “for us, by us, now us,” this new series asks Indigenous artists to visually express their sovereignty — tribal and personal. The Visual Sovereignty Project will capture a small cross-section of the diversity of Indigenous people in the way they choose to share their gifts with the world.

 

And much, much more!