Dinner Party
2026 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Six friends gather for a celebratory dinner party, but what starts as a sitcom-style hang quickly fractures as tensions emerge.
Verticals: A new handle on Hollywood – Event Recap
Vertical series casting opportunities are becoming more and more prevalent, bringing both opportunity and skepticism with their growing popularity.
The Minutes
A sharp dark comedy from Tracy Letts, The Minutes unfolds in real time at a local council meeting as hypocrisy, greed, and buried secrets make their way to the surface.
The Locker Room Girl in Me: Bringing Dry Land Back to NYC
From the LSTFI classroom to the New York stage, Isa Barrett produces and stars in Dry Land, bringing Method technique to a story of girlhood and defiance.
The 2025 Lee Strasberg Film Festival Recap
LSFF in it’s 9th year has become a hub of creatives from all sectors of the industry, celebrating exceptional performance and storytelling from around the globe.
Dead to Us
Dead to Us (2025)
By Malikah Stafford
A fractured friend group is forced to confront their past after the death of one of their own. As tensions resurface and old wounds reopen, the Angels of Death hover above.
LSTFI Veteran Voices
This inaugural program presented a wide range of original scenes, monologues, and short films written, directed, and performed by the participating artists.
Big Love
Fifty runaway brides, fifty determined grooms, and a wedding day that goes spectacularly wrong.
Save the Cat! & LSTFI: A Collaboration of Methods
For the second year, students from LSTFI Los Angeles brought life to the winning scripts of the Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge.
The Parker Hotel
Adapted by the AOS Class of ’26, The Parker Hotel unfolds over a wedding weekend and explores the complexities of love.
‘Never A Tale of More Woe’: Romeo and Juliet Takes a New Life through a Multicultural Lens
LSTFI alumni Emily Nunes and Venkatesh Vohra stage a new Pan-Asian interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
The Crucible
In the conservative town of Anywhere, USA, paranoia and accusations of witchcraft spread through the community.
Comet Orphan at the Cannes Film Market: A Week to Remember
From red carpets to premiere screenings, the Comet Orphan producing team made the most of every moment in France.
Dry Fall
2025 StrasbergWORKS Selection
In a post-apocalyptic California desert, a troupe of strangers fights to survive in a world conquered and destroyed.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
NYU Tisch at Strasberg proudly presents Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Pittsburgh Free Press
The Pittsburgh Free Press (2024)
By Dan Giles
When a junior reporter decides to pursue a story against her editor’s wishes, her actions have unforeseen consequences for the alt weekly where she works, and for the staff doing everything they can to keep it alive.
The 2024 Lee Strasberg Film Festival
For the first time in its eight-year history, The Lee Strasberg Film Festival was held in Los Angeles!
Significant Other
Jordan Berman would love to be in love, but that’s easier said than done. So until he meets Mr. Right, he wards off lonely nights with his trio of close girlfriends.
Fahrenheit 451
Adapted by Ray Bradbury from his own classic novel, Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian future where books are banned and “firemen” burn them to suppress free thought.
Unpublished Clifford Odets Play ‘The Nursery’ to Make Off-Broadway Debut
Point 5 Collective and The Lee Strasberg Creative Center bring The Nursery to the Off-Broadway stage, starring Cameron Monaghan and LSTFI alumna Natalie Rebenkoff.
Falkland’s Law
2024 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Four high-schoolers reunite at their elementary school playground to grapple with the loss of their best friend.
The Time of Your Life
LSTFI Associate Degree Students present William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life.
Kate Crackernuts
NYU Tisch at Strasberg presents Sheila Callaghan’s Kate Crackernuts.
Gypsy
The Lee Strasberg Institute presents Arthur Laurents’ classic musical, Gypsy!