The 2024 Lee Strasberg Film Festival
Read more about the 2024 Lee Strasberg Film Festival selections, nominees, and winners!
The Invitation
After auditioning for the role of a lifetime, eight actors receive a mysterious invite: Salutations. The Director was so pleased with your work and invites you to dine. Come hungry.
i’m sorry for your trouble
i’m sorry for your trouble (2023)
By Aniello Fontano
Joe is dead. Really dead. So tonight, four hours after her funeral, Joe’s childhood friends are gathering at their neighborhood bar.
And Then There Were None
LSTFI presents Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, And Then There Were None!
Quinn the Magnificent
2023 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Twelve-year-old Quinn wants his mother’s new boyfriend gone. But Jay is on to him, and Quinn’s usual strategies aren’t working.
2023 StrasbergWORKS Selection: Quinn the Magnificent by Paige Susan Anderson
This summer, Paige had the opportunity to revisit LSTFI – this time as the playwright of the 2023 StrasbergWORKS selection.
Really Really
LSTFI Los Angeles presents Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really.
You on the Moors Now
NYU Tisch at Strasberg presents Jaclyn Backhaus’ You on the Moors Now.
Assassins
A joint production between the Institute and NYU Tisch at Strasberg, LSTFI presents Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins!
LSTFI’s First Annual 3×5 Film Competition
Filmmakers were given a prompt and just 5 days to create a 3 minute short film for LSTFI’s inaugural 3×5 Film Competition.
Everybody
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute is proud to present Branden Jacob-Jenkins’ Everybody, directed by Alfonso Rey.
Lee Strasberg’s 121st Birthday
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute celebrates Lee Strasberg’s 121st birthday.
Scissors
2022 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Casper is severely depressed when he meets Cleo – a morbidly curious girl who just might be his reason to stay alive.
‘Validation’ Selected for the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival
Validation by LSTFI alumna Daphne Macy is one of just 30 works selected for the nation’s leading short play festival.
‘Our Place in the Daylight’ Opens at The Chain Theatre
Wrriten by LSTFI alumna Marissa Alaniz, Our Place in the Daylight runs this July as part of the 2022 Chain Play Festival.
Where the Cross Is Made
An old sea captain goes mad when shadows from the past come to haunt him.
Two Truths and a Lie
After a nasty break up, Claire and Danny play the game Two Truths and a Lie in this romantic comedy.
Icarus’s Mother
This one-act play from Sam Shepard finds five spoiled, idle kids lazing around a beach after a Fourth of July picnic.
The Effect
Sixty-Six Productions presents The Effect by HBO Succession writer Lucy Prebble.
Sixty-Six Productions Presents ‘The Effect’
The Effect at LSTFI Los Angeles has been hailed as “L.A. intimate theater at its most thrillingly, arrestingly effective.”
Our Town
A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Thorton Wilder’s Our Town follows the citizens of Grover’s Corners over the course of a decade.
The Last Supper and Three Years Later
The Last Supper and Three Years Later (2022)
By Calamity West
A group of friends navigate their personal lives and relationships in the days leading up to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Act II finds the same group three years later.
Fuenteovejuna
NYU Tisch at Strasberg presents Fuenteovejuna, a reknowned Spanish classic by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio.
Eurydice
LSTFI presents Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, a reimagining of a classic Greek tragedy through the eyes of its heroine.