With support from the California Arts Council, Theatre Roscius has the opportunity to become a stable theatre arts organization that can serve our community for another ten years. To support Theatre Roscius, a Black woman led theatre company with financial support that leads to a wider access of resources allow us to continue to create new and original physical plays that allows us to continue to uplift the women whose stories we tell to a broader audience. Theatre Roscius has been creating and self-producing new plays that focuses on women’s mental health and well-being for ten years this year. To support Theatre Roscius, a small avant-garde, experimental theatre company uplifts and expands the voices of women who often go unseen and without empathy. To support Theatre Roscius is giving a small organization to expand.
Since 2013, Theatre Roscius has anchored its work in a holistic commitment to women’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Our core programs—community mental health conversations, somatic release workshops, and open movement practices—are not peripheral offerings, but the generative ground from which our original multidisciplinary performance works emerge. These programs serve as both healing modalities and creative research, allowing lived experience to shape and inform our artistic practice.
Our approach is rooted in deep listening and embodied inquiry, with each season devoted to telling the stories of women—especially those whose narratives are often unseen, unheard, or left unspoken. Through this lens, performance becomes a practice of remembering, resisting, and reclaiming—inviting participants and audiences into a shared space of transformation.
Looking forward, we are expanding our work through a new partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, investigating how memory lives in the body and how familial legacy is carried across generations. This collaboration continues our commitment to using the arts to confront urgent social and emotional realities, while honoring intergenerational truths and care.
Every program we offer is designed to uplift and center the nuanced realities of women’s lives. More than services, they are acts of cultural stewardship—rooted in the belief that storytelling, movement, and memory are powerful tools for healing, resilience, and change.

