StageCast: Experiments in Performance and Technology is an experimental showcase of performances to discover new forms of live, theatrical storytelling over the internet. Utilizing new technologies developed by students and faculty members from the Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE) Departments, the performance will feature four original, short works by various acclaimed playwrights performed by Stanford students with live music interludes in-between.

Join us for an investigation into digital storytelling, creative coding, and a melding of art and science!

A TV Pilot I Failed to Sell
by Kate Tarker

A TV Pilot I Failed to Sell highlights the journey of an aspiring writer as she navigates the complex demands of the TV industry. Through multiple zoom meetings, the struggling artist pitches her idea of a screenplay to four different executives.

Unboxing
Michael Yates Crowley

Unboxing, is a chaotic satire that pokes fun at influencer unboxing videos on YouTube. Meet a narrator, a lawyer, two box bros, a girlfriend and a… Homunculus?? Dive deep into the meaning of the box with this humorous play.

Loup Garou
by Kelley Girod

In New York City, during the first days of the pandemic and lockdown, two friends who thought they long left a tragedy behind them, find themselves lost in time. As they try to comfort each other through the strangeness of self-isolation, they realize that there is nowhere to run from a past that hunts them like the Loup Garou, or werewolf, that used to stalk their nightmares as children.

Re-entry Camp
Mike Lew

Re-entry Camp speculates about the (hopefully soon) transition to a post-COVID era where pandemic-scarred people emerge to re-enter society. This satirical play draws on tropes of the hoarders, the overly-cautious preppers, the zoomers acclimated to online reality, and the people who never cared at all.