New work. New visions. New voices.

MISSION

As Northwestern University’s only theatre organization exclusively dedicated to producing new student written work, Vertigo Productions seeks to:

  1. Support undergraduate student playwrights by providing resources and a platform for new play development and production

  2. Produce a season of full-fledged productions, staged readings, and workshops that utilize the artistic medium of the new play to uplift the voices of students and foster campus wide conversations about the issues and themes about which students are passionate

  3. Be a creative and dynamic presence on campus that encourages artistic risk-taking, the exploration of diverse experiences, and the amplification of new visions and new voices

ABOUT VERTIGO

Vertigo Productions is a self-supporting, not-for-profit student theatre company operating on the campus of Northwestern University, which produces exclusively student-written theatre. Vertigo Productions is an official member of the Student Theatre Coalition (StuCo), an umbrella organization of student theatre groups at Northwestern University.

Vertigo Productions’ name comes from the sensation of vertigo because “writing a play feels like climbing up a ladder when you’re afraid of heights.”

Each Vertigo Productions season consists of 5 premiering student-written plays:

  1. the Fall Mainstage, a fully staged production in Northwestern’s Shanley Pavilion

  2. the Winter Reading Series, a staged reading event of 3 new scripts in Northwestern’s Shanley Pavilion

  3. the Spring Mainstage, a fully staged production in Northwestern’s Shanley Pavilion

Vertigo Productions also supports the production of a 10-Minute Play Festival and produces up to two special events, one in the beginning of Fall and one mid-Spring.