Bio

Constance Jaquay Strickland, founder of Theatre Roscius, is known for her singular experimental theatre plays, performance art films, avant-garde movement, and physical photography installations. Her work focuses on female-centered physical narratives that unearth the emotional lives of women, whose stories often go unheard, unseen, and misunderstood.

Strickland debuted This Grief Will Be of Use Parts I + II, a movement theatre eulogy, and the physical photography fine art exhibition An Antebellum Theory at Art Share L.A. She recently premiered A Black Women’s Liberation in cross-collaboration with Takesome/Leavesome’s The Shwang Out. She has completed residencies at The Getty Villa Theatre Lab and the Baryshnikov Arts Center for her new one-act movement theatre play, Medea Refracted, which is set for a 2027 premiere. Her latest durational theatre piece, mercy: An Ode to Black Women’s Labor, debuted in July 2025 during the WEHO Arts Outside Festival. Her physical film, And Then There Was Silence, is dedicated to women who have lost a child (Vilomah) and will premiere in 2026. Her solo, A Study on the Weight of Blackness (Unveils) The Resilience of Being Black, is currently in development after engaging in two supported residencies at BASE Seattle & Salisbury University with the Six Viewpoints Institute.