Welcome to Usonia
written and directed by regan lavin
December 2021
What is utopia? How does our environment and home contribute to the dynamics of our families? What constitutes the quintessential American home? Welcome to Usonia, a devised work, explores these questions and more through a hybrid digital and physical performance, partially completed through The Sims 4.
My final project for Theater and Performance Making (TAPS 101P) at Stanford with Michael Rau was to create a work with just one word to act as my inspiration: usonia. A term coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, usonia refers to Wright’s concept of American architecture, urban planning, and how American society should interact with its buildings.