Performance Department is a satirical horror about a struggling liberal arts college that is swept into a pageantry of virtue signaling around one black student’s incendiary thesis project. While the Development Office launches quixotic fundraising ploys to meet Annual Fund goals, the professors strategize to discreetly sabotage their “problem student.” As despair grows about whether the university has any lasting power in today's America, a terrifying affliction begins to spread from the thesis project. Soon new monsters stalk the grounds on Alumni Weekend. Will this two-hundred year old institution be saved, or will the sins from its past rise up from within and usher it towards a grisly demise?