

LOOKING FORWARD: Shows We're Excited to See in 2017
Bea Cordelia Sullivan-Knoff is an award-winning, Chicago-bred writer, [solo] performer, activist, & educator specializing in issues of gender, sex[uality], queerness, & the body. Six of her plays have been produced to date and many of her poems and essays published, including the self-published chapbook of poetry 28.06 // Dear Sylvia. Her "life-changing" autobiographical solo show Chasing Blue recently featured in The Brick’s inaugural Trans Theatre Festival in Brooklyn and i


LOOKING FORWARD: The Top Ten Shows We're Excited to See in 2017
Terri Lynne Hudson is an actor, improviser and performance artist living and working in Chicago. She has spina bifida. She wanted to point out that she's fairly sad to see a lack of disability representation outside of Vanya...She's wondering if she just doesn't know where to look, still being relatively new in town? Vanya (or, That's Life): Rasaka Theatre Adapted from Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya
By Lavina Jadhwani Directed by Kaiser Ahmed
Presented at The Edge Theater
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LOOKING FORWARD: The Top Ten Shows We're Excited to See in 2017
Abhi Shrestha is a Theatre Directing student at Columbia College Chicago, is currently the Literary Associate at Haven Theatre, and served as the Literary Assistant at Strawdog. He is currently assisting directing Marti Lyons for Wit with The Hypocrites and looks forward to working with director Will Davis in American Theater Company's upcoming production of Picnic. AHHHHH. So many things. So many GREAT things are happening. Such beautiful movement forward, and such an exciti


LOOKING FORWARD: Shows We're Excited to See in 2017
Richard Costes is the executive director of Chicago D(ART), or Deaf ART, a new arts organization focused on bridging the Deaf and hearing communities, creating works in a wide variety of mediums that reflect the underserved d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities in Chicago. He is also an actor who can be seen in Rasaka's VANYA (or That's Life) and will direct David Rush’s POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR for Chicago D(ART). Top 8 Shows I'm Looking Forward To As a deaf theatre artist, I


LOOKING FORWARD: Top Ten Shows We're Excited to See in 2017
Lavina Jadhwani is a Chicago-based director and adaptor. She wrote this list roughly in order in which they open (and all are affordably priced, to boot): - Tympanic's Waiting for Godot: I read the casting announcement for this show and thought, "You had me at hello." - Wolf at the End of the Block (Teatro Vista): Because Ike Holter does not miss a beat (and Gabe Ruiz is usually ok, too). - American Hwangap (co-pro between A-Squared and Halcyon): I first met Helen Young as a


LOOKING FORWARD: Top 10 Shows We're Excited To See in 2017
Hannah Gomez is a Freelance Actor, and Outreach and Membership Co-Manager of ALTA. She enthusiastically endorses all the choices others have contributed to TCIP and so she adapted this assignment to be "10(+) Latinx-Inclusive Works to Look Forward to in 2017". It is important to note that she wrote this in a British dialect so you know it's legit. These are not in any particular order! * American Theater Co. - MEN ON BOATS A genderfluid and inclusive cast of women and folx ot


LOOKING BACK, GOING FORWARD: Reflections on 2016 and Hopes for 2017
The Chicago Inclusion Project founder and producer, Emjoy Gavino, discusses this past year's brightest moments and her wishes for the new year. My Favorite Moments of 2016 June, The Gift Theatre The day after the Orlando shooting, there weren't many rooms I wanted to be in, aside from my own dark corner at home. But it was the only time I could see a run through of The Grapes of Wrath at Gift Theatre before it opened. I hadn't seen many of these actors since director Erica W