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Tag: Chicago theater

Rachel Bykowski ’17 featured on Theater Communication Group’s “Diversity and Inclusion” blog series

  • October 2, 2014
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Chicago · Current Students · Essays · News · Press

Rachel Bykowski,our Chicago based first year MFA playwright, gives a thoughtful interview for TCG about her experience being a female playwright and her hope for more opportunities in the future for female identified writers.

Here’s an awesome quote from the interview:

“Theatre is not exclusive; it is inclusive. It is important for men to hear these conversations in order for them to understand how important parity is and how it strengthens their theatre community. While working with an all women theatre company, I have had the opportunity to engage in conversations with men who share our ideas and dream of true gender parity in theatre. The theatre companies, ensembles, and productions that have been created based off of conversations like that, are truly some of the most dynamic pieces of art I have ever witnessed and only strengthen the community at large because everyone is working together toward the same goal.”

Read the full interview here

Other Ohio MFA playwrights who have participated in this TCG “Diversity and Inclusion Series” series include Catherine Weingarten’17 and Cecilia Copeland.

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Rachel Bykowski has short play in Chicago!

  • September 17, 2014
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Chicago · Current Students · Events · News · Productions

First year playwright and Native Chicagoan, Rachel Bykowski, has an exciting new play The Invisible Ones which will be featured at Fury Theater’s “Short Attention Span Theater Fest.”  With her talent for tackling provocative subject matter and creating rich and addictive poetic language; we know this play will be awesome!  Congrats Rachel!

More info on EVENT:
Six Chicago playwrights were invited to write about their experience of being a local Chicagoan.
Dates: September 18,19,20, 25, 26, 26 at 7PM at Chase Park
Rachel is premiering her newest one act The Invisible Ones inspired by Amiri Baraka’s incredibly play Dutchman which dealt with racial tensions during the 1960’s. Bykowski’s play takes place on the Chicago Red Line and discusses the assumptions people make of others based solely on another person’s appearance and what part of the city they call home. In addition, it explores how Chicago does or does not deal with the now daily violence that plagues the city’s neighborhoods and the repercussions that violence has on its residents.

Click here for even more info on Fury Theater’s Short play Fest

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TimeOut Chicago gives Alum Laura Jacqmin’s GHOST BIKE 3 Stars.

  • March 24, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Productions

You can check out TimeOut’s review of GHOST BIKE here.

GHOST BIKE is produced by hot, young theater company, Buzz22 Chicago.

Buzz 22 Chicago’s synopsis of GHOST BIKE: Ora and Eddie fell in love with Chicago on their bikes. But when Eddie is hit by a car and killed, Ora refuses to let him go. Instead, she rides beneath our city to bring him back, facing off against underworld gods and ghosts -some interested in helping her, some determined to get in her way. The more difficult her journey becomes, the more Ora must question what it is she’s journeying towards. In Ghost Bike, Chicago culture skitches off of Greek, African, and Chinese mythology, sparking a spirited mash-up of underworld and after-life as seen from the seats of fixies, BMX’s and ten-speeds.

Ghost bikes can be found in Chicago and in cities all over the country. Learn more about them at http://ghostbikes.org/chicago.

From their website: “Ghost Bikes are made from bikes and bike parts which are no longer rideable, painted all white, and installed where cyclists were killed by motorists. They are grim but necessary reminders of the hazards cyclists face on our roadways. They remember the victim and raise awareness of the need to combat reckless and aggressive driving and fix our streets to be safer for all users.”

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2014 SEABURY QUINN, JR. PLAYWRIGHTS’ FESTIVAL

  • February 13, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · Festival · News

The annual festival runs from April 23 – April 26, 2014. For the full information and schedule, please visit the Festival 2014 page.

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TimeOut Chicago gives 4-Stars to Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder.”

  • January 29, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Press · Productions

Laura Jacqmin’s Do-Gooder is starting to rack up a lot of good reviews. This week’s Timeout Chicago gave it 4-Stars.

Gwen Purdom writes: (I)ts Jacqmin’s subtle script that leaves the lasting impression. In a play that ponders whether goodness comes from a life of privilege or passion, this is one story that’s far more compelling than its ordinary cover would suggest.

Do-Gooder is playing at the 16th Street Theater.

Check out Laura’s site: www.laurajacqmin.com

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Laura Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder” is “Recommended” by Chicago Reader

  • January 28, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Press · Productions

Laura Jacqmin’s Do-Gooder was “Recommended” in this weeks’ review by the Chicago Reader.

Jack Helbig writes Do-Gooder is “a remarkable, slyly told meditation on gender and racial politics, and how genuinely hard it is to really make a difference.”

Read the entire review here.

Learn more about Laura from her website http://www.laurajacqmin.com/

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Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder” is “Jeff-Recommended” at 16th Street Theater in Chicago.

  • January 25, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Press · Productions

Alum Laura Jacqmin’s new play “Do-Gooder” was “Jeff-Recommended” in its World Premiere at 16th Street Theater in Chicago.

The Jeff Awards are Chicago’s version of the Tony’s. “The designation of “Jeff Recommended” is given to a production when, after the opening night of its run, at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed excellent  by the opening night judges of the Joseph Jefferson Committee. The entire production is then eligible for nomination for awards at the end of the season.”

For more information about the play, check out Do-Gooders webpage and video.

You can learn more about Laura Jacqmin by visiting http://www.laurajacqmin.com/

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“Chicago Reader” lauds alum Mark Chrisler’s “Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes”

  • January 23, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Press · Productions

OU MFA Alum, Mark Chrisler, had a play run at this year’s Rhinofest in Chicago. The Chicago Reader’s, Zac Thompson, highlighted Chrisler’s play “Phones, Frauds, and Fakes.”

In Chrisler’s Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes, the writer-performer reads from a script while seated at a table, Spaulding Gray style. What starts as a witty lecture on history’s biggest lies soon morphs into the fascinating story of Chrisler’s four-year involvement with a girlfriend who turned out to be a pathological liar. As he relates how he fell for one whopper after another, Chrisler is insightful on self-deception and the way great liars exploit our willingness to believe what we want to believe, even when the truth is staring us in the face.

Read the entire article here.

Check out Mark Chrisler’s website for more information about his work.

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Buzz22 Producing World Premiere of Jacqmin’s “Ghost Bike”

  • October 3, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Productions · world premiere

OU Alum, Laura Jacqmin, is having the World Premiere of her new play “Ghost Bike” produced in Chicago by Buzz22 Theater Company from February 27, 2014 – March 30th, 2014.

Check out the article on broadwayworld.com

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Reginald Edmund nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award

  • August 8, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News

Reginald Edmund has been nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award for writing, for REGINALD EDMUND’S SOUTHBRIDGE, produced earlier this year at Chicago Dramatists. The play, originally developed at OU was the National Runner-up for the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry and the Rosa Parks Awards in 2009, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2011, and the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award Winner in 2013. Congratulations!!

Read about it the Chicago Sun-Times.

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