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Levi Holloway
Levi Holloway is an American playwright, actor, and educator. He is the co-founder of the Neverbird Project, a youth based deaf and hard of hearing theatre company. He specializes in working with deaf children and creating theatre for deaf people. He was an elementary school teacher in Chicago in the deaf department at Bell Elementary for over a decade. He is a repertory member of A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago, and also performed as an actor in productions with Lookingglass Theatre Company and Steppenwolf. His play '' Grey House'' marked his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023. He teaches playwrighting at Silk Road Rising Theatre Company in Chicago. His latest play ''Turret'' premiered at A Red Orchid Theatre A Red Orchid Theatre is an Equity theatre company located in the Old Town district of Chicago, founded in 1993 by Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen IV, and Lawrence Grimm. Kirsten Fitzgerald, a long-time ensemble member, has helmed the company ..., running from ...
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The Theatre School At DePaul University
The Theatre School at DePaul University, previously the Goodman School of Drama (also known as TTS and GSD, respectively) is the drama school of DePaul University. Founded with its first class conducted at the Art Institute of Chicago on January 5, 1925, the Goodman School was associated with the Goodman Theatre Company. The school officially became part of DePaul University on July 1, 1978, and was renamed The Theatre School at DePaul University in 1982. The Theatre School is the Midwest region's oldest theatre conservatory and is ranked as one of the top professional theatrical training programs in the United States, enrolling approximately 450 students from North America and abroad. The Theatre School's main performance spaces are the Merle Reskin Theatre (formerly Blackstone Theatre) in Downtown Chicago, the Healy BlackBox theatre, and the Watts Theater in the Lincoln Park Campus. Academics The Theatre School is organized in three departments with the following degrees are cur ...
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Bachelor Of Fine Arts
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Alexander Graham Bell School (Chicago)
Alexander Graham Bell School, also known as Bell School is a public school located in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States; it is a part of the Chicago Public Schools. It offers grades kindergarten through grade eight. It also has a deaf department for students in preschool through grade eight and additionally a Regional Gifted Center (Options) for students in grades kindergarten through eight. The elementary school was founded in 1917 with 24 classrooms for hearing students and 15 classrooms for deaf students, after the Chicago School Board allocated US$285,000 for it in 1915 (approximately $ in current dollars). The school, one of the largest built in the Chicago Public School system at the time, was dedicated on April 1, 1918, by its name source Alexander Graham Bell, advocate of education for deaf students.Electrical ReviewElectrical Review -Volume 72 International Trade Press, 1918, pg.704. Sports Bell School offers a variety of sports, inc ...
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A Red Orchid Theatre
A Red Orchid Theatre is an Equity theatre company located in the Old Town district of Chicago, founded in 1993 by Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen IV, and Lawrence Grimm. Kirsten Fitzgerald, a long-time ensemble member, has helmed the company as Artistic Director since 2008. Notable productions Notable productions include a revival of Sam Shepard's '' Simpatico'', Eugène Ionesco's '' The Killer'', and John Ford's '' 'Tis Pity She's a Whore''. Notable world premieres include Tracy Letts' '' Bug'' and Craig Wright's ''Mistakes Were Made''. A Red Orchid is also known for an experimental 1996 production of Arthur Kopit's ''The Questioning of Nick'' starring Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, and Guy Van Swearingen that was performed three times in succession with the actors switching roles each time. In the summer of 2014, the company took its premiere production of ''The Opponent'' by ensemble member Brett Neveu to New York's 59E59 Theaters with the original cast (ensemble mem ...
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Lookingglass Theatre Company
Lookingglass Theatre Company is a non-profit theater company in Chicago, Illinois. History Lookingglass was founded in 1988 by David Schwimmer, David Catlin, Eva Barr, Thom Cox, Lawrence DiStasi, Joy Gregory, David Kersnar, and Andy White. The company's first production, ''Through the Lookingglass'', was directed by David Kersnar and was produced at the Great Room in Jones Residential College on the Northwestern University campus. The company has since produced more than 60 world-premiere plays, including Mary Zimmerman's ''Metamorphoses,'' as well as her adaptations of ''The Arabian Nights'' and ''The Odyssey''. The company also premiered and toured creator David Catlin's circus-driven re-imaginings of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in ''Lookingglass Alice'' and Herman Melville's ''Moby Dick.'' Other productions have included David Schwimmer's adaptations of Upton Sinclair's ''The Jungle'' and Studs Terkel's ''Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obs ...
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street. The theatre's name comes from Hermann Hesse's novel '' Steppenwolf'', which original member Rick Argosh was reading during the company's inaugural production of Paul Zindel's play, '' And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little'', in 1974. After occupying several theatres in Chicago, in 1991, it moved into its own purpose-built complex with three performing spaces, the largest seating 550. A recipient of the Regional Tony Award, several of its productions have transferred to Broadway. History The name Steppenwolf Theatre Company was first used in 1974 at a Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield. The company presented '' And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little'' by Paul Zindel, ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' by Tom ...
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Grey House (play)
''Grey House'' is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright Levi Holloway. The play premiered at the A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago on December 1, 2019, and debuted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on May 30, 2023, starring Tatiana Maslany, Paul Sparks, and Laurie Metcalf. Synopsis Max and Henry, a young married couple, wreck their car in the mountains during a blizzard. They take shelter in a cabin occupied by a group of teenage girls and an old lady who claims to be their mother. During their stay, the girls imply that they were not drawn to the house by the car accident, but their own pasts. Characters and original casts Productions ''Grey House'' is a stage thriller written by Levi Holloway. The play premiered at the A Red Orchid Theatre, Chicago on December 1, 2019. It was directed by Shade Murray and Sadieh Rifai, Travis A. Knight and Kirsten Fitzgerald were cast in the lead roles. It received 3 Jeff Awards in 2020. In February 2023, a Broadwa ...
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Silk Road Rising
Silk Road Rising is a theatre company located in downtown Chicago dedicated to presenting plays written by individuals of Asian and Middle Eastern descent. Formerly known as Silk Road Theatre Project, the name was changed in 2011 in order to better reflect their mission statement which includes online video plays and documentaries, civic engagement projects, and education programming in addition to live theatre. The professional Equity theatre is located in Pierce Hall in lower level of the Chicago Temple Building at 77 West Washington Street, directly across from the Richard J. Daley Center. Silk Road Rising is hosted by the First United Methodist Church upstairs; however, they maintain a secular relationship. History Silk Road Rising was founded in 2002 by life-partners Malik Gillani (a Pakistani Muslim) and Jamil Khoury (a Syrian Orthodox Christian) as a proactive, artistic response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. As Khoury wrote, "First Al Qaeda hijacked Islam, then p ...
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Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theater director. He is an off beat actor known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas. He became known for his frequent collaborations with director Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: '' Shotgun Stories'' (2007), '' Take Shelter'' (2011), '' Mud'' (2012), '' Midnight Special'', and ''Loving'' (both 2016). He's received two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for ''Revolutionary Road'' (2008), and ''Nocturnal Animals'' (2016). He received Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in ''99 Homes'' (2014). After his film debut with a minor role in ''Groundhog Day'' (1993), he appeared in such films as '' 8 Mile'' (2002), ''Bad Boys II'' (2003), '' Bug'' (2006), ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' (2007), '' Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' (2009), '' The Iceman'' (2012), ''Premium Rush'' ( ...
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DePaul University Alumni
Depaul, de Paul or DePaul may refer to: *De Paul (surname) * De Paul College, Eluru, in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India * DePaul University DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ..., in Chicago, Illinois, United States * DePaul College Prep, in Chicago, Illinois, United States * DePaul Catholic High School, Wayne, New Jersey, United States {{disambig ...
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American Male Dramatists And Playwrights
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