North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Over the past decade, Naghmeh has collaborated with independent filmmakers and high-profile clients, including The New Yorker, ACLU, and TED-Ed. Notably, she directed animation for The Smallest Power, which screened at Sundance and served as art director for the MSNBC Emmy-nominated feature documentary In the Dark of the ... Read more
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Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Jason Goff is an anchor for NBC Sports Chicago hosting Chicago Bulls live pre- and postgame coverage. He also hosts the Chicago sports-focused podcast The Full Go with The Ringer.
Plymouth Court Stage (On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.) Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Han Teverbaugh is a 24 year old midwestern artist who specializes in film photography and storytelling. Han is the voice behind the publication BetterinPrint by han —a growing archive of portraits and conversations with creatives around the world. When Han ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am DJ Corchin is the author of many award-winning children's books including A Thousand NO's, Do You Speak Fish?, The I Feel... Series and more! His whimsical original artwork has been a favorite at national art festivals and his live appearances are sought after by schools, libraries, and professional ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Dan Dougherty is an award-winning writer and illustrator of comics and children's books, best known for his long-running comic strip Beardo, the children's books A Thousand No's and Do You Speak Fish, and the adult picture book Shut Up And Feel. He has frequently collaborated with DJ Corchin ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 12:30pm CT - Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Donna Seaman is Editor in Chief for Booklist. A recipient of the Louis Shores Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, Seaman is a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum and an ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 5pm CT - North Stage 5X bestselling author and founder of Thought Leader Media, Sara Connell helps experts scale impact and income through becoming bestselling authors and in demand TEDx speakers. Featured on Oprah, The New York Times, Forbes and TEDx.
Saturday, September 6th 10am CT - Center Stage Yin He Dance is a nonprofit dance organization rooted in Chicago's Chinese American community. Our goal is to contribute to and empower our community through art. Learn more at www.yinhedance.org.
Sunday, September 7th 12pm CT - Plymouth Court Stage USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev writes hilarious and heartwarming stories about families without boundaries. Her novels have been named Best Books of the Year by Library Journal, NPR, The Washington Post, and Kirkus. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best in genre, ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 2pm CT - Grace Place Stage Sharon Doering lives in the Chicago area with her family and their dogs. She has been a science professor (Columbia College Chicago), a biotech stock analyst (in the Chicago Loop), and a xenotransplantation researcher (Ward Building, NWU, Chicago Ave). She has also been a good waitress, ... Read more
Sunday, September 7th 4pm CT - Plymouth Court Stage Stephanie Douglass is a host of The Moth in Chicago, a Moth GrandSLAM Champion, cofounder of the New York Theatre Company the TEAM, and was the head writer for OLN's "Outside Magazine's Ultimate Top Ten.” She has served as a non-profit leader focusing on redirecting resources ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 1pm CT - Plymouth Court Stage Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times Opinion pages and a feature writer for The Times’s Styles and Arts & Leisure sections. Ms. Dowd won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, in the commentary category, for her “unsparing columns on the hypocrisies involved in ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 10pm CT - Grace Place Stage Robert K. Elder is the President and CEO of Outrider Foundation, and the author or editor of 30+ books. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications. He previously served ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 2pm CT - Center Stage Monica Eng is a veteran Chicago reporter who has focused on food, culture, environment, health and politics at the Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune, WBEZ and now Axios. She co-wrote the book Made in Chicago.
Saturday, September 6th 12pm CT - Plymouth Court Stage Sylvia Ewing is a trusted voice in Chicago’s media landscape. She is known for her work as a broadcaster, moderator, teacher, and advocate for culture and community. Sylvia is an inductee into The HistoryMakers and an on-air talent for PBS pledge drives. Author of the Comfort ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 2pm CT - North Stage Matt Faries is a writer and bookseller in Chicago, IL.
Saturday, September 6th 2pm CT - Grace Place Stage Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in The New York Times, American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 12pm CT - Center Stage Vincent Francone (he/him) is the author of Like a Dog, The Soft Lunacy, and A Book No One Wants. He edited Open Heart Chicago: An Anthology of Chicago Writing and is Editor-in-Chief of Jabber Literary. His stray poems, essays, and stories have popped up online and in ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 1:30pm CT - Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Reginald Gibbons has published 14 books of poems, the novel Sweetbitter, and 2 books of "flash fiction," plus translations of Spanish and ancient Greek poetry and co-translations of Russian poetry. His book Creatures of a Day was a Finalist for the National Book ... Read more
Sunday, September 7th 12pm CT - North Stage Thea Goodman is a novelist, poet and educator in Chicago. Her novel about a marital crisis, The Sunshine When She’s Gone, appeared in 2013 with Henry Holt. The Invented Mother, poems was a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Competition 2022 and was published by Finishing Line ... Read more
Saturday, September 6th 4pm CT - Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Ruchira Gupta is the author of I Kick and I Fly and The Freedom Seeker, and a lifelong activist working to end sex trafficking. An Emmy-winning documentarian, she founded Apne Aap with survivors from her film The Selling of Innocents. Her advocacy has ... Read more
Sunday, September 7th 12pm CT - Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Meital Hailpern is a Chicago-based actor making her theatrical debut with this production. She previously worked as an extra in the film Tom of Your Life and has performed improv with The Laugh Factory. Born and raised in Chicago, Meital discovered her passion ... Read more
Sunday, September 7th 3pm CT - North Stage Veronica (Vee) Harrison is an award-winning journalist and author from Chicago’s West Side. Her work appears in publications across the entire nation, covering and highlighting Black culture and Black narratives. Harrison is a local and international change agent, an influencer setting the stage for new voices in ... Read more
Sunday, September 7th 1pm CT - Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Marguerite L. Harrold, author of Chicago House Music: Culture and Community (Belt/Arcadia, 2024), is a poet and writer from Chicago. Her work focuses on African American and African Diasporic poetry, ecology, folklore, culture, social justice.