Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm John K. Wilson was a 2019-20 Fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, and is a writer for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) AcademeBlog.org. He is the author of eight books, including The Myth of Political Correctness: The ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Rachel Wiseman is the co-author, with Anastasia Berg, of the book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice, out this June with St. Martin's Press. She is also the managing editor of the Chicago-based literary magazine The Point (thepointmag.com). Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm S.L. Wisenberg is the author of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, newly in paperback, as well as The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, winner of the Juniper Prize in nonfiction; a short-story collection, The Sweetheart Is In; and an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, & ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Caroline Woods holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University. She is the author of the novels The Mesmerist, The Lunar Housewife and Fräulein M., and she has taught fiction writing at Loyola University Chicago, Boston University, and the Boston Conservatory. Raised in Delaware, ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Amy Yee is author of Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents, with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. The book is a finalist in Foreword's 2023 book contest. She is an award-winning journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times and previously with ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, interdisciplinary artist avery r. young is an inaugural Walder Foundation Platform awardee, and recipient of the American Poet Laureate Fellowship. A co-director of The Floating Museum, his poetry, performance and composition have been featured and/or commissioned in several journals, exhibitions and operas. He is ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Kate is a resident of Aurora and is a Speech-Language Pathologist for Valley View School District 365U in Romeoville. She recently appeared in The Prom with UAC Theatre in Elgin. Some of her favorite roles include Madame de la Grande Bouche in Beauty and the Beast and Arvide ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Chad the Bird has been the Avian Op-Ed columnist of Chicago for 15 years. You can find him online everywhere and at the Paper Machete every Saturday at 3pm.
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Michael Zapata is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, The A.V. Club, ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10:15am Angel Zhao was crowned 1st princess of Miss Chinatown Chicago 2023. She holds a degree in Applied Statistics from Purdue University and currently works as a Statistical Analyst in the insurance industry. In her spare time she enjoys dancing, traveling, modeling, and playing piano. As a dance teacher ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Gina Gamboa, from Chicago, is co-founder and co-director of 18th Street Casa de Cultura. For over 30 years she has been dedicated to creating bilingual, culturally relevant programming in communities and schools to cultivate literacy, healthy identity development and multi-generational, multi-cultural sharing of knowledge ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Jeremy Owens writes your favorite Substack - Gays Judge the Neighborhood, is a core faculty member at Story Studio Chicago, and the curator and host of You're Being Ridiculous, a long running live-lit show most recently featured at Steppenwolf.
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm PHENOM, a Veteran Chicago Emcee/Poet has been apart of the fabric of Chicago's Hip-Hop scene for over two decades. Upon returning from Iraq as a Hip-Hop diplomat, he started the artist development, mentoring program EMCEE SKOOL. MasterMine is a collective of master emcees under the Hip Hop ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Jim Warren, former managing editor and Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, is the Chicago-based executive editor of NewsGuard, which has does non-ideological assessments of more than 10,000 news and information sites, podcasts, and tv news shows in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia, and whose ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Matt Faries (he/they) is a writer and bookseller in Chicago, IL.
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Sloane Johnson is a 22 year old entrepreneur and freelance photographer. At the age of 19 she started an online music publication, Off the Record Press, that has since grown to having a full team of journalists and photographers across the US and UK, and has released ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Born and raised and still living in Chicago, Rick Kogan has worked for the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, where he is currently a senior writer and columnist. He is the creator/host of WGN radio’s After Hours with Rick Kogan; and the author ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Cristina Mittermeier believes stunning visual storytelling drives critical action to protect our ocean and planet. In 2005, she founded the International League of Conservation Photographers and coined "conservation photography." In 2014, she co-founded SeaLegacy, a leading ocean conservation organization. Mittermeier is a Sony Artisan of Imagery, collaborates with ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist who has spent over 30 years documenting the beauty and fragility of our planet. Co-founder of SeaLegacy, a non-profit focused on ocean conservation, Nicklen uses powerful imagery to connect with viewers and drive change. A National Geographic Fellow ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1oam Vincent Proce is a concept artist, and illustrator working in tv, movies and games. A lifetime storyteller, Vincent started out creating art and stories for comics and animation. After several years, he moved to working for video games. Later discovered by Guillermo del Toro, he started working in ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm The wife of Mike Royko who collaborated on two books of his columns, One More Time and For the Love of Mike.
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Jerry Strub is a Chicago-based, life taught artist, who firmly believes that all artists are the sum of their life’s experiences regardless of their chosen medium. The physical and psychological wanderings through life have shaped the structure of my creations. "I’ve come to the realization that my ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Matteo Zito is the master printer behind Nero Ink’s book and magazine factory in Bridgeport. With 20 years of experience in typography, lithography, direct mail, and bookmaking, he is committed to keeping print manufacturing alive in Chicago. Nero Ink offers softcover book, magazine, and job printing as ... Read more
Amanda is a dedicated student working toward a degree in elementary education, driven by a passion for nurturing young minds. She is committed to becoming an inspiring teacher who will positively influence her future students. Beyond academics, Amanda celebrates her cultural heritage as a Chinese dancer with Yin He Dance, bringing traditional stories to life ... Read more
Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm Luz Magdaleno Flores, also known as DJ Light of Your Vida, is a Chicana photographer, writer, textile artist, and bilingual editor for SixtyInchesFromCenter.org. Currently based in Chicago by way of Oxnard, California she aims to evoke feelings of nostalgia and melancholy for cultural and romantic memories in ... Read more