Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Mark Jacob’s latest book is Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports, co-written with his brother, Matthew Jacob. Mark ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Archy Jamjun is the curator of OUTspoken: LBGTQ+ Storytelling at Sidetrack. He is also a two-time winner of The Moth Grand Slam in ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Dr. Valerie C. Johnson is Associate Provost for DEI, Inclusion, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy at ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Jim Joyce is a high school teacher and zine writer from Chicago. His work is available through Antiquated Future distro ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Meghan Elizabeth Kallman is a professor, organizer, and a State Senator, representing Rhode Island District 15. She and Josephine Ferorelli founded the ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Jack Keilman is a professional actor who has just moved to Chicago and is happy to join Broadway Dropouts as his first improv ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Emily Kellogg is the Program and Operations Manager at the Carol Shields Prize Foundation. Her writing has appeared in publications ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Abby is so excited to be a part of the Broadway Dropouts! She enjoys performing and has been in roles such as Pat ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm Crystal Hana Kim is the author of The Stone Home (2024) and If You Leave Me (2018), which was ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Meg Kissinger, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author, will help you see and think about people with mental illness in a new ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Marianna Kontos is a Technical Theatre Artist/Choreographer based in the Chicago Suburbs.

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film whose work has been translated ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Yohance Lacour is a writer from the South Side, committed to telling stories of Black Chicago from the ground. After serving a decade-long ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm LaTanya Lane (she/her) is a company member with 2nd Story, a two-time alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Joan Larkin's newest book is Old Stranger, her sixth collection of poems, published by Alice James Books in August 2024. Previous titles include ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Mark Larson is the author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater, for which he conducted over 300 interviews with Chicago ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Shayla Lawson is the author of A Speed Education in Human Being, Pantone, I Think I'm Ready to See Frank ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3:30pm Priscilla Layne is Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and an Adjunct Associate Professor ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Amy Leach is the author of The Salt of the Universe, The Everybody Ensemble, and Things That Are. She grew ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Daniel Lefferts is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Irene Lo is a singer, dancer, actress originally from Taiwan. She has a bachelor degree in voice at National Taiwan Normal University and ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Claire Lombardo is the author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, which has been optioned for television by Reese Witherspoon. She lives ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Steve Macek is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at North Central College in Naperville, IL. He writes frequently about censorship, ... Read more