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Victory Gardens Theater

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Victory Gardens Theater is a theater company in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights. [1]

61 relations: Anika Noni Rose, Antoinette Nwandu, B. D. Wong, Biograph Theater, Charles Smith (playwright), Chay Yew, Chicago, Chicago Loop, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Theatre, Chicago Tribune, Claudia Allen, Craig Lucas, David Henry Hwang, David Rasche, Eve Ensler, Fade, Fun Home, George C. Wolfe, Goodman Theatre, Hand to God (play), Harold Pinter, Ike Holter, Illinois, Jeanine Tesori, Jeffrey Sweet, John Dillinger, John Logan (writer), José Rivera (playwright), Karen Hartman, Karen Zacarias, Kristine Thatcher, Lainie Kazan, Lincoln Avenue (Chicago), Lisa Kron, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Lucas Hnath, Luis Alfaro, MacArthur Fellows Program, Marcus Gardley, Naomi Iizuka, Nilo Cruz, Organic Theater Company, Paula Vogel, Queen, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Richard Christiansen (critic), Roy Williams (playwright), Samuel D. Hunter, Sandra Oh, ..., Sarah Ruhl, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Steve Carter (playwright), Stuart Gordon, Sucker Punch (play), Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Saracho, Tony Kushner, Warren Casey, William Petersen, Yaël Farber. Expand index (11 more) »

Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress and singer known for her Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change and her starring role as Lorrell Robinson in the 2006 film Dreamgirls.

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Antoinette Nwandu

Antoinette Nwandu is an African-American playwright based in New York.

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B. D. Wong

Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor.

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Biograph Theater

The Biograph Theater, at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, near Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.

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Charles Smith (playwright)

Charles Smith is a playwright and educator based in the Midwestern United States.

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Chay Yew

Chay Yew is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Loop

The Loop is the central business district or downtown area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Theatre

The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Claudia Allen

Claudia Allen is an American playwright and educator based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas (born April 30, 1951) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.

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David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor.

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David Rasche

David Rasche (born August 7, 1944) is an American theater, film and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer! Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical turns.

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Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.

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Fade

Fade or Fading may refer to.

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Fun Home

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

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George C. Wolfe

George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film.

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Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop.

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Hand to God (play)

Hand to God is a play written by Robert Askins.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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Ike Holter

Ike Holter (born 1985) is an American playwright.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jeanine Tesori

Jeanine Tesori (born November 10, 1961, known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson)“,” Masterworks Broadway.

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Jeffrey Sweet

Jeffrey Sweet (born May 3, 1950) is an American writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian.

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John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster in the Depression-era United States.

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John Logan (writer)

John David Logan (born September 24, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer.

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José Rivera (playwright)

José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar.

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Karen Hartman

Karen Hartman is a Senior Artist in Residence at University of Washington School of Drama in Seattle.

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Karen Zacarias

Karen Zacarías is a Latina playwright who was born in Mexico in 1969.

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Kristine Thatcher

Kristine Thatcher (born 1950) is a playwright, director and actress.

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Lainie Kazan

Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer.

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Lincoln Avenue (Chicago)

Lincoln Avenue is a street of the north side of city of Chicago.

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Lisa Kron

Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an American actress and playwright.

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Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass Theatre Company is a non-profit, ensemble-based theater company located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lucas Hnath

Lucas Hnath is an American playwright.

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Luis Alfaro

Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Marcus Gardley

Marcus Gardley is a poet and playwright from West Oakland, California.

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Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka (born April 22, 1965) is a playwright.

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Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz (born 1960) is a Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue.

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Organic Theater Company

Organic Theater Company, a Chicago theatre, was founded in 1969 in Madison, Wisconsin by artistic director Stuart Gordon and his wife Carolyn Purdy Gordon.

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Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor.

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Queen

Queen may refer to.

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Remy Bumppo Theatre Company

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is an award-winning theater in Chicago known for literary-minded productions from playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw and Tom Stoppard.

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Richard Christiansen (critic)

Richard Christiansen (born c. 1932) is an American theatre and film critic, who was "the chief theatre reviewer of The Chicago Tribune " from 1978 to 2002 and the "leading critical voice in Chicago theatre for more than three decades".

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Roy Williams (playwright)

Roy Samuel Williams, (born 5 January 1968), is an English playwright.

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Samuel D. Hunter

Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981) is an American playwright living in New York City.

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Sandra Oh

Sandra Miju Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress known for her role as Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, from 2005-2014, set in the United States.

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Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist.

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.

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Steve Carter (playwright)

Horace E. "Steve" Carter, Jr. (born November 7, 1929) is an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States.

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Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) is an American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright.

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Sucker Punch (play)

Sucker Punch is a play by the award-winning British playwright Roy Williams.

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Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist.

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Tanya Saracho

Tanya Selene Saracho is a playwright and television writer.

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Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Warren Casey

Warren Casey (April 20, 1935 – November 8, 1988) was an American theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.

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William Petersen

William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor and producer.

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Yaël Farber

Yaël Farber is an award winning South African director and playwright.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Gardens_Theater

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