HER STORY THEATER
CHICAGO WRITERS EXCHANGES SERIES
Writers present new works, works-in-progress, sample performances or published works in any gender...any genre...on a social issue.
- featured writer or writers
- audience exchange
- Interested in submitting work? Contact: HerStoryTheatre@gmail.com
Events
December 6, 2021
IN THAT MOMENT
November 15, 2021
AN EVENING OF WORDS, MUSIC & CONVERSATION WITH JOHN S. GREEN & DONOVAN MIXON
at Raven Theater 7:00PM
March 7, 2021 Zoom
The Adventures of Cleaver and Whizjam On The Isle of Oogle.
Chidren's Novel
Written by Mary Bonnett
Performred by: Carmen Roman, Molly Hernandez, Densel Tsopnang, Greg Vinkler, Will Clinger, Trish Elliott, Jack Hickey, Julian Hester. Hosted by Mary Bonnett. Supported by SAG-AFTRA Directed by Jack Hickey, Technical Direction by William Harper
October 21, 2020 Zoom
Loyola Univ, Gender Studies 4:30PM-6:30PM
In Partnership With Her Story Theater
Loyola University Gender Studies
and Performing and Fine Arts Departments
erformance Reading of Oak St. Beach
Written by Barbara Georgans
Directed by Kay Martinovich
CAST: Si Osborne, Barbara Robertson, Randy Steinmeyer, Carmen Roman, Mary BonnettMark David Kaplan, Gary Houston, Connie Foster, Trish Elliott, Dan Flannery
Stage 773
My Own Stranger
Performed & Written by Marilyn Campbell-Lowe
Mental Health
Stage 773
Lifting The Lid.
Two one-woman shows by Marilyn Campbell-Lowe
and Shelby Marie Edwards. Two plays about Race -
Fifty years apart.
Racism and Raising Bi-Racial Children in America.
Driehaus Theater
Radical Ideas: Women and The Vote!
With Brigid Duffy, Alma Washington, Connie Foster and Paul O'Dell
Written and Directed by Mary Bonnett
Illinois Women Fighting For The Vote
Post Show panel discusssions with various women's coalitions and organizations.
MCL Theater
Ah Gotta Handle On It
Written by Donovan Mixon Directed by Mary Bonnett.
With David Simmons, Zahra Baker, Chris McClellan, Malcom Banks,
Christian Creasy, Jesmimie Jaddua, Deja Anderson
A Black Child's Struggle In America.
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Dinner At 1800 Hours
The Greenhouse Theater Centre
Joan Kufrin's reading of her play Dinner At 1800 Hours.
Special thanks to director, John Mossman and the wonderful cast Tara Bouldry, J
ane Delaubenfels, Julian Hester, Darrelyn Marx, Frank Nall, Chuck Spenser,
Michele Gardner, Artistic Home Theatre and Green House Theater Center.
War: Points of View. A Divided Family
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MCL
The Den Theatre
The Disappearing Magic Negro Blues
Boy Child In A Babylon Due
Written by Afram Bill Williams
Wiith Gary Houston, Phillip Van Lear, Rashawn Thompson,
Warren Levon, Sarah Mellas, Wandachristine, Kim Morris
Directed by Mary Bonnett and Dennis Newport
A Older Black Man's Knowlege of Invisibleness
A Young Black Man's Experience In Parchman Prison, Mississippi
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Space 900
LUCKY GEORGE
by George Kufrin
BOOK SIGNING
SPACE 900 Evanston, IL
Packed with Chicago history and rare photographs, George Kufrin’s autobiography chronicles the 50-year adventure that took him across America, photographing the movers and shakers of his time. John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Dean Witter, Lena Horne, Burt Lancaster, Nat “King” Cole, Maria Tallchief, Studs Terkel, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adlai Stevenson and Alice Neel are just a few of the hundreds of giants he has photographed over the years–and whom you’ll meet in Lucky George. To order LUCKY GEORGE
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Greenhouse Theater
WRITTEN BY BEN JORAVSKY & RICK STONE
A reading of THE GREENS, a work-in-progress, written by Ben Joravsky and Rick Stone Directed by Mary Bonnett
A humorous romp through 1970s Cabrini Green. This coming of age adventure story is seen through the eyes of one ebony and one very ivory young man...forming what's to become a friendship of a life time!
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WOMEN WHO WRITE ABOUT INTERESTING TIMES
Greenhouse Theater
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WRITERS ON RACE
CHOPIN THEATER
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EMILY HOOPER LANSANA short story
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SMOKE
Greenhouse Theater
Written by Gloria Bond Clunie
Directed by:
Chuck Smith Goodman Theater
Cast:
Velma Austin Jeff Winner
Gary Houston Actor,Writer
James Meredith Steppenwolf
Jacqueline Williams Jeff Winner
The Tobacco Business Impact on a Black Community
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Salon Echo A collague of voices.
Poetry: Quaraysh Ali Lansana
Memoirs: Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow
African Story: Zahra Baker, Emily Lansana
Narrative: Lauren Lein
Short Story: Donovan Mixon
Novel: Mary Bonnett
Music by Donovan Mixon and Dave Onderdonk