Collaborations
Playwrights at Work Series
Friday afternoon workshops, 2-5pm
Mickle Maher is a playwright and actor based in Chicago for the last twenty years. He is a producing company member of Theater Oobleck since cofounding the group in 1987. His plays have been presented Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre, the Public Theater, and The New Victory Theatre; in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theater, Redmoon Theater, The Goodman Theatre (New Stages Series), the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Spertus Institute, and Links Hall.
Sally Oswald is a playwright, librettist, editor, and advocate for adventurous new writing. Sally recently wrote a libretto for Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum's London Symphony Chorus commission and is at work on the text for Dan Hurlin's Everyday Uses for Sight, No. 4: Disfarmer. Sally is the founder and co-editor with Jordan Harrison of Play: A Journal of Plays, the only American journal devoted to plays ( www.playjournal.com ).
Heather Woodbury is an award-winning performer and writer known for her groundbreaking multi-character solo and ensemble works, which combine the immediacy of performance art with a novel’s length and scope. Her 10-hour, 100-character solo play, What Ever: An American Odyssey in Eight Acts (published by Faber/Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) was hailed as a “Whitmanesque
vision of America” [Chicago Sun-Times] and cited as “a masterwork of the solo form” by the NY Times. It was adapted as a radio play hosted by Ira Glass.
University Theater is proud to participate in collaborations with artists around campus, around the city, and across the country. University Theater takes advantage of being in one of the greatest theater cities in the country by supporting and hosting various arts groups. Examples include:
- Hosting artists-in-residence on campus including 500 Clown.
- Hosting and supporting area artists producing new work in our Summer Incubator program.
- Proudly being home to the longest continuously-running, student improv theater, Off-Off Campus.
- Proudly supporting countless campus performance and cultural groups.
For more information on these collaborations, use the menu to the left.
Information for On-Campus Groups
If you are a campus group interested in using UT props, furniture or costumes please contact Ben Caracello, University Theater's Technical Director at benc@uchicago.edu.
Upload Costume rental/ borrower form (Word document)
Upload Prop/ Furniture rental/ borrower form (Word document)
UT Props Inventory (Excel document)
An online furniture catalog can be found here.
For information regarding lighting or sound, please contact Megan Geigner, University Theater's Production Manager. To inquire about using a UT space, please check out our Spotlight Proposal Process and application form. See our space schedule at the Google Space Schedule Calendar below.
Using the Scene Shop
UT is happy to take applications for the use of our paint deck. Your RSO may use the paint supplies and the space to do scenic drops if it fits in UT's build schedule. Please download and fill-out the following form.
TAPS cannot allow anyone to use the tools in the shop who has not been first trained in their use. However, there will be a training session every Friday of 2nd week in which any member of a Registered Student Organization can come and learn the basic uses of the TAPS scene shop's tools. There will be specific times each quarter when there will be shop time set aside for reservations by certified members of RSOs. TAPS cannot allow use by anyone who is not representing an RSO with a specific project need. Materials, transportation for the materials, and transportation of the final product are to be provided by the RSO. RSOs are expected to sweep and vacuum to the Technical Director's specifications before leaving the shop- no exceptions. TAPS reserves the right to refuse shop use to anyone who does not follow safety precautions as directed in the training session.
Scene Shop Training Session: Friday April 10th, 2pm
Scene Shop RSO times for Spring quarter: TBA
