THEATER
COMPANIES
Sansculottes
Theater Company (Chicago—my
company)
Signal
Ensemble Theatre (Chicago)
American
Theater Company (Chicago)
Chicago
ScriptWorks (Chicago)
500
Clown (Chicago)
Stage
Left (Chicago)
The
Cornservatory (Chicago)
Talisman
Theatre (Chicagoland: Elgin)
Inverse
Theater (NY)
Sideway
Theater (NY/Chicago)
Manifest
Theatre (Chicago)
PERFORMERS
Adam
Verner is a voice actor and a clown.
Flippy
the Magnificent is a clown.
RESOURCES
FOR ACTORS
The Actors
International Retreat Experience
is one of the best things I've ever done for myself
as an artist. Molly Lyons heads up a dream team
of instructors in scene study, movement, audition
techniques, improv, and voice.
Embodiment
is the movement and acting school screated by
Rob O'Neill (one of the instructors at AIRE).
It is brilliant.
Ed
Hooks
Performink
Actors
Gymnasium offers some of the best classes
I've ever taken.
Actor
Tips offers
a free online newsletter.
The
Pauper offers financial planning
advice for artists.
StageChannel
has information and video previews for upcoming
Chicago shows.
The
Internet
Broadway Database lists the production
history of plays and playwrights--great for research.
RESOURCES
FOR WRITERS
Press
53 is a wonderful independent press
in North Carolina. I'm biased, because they published
my book The Crazy Garden.
Waxing
Gibbous Press is the creation of
my friend, writer Stacy Jones.
Writing
World is Moira Allen’s broad compendium
of ideas and information for writers of all stripes.
Her Market
Guides are invaluable, too.
Write a novel in 30 days with
NaNoWriMo,
or National Novel Writing Month. They
are the nicest people ever, and they rely on volunteer
labor and donations, so be sure to donate if you
sign up.
Chicago
Women in Publishing
The
Illinois Writers Directory
Poets
& Writers magazine
Writer’s
Market
Chicago
Dramatists
WordSpy
Journalist
Express
Independent
Writers of Chicago
READING
Arts
& Letters Daily
Conversely
Tom
Paine
Alternet
Talking
Points Memo
MUSIC
(See
my
Myspace page for a fuller music list than
I can provide here.)
KEXP
offers commercial-free, listener-powered
radio online. And the music just happens to be
superb. The "EXP" is for "experimental."
Consider donating if you listen.
The
Holiday Club's Open Mic Night is
one of my favorite places to play.
Wydown
Band
Called Pharisee
Red
Line Distribution
Bloodshot
Records
Amy
Swanson is a wonderful soprano, available
for weddings and other events.
Absolute
Punk has good commentary on bands
you might not have heard of, and far less record-store
snobbery than you usually encounter on music sites.
DESIGN
RESOURCES
Blue
Starr Design creates beautiful invitations,
announcements, and greetings.
Stewart
Cottman designed my business cards,
along with much of this site.
Grip
Design hosts the Project:
Philanthropy charrettes. And does a lot more.
And they’re just cool.
Carson
Maddox creates custom furniture.
Speed
Demon Design makes websites. Very,
very good websites.
Jeremy
Bokor is a web designer and a copywriter—and
a fellow Project:Philanthropy board member.
NONPROFITS
& ACTIVISM
MoveOn
offers pacifistic, ecologically sound alternatives
to current politics—and makes it easy to
let your representatives know how you feel.
Project:
Philanthropy matches professional designers,
writers, and marketers with nonprofit organizations
that need PR campaigns. I've been on their board
since 2003.
Heifer
International offers sustainable agriculture
and education in response to food shortages around
the world.
Punkvoter—yup,
they're liberal. That's why I like 'em.
Planned Parenthood is the
nation’s largest provider of reproductive
health care for women, particularly uninsured
women.
Rock
For Kids provides clothing and other
basics—and music education—to homeless
and underprivileged children in Chicago. They
do all this with a tireless staff of three.
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