NO POEM NO SONG is a mixture of East and West Indian mythology that follows the lives of two brothers -one human, one a deity- through a series of events which have the power to destroy the world of the spirits, trap the world of the gods, and free the world of humans.
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David F. Chapman
(Director)
DAVID F. CHAPMAN (Director) A Chicago native, David has worked in theatre in many places. Highlights include performing his solo shows in Edinburgh, Montreal, Budapest, and London, directing Tennessee Williams in Ho Chi Minh City, leading a devised theatre workshop in Cambodia, and interning for the International Theatre Institute in Paris and NYC. David has directed for Ars Nova's ANT Fest, FringeNYC, Studio 42, Metropolis Opera Project, NYU Grad Acting, NYMF, New Leaf (Chicago), The Old Vic / New Voices TS Eliot Exchange (London),Millbrook Playhouse (PA), and Northwestern's Cherubs program. He has directed readings/workshops for Reverie, EST/Youngbloods, and the Lark, and has worked many talented playwrights including Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Anna Moench, A. Zell Williams, Bekah Brunstetter, Jason Grote, Andrew Muir, Joe Tracz and Philip Dawkins. Assisting includes The Pitmen Painters (MTC/Broadway), That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public), The Addams Family (Chicago& Broadway), plus Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Encores!, and four productions at Chicago Shakespeare. Member: Civilians R&D Group, Directors Lab Chicago, Lark Lit Wing, and Studio 42. Awards: Fulbright to Hungary, Luce Scholarship to Vietnam, Chicago Artists Grant, and Drama League Fall Fellowship. Training: BA with Highest Honors (UNC-Chapel Hill).
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Jesse Cameron Alick
(Playwright)
JESSE CAMERON ALICK (Playwright) is a poet, playwright and Zen Master. Jesse is Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company (www.subjectivetheatre.org), the Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Public Theater (www.publictheater.org) and is Assistant to the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Jesse is also the east coast editor of High Contrast Review (www.highcontrastreview.com), freelance journalist and essayist. Jesse has had essays, articles and poetry published by High Contrast Review, XY, A&U, POZ, The Errorist, Courier Life, Smokin Word Publications and Random House. He has been commissioned to write work for Streetlight Productions, Freedom Train Productions and Working Man’s Clothes among others. Jesse also studied writing with playwright Adrienne Kennedy and teaches a theater course at Lewis and Clark College.
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