CURRENT RESIDENCE: Chicago, Illinois
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 1996
POSITION: Playwright, Director, Stage Manager, Ensemble Rep, Season Selection Committee
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
Playwright: Ripped: The Living Newspaper Festival (2019-2025), Big Shoulders Festival (2002-2007)
Director: Ripped: The Living Newspaper Project & Festival (2009-2019); Shinsai; 365 Days/365 Plays; Angel City (assistant director);
Stage Manager: Half of Plenty; American Dead; Quake; Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart?; The Hairy Ape; A Lie of the Mind; Flung; Vick’s Boy; Catch-22; One Day Only; Pledge of Allegiance; A Stone Carver; Scapin; Bus Stop; The Flight of the Phoenix; Don’t Disappoint Captain January; Stalag 17
Other Notable Projects
Project Manager: The Relatives Program (2002-2009); Ripped with DCFS Festival; Ripped with Anixter Center Festival (2013-2016)
Coordinator: Blue Ink Contest (2010-2014)
Curator: Big Shoulders Festival (2002-
ABOUT HEATHER
Heather is a stage manager, director, and playwright who joined the Ensemble in 1996. She has served as an Ensemble Rep and Season Selection Committee Coordinator since 1998. Heather has enjoyed serving as an Outreach Coordinator for The Relatives Program, The Anixter Center Project, The DCFS festival, The Ripped Festival, The Blue Ink Festival, and originated The Big Shoulders Festival (she also directed several pieces in all projects).
Other directing credits include several staged readings at Chicago Dramatists, children’s theater pieces at various theaters, and a Ray Bradbury theater installation for the city of Waukegan. Heather served as Production Stage Manager for 3 seasons at Theater at the Center and 2 seasons at Clinton Area Showboat Theater.
Heather earned her BFA from Millikin University with an emphasis in directing. While there she stage managed several MainStage productions- a few favorites include Sunday In The Park With George and Macbeth. She also directed countless black box productions as well as coordinator of the off-campus Pipe Dreams Studio.
FUN FACT
Heather worked as a concierge at The Signature Room at the 95th in the John Hancock building and is still in love with the bright lights of her beloved city of Chicago.