The Access Project & Accessibility Services
With 25 years of access services and artistic programming, The Access Project strives to celebrate the richness of disability culture both on and off the stage.
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Chicago Inclusion Project
The Chicago Inclusion Project is a collective of artists, committed to facilitating inclusive experiences and hiring practices throughout Chicago Theatre by bringing together artists and audiences normally separated by ethnic background, economic status, gender identity, physical ability and countless other barriers. The staff includes Stephanie Díaz (Grant Writer/Casting Associate), Elana Elyce (Business Manager), Adelina Feldman-Schultz (Facilitator, Casting … Read more
Accessible Events
Started in 1992 by Remains Theatre, The Access Project transferred to Victory Gardens in 1995. There, it grew into a nationally recognized model outreach effort designed to involve people with disabilities in all aspects of theater. In 2008, Victory Gardens received the MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence and Innovation in Arts Access, and in 2009 … Read more
Philip Dawkins
Philip Dawkins’ work includes the world premiere of Miss Marx: Or the Involuntary Side Effect of Living (Strawdog Theatre), which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work, as well as recent critically acclaimed plays The Homosexuals and Failure: A Love Story, which both also received Joseph Jefferson Nominations for Best New Work after … Read more
The Resident Theater Program
The Resident Theater Program For the last 41 years, Victory Gardens has worked to become an artistic home for Chicago’s diverse communities. Whether cultivating new voices (Ignition Festival, Playwright’s Ensemble) or developing public programming to reach new audiences (Public Programs, Access Project, Fresh Squeezed), we aspire to represent and dialogue with the city’s population through … Read more
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Support the Future of VG Victory Gardens Theater nurtures and produces relevant, new theater work that reflects the diverse stories of our world and contributes to the vitality of the American Theater. Our work inspires dialogue towards meaningful civic change and creates an inclusive theater experience that belongs to everyone. Our vision is to be … Read more
Mission & History
The Victory Gardens Theater was founded in 1974, since then it has produced more world premiers and Chicago premiers, worked with more living playwrights, and exported more new plays for production elsewhere than any other theater in the region. Our Mission Victory Gardens Theater nurtures and produces relevant, new theater work that reflects the diverse … Read more
Adelina Feldman-Schultz
ADELINA FELDMAN-SCHULTZ (she/hher) makes her Victory Gardens Theater debut. Chicago Casting Credits: Somewhere Over the Border (Teatro Vista), Fabuloso! (Sideshow Theatre), Brujaja!, Back in the Day (Urban Theater Company), Adventure Stage Chicago, Something Marvelous, Firebrand Theatre. 2018 Nominee, 2019 Winner, ALTA Award: Casting Direction. Adelina produces the annual Chicago Theatre Access Auditions (ctaauditions.com) and serves … Read more
Alexandria Moorman
ALEXANDRIA MOORMAN (she/her) makes her Victory Gardens debut with cullud wattah! Selected Chicago credits: What to Send Up When it Goes Down (Congo Square Theatre), The Before Haiti Project (HAMOC), Wolves (Exit 63), Mother of the Dark Water (IMPAACT), Tubman: Road to Freedom, Christmas Carol (GreatWorks Touring Co). Short films: How to Re-caulk your Tub … Read more
Ryan Dobrin
RYAN DOBRIN (he/him) Recent credits include Caryl Churchill’s A Number (The Drama League), Joe DiPietro & David Bryan’s Diana, The Musical (associate director to dir. Christopher Ashley, Broadway), Bess Wohl’s Continuity (Fordham University), Hart Fargo’s The Annihilation of Je$$ie: an Anthology (Atlantic Acting School); Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime (NYU Experimental Theatre Wing); Eboni Booth’s Conference Room B (Atlantic Acting School); Daniel Goldstein & Dawn Landes’ Row (associate director to … Read more