Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the world’s great opera companies. It is renowned internationally for its artistic excellence and financial strength. Founded in 1954, Lyric has always distinguished itself by presenting the finest international singers, conductors, directors, and designers in classic and less-familiar operatic repertoire and in world-premiere productions. The company’s mission is to express and promote the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and...

Goodman Theatre is now encouraging project proposals for the new Future Labs, a series of workshops and presentations written and led by artists of color, beginning in early 2021. We are seeking bold, imaginative works from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI and other playwrights of color for development and public presentation. Future Labs is curated by Associate Director of Education & Engagement Quenna L. Barrett, Literary and New Works Manager Jonathan L. Green, Associate Producer Ken-Matt Martin, and a cross-departmental team of Goodman staff holding intersectional identities.

The Goodman is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works, giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions.

It is our mission to produce plays that extend this question beyond the stage, and into the minds and hearts of our audience.

We believe it essential to the welfare of our community that its members are able to see the world from multiple perspectives. Red Tape Theatre challenges audiences to think differently by disrupting expectations and by redefining the boundaries of the theatrical event. We apply our unique visual aesthetic to the social, political and cultural stories of our time, creating immersive and thought-provoking experiences for our audiences. We are a free theatre. We are an immersive theatre. We are a theatre of images. We are a theatre of ideas.

Our mission is to workshop and to produce shows that are written by Rachel Lynett as well as one show a season by an emerging or mid-career playwright who is a womxn of color (WOC) and/or queer whose work is in direct conversation with Lynett’s.

Black Button Eyes Productions' mission is to bring to Chicago premieres and seldom-seen works containing elements of fantasy, in which the magical and surreal invade reality.

It is The Passage Theatre's mission to tell great stories with truth and simplicity. We hope to create community and to inspire our audiences to move through life deliberately.

Rasaka Theatre Company is based in Chicago and is the Midwest’s first South Asian American ensemble. Our goal is to increase diversity among artists and audience by engaging and illuminating the South Asian American experience. We are particularly dedicated to providing a platform for the artistic expression of South Asian artists.

Mission: Cloudgate Theatre creates theatre and performance that challenge the norms of American theatre. We make new work that tells stories from a queer, feminist gaze. We believe that theatre is the place where we can imagine the world we want to live in, and work to make it real. We want to create theatrical experiences that foster community, question authority, and offer meaning. And we want to tell you some damn good stories.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company uses stage combat to place women and their stories center stage. Through performance, script development, training and outreach, our ensemble creates theatre that explores the wide range of the human experience, and cultivates broader perspectives in the arts community and in society as a whole.

Silk Road Rising is an art-making and art service organization that shapes conversations about Asian and Middle Eastern Americans. Through storytelling and dialogue, we challenge disinformation, promote a culture of continuous learning, and explore what it means to be Americans. We are committed to producing plays by playwrights of Middle Eastern, South Asian, or East Asian backgrounds with main characters of those same backgrounds.