Rough House connects individuals and communities through art that celebrates the weird things that make us unique, and the weirder things that bring us together.

UrbanTheater Company is committed to centralizing the power and talents that are innate in every person to tell their communities stories. We serve as a pipeline for a diverse and culturally specific collective of Chicago actors, designers, and producers who embrace the responsibility to create an environment full of honesty, integrity, representation, and acceptance. We create innovative and accessible theater that challenges Eurocentric styles and training.

Porchlight, Chicago’s home for music theatre, illuminates the past, present and future of this American art form through live performance, youth education and outreach programs that positively impact and connect us to the community.

Est. 1981. Prop Thtr functions as an incubator for new talent, exposing audiences and artists to fresh outlooks on life through the development of new plays and playwrights. We concentrate on stories that expand our perception of who we are as human beings. The Prop Thtr augments its new works and new workers program with fresh examinations of great and provocative literature and fostering long-term relationships with playwrights and with other like-minded theater companies.

First floor theater stages stories of individuals facing moments of radical change. By combining visceral acting, immersive design, and collaborative dramaturgy, fft expands these stories to ask urgent social questions.

Mission: The New Colony develops NEW ART and NEW ARTISTS in order to educate and build NEW AUDIENCES.

We are a producer of theatre, performance and media that exists to be a haven for the future. We achieve this through championing the next generation of playwrights, directors and actors; by producing and promoting work and artists that are staking their claim as the immediate future of their art forms; and by investing in those at the very beginning of their professional journeys. Through this inspiration, we seek to ignite in each audience member a hope for the future - the future of theatre and performance, the future of each other, the future of our community.

Artemisia produces plays with women characters who have agency, independence and are the focal point of their own stories. Artemisia promotes equality and social justice for women by giving them career-altering opportunities in creative leadership roles. Artemisia inspires audiences to engage directly in our mission through exciting after show discussions and practices its core values of empowerment, inclusion and diversity (ALAANA & LGBTQ+) in all of its work and daily operations.

Broken Nose Theatre is a Pay-What-You-Can company that develops and produces new work and seeks to cultivate empathy, spark conversation, and amplify underrepresented voices.

We are a musical theatre company committed to employing and empowering women by expanding their opportunities on and off the stage.

Route 66 Theatre Company was founded in 2008. We produce plays and musicals that embrace the American spirit of risk, exploration, and fearlessness. We sponsor new play developmental workshops through Test Drive. The annual workshop awards one playwright with a developmental workshop that is focused on the playwright and what they need to move their script toward being production-ready. Playwrights must either reside in the Chicago area, or be willing to cover their own expenses to travel to Chicago for the workshop dates. Check website for submission guidelines and deadlines.

WildClaw Theatre brings the world of horror to the stage. We intend to attract a new kind of audience which does not usually go to the theatre, an audience craving strange journeys of dread, suspense, terror and wonder. In other words – Horror Theatre.