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Where did the name "Stockyards Theatre Project" come from? Click here!
Stockyards Theatre Project is Chicago's premier performing arts company exclusively devoted to cutting-edge
theatre by, about and in partnership with women. Since the first critically-acclaimed show in 1999, Stockyards has avidly
promoted talented woman playwrights and directors—currently comprising less than 20% of mainstream theatre arts—and
has showcased the remarkable and richly imaginative visions of contemporary women.
Stockyards Theatre Project is committed to:
• providing a supportive venue for the advancement of women through the theatre arts;
• providing a platform through which female performance artists can submit and perform their work
for a larger audience;
• providing a place for talented women to work and focusing on women’s issues when selecting
what works to perform, whether they are feminist re-examinations of theatrical classics, the premiere of new works by women
playwrights, etc.
Stockyards Theatre Project’s vision is to improve women’s lives through theatre.
Social Outreach
Stockyards Theatre Project uses theatre as a means of social change and community outreach. In March 2003,
Stockyards participated in The Lysistrata Project, an international effort on the part of theatre artists worldwide
and in all 50 states to protest U.S. involvement in Iraq by staging a reading of the ancient Greek anti-war play Lysistrata.
The sold-out reading presented by Stockyards Theatre Project at Stage Left Theatre raised nearly $400 in donations, which
Stockyards gave to Not In Our Name, an organization that works to stop war proliferation.
Stockyards also designates one performance of its mainstage productions as a benefit performance, turning
all admissions from that evening over to a local woman-supporting charity. A portion of the ticket sales from 2004’s
Duet for One were donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as one of the play’s characters struggles
with the disease. During the same season, an evening of Bald Grace, Pirate Queen benefited the Chicago Metropolitan
Battered Women’s Network. A performance of Busting Out! a voluptuous evening of comedy benefited the
Chicago Commons' Employment Training Center.
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