Description: This session features leading theater professionals from Chicago and examines the ways that the work of Bertolt Brecht resonates with Chicago, the site of some of his most important theater works, asking not only what Chicago meant for Brecht but also what Brecht means for contemporary theater practitioners in Chicago.

Presider

Marc David Silberman, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Respondent

Neil Blackadder, Knox C

Speakers

Stefan Brun, Prop Thtr

Zeljko Dukich, TUTA Theatre

Max Truax, Red Tape Theatre