Description: This volume brings together a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating work as an ensemble. Both handbook and history, Ensemble-Made Chicago includes background on each company, detailed instructions for executing performance and writing exercises, and an overview of the politics shaping the development of ensemble-created work in Chicago.
Review Quotes: "Ensemble Made Chicago is a lively read, with exercises that will be of great value to both emerging and long-standing companies and groups. This is a strong, well-written, and valuable book for multiple audiences that are interested in the process of theater-making as a group and theater education." --Mark Larson, author of Making Conversation: Conversations with Colleagues for Change?