SAIC Community Members’ Productions Premier at Steppenwolf
Benjamin Larose performs NOT AMERICAN at Steppenwolff Theater and Emilio Williams prepares for his new play at Steppenwolf 1700. Images courtesy of Steppenwolff and Chicago Dramatists.
Benjamin Larose performs NOT AMERICAN at Steppenwolff Theater and Emilio Williams prepares for his new play at Steppenwolf 1700. Images courtesy of Steppenwolff and Chicago Dramatists.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Emilio Williams (MFA 2019) and Assistant Professor Benjamin Larose (MDes 2016) are staging their plays at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.
Larose wrote, directed, and starred in his first stage performance piece, NOT AMERICAN, at the Steppenwolf Theater from June 16–18. This one-man show was inspired by Larose’s journey as an immigrant from Quebec to the American Midwest. Larose exhibited a dynamic multilingual performance featuring drag, musical numbers, endurance workouts, and more. NOT AMERICAN is an exciting extension of Larose’s multidisciplinary artistic practice.
From October 19–November 19, Williams’ play, an adaptation of Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, will be shown at Steppenwolf 1700. Williams will work with Teatro Vista to produce the show starring an all-Latinx cast. Williams began working on this adaptation as his graduate thesis project at SAIC under the tutelage of Professor Ruth Margraff and his fellow students in the MFA Writing program.
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