Mercy Street Theatre Company Kicks Off Second Season With THE MERCY STREET AFFAIR

Mercy Street Theatre kicks off its second season with THE MERCY STREET AFFAIR, a classy soiree and new plays festival featuring live music, pastries, and craft cocktails inspired by the plays in the upcoming 2015/16 season. THE MERCY STREET AFFAIR takes place November 9, 2015 at The Foxhole Chicago, 2444 W. Montrose Ave. at 7:30 pm. The event is pay-what-you-can, with a suggested donation of $15. To RSVP, please visit www.mercystreettheatre.org.

About the Playwrights:

E.J.C. CALVERT is from St. Louis, Missouri. Most recently, she developed and performed the shadow puppet play The Infinity Carrot with the Meowsner Players at the Piccolo Theatre in Evanston, IL. Publications include Calamity with YouthPlays LLC, The Bear (A Tragedy) in Samuel French’s Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 35th Series, and A Dinner Party Goes Awry in the 31 Plays in 31 Days Project anthology. E. J. C. holds an MFA in Playwriting from the New School for Drama.

RACHEL DUBOSE returned to the Chicago area by way of Atlanta, GA. After finishing her undergraduate career at Spelman College, Rachel went on to work with NinaHoliday Productions and BET. Some of her work, Eve Within and Alkie’s Anonymous have received stage readings at Spelman with the latter being showcased at The Alliance Theatre during the Spelman Salon. Most recently, Lonely Hearts participated in The Fade 2 Black Festival in Houston, TX. Rachel holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University.

DAKOTA PAROBEK is currently pursuing a BA in Playwriting from Columbia College Chicago. Originally from Louisville, KY, they have had work produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Walden Theatre Alumni Company. They are also an active poet and musician, performing in Chicago and throughout the Midwest.

DUSTY WILSON is a resident of Chicago and a graduate of Northwestern University’s MFA Writing for the Screen and Stage program. His play Ephebophilia was a finalist in On the Brink Productions’ Search for the Next Great (Young) American Playwright Competition (New York City, 2013), Quiet Productions’ New Works Festival (Seattle, WA, 2013), and was produced by The Phebe Project (Chicago, IL, 2014). He was a semi-finalist in Reverie Productions’ Next Generation Playwriting Contest (Deus Ex Machina, New York City, 2007), won the Actors’ Choice Award in the Bite-Size International 10-Minute Playwriting Contest (Beige Tea, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2008), and placed 1st in Dramatis Personae’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Navy Pier Sunrise, Chicago, IL, 2010).

Mercy Street Theatre (Julia Rohed, Artistic Director; Danielle Stack, Producing Director; Jake L. Fruend, Associate Artistic Director) is an ensemble driven theatre dedicated to telling stories that examine the modern myth; stories of everyday interaction with the epic, iconic and divine. Mercy Street seeks to produce work that transcends the familiar by bringing the spectacular to life on stage, and scrutinizes the orthodox by putting key ideas and events of our world on display. By providing stories from unfamiliar places, cultures and times, MSTC aims to cultivate unity. Finally, MSTC strives to bring the house down by presenting an entertaining theatrical experience. For more information, please visit www.mercystreettheatre.org.