Calle Hack

by | Dec 26, 2019

Calle Hack is a graduate from Purdue University with a BA in Philosophy. She has taken courses in writing and improv at Second City and previously worked with comedy theaters in the city, booking and promoting comedic talent. She’s a prolific writer, writing...

Carmenita Peoples

by ranorby | Mar 16, 2024

Carmenita Peoples is an artistic performer, writer, and credentialed Montessori educator. She currently serves as part-time staff at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and educational consultant with CPS (Chicago Public Schools). Her company, Innovative Art...

Danette Mark

by ranorby | Jul 11, 2023

Danette Mark has been writing, performing & producing stand-up comedy for the past 10 years  in the Chicagoland area. She has a raw storytelling style with a sweet mix of observational & improvisational comedy. A lot of her material is personal and...

Eileen Tull

by ranorby | Mar 15, 2023

Eileen Tull is a writer, performer, and teacher based in Chicago. Her writing has been published by Grim & Gilded, Empty Mirror, Literature Today Journal, Dark Winter Lit, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. She self-published her first poetry collection, 33 Poems...

Elizabeth Gomez

by ranorby | Nov 19, 2024

Elizabeth Gomez is a Chicago based comedian, writer, and storyteller. She established the city’s first all female roller derby league, The Windy City Rollers, in 2004. She is the founding writer of a writing collective called Drinkers with Writing Problems, and an...