Pictured above: Attendees and performers at October’s LEWK at Mozy Chicago/Photo: FOR ALL HUMANS Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Nick Benz in response to LEWK at Moxy Chicago presented…
Posts published by “Nick Benz”
Nick (they/them/theirs): A Bio-Haiku (Baiku??)
This is Nick’s bio
They are a theater maker
So they do not sleep
Nick Benz is a Trans* identified writer, theater practitioner and aspiring goth gf. Nick is a (soon-to-be) Graduate Student at Virginia Commonwealth University studying theater movement pedagogy and intersectional higher education policy.
Pictured above: Fire Performers at The Full Moon Fire Jam/Photo: Nick Benz Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Nick Benz in response to The Full Moon Fire Jam at…
Pictured above: Intersecting Triangles, a tattoo by Logan Square Tattoo in Chicago/Photo: Nick Benz Editor’s Note: Scapi Magazine recognizes that this piece is being written about black womyn by a…
Between Experience and Presence: A Playscape Expression to The State of The American Theatre Meeting
Between Experience and Presence: A Playscape Expression to The State of The American Theatre Meeting
Pictured above: North and Clybourn Station/Photo: David Wilson Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Nick Benz in response to The State of the American Theater: Chicago Edition meeting in a…
Pictured above: Ola Staszczynski teaches a theater group/Photo: Nathan Wyman This is the fourth installment in a five-part series entitled “Building Consent Culture,” which defines and explores Consent Culture as…
Pictured above: Matthew Romriell in Red Noses at Northern Illinois University/Photo: David Booth This is the third installment in a five-part series entitled “Building Consent Culture,” which defines and explores…
Pictured above: The first Not In Our House Meeting/Photo: Sally Blood This is the second installment in a four-part series entitled “Building Consent Culture,” which defines and explores Consent Culture as…
Pictured above: Schantelle Alonzo (center) and other ensemble members of Albany Park Theater Project in Ofrenda/ Photo: Liz Lauren Editor’s Note: This is an expression in response to Ofrenda in the…
Pictured above: Intimacy Director Siobhan Richardson (left) works with cast of Serenity Wild at the Frank Theatre Company/Photo: Blaize Thomas This is the first installment in a series entitled “Building…
“Psst… Do you know the tale of the creature from the lake?” “Whales & Souls,” a play by Andrew Kramer, has arrived to Chicago to share that very tale.…
Pictured above: Nico Fernandez/Photo: Fernandez Foto Nico Fernandez is a modern day renaissance man. As the son of an inventor, Fernandez is most frequently seen in his most natural habitat: armed…
When asked the question “What is love?” there seems to be no better or more fitting response than the call back, “Baby don’t hurt me… NO MORE!” (Thank you, Haddaway.)…