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FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure

FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure

We're turning the Gillian Theatre into a cozy living room, overflowing with cardboard boxes. What happens next is up to you.

  • Conceived and Directed by Julie Ritchey
  • Created in collaboration with Eleanor Kahn
  • Jeffrey Levin
  • Christian Libonati
  • Andrew Marikis
  • And Carley Walker

Running time: 60 minutes. Audiences are encouraged to arrive up to 15 minutes early to participate in pre-show activities.

LAST SEASON’S RUNAWAY HIT IS BACK! 

Enter a world of imagination and creation as our friends from Filament Theatre transform Writers Theatre into an interactive play-space for the young and young at heart. Devise your own adventure using cardboard boxes, sheets, clothespins, couches and more. With theatrical design elements working together to support creative play, all are sure to be swept away in the fun. 

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Synopsis

Enter a world of imagination and creation as our friends from Filament Theatre transform Writers Theatre into an interactive play-space for the young and young at heart. Devise your own adventure using cardboard boxes, sheets, clothespins, couches and more. With theatrical design elements working together to support creative play, all are sure to be swept away in the fun.

Click here to learn more and find answers to common questions.

creative team

Eleanor Kahn

Set Designer

Joel Vishuk

Lighting Designer

Carley Walker

Original Lighting Designer

Andrew Marikis

Facilitation Designer

Jeffrey Levin

Sound Designer

JEFFREY LEVIN is an award winning sound designer and composer based in Chicago IL. Jeffrey has contributed original music and sound designs for hundreds of productions for many theaters, production companies, and universities regionally and internationally. Chicago credits include productions with Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Drury Lane, Northlight, Paramount, Timeline, Steep, A Red Orchid, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Columbia College, and many more. Regional works for the stage include productions with American Players Theatre, The Gulfshore Playhouse, Asolo Repertory, University of Austin, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Denver Center for Performing Arts, and Children’s Theatre Madison. Jeffrey has also worked on a variety of immersive theatre productions contributing many designs with the live-entertainment company Fever which produces shows in over 60 cities across Europe, America, and Asia. He also teaches Sound Design courses at the Theatre School of DePaul University and has taught music theory and sound design with other educational institutions. Awards and recognitions include three Joseph Jefferson Award wins and many nominations for Sound Design and Original Music. Other awards include the Edes Award for Emerging Artists, Kleinman Composition Competition, and Michael Merit professional award. Visit www.jeffreylevinmusic.com

[Bio as of September 2023]

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