Expansion Showcase

Name: Expansion Showcase
Start: 2026-06-18T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-18T20:00:00-05:00
Location: iO Chicago

Schedule

Thu Jun 18 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

iO Chicago | Chicago, IL

Six puppet artists gather under one roof to share their puppet visions in fresh, new work as the culmination of Rough House Puppet Arts Expansion Residency.
When: Thursday, June 18 7:30 PM
Where: iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury Ave. Chicago, IL (The Fremont)
Duration: 1.5 hrs
Featuring Artists…
T.Jordan Christmas, Felix Mayes and Sion Silva with short works-in-progress
Tanima, with their medium length work titled Fireflies’ Dream
Casey Doe, with their medium length work titled Fishin’
Steven Widerman, with his medium length work titled Merkaba’s Progeny
Along With The Team…
Expansion Residency Director: Sam Lewis
Executive Artistic Director: Claire Saxe
Managing Director: Marcey Abramovitz
Marketing Director: Kimzyn Campbell
With Partnership from the Expansion Audience Cohort…
David Carlson
Efrén Cruz Cortés
Antonio Luna
Maureen Mizwicki
Julie Moller
Eva Silverman
Aisha Naseem

About Rough House Puppet Arts
Rough House builds connection through puppet arts that celebrate the weird things that make us unique and the weirder things that bring us together. Rough House’s work collides contemporary puppetry with physical theater, music, visual arts, and an insatiable taste for experimentation.
Rough House Puppet Arts has celebrates and fosters the puppet community through a combination of public workshops, artist incubation (Puppets-in-Progress), and performances with regular puppet slams (Nasty, Brutish & Short), working towards a vision of Chicago as a national hub of contemporary puppet theater comprising a diverse and ever-growing community of artists, all connected through our mutual love of puppet arts.