What We Do
and Who Helps Us.
SHADOW TOWN
HER STORY THEATER creates original plays based on Chicago lives that reflect national concerns. We are a theater for social change.
Our Mission, through theater and the written word, is to shine bright lights in dark places on women and children in need of social justice and community support.
We believe that if made personal, our audiences will respond to the social issues presented and take action.
HST partners with organizaitons. We educate and advocate.
Our focus has been on homelessness for women, domestic sex trafficking of minors, violence, antisemitism and racism.
We provide yearly main stage productions; our local and national Side Show series for professionals, educators and youth in raising awareness on domestic sex trafficking of minors; our Educational Outreach program on Child Exploitaion; and our Chicago Writers Exchange representing any genre or gender focused on social issues of today and historical.
Our scripts are available. GLOSS OVER on women's homelessness, SHADOW TOWN, THE JOHNS, MONEY MAKE'M SMILE for youth and MONGER, all on different perspectives and aspects of domestic sex trafficking in America; and INVISIBLE an exploration on nationalism, racism and antisemitism set in the 1920s.
We are a grassroots professional theater company with the support of field volunteers and paid professional artists who give their time and talent to ensure our success. We are a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation.
OUR SUPPORTERS IN RAISING AWARENESS
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
Dreihaus Foundation
Com Ed
Norrhern Trust
Chicago Teachers Union
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Northern Tier Judge Joseph McGraw
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Alumnae
Sunlight Project 4th Presbyterian Church
National Council of Jewish Women North Shore
Chicago Communities in Schools
After School Matters
Chicago Cultural Center DCASE
Deborah's Place
Nationa Organization of Women
Federal Judge Virginia Kendall
Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx
Former Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez
Brenda Meyers Powell Co-Founder Dreamcatcher Foundation
Former Anne's House Director Frank Massolini
Paul Olson Retired Vice Squad Detective
Al Krok Retired Undercover Detective
Laura Ng, E.D. Formerly with Traffick Free
Ann Breen-Greco Administrative Judge
Dr. Jody Raphael Reseacher, DePaul Univ.
Eric Zorn
Ben Joravsky
Victory Garden
Joel Daly Retired Newcaster
Dennis Zacek Founder Victory Gardens Theater
Sylivia Ewing
Cheryl Lynn Bruce Award Winning Actress
Gary Houston, Managing Editor, Chicago Quarterly Review
James Sherman Noted Playwright
Robin Robinson CPD Community Outreach, Newscaster
Bill Curtis Former Newcaster, Celebrity
Donna LaPietra Executive Director Curtis Production
Vicky Curtiss Associate Pastor 4th Presbyterian Church
Alex Kotlowitz Noted Author
Phillip Van Lear Actor
Madrid St. Angelo Actor
Dee Alexander Jazz Singer
Lynne Jordan Jazz Singer
Jennifer Decker Artistic Director Mildred's Umbrella
Chicago Teacher's Foundation
HER STORY THEATER is a not-for-profit corporation 501(c) 3.