Artist

Shade Murray has directed The Aliens, The Butcher of Baraboo, Abigail’s Party, Kimberly Akimbo (A Red Orchid Theatre); The Chosen, The Subject was Roses (Writers’ Theatre); Fatty Arbuckle... (The Second City); End Days (Next Theatre Company); The Petrified Forest, The Good Soul of Szechuan, R.U.R., Marathon ‘33, Detective Story, WRLS #5, Our Country’s Good (Strawdog Theatre Company); Stupid Kids, Some Explicit Polaroids, Santaland Diaries, Never Swim Alone (Roadworks Productions); as well as productions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Shattered Globe Theatre, About Face Theatre and Chicago Moving Company. Upcoming credits include HP Lovecraft’s Shadow over Innsmouth (WildClaw Theatre). Shade is a MFA candidate in directing at Northwestern University, an associate artist with A Red Orchid Theatre and has taught at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, National Louis University, National High School Institute, Piven Theatre Workshop, Act One Studios and Actors Gymnasium. Upcoming credits include Trevor, Mud Blue Sky (A Red Orchid Theatre); The Shadow over Innsmouth (Wildclaw Theatre); and Love Tapes (The Inconvenience).