Sadie Rogers

Sadie Rogers is a local artist, dabbling in theatre, film, and folk rock.  She will be singing some original works and perhaps a medley or two.  .

Milta Ortiz

Milta Ortiz is a playwright/poet/performer currently attending Northwestern’s Writing for the Screen and Stage MFA program. Milta’s play, Last of the Lilac Roses is a finalist at NYC’s Repertorio Español, Nuestra’s Voces play contest. Presently, she is a member of ATC’s Chicago Chronicle playwriting. She received two individual artist grants from City of Oakland Cultural Arts, and Zellerbach Family Foundation to write and perform original work. She was co founder of HyPE theater troupe and one third of Las Manas Tres Spoken Word troupe. She has been published in Teaching Artist Journal; in anthologies Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound, Coyolxuahqui, Cipatl; edited City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco, a book with her WritersCorps students; and self published chapbook, Encantadas with Las Manas Tres. She earned a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.  

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble is a multidisciplinary performing arts ensemble that engages and inspires the community through socially conscious performances and outreach programs.  

For the performance:

Omar Robles, CDE's guest Artistic Director and Ellyzabeth Adler, CDE's founder and Executive Director, will be performing each a solo dance picece around the topic of touch.

Kevin Gladish

Kevin Gladish is an actor and storyteller from Cleveland, OH who will be telling you a story that is true.  He has worked with Halcyon on A Bold Stroke for a Wife and is excited to be a part of their Ceyx Series.  Recently he was featured on the Moth Podcast as part of the Chicago GrandSLAM, and you can check it out at http://themoth.org/.  

Kira Silverstein

Gertrude Little loves to dance but has a little problem.  She doesn't know how to keep up with the music.

Kira Silverstein graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Theatre Arts.  Last year she worked as the student life coordinator at the Accademia dell' Arte in Arezzo, Italy, where she also studied abroad in their physical theatre program.  Kira was most recently seen in Interrobang Theatre Project's The Argument, where she is a company member.   She has studied clown under one of her mentor's Paola Coletto and has been seen clowning around Chicago and Italy the past couple of years.  Kira is currently working on writing a book about living in your 20s, and developing a new show with the company she founded, The Body Project Ensemble.

Diego Sol and the Metronomes

The children of Song and Style, forged in the fires of funk, and seducing your eardrums with whispers and grooves, Diego Sol and The Metronomes hit the Chicago Music scene with a hay-maker performance in October of 2011. This triumvirate of fine young gentlemen bring the heat every time they touch stage. Scintillating you with their sound, Diego Sol along with Tick Tock Nick and Bassically Jake will always dress to the 9's and turn it up to 11. Diego Sol & The Metronomes get up to get down.