Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Kestutis Nakas

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Kestutis Nakas worked on a new solo piece, Fool’s Paradise. In 2008, he presented his full-length play Railroad Backward at LaMama ETC.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Kestutis Nakas worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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