Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Stuart Flack

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2002

Stuart Flack is a former McKinsey Partner, the former CEO of Arts and Social Impact Not for Profits, a nationally produced playwright and sometime Jazz guitarist. Flack is currently Dean of The Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Profession Education. In 2018/19 Flack was Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence, University of Wisconsin. He is formerly a Bolz Center Fellow, University of Wisconsin School of Business; Senior Fellow, Environmental Law & Policy Center, and Senior Fellow at The Invisible Institute.

His work as a playwright explores the intersection of: data, policy, citizen science, advocacy and performance and includes recent productions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Texas Performing Arts Center in Austin, Department of Culture Affairs Chicago in collaboration with The Seldoms, a dance/theatre company and a commission from Steppenwolf Theatre. Past Productions at leading theatres in US, including: South Coast Rep (CA), Victory Gardens (Chicago), Culture Project (NY), Contemporary American Theatre Festival (DC), and Interact (Philly).

Studios

Sorosis

Stuart Flack worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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