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Free Street Staff

Coya Paz
Artistic Director

Melissa DuPrey
Director of Production and Community Relations

Katrina Dion
Director of Youth Programs and Development

Ricardo Gamboa
Storyfront Artistic Curator

Additional Staff

Fabiola Ramirez
Anniversary Events Coordinator

Isabella Coelho
Park Kids Teaching Artist

Teaching Artists
Keren Diaz de Leon
Zandra Starks

Alejandro Reyes
Storyfront Facilities Coordinator

Accounting Consultants
EAB Solutions

Artists in Residence

Quenna Barrett
Re-Writing the Declaration: A participatory experience that invites audiences to reimagine the Declaration of Independence.

Abie Irabor & Rocio Vallejo
HIStory: A new piece about daughters who grew up in homes without a father.

Melissa DuPrey
Brujaja: An accidental witch heads down a path of using Brujeria for health hacks and healing, but quickly discovers its true power.

Free Street Board

Jean de St. Aubin
President
Gene Siskel Film Center

Rick Barrios
Secretary
Bosch

Caroline O’Boyle
Treasurer
The Trust for Public Land

Andrea Hart
City Bureau

Maria Mondragon
Loyola Press

Lillian Gorman
University of Arizona

Aaron Millers
Aaron Miller LLC

Ted Grossman
Jones College Prep

Our Funders

Free Theater isn’t free to make! We are grateful for the support of The Alphawood Foundation, the Arts Work Fund, the ComEd Powering the Arts program, the Crossroads Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, DCASE, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Driehaus Foundation, the Field Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities, the Reva and David Logan Foundation, and the Joyce Foundation.