AFT News

CHICAGO (March 23, 2017) – The Board of Directors of About Face Theatre announced today that Artistic Director Andrew Volkoff will step down at the conclusion of the company’s 2016-17 season. AFT’s Board has formed a committee to conduct a national search for Volkoff’s successor…  Read more...

CHICAGO (January 6, 2017) – About Face Theatre is pleased to announce the appointment of Alana Parvey Zalas as its new Managing Director. Zalas succeeds Dean Carpenter, who stepped down in 2016.   Comments Artistic Director Andrew Volkoff, “We are thrilled to welcome Alana to the About…  Read more...

I was a sophomore in high school when I finally came to terms with my identity as a queer girl. I go to an elite private school on a scholarship, so it was already hard enough not fitting in with…  Read more...

“I’m a lesbian.  Plain and simple.  I don’t make any bones about it.”  When I first started writing that line for PULP a year or two after the millennial turn, I couldn’t imagine that I would be sitting here now…  Read more...