About Us
Genesis Ensemble is a collective of actors, directors, writers, teaching artists and performance artists that devise work specifically for Chicago audiences. We hope to give emerging theatre artists and community activists a voice and create work that bridges the gap between performer and audience. We have worked formally and informally together over the past 4-years. At Miami University we founded a theatre company focused on generating debate around controversial topics with the Walking Theatre Project. In the spring of 2008 we created a performance installation piece inspired by Tom Horan's play Curious Dangerous that was performed at The Mill Theatre's Etcetera Festival and became the lobby installation for Collision's run of the play at EP Theatre. In August of 2008 we performed a short piece titled Midsummer 2.0 for the Femme 2008 Conference at the Center on Halsted. The Secrets Project is our first full-length project that recently received a two-night workshop at Around the Coyote Gallery in Wicker Park as a special event for their new play-reading series.

Our mission statement
We seek to open hearts and minds to the stories that are the human experience.  We seek to propel conversation and action in our communities.  We seek to be bold, passionate, and entertaining.  We aspire to tear down, build again, breathe life into the new and polish the old.