Profiles Theatre Chicago

Profiles Theatre
Formation 1988
Dissolved 2016
Type Theatre group
Location
Artistic director(s)
 Joe Jahraus
Darrell W. Cox
Website profilestheatre.org

Profiles Theatre was a small, formerly non-Equity theater company based in Chicago. The company was founded in 1988 by artistic director Joe Jahraus, and developed a reputation for emotionally powerful and dramatically intense productions, including the multiple Jeff Award-winning Killer Joe.[1][2]

In June 2016 the Chicago Reader published an article alleging an extensive pattern of workplace abuse and sexual harassment on the part of the theater company's artistic director Darrell W. Cox.[3][4][5] Later that month, the theater announced that it was closing.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Sullivan, Catey (June 8, 2010). "Killer Joe and Chess Sweep Last Night's Non-Equity Jeff Awards", Chicago magazine. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Dale, Michael (June 13, 2016). "Jeff Awards Will Address Petition to Revoke Darrell W. Cox's 2010 Killer Joe Honor", Broadway World. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Levitt, Aimee; Piatt, Christopher (June 8, 2016). "At Profiles Theatre the Drama—and Abuse—Is Real". Chicago Reader. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Weiss, Hedy (June 10, 2016). "Reader's Story about Profiles Theatre Generates Massive Response", Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Sherman, Howard (June 10, 2016). "In Wake of Profiles Theatre Expose, a Few Points to Know", Arts Integrity Initiative. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jones, Chris; Metz, Nina (June 15, 2016). "Profiles Theatre Closes; Actor Responds to Allegations of Misconduct", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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