Upcoming events
Human Museum
Rebecca Husk will be performing as 237 for the run of this sci-fi world premiere.
Rorschach Theatre presents HUMAN MUSEUM by Miyoko Conley, directed by Randy Baker.
In a future where humans are extinct, robots run a museum dedicated to exhibiting the artifacts of human life. As the centenary of human extinction approaches, a surprising radio call challenges everything the robots thought they knew. This brand new dark comedy is a thoughtful, moving exploration of our legacy and who will carry it forward.
Three Brothers Theatre: The Creators
Rebecca will be performing the roles of Deirdre in Alexander Utz’ “The Creators” on Saturday, May 27th.
“Deirdre, Piper, and Will work for a mysterious artistic prodigy named Gene, creating all the works of art and culture he claims as his own. Also, they’re not really allowed to leave the office. So when the new employee, Jess, starts trying to change the way things are done, it looks like their lives are about to finally improve. But it soon becomes clear that enacting change isn’t always easy to do.”
Hell in a Handbag Productions: I Promised Myself to Live Faster
An intergalactic queer extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high stakes pursuits and nuns from outer space
Hell in a Handbag Productions: I Promised Myself to Live Faster
An intergalactic queer extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high stakes pursuits and nuns from outer space
4 Chairs Theatre: Ride the Cyclone
In this hilarious and outlandish musical, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster.
DRINK: The Sketch Comedy Drinking Game - Pride Edition
Rebecca will be onstage with Corn Productions once again for DRINK: The Original Sketch Comedy Drinking Game! Shows are Fri/Sat at 8:00pm and 10:00pm from June 17th to July 2nd. DRINK! is an original sketch comedy show that lets you play along in the funniest drinking game in Chicago.
Cornservatory is BYOB, and does not sell drinks of any kind. Food is not allowed in the theater.
Masks must be worn when not actively drinking. Proof of vaccination is required to enter the theatre. Email corntickets@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Titus Andronikids
Catch Rebecca as “Devyn” in Corn Production’s TITUS ANDRONIKIDS April and May 2022.
Inspired by Shakespeare's most violent tragedy, TITUS ANDRONIKIDS is an absurdly dark comedy that will leave you (and the kids) in stiches. The bloody battle begins April 14th and runs Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 PM until May 21st.
The Cast (from top left to right): Miranda Coble, Trayvion, Jesus Fuentes, Anne Ogden, Samantha Nieves; (bottom left to right): Chandler Smith, Valen Lion, Rebecca Husk, Shannon Burke, Zachary Denmark, and Haley Gadzik.
Exquis
Exquis is an experimental interactive film currently in development and slated to release in January 2022.
When I was in elementary school, my teacher taught me a game in which you take turns drawing a picture with other artists with the paper folded so you can’t see what they’ve drawn. I was delighted by the end portraits - a goat-headed muscular man with a mermaid tail, or an amorphous blob with the head and legs of a beauty queen. Those characters were so much more interesting than anything I could come up with on my own, and I loved realizing that we had created new, beautiful monsters. It wasn’t until I was older I learned the name of that game: Exquisite Corpse.
Exquis is a modern exquisite corpse; 10 actors have been gathered and told to record their dreams, and then those dream videos will be placed into an interactive online experience featuring multiple paths and endings. No two views will be the same. Sure, you could choose to keep resetting Exquis to follow one person’s dream through to its conclusion, but it’s my hope that you will choose to give into the monstrous beauty and get lost in a maze of dreams.
See you in January.
Rebecca
Fields of Fire
Come see Cabinet of Curiosity’s 2021 Fall Ritual, Fields of Fire, in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago October 7th-10th. From the Cabinet of Curiosity website:
“Our Upcoming Fall Celebration, FIELDS OF FIRE, is the 4th in our history of public rituals. This project intends to inspire a 3-year community tradition where, at the conclusion, the core members have gained the skills and support required to generate their own stories, celebrations and park events. Director Brandon Boler, writer Honey Crawford, and performance leaders Time Brickey and Silvita Diaz have built relationships in Lawndale that form a strong foundation for the artistic elements of this project.
First, community members will be invited to take part in free workshops to create art that becomes a visual element of the concluding show; we estimate this participatory group to be at least 300 community authors. Next, local musicians and performers will be cast and paid for the performance. Finally, we’ll spread word of the free performance widely, inviting all to engage with the culminating performance. FIELDS OF FIRE is an outdoor shadow show in the Lawndale community.
By activating our relationship with the Chicago Park District, The Trust for Public Land, Community leaders, the Aldermen and Local School leadership, we will develop a production consists of a live event and free workshops youth and elders to assist in authoring, designing, and performing a unique cultural celebration.”
Directed by Brandon Boler
Written by Honey Crawford
Designed by Sydney Lynn Thomas
Produced by Rebecca Husk
Designed in collaboration with
Alexi Young and Haman Cross of Art West
Visual artist Felix Barnes
Engineer Caleb Donat
In partnership with The ChiBuck Movement team
featuring Dion Randle, Rachel Johnson, Elisabeth Seonwoo, Kiana Cook and Eddie Skinner
Spring Forward
NOTE: This event has sadly been postponed due to a new breakout of Covid-19 on the University of Chicago campus. Now catch Spring Forward on May 21st! Registration details forthcoming.
This winter, Rebecca is the Event Coordinator for Spring Forward, part of The University of Chicago’s Winterfest. Winterfest aims to bring students together in collaborative, arts-focused events to fight isolation due to the Chicago winter and Covid-19.
”Under the creative direction of Frank Maugeri, Lecturer in Theater & Performance Studies and celebrated designer of artistic pageants, processions, and celebrations, Spring Forward aims to be a hopeful collaboration between creative teams of students, art faculty, and prominent artists for the design and construction of large-scale masks, culminating in a conditions-appropriate procession and pageant, with music, circus, poetry, dance, song and more, on May Day, the date of ancient festivals of spring.”
Art by Jimmy Grimes
Winterfest Puzzle Hunt
This winter, Rebecca is the project manager and will be designing puzzles for The Mystery League’s puzzle hunt, part of The University of Chicago’s Winterfest. Winterfest aims to bring students together in collaborative, arts-focused events to fight isolation due to the Chicago winter and Covid-19.
“This puzzle hunt from The Mystery League will combine deduction, creative problem solving, and some old fashioned running around, as teams of players race to solve several puzzles per day, along with a week-ending meta-puzzle. Puzzle hunts combine the triumph of breaking a code, the thrill of a good mystery novel, and the adrenaline rush of a playground game of tag. You’ll need to read your emails carefully to find embedded cryptic messages. Perhaps you will order something from a mysterious online store and receive a clue. That text message from an enigmatic stranger could lead you to a social media account that has the next puzzle. Spend a week collaborating with friends as you race to be the first to finish.”
Source: https://college.uchicago.edu/event/puzzle-hunt
The Let’s Fight Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular!
“It's the beginning of October which means the holidays are upon us and the weather's going to be super sad soon. A group of four strangers suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) respond to a classified ad to put up a show that will cheer up the community and, hopefully, themselves. Nearly ten years after the spectacular becomes a massive success, the message is appropriated and what was once a wholesome, cathartic show to provide solidarity has been co-opted by the new generation as a harmful glamorization of mental illness. The four once-strangers must reunite and remount the show to remind the world what its message is all about.”
Come see Rebecca (over zoom) as Olive in the Midwestern premiere of Lauren Wimmer’s bittersweet holiday piece! Directed by Iris Sowlat, part of Possibilities Theatre Company’s The 12 Days of Holidays Festival.
The Let’s Fight Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular!
“It's the beginning of October which means the holidays are upon us and the weather's going to be super sad soon. A group of four strangers suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) respond to a classified ad to put up a show that will cheer up the community and, hopefully, themselves. Nearly ten years after the spectacular becomes a massive success, the message is appropriated and what was once a wholesome, cathartic show to provide solidarity has been co-opted by the new generation as a harmful glamorization of mental illness. The four once-strangers must reunite and remount the show to remind the world what its message is all about.”
Come see Rebecca (over zoom) as Olive in the Midwestern premiere of Lauren Wimmer’s bittersweet holiday piece! Directed by Iris Sowlat, part of Possibilities Theatre Company’s The 12 Days of Holidays Festival.
Panoramic Prayers
Panoramic Prayers: A Burial of Old Ideas is a sensory experience written by Time Brickey and devised and co-directed by Tanji Harper, Frank Maugeri, Rebecca Husk, and the Blu Rhythm Collective in collaboration with Cabinet of Curiosity. The event is authored alongside Cabinet of Curiosity’s School of Celebration (of which Rebecca is an alum) - students from multiple artistic backgrounds and universities from across the United States. The event includes unusual mechanical objects, large scale paintings, surprising mechanical devices, a collection of shrines made my community members, original music, and poetry. An evening of hope and reflection, joy and community.
Site design by Rea Brown and Sydney Lynn Thomas, objects engineered by Milam Smith, and music composed by Evan Silver
Buy tickets here.
The Post-Police Design Challenge
Created in conjunction with The Coda Game Collective - sign up now!
University Theater Presents: The Old Man and the Old Moon
The Old Man and the Old Moon
Created by PigPen Theatre Co.
Directed by Kenjiro Lee
Rebecca is puppet designing The Old Man and the Old Moon, a production through University Theater at the University of Chicago. Accompanied by PigPen’s beautiful folk music, The Old Man and the Old Moon tells the story of an old man and his quest to find his lost love (and all of his adventures along the way). Rebecca’s puppets in this production range from bun ra ku to found object to shadow.