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Jess Hutchinson

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A performer stands before a large illuminated circular portal on stage - The Light Chasers

Jess Hutchinson is a director, dramaturg, educator, and arts administrator in Chicago.

An actor in a paper mache donkey mask dances on stage - A Midsummer Night's Dream

A lone figure seated on a dark stage, lit by a single spotlight in a sparse room setting - Whose Body?

Actors in period costume seated around a dining table in a black and white production photo - The Man Who Was Thursday

Two actors at a red-checked table with an antlered figure looming behind them on stage - Mad Beat Hip & Gone

A figure lying on a wooden platform bathed in deep blue light with a large circular set piece behind them - Second Skin

A performer stands at a table with red plastic cups under blue stage lighting - Tender Rough Rough Tender

A figure under a vast night sky with a large moon illuminating a dark stage - North Star

A performer holds an object aloft on a dramatically lit dark stage - Scarlet Letter

Two actors on a sparse stone-walled set, one in a dress, in an intimate scene - No Home for Bees

A performer in close-up under warm candlelit lighting with a figure visible through a window behind them - Redeemers

Hands raising wine glasses in a toast under warm, atmospheric stage lighting - The Dining Room

A performer in a fringed shawl stands under moody blue stage lighting - Hideous Progeny

A woman holds a cell phone to her ear and looks upward with concern under blue stage lighting - Dead Man's Cell Phone

Two actors in a tense face-to-face confrontation on stage - Six Years

A large group of actors in period costume posed together in a black and white production photo - The Man Who Was Thursday

Two figures in an outdoor forest setting, one seated on steps - As You Like It

Two young actors in an intense face-to-face scene - Sal Y Pimienta

Two figures in a period room with a writing desk under warm stage lighting - Arcadia

A figure appears to float or fall on a dark, minimal stage - Touch

A performer raises something aloft before an audience in an intimate non-traditional performance space - We Are StarStuff

An older man and a child share an intimate moment on a moody, atmospheric stage - Lighthousekeeping

An actor stands alone in a period dress and a spotlight - A Streetcar Named Desire

A solitary figure framed in a window on a dark stage - 381 Bleecker

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