Kurt Chiang is a theater artist, writer, and performer. He is Artistic Director Emeritus & Ensemble Member of The Neo-Futurist Theater, where he wrote/performed more than 300 very short plays in the prolific weekly show, The Infinite Wrench. Serving 12 years with the company, Kurt directed multiple premiering works, produced and curated The Neo-Futurist Kitchen Festival, led the restructuring and devising process of The Infinite Wrench, and co-created The Arrow, a performance aesthetic that subjects personal essays to spontaneous acts of inquiry and disruption (in collaboration with Lily Mooney).
Kurt practices (and attempts) various modes of creating, performing, teaching, and one-off-experimenting, and has presented for and collaborated with multiple organizations and artists, including: The Neo-Futurists, PlayMakers Laboratory, The Arts Club of Chicago, Lucky Plush Productions, Mocrep, Write Club, The Paper Machete, Free Street Theater, The Annoyance, Salonathon, We Series, Drinking & Writing Theater, The Hypocrites, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Abrons Art Center, Depaul University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Maryland, Theatre Performance Magnet at Lee High in Huntsville, Alabama, Melinda Jean Myers, Jenna Horton, Hal Baum, Lucas Baisch, Livia Chesley, John Pierson, and The NY & SF Neo-Futurists. Kurt was also a bedside teaching artist for hospitalized youth with Snow City Arts. He grew up in the Maryland/DC area, and lives in Chicago.
Featured Artworks
"Harnessing the Atom" in The Infinite Wrench, performed at Harrison Park
photo credit: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux
"Analog," created by Kurt Chiang, produced by The Neo-Futurists, 2012
"The Arrow," co-created by Kurt Chiang & Lily Mooney, produced by The Neo-Futurists
photo credit: Deidre Huckabay
Kurt Chiang has crowd-funded a project with 3AP
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Chicka-Dee-Dee-Dee! is my current project-in-development, a visual and textual essay exploring the relationships between people, flora, and fauna in landscapes and cityscapes of North America, giving special emphasis to prairielands and their native grasses. The project will accumulate into a …
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