About Face Theatre advances LGBTQ+ equity through community building, education, and performance. AFT envisions an affirming and equitable world in which all LGBTQ+ individuals are thriving and free from prejudice and discrimination. Nationally recognized for examining issues critical to LGBTQ+ people and their allies and developing remarkable world premiere plays, AFT brings nuanced and underrepresented stories to life through productions that resonate for audiences of all identities. Founded in the belief that performing arts and education can create positive social change, the company’s play selections and methods for collaboration are designed for forward movement and liberation.

The Artistic Home is storefront theater at its best—a collaboration of actor, director, and playwright with imaginative and cohesive design elements giving an up-close storytelling experience. Artistic Home is a 20 year storefront veteran: an actor's theater where the focus is on deep exploration of text while bringing the abilities of its ensemble members to every show and giving audiences revived awareness into themselves and the world around them. We believe in the collective’s diversity and generative creativity in stimulating their growth and broadening the concept of being a creative artist in this country. We create theater that explores the truth within us, and we seek to touch audiences who are increasingly distanced from human contact.

First Floor Theater (FFT) stages stories of individuals facing moments of radical change. By combining visceral acting, immersive design, and collaborative dramaturgy, FFT expands these stories to ask urgent social questions. FFT is committed to: Producing world, national and local premiere plays, Amplifying underheard voices in the American theater, Creating opportunities for the next generation of theatre-makers, Offering a ticket pricing model that creates opportunities for audiences of all socioeconomic backgrounds to attend live theater, and operating as an antiracist institution. 

Haven Chicago emboldens visionary artists to practice and hone their craft by providing an equitable haven of opportunity for the creation of innovative performance, theatre, and media arts. Haven is interested in work the pursues adventurous modes of storytelling and offers embodied audience experiences. They are excited by innovative, genre-defying, multidisciplinary “events” that respond to our current moment by imagining our future. Nothing is inherent – they are a haven for ideas that challenge form and the status quo.