Saturday Series: Joshua Fardon

03/29/2025 02:00 PM CT

Category

Reading

Admission

  • Free

Location

N. Aberdeen St
Chicago, IL 60642
Building Number: 798

Summary

Chicago Dramatists presents: Saturday Series!

Saturday Series: Vortigern, by Joshua Fardon

March 29, 2025
2:00 PM CST
798 N Aberdeen St, Chicago, IL 60642

Description

Chicago Dramatists presents: Saturday Series

Vortigern - a True Story

by Joshua Fardon

 

Saturday, March 29, 2025
2:00pm CST
Russ Tutterow Theater | 798 N. Aberdeen St, Chicago IL 60642

 

ABOUT THE PLAY:

 

A late 18th Century teenager fools the London literary establishment into believing his play is the work of William Shakespeare.

Based on one of the greatest hoaxes in literary history.

 



MEET OUR RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT:

JOSHUA FARDON (he/him/his)’s plays have been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Fort Lauderdale and elsewhere. One Acts produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Toronto Fringe, Pigs Do Fly, Sacred Fools, Saturn and Vine, The Secret Rose, Slap n' Tickle, Stevedore, and the Yale Cabaret. He is a three-time O'Neill semifinalist. As a composer, Josh scored the movie Adopt a Sailor and wrote scores for Ruth Margraff’s Stadium Devildare, Ken Roht’s The Birds and his own A Cult Musical. He sold a pilot to Miramax Television. He was the voice of Luke Skywalker in the Lucasfilm/Highbridge Audio NPR production of Return of the Jedi. A graduate of Northwestern University and the acting department of the Yale School of Drama; a member of the Writers Guild of America-East, the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and AEA, the Creative Director of Naked Angels' Tuesdays@9 Chicago, and a Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright. He is repped by Elle Diken at Tendency Holdings Talent Management.