Aislinn Frantz is a producer, dramaturg, and playwright based in Chicago, currently working as the Associate Producer at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. She took on this position following her time with the same title at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Over the past five years, Aislinn has taken on many different roles, including Junior Agent at a theatrical literary agency in New York, script coordinator at the O'Neill, directing & dramaturgy intern at Portland Stage in Maine, among independent producing and playwriting projects in New York and remotely dramaturging new plays. Whew. In the past, Aislinn has worked with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley; University of Michigan University Productions; and FestiFools, the annual parade of giant puppets in Ann Arbor. She has served as a reader for the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference and National Music Theater Conference; SPACE on Ryder Farm; and the Bret n Paul Foundation Ollie Award, for which she also sits on the advisory board. Dramaturgical highlights include the world premiere of John Cariani's play LOVE/SICK and summers at the O'Neill, where she worked on plays by Jen Silverman, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Idris Goodwin, and Laura Jacqmin. Aislinn's own plays include the Hopwood Award-winning You Can Spend Your Whole Life Running, We're All Somebody's Children, and most recently Everything But. Aislinn is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan's Bachelor of Theatre Arts program. Go blue!

New play dramaturgy, agenting, puppet dramaturgy, playwriting, research, submissions, producing.

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