Heather Schmucker, 29, is the producing director at About Face Theatre, Chicago’s nationally recognized, award-winning LGBT theater company. In her six years with About Face, Heather has produced 22 new shows that give voice to the community’s artists and stories, with oral history-based pieces among her favorites.
She is incredibly proud to have participated in the development of the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife, which chronicled the life of an openly transgender woman who survived life under the Nazi and Stasi regimes in Germany. Currently, she is producing Mary Zimmerman’s M. Proust and the newest installment of the About Face Youth Theatre: The Home Project, a theatrical investigation of home and homelessness in the LGBTQA youth community.
Heather is a graduate of Northwestern University, and is a proud member of Thousand Waves Self-Defense and Martial Arts Center where she trains in Seido karate.
DID YOU KNOW? Heather produced her first show in Catholic school. It was her fourth-grade English class’ production of Little Shop of Horrors, in which she cast herself as the dentist.