From January 2018 to July 2019, I served as the DIY Theater & Performance Editor of Scapi Magazine, a local, Chicago-based online magazine run by Maureen Smith and Daniel Johanson.

I assigned and edited news, interviews, op-eds, features, experimental reviews, and more about DIY performances, collectives, groups, companies, artists, and festivals in Chicago. I also contributed pieces myself.

I managed a remarkable team of freelance contributing writers to produce daily website content, maintained calendar of assignment deadlines and publishing times, communicated clearly between writers and editors and smoothed workflows for multiple people working on one project, and enforced production deadlines.

Of the projects I worked on while I was at Scapi Magazine, I was particularly proud of:

• A document I put together a document to address the topic of DIY theater and performance. This was created out of two threads.

  • My piece about DIY theater and performance in Chicago in Newcity Magazine, where I explored the definitions of this movement by gathering perspectives from non-mainstream, non-institutionalized theater groups and artists throughout the city.

  • I was asked to join Scapi Magazine as Theater Editor, and wanted to establish what kind of coverage we would be focusing on.

  • This document served as a basis for the coverage of the DIY Theater section of Underground.

• A monthly, recurring list of DIY performances in Chicago, with accessibility markers included

• Expressions: In lieu of having traditional theater criticism/reviews, I introduced this form of writing, which were responses to a performance in a creative form (poetry, playwriting, stream of consciousness, visual art, etc.).

Here are a few snippet memories from my endeavors with Scapi: