Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast of the dark comedy Kentucky, which opens October 20 and runs through November 16 at Theatre Wit, located at 1229 W. Belmont in Chicago’s Belmont Theatre District.

Presented by the Gift Theatre, this Chicago premiere features Columbia College alum Emilie Modaff ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and former Theatre Department Acting program student Ian Voltaire Deanes in its ensemble cast, and Columbia College alum Kim Fukawa ’07, also an Acting BA program graduate, is an understudy. The play concerns a young New York woman who returns to her Kentucky home to stop her born-again Christian sister from marrying. For tickets, click here.