Kaiser Ahmed

Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum Kaiser Ahmed ’08, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s Theatre Directing Program and artistic director of Chicago’s Jackalope Theatre, will headline a workshop on securing resources for theatrical self-producing on Monday, February 24, from 7 to 8:30 PM at Jackalope Theatre’s space inside Broadway Armory Park, located at 5917 N. Broadway in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. Ahmed’s workshop will focus on securing resources to support your creative idea – including resources of space or equipment, community partnerships, expertise, grant funding, audience development, sponsorships, and other opportunities to expand the reach of your idea. The cost of the workshop is $15 or “Pay What You Can.” To register for the workshop, click here.

The workshop is part of a series called Concept to Reality: A Practical Guide to Self-Producing, presented by the Siddons Artistic Council of Chicago’s Sarah Siddons Society. The workshops focus on the creation, realization, and marketing of live performance projects.

Ahmed, a Bangladeshi-American theatre director, producer, teacher, and actor, is artistic director of Chicago’s Jackalope Theatre Company, which he co-founded in 2008 along with several other Columbia College Theatre alums. He is also a member of the Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s Theatre Advisory Board as well as the Siddons Artistic Council of the Sarah Siddons Society, whose mission, since its founding in 1952, is to fund scholarships to promising theatre arts students at top Chicago area colleges and universities.