Anna Schutz
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Anna Schutz (she/her) has a Master of Nonprofit Management from DePaul University and a BFA in Acting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in Chicago as an actor, singer, and playwright. Her work as an arts administrator began over a decade ago, when she founded the theatre Brown Paper Box Theatre Co. After serving as Managing Director for its decade-long run, she founded the nonprofit Chicago Artist Guide to diversify theatre by connecting theatres, artists, and their communities. 

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Performing Credits

Musicals
Now. Here. This. - Woman 2 (BPBCo.)
[title of show]* - Heidi (BPBCo.)
A New Brain - Waitress/Nancy D. (BPBCo.)
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Reefer Madness! - Mary Lane (BPBCo.)
Hunchback of Notre Dame** - Swing (Bailiwick Rep)
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown! - Sally (La Costa)
Stuck - Alicia (La Costa)
Baby - Swing (Metropolis PAC)

The Who’s Tommy - Ensemble (Jedlicka PAC)
Plays
Circle Mirror Transformation - Lauren (Oil Lamp Theatre)
Aloha Say the Pretty Girls - Joy/Billy (BPBCo.)
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Epic Proportions - Louise (Project 891)
Indecent Proposals - Edelvisa (Metropolis PAC)
Dog Sees God - Marcy (Rubicon Theatre Project)
Cabarets
"Holding On: A Community Cabaret" Performer (BPBCo.)​
"An Existential Cabaret" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Positively Present" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Mary'z with a 'Z'" Performer (BPBCo.)
​​"Spring Forward, Fail Back" Performer (BPBCo.)
"BPB Yearbook" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Proud at Mary's" Performer (BPBCo.)
​​"Character Breakdown" Series Performer (BPBCo.)
"Reefer Madness! 4/20" Productions Performer (BPBCo.)

Production Manager Credits

"The Broad-Way" (BPBCo.) - Host/Director/Performer
​"Brown Paper Bash" (BPBCo.) - Director/Performer
​Speech & Debate
(BPBCo.)
The Baltimore Waltz* (BPBCo.)
Spike Heels (BPBCo.)
Godspell (BPBCo.)
To Tree (BPBCo.)

Playwright

Prodigy: A Modern Family Portrait 
September 2024 Staged Reading with Artemisia
May 2019 Staged Reading with Dandelion Theatre
November 2017 Stage Reading co-sponsored by Brown Paper Box Co. & DePaul University's Women and Genders Studies Department
​August 2017 League of Chicago Theatres' Bright Angel Creative Retreat
*Jeff Recommended
**Jeff Award Winning Production
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