Asked what her job at the company (whose annual operating budget for their two-venue space on North Clark comes in at just under $1 million) might entail during the COVID shutdown, Gray says, “I think that there is definitely an incredibly interesting discussion that a lot of theaters can be having about what is theater right now? How can we be making something that resembles what we used to make in a small room with people gathered close together? I think that is something that Cody is still thinking about and I am looking to him and his artistic producer Cole [Von Glahn] to see what they think that can look like.”
Whether or not Her Honor Jane Byrne is resurrected in the future remains unclear, but Brooks is looking forward to diving into her next play in the quartet: Harold Washington and the City Council Wars.
