

Mia McCullough (Mentor, KID KUISINE) McCullough’s most recent productions include Echoes of Another Man at Stage Left Theatre and Actor’s Express in Atlanta, and Since Africa at Chicago Dramatists, InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego . Since Africa was commissioned by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and it was a finalist for the 2005 Blackburn Prize and a nominee for a Joseph Jefferson Award. Steppenwolf Theatre Company produced
Mia’s play Taking Care in 2003 and they have commissioned her to write Spare Change which was included in Steppenwolf’s 2nd First Look Repertory of New Work. Aside from Echoes, Stage Left has produced two of Mia’s comedies Cyber Serenade and Suicide, as well as producing the world premiere production of Chagrin Falls.The critically acclaimed Chagrin Falls has garnered many awards including a Joseph Jefferson Citation for New Work, an After Dark Award, the
ATCA Osborn Award and first prize in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition. It has been published by Smith & Kraus in the anthology "New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001." Taking Care was published in the Chicago Dramatists anthology "New Plays from Chicago." Mia is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, and a member of Stage Left Theatre and The Dramatists Guild. She has taught playwriting at Chicago Dramatists and Northwestern University. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband and son.