above: Karim Nagi in Detour Guide with Silk Road Rising and Stage Left Theatre https://www.silkroadrising.org/home-silk-road-rising
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I make theatre ​about my own and other cultures, stories of racism, stories by and about women, stories about the environment, stories about our resilience and our limitations as humans. With theatre I explore the fractured
postmodern world and counter its divisions by bringing people together in rehearsal and in performance.
                                  Theatre gives me the tools to engage my audience with words, spectacle, humor and pathos.
                                   With theatre I can  challenge, entertain, provoke and help connect ideas.                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                ANNA C. BAHOW

​Committed to the development of new work and a diversity of voices, Anna C. Bahow is an Artistic Associate with Silk Road Rising, an Associate Artist with The International Voices Project and Chicago Dramatists Theatre  and a new ensemble member with Promethean Theatre Ensemble. Bahow served as the 2011-2012 Michael Maggio Directing Fellow at Goodman Theatre. She has received an After Dark Award for direction and her productions have received JEFF Awards for New Work and Use of Multi-Media.