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CWT On ChicagoPlays Blog and WBEZ Blog

Clockwise is the featured theatre on the League of Chicago Theatre's ChicagoPlays blog. The post was picked up by WBEZ, too!

Director and Cast Explain "Courting Vampires"

Director Alexandra Main and cast members Norma Serna, David Thomases, and Christina Thodos reveal some secrets in a five-minute video. Watch the video.

Actors and Technicians

If interested in working with us, Actors, please send your headshot/resume to:

M. Sergel
Clockwise Theatre
P.O. Box 223
Gurnee, IL 60031

Directors, designers and technical staff, please e-mail your resume to Madelyn Sergel.

Reach Us

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 223
Gurnee, IL 60031

You can contact the Clockwise leadership at the mobile numbers below. Or, click a name below to send an e-mail directly to our artistic or business staff.

Artistic Director, Madelyn Sergel
(847) 894-8788
Managing Director, Rebecca Adler
(708) 721-3973
Marketing Director, Diane Hitzeman
((847) 489-7514

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Playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians: Read information on this page for submission information.

Actors, click here for current audition information.

General information

All artists and designers are paid. All rehearsals and performances will be held in Waukegan, Illinois, which lies almost exactly halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee. Check it out on a map to understand what your commute would be before submitting to us.

Interns, volunteers and theatre lovers: Don’t know what you want to do but want to be involved? We want you! Shoot us an e-mail!

Playwright Submission Guidelines

CWT is a theatre that embraces and explores a diversity of experience and culture. We encourage the submission of more adventurous work, plays that might employ theatricality devices, language, or action in a creative way (but in low-cost production manner) that support the telling of an interesting story.

Electronic submissions are welcomed. (You may also snail mail—use the address shown in the sidebar for actor submissions.) Please put “Play Submission” in the e-mail subject line. You may send your file(s) in PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. Click here to submit via e-mail.

Please include the following in your submission:

A synopsis, no longer than one page
Character breakdown
Production history, if any
Playwright bio
10-page sample

Clockwise Theatre will not ask for subsidiary rights*

*Sharing in the revenues of subsequent productions of plays which receive their world premier at the home theatre

Clockwise and Waukegan

A vibrant diverse community, Waukegan is populated with marvelous historic buildings, storefronts ready for renovation into theatres, bookstores, and art galleries, affordable neighborhood living, a lush, active harbor, all of this married with a location that puts artists in arm’s reach of the huge Lake County audience as well as the urban centers of Chicago and Milwaukee.

The potential to redefine Waukegan by creating an urban, funky, creative vibe similar to SoHo in the 50s and 60s but through the lens of the 21st century has attracted Lake County professionals and artists to the Clockwise board of directors, as well as artists from both Lake County and the larger Chicago metro area to its artistic advisory board.

A perfect storm of events is coming together, including soaring gas prices, a shaky economy, and the urgency to create a greener world, to make this the time to seize the day. Clockwise Theatre hopes to play a vital role in this renaissance.