CV

Contact

Name Connor Shioshita Pickett
Email connorpickett@gmail.com
Summary Writer, director, performer, teacher.

Selected Experience

  • 2023 - present
    Artistic Director
    The Neo-Futurist Theater
    • Write, direct, and perform original work.
    • Facilitate consensus decisions on programming, casting, and values.
    • With staff & board, lead and develop 37-year-old, $500K+ nonprofit organization.
  • 2018 - present
    Ensemble Member
    The Neo-Futurist Theater
    • Produce weekly new work as part of THE INFINITE WRENCH.
    • Provide administrative & strategic support through committee participation.
  • 2024 - present
    Instructor
    StoryStudio Chicago
    • Create and lead inclusive, innovative writing workshops.
    • Support individual student growth by written, verbal, and group feedback.

Selected Writing Credits

  • 2018 - present
    THE INFINITE WRENCH
    • 250+ short works spanning monologue, movement, music, installation and more.
  • 2024
    HANGING JOE BIDEN
    • Head writer, director, performer. The Neo-Futurist Theater.
  • 2023
    The Neo-Futurists Sell Out
    • Head writer, performer. The Neo-Futurist Theater.
  • 2019
    NOW SING THE NAMES OF ALL THE INSTITUTIONS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE AN ONGOING FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIP.
    • Dir. Shannon Knapp, Non-State Actors
  • 2018
    FUCK DEATH (global warming play
    • Dir. Aaron Arbiter
  • 2015
    Aero-Plane! A crisis of extraordinary gravity OR how to die in style
    • Dir. Jordan Walsh
  • 2015
    THE HUNGER ARTIST
    • Dir. Jordan Walsh

Teaching

Guest Teaching

Selected Performance Credits

Education

  • 2010 - 2014
    Bachelor of Arts
    University of Pittsburgh
    • Theatre Arts Major
    • English Writing (Fiction) Major
    • Summa Cum Laude

Training

  • 2024
    Physical & Scenic Training for the Peformer
    • Alfonso Barón. Un Poyo Rojo
  • 2024
    Practice & Play in the Classroom
    • Sarah Kokernot
  • 2022
    Vocal Performance
    • Josie Stracek, Access Contemporary Music
  • 2019
    THE BODY AT PLAY, a workshop for the performer-creator.
    • Emanuelle Delpech, Pig Iron School
  • 2017
    Writers' Room 5.0
    • Evan Linder & Michael Allen Harris, The New Coordinates.
  • 2013
    Devising & Viewpoints
    • Cynthia Croot
  • 2012
    Meisner Embodied (Meisner, Grotowski, Wangh)
    • Elizabeth Mozer
  • 2011-2012
    Playwriting
    • Kathy George

Honors and Awards

  • 2014
    • Three Rivers Review - First Prize, Fiction