CV
Contact
| Name | Connor Shioshita Pickett |
| connorpickett@gmail.com | |
| Summary | Writer, director, performer, teacher. |
Selected Experience
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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.
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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.
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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
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2018 - present THE INFINITE WRENCH
- 250+ short works spanning monologue, movement, music, installation and more.
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2024 HANGING JOE BIDEN
- Head writer, director, performer. The Neo-Futurist Theater.
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2023 The Neo-Futurists Sell Out
- Head writer, performer. The Neo-Futurist Theater.
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2019 NOW SING THE NAMES OF ALL THE INSTITUTIONS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE AN ONGOING FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIP.
- Dir. Shannon Knapp, Non-State Actors
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2018 FUCK DEATH (global warming play
- Dir. Aaron Arbiter
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2015 Aero-Plane! A crisis of extraordinary gravity OR how to die in style
- Dir. Jordan Walsh
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2015 THE HUNGER ARTIST
- Dir. Jordan Walsh
Teaching
Guest Teaching
Selected Performance Credits
Education
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2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Arts
University of Pittsburgh - Theatre Arts Major
- English Writing (Fiction) Major
- Summa Cum Laude
Training
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2024 Physical & Scenic Training for the Peformer
- Alfonso Barón. Un Poyo Rojo
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2024 Practice & Play in the Classroom
- Sarah Kokernot
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2022 Vocal Performance
- Josie Stracek, Access Contemporary Music
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2019 THE BODY AT PLAY, a workshop for the performer-creator.
- Emanuelle Delpech, Pig Iron School
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2017 Writers' Room 5.0
- Evan Linder & Michael Allen Harris, The New Coordinates.
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2013 Devising & Viewpoints
- Cynthia Croot
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2012 Meisner Embodied (Meisner, Grotowski, Wangh)
- Elizabeth Mozer
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2011-2012 Playwriting
- Kathy George
Honors and Awards
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2014 - Three Rivers Review - First Prize, Fiction