David Y. ChackTheatre Consultant1330 W Fargo Avenue Apt 2A Connecting Heritage, Performance, Identity, Experience, and LearningDavid Y.Chack, from Chicago and Louisville, was honored in 2008 as a semi-finalist for the Charles Bronfman Visiting Chair in Innovative Jewish Communities. President of the Association for Jewish Theatre, Chack is on the faculty at Northwestern University in the Theatre Department and Jewish Studies. He has received numerous awards for his artistic and community work including the Elie Wiesel Award for Jewish Arts and Culture and The Best Director Award for the Louisville Jewish Film Festival. His numerous projects of consulting, directing, and teaching take him between Chicago, Louisville, New York, Boston, and Israel. He has worked with Jewish Community Centers, Hillel Foundations in Boston and Virginia, the Virginia Humanities Foundation, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, the Louisville Orchestra, All About Jewish Theatre, Hillels Around Chicago, The Theatre Museum in New York City, the Jewish Theatre Ensemble at Northwestern University, and the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School of Hebrew University. He continues to write regularly on theatre and performing arts for All About Jewish Theatre and has also written for Genesis2, the Louisville Eccentric Observer, and the Virginia Festival of American Film Journal.
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