https://www.gillianhemme.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580442893628-TDXV799N0W80KR3FZUOG/cbs.jpg Home Piven Theatre Takes Former Inmates From Sentences To The Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580443254523-B8NWC9LP4M5UNAM8UENB/md.jpg Home Piven Theatre Helps Celebrate Artists With Developmental Disabilities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580442152518-UTM6WE3KF1OJ78TJ4MD3/IMG_3985.jpg Home Piven Theatre Workshop Prison Program WGN Spot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580443167140-WDPPJWMAAGZJUSVHVRUB/DailyThumb.jpg Home Piven Theater continues dialogue of mass incarceration through new play detailing experiences of incarcerated women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580450908431-87JTISHAH1U7945CLEPP/Gillian_Hemme Home - Meet Gillian. Gillian makes and teaches theatre. She is based in Chicago, Illinois, and she believes transformation is possible through play. https://www.gillianhemme.com/mad-like-us daily 0.75 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850635312-02ZGDWY4P8SDV6VFV1HK/Enlight1.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850934851-N00M6NVELZRLSW53TF52/IMG_4044.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850935859-XCG2X32WYDGE7UCYSE1W/IMG_4043.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580854995530-L9C71HAIJR0LLTVGKCW0/IMG_2564.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850624740-5CIWDMHQ7RLL750V3ZM9/IMG_1555.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850937496-VAH4ZZKL3P6OL8IF2THE/IMG_4045.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855018297-O4YIH0O8Y4UT8JWTVPNP/IMG_2537.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850617772-MJZFSSMQIVCU4M7VYV0D/IMG_1464.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855007858-WNNMJ72CMS6HMQ6FX6BK/IMG_2577.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580850646563-WRT5DJ0ZKVZPX4E9NVHO/IMG_1537.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855017576-SQARNX02QBBTM8R78OAN/IMG_2586.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580854998209-GUFUZ83QK1OTVUCQA44Q/IMG_1549.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855001160-RHR1THCVZB1NI25PUDTQ/IMG_2521.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855006646-N5RSPKAP1L0ZJSRUA0LJ/IMG_1424.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856689983-H0NFY6GMMK84QGPWFR0L/IMG_0158.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855016603-YRTGFB2NVCH6INCO3LLK/IMG_1406.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856697865-EZBX4AUHJ5OZR1CCZ2V2/IMG_0402.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855022492-1SOI202VP4XK6ETVRT2C/IMG_2549.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580855035493-3IHKC1FCGNXMBW296LSI/IMG_2504.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856695562-Z5DWFP48WVZTOGV3JLHB/IMG_0655.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856705882-VCBJQL1FJOYTUW6KBQS7/IMG_0295.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856716251-K2FA2A0DMDCF3L9MBK76/IMG_0670.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856713572-BIK3VOWATI7JAUGOWMCJ/IMG_0382.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856720536-L8CVFFCOXR8JPBXKGI0N/IMG_0205.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856857004-12CZBHA8A0BNR5ZHOHD4/IMG_0733.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580856726587-AVLRTQKPLVP52BJ3BNCH/IMG_0052.jpeg Mad Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/693f745a-9940-48bd-a396-902525ea2b45/dcase.png https://www.gillianhemme.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580449185033-CUYJWW7KFN8FNIJFF8SG/Mad+Like+Us About - Solo Performance Through productions such as Mad Like Us and Clean Start, Gillian Hemme draws from real-life narratives of women to create original multi-character performance. Whether the inspiration comes from interviews (Clean Start and Unescorted) or myth and family lore (Mad Like Us), Gillian is committed to finding ways fictional retelling can amplify the core truths of personal narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580449514507-W1NRH3B4SIGRDG0OJHYM/Piven About - Teaching Artistry Gillian is a proud member of the teaching team at Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston. She teaches improvisation, scene study, and story theatre to artists of all ages, interests, and experience levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfc54fbe5cf6f15c4b48fc5/1580449688095-J6X2DV5217355027QTKZ/Drawing+Our+Sky About - Radical Joy Gillian understands the power of play and the ways in which play can be applied to social practice. Inspired by the Actors’ Gang Prison Project and her undergraduate work with Grinnell College’s Liberal Arts in Prison Program, she and Beth Voitik, LCSW, co-founded Piven’s theatre program at Cook County Jail. Today, that program exists as EPIC (Ensemble Play in Corrections), and Gillian remains the director of EPIC. Since the fall of 2016, Gillian has hosted PLAYT, a semi-regular potluck dinner series at her apartment. PLAYT (originally called Empanadas and Activism, thanks to Cafe Tola’s early support) combines play (usually in the form of theatre games), a potluck dinner, and a robust conversation where people get to practice respectfully disagreeing with one another. With generous support from DCASE and ACTA, Gillian published Drawing Our Sky, a collaborative children’s book designed to be used during parent-child visits at carceral facilities. 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