Chance Theater welcomes two guests during our post show discussions this Saturday, February 22nd
Following the performances of Fun Home this Saturday, February 22nd, Chance Theater will host two special post show discussions, one with Jennifer Terry, a professor and Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Irvine, and Liz Owen, Director of communications for PFLAG National. Read more about each esteemed guest and get your tickets to these “fun” and educational discussions!
Following the 3pm performance on Saturday, February 22nd…
Jennifer Terry Professor and Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Irvine
Professor Terry’s books include An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press 1999) and Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press 1995). She has written on queer historiography, reproductive politics, the history of sexual science, and love of objects. She teaches Fun Home in her courses on Queer History Making and Queer Lives and Knowledges.
Following the 8pm performance on Saturday, February 22nd…
Liz Owen
Director of Communications for PFLAG National
Liz Owen received her B.S. from the School of Speech at Northwestern University, where she majored in Theatre and Communications. Upon graduation, Liz served as the Managing Director of Chicago’s Jeff Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, then returned to New York to complete her post-graduate work at New Actors Workshop, where her teachers included film and theatre director Mike Nichols and Second City founder Paul Sills.
After graduation, she headed back to Chicago. There she helped co-found–and spent three years as the Executive Director of–FilmBureau, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and unifying the Chicago film community. She also served as the Chicago scout for Next Wave Films, the Independent Film Channel’s finishing funds company. Upon relocating to Los Angeles from Chicago, she turned her attention full time to film production, eventually finding a creative home in film publicity at Paramount Pictures. After an extended family leave to stay home with her newborn twins, Liz left Paramount to instead work as an independent communications and PR consultant, working primarily with entertainment and nonprofit clients.
One of those clients was the indie LGBTQ+ family film, TRU LOVED, for which she served as the publicist, from production all the way through the film’s national release. She developed partnerships for the film with numerous national LGBTQ+ organizations; among them was PFLAG National. In January 2011, Liz jumped on the opportunity to join the organization as Director of Communications.
Liz enjoys theatre, music, travel, and spending time with her 14-year-old twins, Molly and Sam.
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