Over the past five years, Alice da Cunha and Marc Frost have brought over twenty theater companies from more than a dozen countries to perform at Physical Festival Chicago.

Help us keep bringing international contemporary physical theatre to Chicago for another five years.

In our of our fifth edition, we are crowdfunding to raise $5,000 to help us pay for future festival expenses. Some of our largest up-front costs include: 

What is Physical Festival?

Physical Festival is a contemporary, visual, and physical theater festival.

The fifth annual Physical Festival will be nine whirlwind days of physical theatre programming featuring four shows from around the world, a hometown master, master classes with international guest artists, and a Scratch Night featuring new short works from local performers.

 
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Who are the Co-Artistic Directors?

Alice da Cunha

Alice has worked for various festivals. While in London, she was the Marketing Director for CASA (London's Latin American Theatre Festival) and she produced, curated and presented SHORTCUTZ (a weekly short film festival). She was also the Production Assistant for TODOS Festival, an interdisciplinary festival in Lisbon, Portugal. In Chicago she has worked in Hospitality for the Chicago Latino Film Festival for the last two years. Alice is also an actress and has performed in many plays and films.

 

March has started two theater companies and one theater festival. At Tufts University, he co-founded Bare Bodkin Theater Company to give student playwrights a platform for their work. In London, he co-created and curated "Physical" (a scratch night for new pieces of physical theater). Back in Chicago, he founded Theater Unspeakable, an award-winning national touring company, to create devised, physical theater.