In the last five years, The Syndicate has:

1. Produced six new plays: Civility!; Well Job, Gertrude; Hot Belly; Another Jungle (a co-production with Cloudgate Theatre); Bluets; and Tiny Errors at the End of the Millennium;
2. Developed women, queer, and trans playwrights’ work, through readings of Graceful Exit by Alanna Coby, Bare Foot by Ellenor Riley-Condit, Hot Belly by Diana Lynn Small, The Beasts of Warren by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Hunting by Nelle Tankus, and the desert play (or Nothing Feels Like) by Hal Cosentino;
3. Funded artists’ first steps on ambitious projects through First Read and our Incubator Fund;
4. Worked across borders through four iterations of Long Distance, in South Carolina, California, New York, and The Hague;
5. Collaborated with dozens of brilliant artists and producers through residencies at IRT, Juniata College, the Chicago Performance Lab, the Drama League, Mabou Mines/Suite, the Brick, and SITI Lab. 

In 2019, The Syndicate will:

1. Produce our second run of Bluets, our adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s book about falling in love with the color blue; 
2. Center the work of trans and nonbinary artists through our second-annual First Read program, coming to Chicago this June;
3. Begin a new ensemble/playwright collaboration, with a workshop coming to NYC in fall 2019;
4. Keep building our intersectional feminist producing model, in which our company shares the resources we have with diverse artists whose work we believe in;
5. Recruit more co-conspirators-- because we’re growing, and we need your help. 

In gratitude,

Alanna (NYC),

Elle (Chicago),

Jackie (NYC),

Janouke (the Hague),

Leigh (Pennsylvania), and 

Megan (NYC).