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    New House Rules

    Nov 06, 2021 2 minutes
    By KRIS VIRE
    Photography by AKILAH TOWNSEND

    LANISE ANTOINE SHELLEY IS living proof that from darkness, comes light.

    “I know that had the pandemic and racial unrest not happened,” says the new artistic director for the House Theatre of Chicago, “I would not be in the position that I am in today at this particular institution.”

    Shelley was appointed to the role in March, a year into the company’s forced dormancy

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