Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Will Arbery (he/him)is a playwright and screenwriter from Texas. His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2019 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the winner of an OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, among other honors. It was named one of the “new canon” plays by American Theatre. Other plays include: You Hateful Things (upcoming London premiere), Spite House (upcoming New York premiere), Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (The New Group), Plano (Clubbed Thumb), and Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). He was the recipient of a Whiting Award in 2020. Will wrote on the fourth season of Succession, for which he won the WGA Award for Episodic Drama. He is the creator of two upcoming shows with FX: Seven Sisters (starring Elizabeth Olsen) and The Marriage Plot (starring Sadie Sink). Texas Monthly flagged him as one of the most influential cultural figures of the past 50 years out of Texas, and The New Yorker has called him the playwright of the moment.

dado (she/her) last directed the world premiere of JoJo Jones VEAL at A Red Orchid, and before that SIX MEN DRESSED LIKE JOSEPH STALIN by Dianne Nora. In 2025 dado directed LOBSTER by Kallan Dana for the Wirtz Center at Northwestern, and DANCE NATION by Clare Barron for UIC, where she currently serves on the faculty. Other projects dado has directed are REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. by Alice Birch with The Feast Collective, RIGHT NOW by Catherine Anne Toupin (Facility Theatre), Anny Ouyang Moench’s IN QUIETNESS at A Red Orchid, and THE LOVER by Harold Pinter (with Yasen Peyankov at Facility Theatre). She has also directed THE RUSE OF MEDUSA by Erik Satie (Facility Theatre) and KILLING GAME by Eugene Ionesco (A Red Orchid). Next spring she will direct THE CHERRY ORCHARD for UIC’s mainstage. 

Terrance and Carol Coleman

Dawn and Jim Kink

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