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Tekki Lomnicki
Actor
Tekki is a solo performer, educator and the co-founder and Artistic Director of Tellin’ Tales Theatre, a company dedicated to building community through storytelling. Now in its twelfth year, her annual project Six Stories Up pairs six well-known storytellers with six middle school children (with and without disabilities) in a mentoring program and subsequent production. Tekki has taught drama to kids with and without disabilities for the Gallery 37 Connections Program and solo performance to adults at the Victory Gardens Theater. She was named one of the "100 Women Making a Difference in Chicago" by Today's Chicago Woman, received a Gargoyle Award from the Council For Disability Rights and the Carol Gill Award for Arts and Advocacy from the Progress Center. She most recently completed The Miracle, an awarding-winning film by Jeffrey Jon Smith based on one of her performance pieces and received an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in New Performance Forms.
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