Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019.
Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before beginning her arts journalism career by writing pro bono for Streetwise.
She spent most of the 90s in San Francisco, writing about theater for Backstage West and the East Bay Express, among other publications, and returned to Chicago in 2000.
Reid was a freelance critic for the Chicago Tribune for 17 years, and has also contributed to several other publications, including Windy City Times, Chicago Magazine, Playbill, American Theatre, and the Village Voice.
She taught reviewing and arts journalism at Columbia and is currently adjunct faculty at the Theatre School at DePaul University.
In a past life, Reid also wrote about ten plays or performance pieces. She is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and the recipient of two 2020 Lisagor Awards.
Reid lives in Rogers Park. She speaks English and is reachable at [email protected].
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