Tekki Lomnicki is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Tellin’ Tales Theatre, a company dedicated to building community through storytelling. She co-wrote and starred in their first production, When Heck Was a Puppy: The Living Testimonies of Folk Artist Edna Mae Brice, Honor Thy Mother, Alchemy, Tall Tales & Small Miracles, Honor Thy Father, 2001: A Wedding Odyssey, Sibling Revelry, Detours Blurred Vision, Blurred Vision: The Relapse and Body Language. She was also a company member of the Blue Rider Theater and was seen in Passing On and Twisted Richard. Now in its tenth year, her annual project Six Stories Up pairs six well-known storytellers with six middle school children in a mentoring program and subsequent production. Tekki also teaches drama to kids with and without disabilities for the After School Matters Connections Program and solo performance to adults at Victory Gardens. Ms. Lomnicki was named one of the "100 Women Making a Difference in Chicago" by Today's Chicago Woman, was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in 1994 and 1995, 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, a film by Jeff Smith based on one of her performance pieces, appeared as a guest performer in Verbatim Verboten at the Royal George Theater, performed Blurred Vision: The Relapse at The Second City and The Power of Nursing Leadership Conference and received an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in New Performance Forms.

Past Performances