Thu, Nov 12
|Kimball Arts Center
MUD LIFE
Join us at Collaboraction for the world premiere of MUD LIFE, a raw, intimate drama by and based on Chicago writer, rapper, producer and Collaboraction Company Member Willie Round’s experiences growing up on Chicago’s west side making music.
Time & Location
Nov 12, 2026, 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Kimball Arts Center, 1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
Event Info
Collaboraction presents the debut of Mud Life, a raw, intimate drama by and based on Chicago writer, rapper, producer and Collaboraction Company Member Willie Round’s experiences growing up on Chicago’s west side making music. Collaboraction Artistic Director Anthony Moseley will direct the world premiere of Mud Life. Martine Kei-Green Rogers, Dean, The Theatre School at DePaul University, is dramaturg.
The plot spins around Anthony and Devontae, two aspiring hip-hop artists from Chicago’s North Lawndale community who are struggling to climb beyond their circumstances while creating music under the control of a manipulative strip-club owner. When an enigmatic outsider offers them a rare shot at escape, their loyalty fractures, and their bond is tested in ways that alter the course of their lives.
Mud Life first entered Collaboraction’s orbit in 2019 as the seven-minute short play Broke Down Drone, a stand out work in Collaboraction’s popular Peacebook Festival. That experience spawned an award-winning short film of the same name. More recently, Round returned to the script, which received workshops and readings earlier this summer at both Bramble Theatre and Definition Theatre.
Previews of Mud Life are Wednesday through Saturday, October 21-24 at 7:30 p.m.
Press Opening is Sunday, October 25 at 3 p.m.
OCT 21 - NOV 15:
Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 3 p.m.
TICKETS: Starting at $15