Bio
Chelsea Strebe
What lead me to the theatre is a love for creative collaboration. It is the feeling when everyone in the room grasps a unified idea and the collective goosebumps form before the idea is even made tangible. Being a part of the creation of something bigger than myself is the most rewarding feeling.
I believe in theatre as an art form that can cultivate empathy between divided groups of people. I strive to be an artist that leads with gentleness and care for the many communities that my passion leads me into.
Chelsea Strebe is a student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois pursuing her MFA in Stage Design. She graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her educational credits from Northwestern include Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery (Lighting Designer), The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl (Lighting Designer), How to Know the Wildfowers: A Map by Julie Marie Myatt and Jessica Thebus (Lighting Designer), The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go by Lloyd Suh (Lighting Designer), and February House by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley. ​Her educational credits from UW-Parkside include Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson (Lighting Designer), Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (Lighting Designer), Urinetown by Greg Kotis (Assistant Lighting Designer), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (Projection Designer), and Midnight and Moll Flanders (Technical Director). Professional Credits include staff electrician at Gateway Playhouse, and lighting designer/master electrician at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre where she designed both Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas.
