C R A I G   H A R S H A W
Executive Director

Craig's diverse performance work includes innovative productions of classic theater, original collaborative performances and solo work. Craig currently creates work with the IA resident ensemble THE END OF THE LADDER. With EOL he created BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT: MY SISTER’S NEW BABY CRIED LAST NIGHT, THE FEAR OF FREEDOM PROJECT, and LIES WILL FLOW FROM MY LIPS.

Craig is also a cultural critic whose writing has appeared in a number of arts and social justice publications. He is a former contributor editor of P-Form, a quarterly Journal of Performance and Interdisciplinary art.

Craig has taught theater, performance art, social theory, theory of community organizing, and film studies at a number of universities. He currently teaches in the art education department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Master of Arts in Community and Youth Development at Columbia College.

Craig was part of the core of activists, artists, Rogers Park community residents and youth that founded Insight Arts in 1991. He was the first salaried employee of Insight Arts and has been consistently engaged with the organizations work for the last 17 years.