New Stages Residency
Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Residency is a year-long program for Chicago-area generative artists. Established in 2010, the program supports multiple writers each season, offering tailored developmental support for works-in-progress and fostering close connections between Goodman staff and Chicago artists.
LAchrisA Grandberry, 2025/26 New stages resident
Lachrisa Grandberry is a Milwaukee-born, Chicago-based playwright, lyricist, and poet whose work holds space for healing, liberation, and joy. Her stories are a tapestry woven from the voices and experiences of many—especially black women and girls navigating the weight of inherited patterns and unspoken truths. A 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Musical Theater Fellow, she also serves as Director of NOVA Programming at Northern Sky Theater, where she curates safe spaces for writers to explore and amplify their voices. In 2022, she was named one of Wisconsin’s 52 Most Influential Black Leaders. Whether through her published poetry (Shredding Rugs) or her theatrical works, Lachrisa believes that storytelling is a way to learn, unlearn, release, and heal. “I know that my stories are not my own,” she writes. “They belong to all of us.” Lachrisa is honored to join the Goodman Theatre’s 2026 New Stages Residency. More at lachrisagrandberry.com.
William glick, 2025/26 New stages resident
William Glick is a Chicago-based playwright who was born and raised in Pompano Beach, Florida. His plays include The Last Time We Saw Them, Felt (Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group), The Bigot (UT New Theatre), Kin Folk (World Premiere, The New Colony), the libretto for the children’s opera Cry Wolf (Crane Prize for Performing Arts), and The Winter Farm (House Theatre Performance Lab). His work has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Heideman Award and shortlisted for the Relentless Award, the Ojai Playwriting Conference, and PlayPenn. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and his MFA in Writing from the Michener Center at the University of Texas-Austin.