Please join us in welcoming Roell Schmidt to Links Hall and our extended community of artists and arts enthusiasts!

Links Hall is thrilled to announce Roell Schmidt as our new Director! Roell has been working in film, theater and arts administration since 1994. In addition to her organizational leadership experience, Roell has an impressive background as a producer in film and theater, her talents ranging from the administrative to the creative. Roell officially takes the helm July 20, 2009.

The Director leads the organization, carries primary responsibility for operations and programming and ensures the overall health of the organization, creatively expanding its ability to carry out its mission. The Director has primary responsibility for fundraising, financial management, staffing and program coordination. This is an exciting opportunity for an executive leader to sustain and build on a strong infrastructure and on the dynamic growth experienced by Links Hall over the past five years. The Director works collaboratively with staff, Artists, Artistic Associates, Board of Directors and its committees, funders, and national and local colleagues and partners including the National Performance Network. more>>

03.05.09
Links Hall announces April 2009 performances.

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blogs about: Links Hall

08.06.09 REVIEW
The Humans and Momentum Sensorium
Critic's Choice

03.11.09
Feats Street
posted by trailerpilot

03.11.09
Scuttlebutt.
posted by trailerpilot

03.03.09 REVIEW
Poonie’s Faburet
posted by trailerpilot

“Tonight at Link’s Hall, Jyl Fehrenkamp hostessed a particularly high-powered installment of the long-running, quarterly-or-so Monday night Poonie’s Cabaret…”

03.01.09
Everybody wins!
posted by trailerpilot

02.24.09
Thawt you might like that.
posted by trailerpilot

02.24.09
Poonie’s or Rhoads? Ack!
posted by trailerpilot

01.28.09
Brooklicago or Chicooklyn?
posted by trailerpilot

01.15.09
Workshop smorgasbord.
posted by trailerpilot

01.13.09 FEATURE
The Players:
The 50 people who really perform for Chicago
written by Fabrizio O. Almeida, Lisa Buscani, Brian Hieggelke, Sharon Hoyer, Valerie Jean Johnson, Nina Metz, Dennis Polkow, William Scott, Andy Seifert and Monica Westin for Newcity Magazine

“…CJ Mitchell is a diverse talent. Accountant by trade, artist at heart, the diplomatic, whip-smart Scotsman has steered Links into a unique niche by overseeing an experimental performance and collaboration roster rarely seen outside the world of academe….”

01.12.09 REVIEW
Links Hall series plays true to its fringe approach
by Sid Smith - Chicago Tribune

"You expect the unusual and provocative at Links Hall, a tiny space devoted to innovation, fringe enterprise and ..."

10.24.08 REVIEW
Chicago Premiere of ‘Still Black’
posted by thinkpinkradio for THINK PINK RADIO

“The “Studies N Black” festival has been going on at Links Hall for most of October, if you are lucky, then you have already seen some of it. Curated by Baraka de Soleil…”

07.16.08 INTERVIEW
Tim Miller : The naked truth
by Liz Granger for Windy City Times

“Tim Miller: I have to admit, I am actually naked right now. I suddenly realized that as you asked. … My partner Alistair and I were at the beach, and we just got back. I hosed myself off in the backyard. [ Miller laughs. ] T-M-I …
WCT: No, I love it!...”

12.07 REVIEW
Asimina Chremos: Red Swan Red Swan
by Zachary Whittenburg for Flavorpill

“…Chremos has the facility and exactitude of a ballerina, but her semi-improvised work feeds classical forms into algorithms that spit out crystalline, organic shapes,…”