Chika Ike

(DIRECTOR, she/her) is a Brooklyn and Chicago based theatre director and dramaturg with a pull towards intimate epic journeys. Recent productions include Kentucky, A Swell in the Ground (The Gift Theatre); Everybody, Antigone (Atlantic School/ NYU); Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (First Floor Theatre Company); In the Blood (Red Tape Theatre), and the upcoming premiere of And Certain Women (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival). Currently, she is serving as an associate director for Hadestown (Broadway/ National Tour), as well as the associate director for Spacedogs at MCC and for the upcoming musical Goddess at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She has worked with The Public Theatre, A.R.T., Playmakers Repertory Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens and developed work with The Lark, The Playwrights’ Center, Faultline Theatre, About Face Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and more. Chika is the recipient of the Drama League New York Fellowship, SDCF Gielgud Directing Fellowship, Bret C. Harte Directing Fellowship, and is an alumna of Victory Garden’s Directors Initiative Apprenticeship Program and of the SDCF Observership Class of 2016-17. Currently she is a member of the 2020-2022 WP Theatre Directors Lab. She is an ensemble member of the Gift Theatre. www.chikavike.com