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GARY HOUSTON is an actor, director and erstwhile playwright. A member of the cast of Grease in its Kingston Mines Theatre Co. world premiere, he later appeared in dozens of plays but drew particular satisfaction playing real people including Nelson Algren (Live Bait), Saul Alinsky (Terrapin), William Blake and Ring Lardner (Writers) and George M. Pullman (Organic). He directed Chicago, Midwest, national, and every now and then world premieres of works by Peter Handke, Heathcote Williams, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Vian, Ted Whitehead, Joyce Carol Oates, Agatha Christie, Terrence McNally, Alan Gross and others. Some film credits are the recent Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. as well as Fargo, Proof, Hoffa, Watchmen, The Blues Brothers, The Astronaut Farmer, Uncle John, Screams from the Tower and the to-be-released A Fargo Christmas Story. He claims many "formerlies" for himself--formerly a writer and editor for the Chicago Sun-Times, formerly of the Pary Production Company that he founded and artistic-directed, formerly of the Organic Theater Company during Stuart Gordon's later years, formerly of the staged screenplay reading series called Films For the Ear, formerly of a radio theater company that never made it to the air. These days he is managing editor of Chicago Quarterly Review whose special issue titled An Anthology of Black American Literature, guest-edited by National Book Award-winning novelist Charles Johnson, will be released in 2021
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