Lili-Anne Brown
Theater Director | 2024 Platform Award Recipient
Lili-Anne Brown, a Chicago South Side native, works as a director, actor and educator, and has performed in, directed and produced many award-winning shows in Chicago and nationally. Recent directing credits include: “The Nacirema Society…”, “School Girls”, or “The African Mean Girls Play” and the world premieres of Ike Holter’s “I Hate It Here” and “Lottery Day” (Goodman Theatre); “Dreamgirls” (McCarter Theater and Goodspeed Musicals), “FELA!” (Olney Theater), “Joe Turner's Come and Gone” (Huntington Theatre), “Ain’t No Mo’” (Woolly Mammoth and Baltimore CenterStage), “Rent” and “The Color Purple” (The Muny), “Once on This Island” (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), “Acoustic Rooster...” (Kennedy Center and National Tour), “Put Your House in Order” (La Jolla Playhouse), “Cullud Wattah” (Victory Gardens). She is the former Artistic Director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she focused programming on Chicago-premiere musicals and new play development with resident playwrights. She has received two Helen Hayes Awards, 5 Jeff Awards, 2 BTA awards and one African American Arts Alliance Award for excellence in directing. She is a 2021 recipient of the 3Arts Award for Theatre and the 2023 Zelda Fichandler Award Finalist. She is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and a graduate of Northwestern University.
