About Us
Mission Statement
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2014 | Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman & Chris Jackson
About Us
At Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, our mission is to ambitiously tell stories, old and new, with a unique outlook and visceral honesty to the human experience. We look to reverently break out of the convention and barriers of archetypes and provide an artistically progressive environment for our collaborators and audiences alike.
Like most companies in the world, we started out with dreams and conversations. As working Chicago Actors, we quickly came to the realization that the type of work we want to do will not be given to us unless we create it ourselves. Thus, Pulse was born.
The name "Pulse" represents the underlying heartbeat of a piece of work. Every play has a pulse, a heart beat, a reason for being. It is our personal goal as artist to provide our community the opportunity to feel the same beat, the same pulse that inspired us to bring a piece to life.
Pulse is a 501 (c)(3) non-for-profit organizations that utilizes and thrives on its community support to bring up to 5 plays and musicals to Chicago stages every year.
Fabulation - 2015 | Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman
The Colored Museum - 2016 | Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman & Donterrio Johnson
Our Core Values
We select projects that truly speak to us and our audience. We have the strong believe that, as stated in our mission statement, we strive to break out of the conventions and barriers of repetitive casting archetypes and implore the exploration of the means of storytelling. We value the idea that in order to spark change, you must ruffle a few feathers.We continue to seek out new talent and to provide a safe, nurturing and artistically creative environment that everyone has the opportunity to grow in.
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2014 Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman & Chris Jackson
Fabulation - 2015 Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman
The Colored Museum - 2016 Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman & Donterrio Johnson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - 2017 Directed by Chris Jackson
ARTISTIC STAFF
Aaron Reese Boseman | Artistic Director
Aaron Reese Boseman (Artistic Director/Co-Founder) , a Chicago native, is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Reese-Boseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre-Direction and Acting. He is Co-founder, Artistic Director, Resident Director, of Pulse Theatre Chicago and company member of Invictus Theatre. Boseman also serves as an adjunct faculty member of Columbia College Chicago.
Reese-Boseman is a Joseph Jefferson Award Nominated Actor and Black Theatre Alliance Award and Black Excellence Award Nominated artist. Boseman directed Pulse’s Jeff Award Winning production of Once on This Island.
Selected Theatre Directing credits include : Topdog/Underdog (Invictus Theatre), Fairview (Theatre Cedar Rapids), Music Man (Metropolis Performing Arts), Once on This Island (PULSE Theatre), The Mountaintop, A Raisin in the Sun (Invictus Theatre Company), Chain (Goodman Theatre: Pearl Cleage Fest), Detroit ‘67 (Columbia College-Mainstage), American Son (Ghostlight Theatre), The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves (eta Creative Arts), In The Blood, The Colored Museum , Fabulation: or The Re-Education of Undine, A Streetcar Named Desire (PULSE), S'Kin and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (CCC).
Selected Acting Credits include : Blue Heaven (Black Ensemble Theater), Ragtime (Metropolis), Ruined (Invictus Theatre), Shrek the Musical (Windy City Performs), Violet (Griffin Theatre and Loyola University Chicago), Big River (Theatre at the Center), HAIR (Metropolis), Cinderella and the Theater of Potatoes (Hypocrites), Balm in Gilead (Griffin Theatre), 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, In The Heights, and Ragtime.
Isis Elizabeth | Prod. Artistic Associate
Isis Elizabeth (Producing Artistic Associate) is a Jeff Award Wining Theatre Artist. She is also a resident playwright as part of Pulse’s New Play Initiative where the World Premiere her new play, Beneath The Willow Tree will be produced. Born and raised on the city’s Southside, she studied musical theater at The Chicago High School for the Arts and began working professionally at 17.
Isis has performed on many stages across the Chicagoland area, working with theaters such as Paramount Theatre, Mercury Theater Chicago, Porchlight Music Theatre, Emerald City Theatre, Big Noise Theater and more. Isis was featured as Papa Ge in Pulse Theatre Chicago’s 2024 Jeff award winning Once on This Island, directed by Artistic Director, Aaron Reese Boseman.
Selected Credits:
Chicago Fire (TV-NBC), Family Values, Topdog/Underdog (Invictus Theatre-Assistant Director) ,Brighter Futures (Paramount Theater) , Once on This Island (Pulse Theatre Chicago), Chain (Goodman Theatre: Pearl Cleage Fest) Big River (Mercury Theater Chicago), Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (Citadel Theater), Spring Awakening (Porchlight Music Theater). She is excited to break barriers of architypes and to continue challenging traditional theater one production at a time.
ARTISTIC BOARD
Aaron Reese Boseman- Executive Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/ Board Member
Chris Jackson, Co-Founder/ Board Member
Isis Elizabeth- Artistic Associate
Florence Walker- Harris- Artistic Associate
Warren Levon- Artistic Associate/ Board Member
Charlita Williams- Artistic Associate
Terri Devine Ford- Artistic Associate
Lewis R. Jones- Board Member