HEARTBEATS
AARON REESE BOSEMAN
Executive Artistic Director & Co-Founder
Aaron Reese Boseman, a Chicago native, is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Aaron 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. Aaron was nominated for a Jeff Award for. Best Direction of a Play for his gripping production of Topdog/Underdog at Invictus Theatre. 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.
Directing credits include : Confederates (Redtwist Theatre), Clydes’s (Ghostlight Theatre) The House That Will Not Stand, Topdog/Underdog, The Mountaintop, A Raisin in the Sun (Invictus Theatre), Fairview (Theatre Cedar Rapids), Music Man (Metropolis Performing Arts), Beneath the Willow Tree, Once on This Island (PULSE Theatre), Chain (Goodman Theatre: Pearl Cleage Fest), Detroit ‘67 (Columbia College-Mainstage), American Son (Ghostlight Theatre), The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves (eta Creative Arts), The Lifespan of A Fact (Elsinore) 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
Associate Artistic Director & New Play Initiative Programming
Isis Elizabeth is a Jeff Award-winning theatre artist and resident playwright with Pulse Theatre Chicago’s New Play Initiative, where her world premiere, Beneath The Willow Tree, will be produced. Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Isis studied musical theatre at The Chicago High School for the Arts and began working professionally at just 17.
She has performed across the Chicagoland area with theaters such as Paramount Theatre, Mercury Theater Chicago, Porchlight Music Theatre, Emerald City Theatre, and Big Noise Theater, among others. Notably, she was featured as Papa Ge in Pulse Theatre Chicago’s 2024 Jeff Award-winning production of Once on This Island, directed by Artistic Director Aaron Reese Boseman.
Her selected credits span stage and screen, including Chicago Fire (NBC), Family Values, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Goodman Theatre), The House That Will Not Stand, Topdog/Underdog (Invictus Theatre – Assistant Director/Movement), Clyde’s (Ghostlight Theatre), Pipeline (Dunes Theatre), Brighter Futures (Paramount Theatre), 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 Theatre), and Spring Awakening (Porchlight Music Theatre).
Passionate about breaking barriers and challenging archetypes, Isis continues to push the boundaries of traditional theater, one groundbreaking production at a time.
HEARTBEATS | ARTISTIC BOARD - PULSE Theatre Chicago
MIKHA’EL AMIN
SHENISE BROWN
BRANDON BOLER
DEMORRIS BURROWS
SIERRA COACHMAN
ETHAN KORVNE
TERRI DEVINE FORD
WARREN LEVON
GREG GEFFRARD
MONIQUE MARSHAUN
LEWIS R. JONES
KEVIN M. ROLFS
CHARLITA WILLIAMS
LEVI J. WILKINS
FLORENCE WALKER-HARRIS
ANJI WHITE