Stuart Flack is the Executive Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He joined the Chicago Humanities Festival as executive director in October 2007.
He was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he provided consulting services in the areas of public affairs and marketing and, as its publisher and editor-in-chief, he built The McKinsey Quarterly into a leading international journal of business, economics and public policy. During his 25 years as a playwright, he has written "Homeland Security," "Sydney Bechet Killed a Man," "Jonathan Wild," "Floaters" and "American Life and Casualty." His plays have been produced at some of the leading theatres in the US including Victory Gardens (in Chicago), Southcoast Repertory Company (Costa Mesa, CA), Culture Project (New York, NY), Contemporary American Theatre Festival (Washington, DC) and Interact Theatre (Philadelphia, PA). His honors as a playwright include a McDowell Foundation Grant, a Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination, and a Los Angeles Dramalogue Award.
Stuart Flack earned a Master of Fine Arts in playwrighting from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cornell University.
I thought I would give a quick overview on the Humanities Festival, and you guys have given me the two-minute warning. So, the idea of a Humanities Festival is a fairly novel one. Usually when I give a presentation like this, I have to sometimes explain what the humanities are. I'm at a universit...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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