John Musial

JOHN MUSIAL is a Chicago-based film & theater maker. He writes, directs, designs and makes things. As a writer/director with Lookingglass, he has created The Great Fire, The Grail '98 and Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day. As a scenographer he has recently designed Great Men of Science, They All Fall Down: The Richard Nickel Story and George. In the ancient past, Musial designed lights and sets for such early Lookingglass' productions as The Jungle, West and Eurydice. As a filmmaker he has contributed films & video for Nelson Algren, 1984, 28, and others. In 2001 Musial redirected and edited Algren as an hour-long television program for WTTW Channel 11's PBS program series Network Chicago Presents. Musial also collaborates with Redmoon Theater, the American Theater Company and Local Infinities Visual Theater.