Actors, Musicians, Songwriters, Playwrights, Devisers,
but most of all Storytellers

Instrumental Theatre Company creates live theatre showcasing the multiple talents of actor-musicians, writers, and storytellers. Our work fuses theater and music in an inseparable manner that challenges the conventions and traditions of musical theatre, drama, and concerts.

As a new Chicago based theatre company, we aim to inspire audiences to be kinder and more generous, provide an empathetic space that builds community, and a home for multi-hyphenate artists to express themselves and share their talents with our audiences.

Instrumental Theatre Company was founded by Artistic Director Skylar Grieco and kicked off with the Mixtape New Play Festival Vol. 1. in March 2025. This event featured three short original plays with music and original songs performed by the cast in an intimate reading at Uncommon Ground.

Following this sold out reading event, the company set their sights on their first fully staged production, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. This site specific play with music was performed for a fully sold out three week run in September 2025 at Berger Park in Edgewater. The adaptation featured original music devised by the cast and was performed both outside against the backdrop of Lake Michigan and inside the historic Berger Park North Mansion. The production received positive reviews and kick-started an enthusiasm for a new approach to merging music and theatre in the Chicago area.

Since that first full production, the company has continued to grow and invite more artists to get involved through 48 hour musical theatre events, an annual new works festival for new musicals and new plays with music, and expanded community programming and productions.

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Instrumental Theatre Company

Musically inspired storytelling crafted by Chicago artists.