Siah Berlatsky

Siah Berlatsky is a Chicago based actor, author, and director. Her acting experience includes work with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Actors’ Gymnasium, Cabinet of Curiosity, A Crew of Patches, and various theater throughout Chicago. Notable roles include Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth in Macbeth with Chicago Youth Shakespeare, Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet with A Crew of Patches, and Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs in Citadel Theater’s 2021 production.

Malapert Love is her first full length play, its premier at The Den theatre followed a development reading process in The Artistic Home’s Summer on the Patio series. Berlatsky’s work seeks to render the queer subtext of classical texts and structures with a modern context and sensibility.