Regina Victor

Regina Victor (they/them/pharaoh) is a multidisciplinary artist and intuitive storyteller committed to creating better futures on and offstage. Victor is a cultural critic and in 2017 they founded Rescripted, an online arts journalism platform, and have also written for American Theatre, Playbill, and Howlround. In 2023 they were placed in the Hall of Fame for Newcity’s “Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago,” after having made making the list in 2019 , 2020, and 2022. They also received the Accountability Award from Haven Chicago in 2022, and The Make A Wave Grant from 3Arts for their work with Rescripted.

​Regina is a prominent new play director, having recently directed a developmental workshop of AriDy Nox’s A Walless Church: The Black Woman’s Guide to Making God at the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis. Victor spent years training as an assistant director, working with artists such as Phylicia Rashad, Daniel Alexander Jones, Raelle Myrick-Hodges and Danya Taymor. A proud Bay Area Native, Victor’s directorial debut was Lee Blessing’s Going to St. Ives at the now-closed Flight Deck, followed by a production of Michelle Carter’s Rose in America at A.C.T.’s Costume Shop. Since then they’ve directed readings and workshops at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Timeline Theatre and more.