Osiris Khepera
About
Osiris Khepera is a Chicago-bred, Black Queer playwright, poet, actor, teaching artist, director, producer, and activist. They were a part of the 2020-2022 Playwright's Collective at Timeline Theatre Company, and served as one of six inaugural Russ Tutterow Playwriting Fellows at Chicago Dramatists Theatre (2017-2019). Most recently their plays have appeared in the MPAACT Podcast Plays Series, the CIRCLE UP! Reading Series with Jackalope Theatre Company and the Chicago Inclusion Project, the National Black Theatre’s I AM SOUL Reading series, the Chicago Theatre Marathon Festival, the MOJOAA Reclamation Festival, and with Greatworks Children’s Theatre Company. They are also a recipient of a 2017 Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant for their play: THE LEGENDARY NANA YAA ASANTEWAA AND THE WAR OF THE GOLDEN STOOL, OR, THEY IS AFRICAN ROYALTY LIVING OFF FUCKIN’ WILSON. As an actor, they can be seen in the recurring role of Cameron/Da Mayor on HBOmax’s SOUTH SIDE (Bashir Sallahudin/Diallo Riddle). Other theatrical credits include BOOYTCANDY (Windy City Playhouse), RUTHERFORD’S TRAVELS (Pegasus Players), BARS & MEASURES (PROP THTR), R.E.A.C.H. (Second City), THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Theater Unspeakable and Lincoln Center), THE FAG-TIONARY RELEVANT HEARSAY: STORIES FROM 57 (MPAACT), HARRY AND THE THIEF (Pavement Group), and PASSING STRANGE (Bailiwick Chicago). Their poetry is published in “Illinois’s Best Emerging Poets 2018.” In 2021, they received both a Fellowship with the Mass Epiphany Project, The Artist Grant from The Reva and David Logan Foundation, and their prose was published in FRUIT BAT PRESS: PRESENTS A VERY CHICAGO DECEMBER.
