 So why Carlos Murillo at Adventure Stage? I'm a fan of Carlos's work and at Adventure Stage, well we started making original work at Adventure Stage a couple years before I met Carlos and we understood even at that stage that we needed to be working with somebody who was in Chicago and I had the good fortune of meeting Carlos at an event that was, it was a workshop really about creating work with community which was the direction we were going so it seemed like a really interesting opportunity to connect with the Chicago based playwright about the thing that we were both there thinking about and working on and and I think Carlos has an amazing voice as a writer and we want to and he writes really unique plays and we want to tell really unique stories we want to tell stories for young people and families that are that invite them to think critically about the world we're living in and I think Carlos does that as a as a playwright. So many reasons I think first I'd never written TYA work before working with Tom at Adventure Stage and at first it was a very scary process and earlier Marcus Gardley talked about writing him to one sphere and so there was a huge fear factor and look can I speak to this audience what kind of stories can I tell how far can I push the issues that we wanted to discuss in this particular play and I found Tom a really awesome collaborator someone who pushed me to think about storytelling in a different way than I had been used to but also allowed me to speak in my voice through the work I think also the the sense of a real engagement with the community and the world surrounding the community of the Northwestern settlement houses which is where Adventure Stages house and and I know that you know we caught each other at a particular time where Adventure Stages was in transition in terms of thinking about the kind of work they wanted to produce I'm always in transition about the kind of work that I produce and the Melon Grant gives us the opportunity to really take what we started a few years ago with the project Augusta Noble that we created together and really move it forward so and another thing that's also really exciting to me is that it's a small company and I think that that could have a potential to maximize my impact with the theater and introduce new writers to the theater expand my own repertoire in the TYA world which again was a super thrilling experience the first time around and looking forward to what the next three years brings for us.