Meet Our Team
Maddy Shilts
(they/he)
Founder, Co-Producer
Maddy Shilts is a Chicago-based producer and performer who is the founder of tranScript productions. They made their professional producing debut with 3-time Broadway World Awards Nominee The Lightning Thief at the Skokie Theater. They have previously produced a COVID-era play called Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Vanishing Ring with Miami University of Ohio. They are a queer theater artist who aims to highlight and uplift LGBTQ+ stories and voices in the Chicago theatrical industry.
Philip Merrick
Co-Producer
Philip is a Chicago-based dramaturg, theater multi-hyphenate, and local cryptid. Chicago credits include The Lightning Thief (Skokie Theater) and At the Movies with Kenneth and Asher (Davis Movie Theater). Philip can be found on insta @p_whm, via email at philipwhmerrick@gmail.com, or floating on a lily-pad in Skokie Lagoon.
Morris McLennan
Grant Writer
Morris McLennan is a writer from Chicago, IL. He holds a BFA in Playwriting from DePaul University. He is the recipient of the Zach Helm Endowed Playwriting Scholarship, the Bundschu Award, a DeGroot Foundation Writer of Note award, a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artist Project grant, a Robert Chelsey/ Victor Bumbalo Foundation Award, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, a Cottonwood Residency, and a MAP Fund grant. His plays have been workshopped & produced with the support of DePaul University, Shattered Globe Theatre, King’s College, DCASE, Pocket Theatre VR, Cypress Productions, Gender Fucked Productions, and The Tank. His writing has appeared in Adelaide, The B’K, underscore_magazine, and more. You can view his work at morrismclennan.net.
About us
tranScript productions is a collective of trans artists who work to celebrate each other, ourselves, and the place we hold in the world. We engage in new works and honor the path that got us here by telling the stories of our community past and present. The world spins, time pushes ever onward, but we are here, just as we have been, and we will make our voices heard.