André Richardson Hogan II was born in 1978 in Chicago. He is a playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, visual artist, and theater critic. His plays have received stage readings and productions in numerous theaters such as the American Theater Company, Black Ensemble Theater, Dramatists Personae, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Red Harlem Readers. The Chicago Chronicles, Volume 1, a docudrama of Logan Square residents, was produced as a commissioned work for American Theater Company. Several poems have been published such as in Many Mountains Moving and Segue. Strangers, a collection of poetry, was published by Xlibris in 2009. In 2001, Hogan received a B.F.A. in Liberal Arts from Columbia College, Chicago. He was a resident playwright at Timber Lake Playhouse Playwrights Colony in Mt. Carroll , IL., and is currently a member of the Chicago Midwest Playwrights Guild, Hyde Park Community Players, and Magnified Gift Theater Company. He also serves as coordinator of Hyde Park Community Theater’s Writers Initiative. He resides at Hyde Park in Chicago.

Mr. Hogan can be reached at:
(312) 320-8082 HOME/CELL
centrestage1978@yahoo.com