Jill Elaine Hughes

Jill Elaine Hughes (born 1974 in Kettering, Ohio) is an American playwright, novelist, and journalist.

Hughes founded the Stockyards Theatre Project, a nationally renowned theater company dedicated to producing women playwrights and supporting women theater artists, in Chicago in 1999. She stepped down from her post as Artistic Director in early 2003, but the theatre continues to exist and produce theatre and performance art in Chicago.

Ms. Hughes grew up in Ohio and attended the University of Cincinnati, and then the University of Chicago in 1997. She worked in Chicago at various jobs including: stock reports editor at William Blair and Company; librarian at the University of Chicago; and technical writer for several software companies. During this time, she actively pursued a career in creative writing and the performing arts, especially in the cutting-edge Chicago theater scene.

Ms. Hughes' began to find success in getting her plays produced shortly after founding Stockyards in 1999, and she became active in Chicago's vibrant off-Loop theatre scene, where she remains so to this day. Her plays have been published and anthologized by a number of drama publishers, including Brooklyn Play Publishers, , and Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Her plays been produced across the U.S., in Canada, and in the United Kingdom by small and medium-sized theater companies. These companies include Stockyards Theatre Project, Harrogate Theatre (Yorkshire, England), Brooklyn College, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Rockland Productions and Regroup Theater (Los Angeles, CA), and Whole World Theatre (Atlanta, GA). She formerly served as treasurer on the Executive Board of International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP).

Ms. Hughes has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Chicago Reader, New Art Examiner, Barfly Newspaper, and Cat Fancy. She also works as a health policy analyst. She married financial analyst Albert W. Chung (b. 1961 in Hong Kong) in 2003.

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