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Essential Invisible Productions is a femme and queer-focused theatre company in Chicago, Illinois.

09/24/2026

Can you believe it’s been a week? 🥹💖🌈

Missed out? Feel free to donate and support projects like this one for our next season! 🔗 in bio!

Photos by Olivia Wheeler
Collage by Jacque Bischoff

09/19/2026

Our final show of the year 😭💖🌈🪩

What better way to wrap up our season than with one of our favorite events: Life is a Q***r Cabaret! Give it up for the incredible talent and joy brought to you by our cast + crew 👏

Deon Glass (she/her)❤️‍🩹
DeVon Clinkscales (he/him)
Jack W. Ellis (they/them)
Khahari Cook (she/her)
Morgan “Mo” Braithwaite (she/they)
Nicholas “Nickie” Ian (any pronouns)
Reva Sangal (she/her)
Samantha Nieves (she/her)

Emcee: Jacque Bischoff (she/they)
Music Director: Wesley Byers (he/him)
Stage Manager: Autumn Ramos-Perry (she/her)

📸 by Olivia Wheeler (she/her) Olivia Wheeler

Thank you to Dorothy. for hosting us time and time again. Weren’t able to attend? If you want to support Essential Inivisible in all of our future projects, feel free to donate using the link in our bio!

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Mo performing “Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man 🪊

Devon singing “When You’re Good to Mama” from Chicago 🔥

Nickie singing “Pretty Little Dead Things” from Paddington the Musical 🧸

Wes and Jack singing “Let Me Be Your Star” from SMASH ⭐️

Jacque and Mo singing “Confrontation” from Jekyll and Hyde 😈

Sam singing “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with George 🎩

Jack singing “Vanilla Ice Cream” from She Loves Me 🍦

Khahari singing “Advice from a Caterpillar” from Wonderland 🐛

Reva and Sam singing “I Could Talk to You All Night” from The Outsiders 🌅

Wes singing “The Beauty Is” from The Light in the Piazza 🇮🇹

Nickie and DeVon singing “Stepsisters Lament” from Cinderella 👠

Sam singing “Dressing Them Up” from Kiss of the Spiderwoman 🕸️

Khahari and Jacque singing “Feed Me” from Little Shop of Horrors 🪴

DeVon singing “Easy As Life” from Aida 👑

Reva singing “Live in Living Color” from Catch Me If You Can 🛩️

We love our cast! 💖

Our fabulous EI team ✨ Mak Van Raalte, Annemarie Andaleon, Autumn Ramos-Perry, Jacque Bischoff, and Olivia Wheeler.

09/17/2026

Today’s the day! Join us at Dorothy. at 7PM for a night of music, mayhem, and q***r joy!

Tickets available in the link in our bio 💖

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09/15/2026

Last but certainly not least, we are dressing things up for Samantha Nieves!

Samantha Nieves (she/her) is a Puerto Rican and Chicagoland native proudly standing at 4’11”. She can be seen improvising with Antojitos Improv and Escándalo Comedy year round. Since 2022, she has been a PlayMakers Laboratory company member serving as a teaching artist and performer in schools and parks across the city of Chicago, as well as public performances over at the Neo-Futurists. Past credits include: The Lincoln Lodge, Raven Theatre, The Annoyance, iO, Logan Square Improv, Cornservatory Theatre, Filament Theatre, and Jedlicka Performing Arts Center. Give her a follow on socials samantha nieves.

Make sure to support Sam at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/13/2026

We could talk to her all night, put your hands together for Reva Sangal!

Reva Sangal (she/her) is a Desi-American actor, singer, composer, and writer excited to be back performing for the Life is a Q***r Cabaret. She has previously worked with Essential Invisible on their Cracks in the Pavement and Behind the Curtain readings, as well as past Cabaret showcases. An avid musical theatre performer and writer, her new musical, Chalo! A Soccer Musical, was selected to represent the City of Chicago for the 2025–26 New Play Residency at the Chicago Cultural Center following presentations at the Goodman and Wirtz Theatres. Upcoming: Instrumental Theatre’s Chicago Theatre Composers Club at The Understudy (9/22) and Theatre Above the Law’s production of Grimm this October (10/9-11/1). Rep: Lily’s Talent | revasangal.com | reva

Make sure to support Reva at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/11/2026

Hide your beloved pets and animals, it’s Nicholas “Nickie” Ian! 🐻

Nicholas “Nickie” Ian (any) will be gay for the rest of their life! Chicago credits include the original production of Ride the Cyclone (Paramount) before the Bold Series’ hiatus, New Faces Sing Broadway 1960 (Porchlight), The Beautiful Game, Fame (Beautiful City Project), Godspell (Music Theater Works), The Secret Garden, Diana: The Musical (Theo Ubique), Mary Poppins (Metropolis), Company (Dominican University), On the Twentieth Century (Blank), The Hunchback of Notre Dame: In Concert (Point 2 Point), and Twihard: A Twilight Parody Musical (Apollo). You can catch them as a Joan in Joan Crawford Goes to Hell with Hell in a Handbag Productions!

Make sure to support Nickie at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/09/2026

There’s no need for any trouble 😉 because it’s Morgan “Mo” Braithwaite!

Morgan (Mo) Braithwaite is thrilled to be singing with Essential Invisible in this rendition of Life is a Q***r Cabaret! Local storefront productions include; A New Brain (PrideArts), The Last Living Gun (Impostors Theatre Co.) and Hysterical Fest (Violet Surprise Theatre). Other staged readings/concerts include; Code (Instrumental Theatre), The Memorandum (Nonsense Productions) and The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (First Stage). You can also find original music under the band name Supergroup on both Spotify and Youtube.

Make sure to support Mo at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/07/2026

We’ve got more for you, lend your applause to Khahari Cook!

Khahari Cook is a Chicago based voice and piano instructor and performer. When Khahari graduated from North Central College, she was primed and prepared for a career in operas and professional choirs. She sang and apprenticed with a number of choirs and orchestras such as The Lakeside Singers, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, Chicago Philharmonic and DuPage Symphony Orchestra. Due to transitioning, she put her professional performance career on hold and focused on teaching, but she’s so excited to have opportunities such as this to share her voice again!

Make sure to support Khahari at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/05/2026

They are going to take Dorothy by storm, it’s Jack W. Ellis!

Known as Chicago’s “Bearded Ingenue” Jack W. Ellis (they/them/theirs) has performed all around the Chicagoland area with The Savoyaires, The Beautiful City Project, Le Piano Jazz Bar, Consonance, PlayOut Chicago, Chicago’s Holiday Pops Orchestra, Rising Stars Theatre Company, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Great Lakes Operetta, and Trans Voices Cabaret Chicago. If you want to learn more about Jack (or to admire their very meticulously curated antique/vintage wardrobe), go follow them at Your local _nonbinary_chanteuse on Instagram, or at on Tik Tok.

Make sure to support Jack at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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09/03/2026

We’re so glad to have him back, it’s DeVon Clinkscales!

Hello! My name is Von and I love to sing all kinds of music, especially broadway musicals! My dream is to sing and entertain people because I believe music makes the world a better place, connecting us all and teaching us things in such a creative and beautiful way.

Make sure to support DeVon at Dorothy. on September 17th for Life is a Q***r Cabaret! 🌈🎶🎤

Tickets are live now! 🔗

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