Denise Serna, NIGHT DIARIES
Denise is an international theatre practitioner and arts activist. Denise holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from London’s East 15 Acting School, and co-founded Global Hive Laboratories, an international collective working toward a global theatre through an intentional practice of Active Access and community exchange. Denise is also an alumna of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Multicultural Fellowship, and is one of artEquity’s diverse cadre of facilitators who support equity-based initiatives nationwide.
Credits include Somewhere Over the Border (Teatro Vista) 45 Plays for America’s First Ladies (The Neo-Futurists), Nine Lives of a Cat (MCA Chicago/Prop Thtr), La Ruta;(Steppenwolf Theatre Company),;The Revolutionists (Strawdog Theatre Company), Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens Theater), HIR (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), A Doll’s House (Writers Theatre), Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (LTC Carnaval 2018: ConeXion!), Earthquakes in London (Steep Theatre Company), >The View Upstairs (Circle Theatre Chicago), For the Love of (Pride Films & Plays), HOMESET (Pop Magic Productions), SPARK (20% Theatre Company), (the)forget_me\knot (inappropriate theatre company), La Chingada (inappropriate theatre company), and Climate Change Theatre Action - Chicago (Global Hive Laboratories)
International credits include L I M P I A: Nuestrxs Hechizos… (Global Hive Laboratories, Pocoapoco MX, Soltera Oaxaca), MEDUSA (Global Hive Laboratories, Fusion Theatre Company, La Compagnie Certes, Teatro Trieste Trentaquattro, Pleasance Theatre Trust, The Cockpit Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (The Shaw Theatre), Om Swastyastu from London - The Wailing Woman (Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar), and Heart’s Core (CAN - Refugee Women's Theatre Programme).
NIGHT DIARIES, translated and performed by the celebrated Italian director and performer Carolina Migli Bateson (Artistic Director of Teatro di Grazzano Visconti).
Giornale Notturno (1978–2012) is an active translation of Belgian dramatist Jan Fabre’s original Night Diaries and texts. Edoardo Callegari curated a selection of these writings, which were then translated by acclaimed Italian artist Carolina Migli Bateson.
The Italian premiere of Giornale Notturno was a one-woman show that received critical acclaim in Italy in 2024. It also featured a unique visual art element created by Svetlana Golubeva (Inthegardendesign) that will be featured in this presentation.
Date: July 26,2025
Location: The University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637)