Lucky Pierre has been Mary Zerkel & Michael Thomas (founders), Holly Abney, Bill Talsma, Jeff Kowalkowski, Kevin Kaempf, Tyler Myers, Heather Lindahl, Vincent Dermody, Noah Loesberg, Joseph Silovsky, Ian Hatcher, Matthew Nicholas, Vicki Walden, Jason Greenberg, Travis Hale, Karen Christopher, Kerry Hayes - and scores of others who have joined us in making stuff.

Lucky Pierre, based in Chicago, was founded in 1995 as a collaborative group working in writing, performance, events and visual art. Often emphasizing duration in process and performance, Lucky Pierre creates structures for open forms of engagement with various publics. In these forms, we explore complex issues and ideas (political, aesthetic, social) in ways that accommodate a wide range of experience, styles and approaches. The open structure allows collaborators and viewers to define their own participation; helping to create the meaning, and determine the final form and outcome of the work.

The group configuration typically changes from project to project, but draws from a core group of long-time members. Informed by devised theater practices, DIY culture, conceptual art, social practice, and grassroots organizing, our projects are non-commercial, self-organized, and community-based

Many people and organizations have made the last 31 years possible - this is but a partial list of those who deserve our thanks:

C.J. Mitchell, Justin Hayford, Live Arts Development Agency U.K., Richard Fox, David Kodeski, Edward Thomas-Herrera, Curious Theater and Rhino Fest, Ian Morris, Roman Susan, Chris Mills, American Friends Service Committee, Cook County Theater Department, Goat Island, John Rich, Experimental Sound Studio and Lou Malozzi, Lin Hixson, Matthew Goulish, Charissa Tolentino, Goat Island, Mark Jeffery, Lora Lode, Kym Olsen, Randolph Street Gallery, Marc Fischer/Temporary Services, Jacob Ross, Links Hall, Performing Arts Chicago, Dolores Wilber, SAIC, Lorelei Stewart/Gallery 400, Corey Gearhart, Stefanie Cohen