Anthony Moseley has been the artistic director of Collaboraction since
1999, using theatre as a tool to inspire new knowledge, empathy, dialogue and
action for social change. Through this work, Moseley has commissioned and
collaborated with thousands of artists to build a more equitable future for
Chicago through projects including the Sketchbook, Peacebook and Encounter festivals
and The Light youth artist-activist program. As a writer/director he also
created Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology and its four sequels as well as
This is Not a Cure For Cancer, Connected and A Blue Island in
the Red Sea and co-created Moonset Sunrise. Since the pandemic, Moseley
has led Collaboraction’s push to create more than 100 pieces of digital
programming, including directing Oh Colonizers by Carla Stillwell and Encounter
Englewood, and producing and co-hosting Collaboraction’s live web shows Becoming,
Crucial Connections and Collaboraction Radio. Moseley is also a
live event MC and SAG actor and has appeared in projects such as Prison
Break, Chicago Fire/PD/Med and Ramin Barani’s At Any Price,
among many others. Notably, Moseley helped to lead the creation of The Lost
Story of Emmett Till: Trial in the Delta, which was adapted from the lost
trial transcript and filmed in co-production with NBC. The teleplay won Emmy
Awards in both 2022 and 2023 and is currently available on Peacock TV and YouTube.
Collaboraction then produced the immersive play Trial in the Delta: The
Murder of Emmett Till at the DuSable Museum in 2022, where he was the
co-creator and co-director. In 2018, Collaboraction was honored with Ovation’s
Stand for the Arts Award (in partnership with Comcast) and an Otto Award for
groundbreaking political theatre. In 2020, the Racial Justice Task Force of the
First Unitarian Church of Chicago awarded Collaboraction with the Multiracial
Unity Award. Moseley is currently leading the development of Collaboraction’s
new theatre and cabaret space in the Kimball Arts Center in Chicago’s Humboldt
Park neighborhood.
