Spenser Davis (Director) is an ensemble member of The Factory Theater, where he previously directed The Adventures of Spirit Force Five and performed in Zombie Broads. He is also a longtime company member of Broken Nose Theatre, where he most recently wrote and co-directed Plainclothes. Also at BNT, he directed Michael Perlman’s At The Table, which was named “One of the Best Plays of 2017” by the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, Newcity and teen critic Ada Grey; it also received four Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Director/Play and Best Production/Play. Also at BNT, Davis directed Perlman’s From White Plains, Elise Spoerlein’s A Phase and several editions of  Bechdel Fest and acted in My First Time, Beautiful Broken and My First Time: The Remount. Additional directing includes Bachelorette at Level 11, numerous editions of the One Minute Play Festival, as well as work with Strawdog Theatre Company, Otherworld, Mary-Arrchie, First Floor and Pride Films and Plays. He has assistant directed both Pilgrim’s Progress and 3C at a Red Orchid, as well as Divine Sister with Hell in a Handbag, all with Shade Murray. As a playwright, he is the past winner of Scotland’s Solas Festival, a finalist for the Actors Theater of Louisville Heideman Award and his first full-length play, Merge, about the rise and fall of the video game company Atari, closed The New Colony’s eighth season. His plays have been produced across the United States and Canada and have been published by Smith & Kraus New York. He is the series director of SQUID, a microbudget short-form comedy series now on Amazon Prime.