Bret Angelos

Bret Angelos


Bret Angelos has been an attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for over 20 years. He’s also a writer. In Chicago his work has been performed at the City Lit Theater Art of Adaptation Festival and numerous editions of the American Blues Theater’s Ripped: The Living Newspaper Festival. Bret's play American Whoknew was a semi-finalist in the American Blues Theater...

Bret Angelos has been an attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for over 20 years. He’s also a writer. In Chicago his work has been performed at the City Lit Theater Art of Adaptation Festival and numerous editions of the American Blues Theater’s Ripped: The Living Newspaper Festival. Bret's play American Whoknew was a semi-finalist in the American Blues Theater's 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Competition.

Plays

  • American Whoknew
    The crew of a clean Martian coal operation, where science is outlawed, loses contact with Earth and the only thing keeping them alive is a mischievous artificial superintelligence.
  • Data Refuge
    The Bunny Brothers are deputized by the President via Twitter to destroy climate change data being kept by the Eggheads at a local wildlife refuge. Their plans of destruction are foiled by two volunteer birders.
  • My Case Didn't Make The News
    A mother gives an impromptu press conference after her case at the bus stop next to the Juvenile Court