About | Angeli Primlani

Angeli Primlani is a Chicago-based playwright, director, producer and actor.

She started out working in regional theater in North Carolina, including Playmakers Repertory Company, The Lost Colony, and a five-year stint stage managing at UNC's Memorial Hall. But then she decided to grow up.

In her adulting era, Angeli worked for Ziff-Davis Publishing in their Benchmark Operation. She was the founding online editor for The Prague Post in the Czech Republic. As a journalist she wrote for National Public Radio, The Prague Post, The Economist's Business Central Europe, and various other outlets in North America and Europe before the collapse of the news industry sent her back to the theatre where she belonged.

She built a career in the Chicago storefront theater world as a technician, director, and playwright. She co-founded Accidental Shakespeare Company and served as their Artistic Director. Her first full-length play "Utopia" was developed by Pork Filled Productions in Seattle and was performed by the National Women's Theater Festival in 2020. Her second play, "The Black Knight," premiered with Lifeboat Productions in spring of 2022. Her first novel The Marlen of Prague, Christopher Marlowe and the City of Gold was published by Guardbridge, UK.

Angeli has worked as an instructional designer, voiceover artist, medical editor, and fiction editor. She is currently the Special Events Manager for the Speculative Literature Foundation , and runs her own editing and production business, Primlani Productions.

But What is Angeli About?

Hindi uses the same word for tomorrow and yesterday, and the same word for day after tomorrow and day before yesterday. Today is a drop in the middle of time, with ripples going forward and backwards. We exist in someone else's history and our lives are someone else's science fiction, so I write both historical fiction and future history.

Any highly sophisticated form of technology is basically magic, so I also write fantasy and science fiction.

Any story worth telling is about people, moving through the world around them the best they can. Sometimes these people aren't human. Sometimes their world is more like our world than we'd like.

I write for the stage, not exclusively, but a lot. Every writer should get to see the people in their heads appear outside their heads, put on costumes, and speak your words. Sometimes they'll offer you a cigarette. Novel readers will sneak up on you, because people will discover them years later. Sometimes your non-fiction makes a change, however small.

I will die doing this.