It Takes a (Tofu Chitlin') Circuit: Defining Community in Youth Theater
By Morgan Greene. Sydney Chatman is the creator and director of The Tofu Chitlin' Circuit, a community and youth ensemble training collective based in Chicago's South Side. Before creating TCC, Chatman worked on productions from Chicago to Broadway, while also teaching at the University of Chicago Charter School. When students she once taught as kindergarteners came to her as teens and said, "Can you train and teach …