Annalise Raziq is a Chicago-based performer, writer, activist, and grateful mother. Her creative endeavors have ranged from leading theatre workshops with incarcerated women, singing Americana music with her band Annalise and the Backsliders, and playing the back end of a dragon. Her most recent work includes production of her solo show with music I Know A Place about her relationship with her stepdad Bill, and currently developing a piece about her Palestinian father.