Dan Jakes
Dan Jakes is a Chicago-based theater critic, travel writer, and podcast producer. Covering performing arts with the Chicago Reader since 2010, his freelance work has appeared in The A.V. Club, Time Out, The Takeout, and Frommer's.
He writes about stand-up comedy, queer culture, black box theater, mass transit, and alternative destinations.
Dan is a National Critics Institute Fellow with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and is a Peter Lisagor Award nominee from the Chicago Headline Club.
He holds a BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
Other ContributionsTime Out
The Takeout
A.V. Club
Covered TopicsTravel Hacks
Chicago
EducationUniversity of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
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Anna’s writing career started in journalism as a film critic for Time Out Paris. Today she is the author of eight travel guidebooks for Frommer’s and has written for multiple major publications, including the Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, where she is a long-standing France expert. She is also an award-winning children’s book author, known for middle-grade comedy and interactive picture books. Recent titles include Death by Chocolate and Murder Unwrapped, the first books in a new cozy crime series, Coco Bean Investigates, set in France (and inspired by her guidebook travels). When not writing, she has been an actress and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Britain, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
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