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Regina Victor

Director, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Arts Critic

Pharaoh (they/them)  is a multidisciplinary artist and intuitive healer originating from Oakland, CA, currently based in Chicago IL. Pharaoh serves as a member of the Organizing Team for the Bombay Beach Biennale, and is a steward of  ‘The Poetry House’ in Bombay Beach. At the Poetry House Pharaoh offers donation-based tarot readings to the community, curates the public’s painting poetry on the walls, commissions other artists and writers, and holds space for regular poetry salons and workshops. Using the divinatory tools of tarot, storytelling, and poetry, they employ the blk and trans radical imagination to transmute the past, reflect the present, and co-create possible futures. Pharaoh is a certified reiki practitioner in levels I and II.

 

Pharaoh is an accomplished cultural critic and essayist placed in the New City Magazine Hall of Fame for their work founding the theatre criticism outlet Rescripted (2017-2024.) The outlet is closed, but the mission, “to reprogram the way we critique each other” is still very present in pharaoh’s practice. Their writing can be seen in Portable Gray, The Chicago Reader, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Howlround, and more. An award-winning dramaturg and director, film and theatre credits include The Dulcinee Dialectic (Tao Ruspoli, film), Notes From the Field (Anna Deavere Smith, HBO), Exhibit (Regina Taylor, directed by Phylicia Rashad), and As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse).  They are currently the dramaturg for Gravity: A Newtonian Musical, about the Age of Enlightenment.

 

Pharaoh has piloted several cultural initiatives, including McCarter Theatre’s Bard at the Gate, UChicago’s Arts & Public Life Critics’ Table,  and the Howlround Theatre Commons’ National Advisory Council. Victor served in the inaugural Artistic Caucus cohort from 2021-2022, providing cultural and programming consultation to Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage, St. Louis Rep and Long Wharf Theatre. Victor’s arts management experience spans over a decade, including Sideshow Theatre (Artistic Director), Court Theatre (Inaugural Associate Producer), The Hypocrites (Associate Artistic Director), Halcyon Theatre (Associate Producer) and Steppenwolf Theatre (Artistic Fellow). They are proud to be a 3Arts Make A Wave, and now 3AP Recipient.

Profile caption: Pharaoh in front of "Dream Demon," a Bombay Beach Installation. Photo by Vanessa Franking

Featured Artworks

  •  Regina Victor artwork Featured Speaker at MLK Day in Maui 2025, reading my poem "The Breaks"
  •  Regina Victor artwork Reading Tarot at Loaves and Witches
  •  Regina Victor artwork TCG National Conference - Chair of Local Programming A panel on the future of criticism, a week after I closed Rescripted, my theatre journalism outlet that ran for seven years. I am being interviewed alongside the next generation of up and coming theatre critics.
  •  Regina Victor artwork Reading Tarot, photo by Bobby D
  •  Regina Victor artwork The Poetry Salon Annual Poetry Salon hosted in Bombay Beach at The Poetry House
  •  Regina Victor artwork Directing Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes at Timeline Theatre

Regina Victor has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

    • $445 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 14 Days 02:39:31 LEFT
      • 7% funded
      • 93% to go

    God/Is Sustenance is a multimedia performance and sculptural installation that celebrates and educates its audience on being stewards of the earth. The performance of God Is takes inspiration from African masquerade and devotional worship to honor personal divinity. Sustenance carries …

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