Photo by Camille Fine, The Chicago Tribune
“When nonbinary actor Rae Hamilton-Vargo first began their career in Chicago, they had two resumes: one with their pronouns, and one without. They would look at audition postings and perform mental calculations to decide how trans inclusive a project might be before choosing which resume to submit...”
- from “Finding roles as trans and nonbinary actors in Chicago resembles a shuffle: one step forward, two back” by Nicole Blackwood, The Chicago Tribune.
“Among the minor characters, Rae Hamilton-Vargo’s Moth stuck out to me. Hamilton-Vargo’s more contemporary reading of the dialogue provided an interesting contrast to the rhythms of the other actors that was appropriate to the humor Moth brings as the sidekick of Martin Diaz-Valdes’s Don Armado.”
- from “Invictus Theatre’s Love’s Labour’s Lost delivers on the linguistic beauty of Shakespeare” by Kelly MacBlane, ChicagoOnStage.com
Photo by Brian McConkey Photography (featured left to right: Charles Askenaizer, Taylor Glowac, Chad Bay, and Samual Cheeseman)
Photo by Brian McConkey Photography (featured left to right: Amber Cartwright, Katherine Duffy, Rachael Soglin, and Raina Lynn)
“Rae Hamilton-Vargo was adorable and funny as the page ‘Moth.’ The nonbinary actor was eerily reminiscent of Terry Kilburn who played young John Colley in the 1939 version of the film Goodbye Mr. Chips.”
- from “Love’s Labour’s Lost - A timeless tale” by Reno Lovison, Chicago Theater and Arts