Lavina Jadhwani built what was by any measure an admirable career on Chicago stages and beyond. Locally, she directed for a range of companies large and small, including Silk Road Rising (now Silk Road Cultural Center) , Writers Theatre , Oak Park Festival Theatre , and Rasaka Theatre Company . Nationally, her productions could be seen at Oregon Shakespeare Festival , Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida, and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol also graced the Guthrie stage every year starting in 2021 and returns this season.

But her death on September 10 from ovarian cancer (which followed an initial diagnosis of breast cancer in 2017) blew a hole in the heart of the theater community here and across the country not just

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