Deidre Huckabay is a fundraising professional with eight years' experience in proposal writing in arts and culture. Her current and recent clients have included Chicago arts organizations Eighth Blackbird, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, and Lookingglass Theatre Company as well as New Music Chicago and Ear Taxi Festival. She is an artist and musician, co-owner of Parlour Tapes+, and one of eleven Artistic Directors at Mocrep.