Profiles Theatre was a small, formerly non-Equity theater company based in Chicago.
The company was founded in 1988 by artistic director Joe Jahraus, and it developed a reputation for emotionally powerful and dramatically intense productions, including the multiple Jeff Award-winning Killer Joe.
[1][2] In June 2016 the Chicago Reader published an article alleging an extensive pattern of workplace abuse and sexual harassment on the part of the theater company's artistic director Darrell W.
[6] In response to concerns about harassment and abuse at some non-Equity Chicago theaters, including Profiles Theatre, the organization Not in Our House was founded by Lori Myers, Laura T. Fisher, and other theater professionals.
Not in Our House developed a code of conduct called the Chicago Theatre Standards which has been adopted by a number of theater companies.