Noah Diaz (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter from the Iowa/Nebraska border. Productions include You Will Get Sick (Steppenwolf, Roundabout Theatre/NYT Critic’s Pick), All the Men Who’ve Frightened Me (La Jolla Playhouse), Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (co-production The Playwrights Realm/Baltimore Center Stage), and The Swindlers (Baltimore Center Stage). Commissions from La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Baltimore Center Stage, Audible/Amazon Studios, and Arena Stage. His work has been developed with Berkshire Theatre Group, Two River Theater, The Sol Project, First Floor Theater, and The Playwrights Realm, where he was a Page One Resident Playwright. Noah is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, a six-time recipient of playwriting awards from The Kennedy Center, and a nominee for an Outer Critics Circle Award. In television, he has written on Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), Up Here (Hulu), and Joe vs. Carole (Peacock), among others, and has developed projects for ABC, Hulu, 20th Television, The Walk-Up Company, Nyle DiMarco, and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Audrey Francis (Director) currently serves as Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre, alongside Glenn Davis, where she has been an Ensemble member since 2017. She is an actor, director, educator and coach. Audrey directed POTUS in Steppenwolf's 23/24 season. Steppenwolf performing credits include: Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, The Herd, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Fundamentals, The Doppelgänger (an international farce) and Dance Nation. TV credits include Justified: City Primeval, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Empire. Film credits include Perpetrator, Knives and Skin, Later Days and Distant Learners. She has taught acting in New York, LA, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne, as well as at The University of Chicago and The Theatre School at DePaul. Audrey is a professional acting coach for Showtime, NBC, Fox and Amazon, and is the co-founder of Black Box Acting.
Andrew Boyce (Scenic Design) Recently at Steppenwolf: Leroy and Lucy, The Thanksgiving Play. Recent Chicago credits include Translations (Writers), A Raisin In The Sun (Court); The Audience (Drury Lane Theater). Regional credits with most major regional theaters across the U.S. Broadway: Dana H. Off-Broadway credits with Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard, Primary Stages, among others. Opera credits include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Omaha, Curtis Institute, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Associate Professor of Design at Northwestern. www.andrewboycedesign.com
Raquel Adorno (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Fool for Love, The Thanksgiving Play, POTUS, Describe the Night. Chicago: A Raisin in the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Antigone, Gospel at Colonus, The Island, The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor of Venice (Court Theatre); Measure for Measure, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Little Women, Dial M for Murder, Georgiana and Kitty, Intimate Apparel (Northlight Theatre); Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, The Band’s Visit, Wife of a Salesman (Writers Theatre). Regional: Waitress, Rent (The MUNY); Choice, The Wolves (McCarter Theatre Center); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in the Sun, The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2 (American Players Theatre). Film: Curio, Limerence www.raqueladorno.com
Jen Schriever (Lighting Design) Chicago: Highway Patrol, Support Group for Men, Rapture Blister Burn (Goodman Theatre); Emmet Otter’s Jug-band Christmas (Studebaker); What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway Playhouse). Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross, Eureka Day, Mother Play, A Strange Loop (Tony nomination), Death of a Salesman (Tony nomination), 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. OPERA: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Opera); Die Fledermaus, Les Pecheurs De Perles (Metropolitan); Faust, La Traviata, Britten’s Midsummer (Mariinsky). AWARDS: Obie Award for sustained excellence in design. Mom: Henry. Adjunct at Purchase College. www.JenSchriever.com.
Willow James (Sound Designer) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Chlorine Sky (Designer), 1919 (Asst. Sound Designer), Guards at the Taj, The Roommate, Choir Boy (Sound Technician). Chicago: Hymn (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (Definition Theatre); Fat Ham (Goodman Theatre/Definition Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Court Theatre); The Hot Wing King (Writers Theatre). Regional: The Band’s Visit (TheatreSquared); Nat Turner in Jerusalem (American Players Theatre); Magnolia Ballet (Alleyway Theatre/Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis). Willow is Civic Engagement Director at Definition Theatre, a Court Theatre Teaching Artist, and a Steppenwolf PLP alum (2018). worksbywillow.com | @worksbywillow
Skylar Fox (Magic and Illusions Designer) Chicago: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (Broadway & tour, assoc. designer); Boop! Regional: The Preacher’s Wife (Alliance); Franklin’s Key (Pig Iron). Broadway: Fat Ham, Once Upon A Mattress, Boop! Off-Broadway: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC), The Comeuppance (Signature), You Will Get Sick (Roundabout). International: Wicked, Matilda (São Paulo). Awards: Obie Award, L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle Award. Skylar is also a director and writer, and the co-artistic director of the critically-acclaimed company Nightdrive. skylarfox.com nightdrive.org
Kate DeVore (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached The Book of Grace, Fool for Love, Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, Purpose, a home what howls (or the house what was ravine), POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Sanctuary City, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life. Kate also happily taught Voice at The School at Steppenwolf for 11 years. She has served as voice and/or dialect coach at Goodman Theatre (most recently Betrayal), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, A Red Orchid Theatre, Drury Lane, Second City, Piven Theatre Workshop, Writers Theatre, Theo Ubique, and Chicago Dramatists. Film/TV credits include The Outfit, Ripley, and Caddo Lake. More about her books and coaching services at TotalVoice.net.
Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 90+ productions over the past 37 years, most recently, Fool For Love, Noises Off, Little Bear Ridge Road, Purpose, POTUS. Chicago: 22 productions between 2002-2016 (Northlight Theatre). Galway International Arts Festival: True West, Orange Flower Water, Purple Heart (Steppenwolf) Better Late (Northlight Theatre). BITE Festival Barbican Center London: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Steppenwolf). Broadway: Buried Child (Steppenwolf). Laura has proudly worked with all 55 Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble members and has been a member of Actors Equity Association for 35 years.
Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Fool for Love, Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, a home what howls, POTUS, Another Marriage, Describe the Night, Miz Martha, Seagull, BUG, Dance Nation, The Great Leap, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, The Crucible, Pass Over, Constellations, East of Eden, The Herd, Airline Highway. Chicago: The Steadfast Tin Soldier 2018 & 2022, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Groundhog Day, The Secret of My Success (Paramount Theatre); additional work for The Hypocrites, Victory Gardens Theater, Porchlight Music Theatre, Broadway in Chicago. Regional: Over twelve productions including the world premieres of Cambodian Rock Band, A Doll’s House Part 2, and Office Hour at South Coast Repertory. Additional productions with Geva Theatre Center, Florida Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Mason Street Warehouse. Kat is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan.