Rajiv Joseph (Playwright) has been a Steppenwolf Ensemble member since 2018. His play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and he has twice won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, first in 2016 for Guards at the Taj (also a 2016 Lortel Winner for Best Play) and then, in 2018, for Describe the Night. Other plays include Dakar 2000, King James (Steppenwolf Commission), Letters of Suresh, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, The North Pool, The Lake Effect, Archduke and Mr. Wolf.  Rajiv is a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa.

K. Todd Freeman (Director) joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1993. Steppenwolf (acting): Downstate (Jeff Award), Airline Highway, The Brother/Sister Plays, Topdog/Underdog, A Clockwork Orange, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Song of Jacob Zulu. Steppenwolf (directing): The Christians, Good People. Broadway: Airline Highway (Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Award), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Song of Jacob Zulu (Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway: Downstate (Playwrights Horizons, Obie, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Fetch Clay Make Man (NYTW, Obie Award); Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Spunk (Public Theatre); Regional: Angels in America (Mark Taper Forum). TV: Will Trent, The Horror of Dolores Roach, FBI: Most Wanted, High Maintenance, God Friended Me, Blacklist, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Blindspot, Elementary, The OA, Law and Order: SVU, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NYPD Blue. Film: Bird in Hand, Same Storm, Naked Singularity, Anesthesia, Weightless, The Dark Knight, Cider House Rules, Gross Pointe Blank.

Walt Spangler (Scenic Design) is thrilled to be working again with K. Todd Freeman and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Upcoming in Chicago: Holiday by Richard Greenberg (Goodman). Also for Steppenwolf: Tribes, The Christians, Good People, The Birthday Party, Time Stands Still and Penelope; Don Giovanni (Lyric Opera); 2666, Measure for Measure, Buzzer, Desire Under The Elms, Turn of the Century, Heartbreak House and King Lear (Goodman Theatre); Yeast Nation, The Original Grease (American Theatre Company); Escape To Margaritaville, Christmas Story: The Musical (Chicago Theatre). waltspangler.com.

Dede Ayite (Costume Design) is a costume designer working in theater, opera and film. Ayite previously worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Purpose and Marie Antoinette (2015 Jeff Award). She has designed over a dozen productions on Broadway, including Othello, Buena Vista Social Club, Purpose, Topdog/Underdog, Jaja’s African Hairbraiding (Tony Award) and Slave Play. She has been nominated for 6 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, also earning a special Drama Desk Award in 2022 and The TDF/Kitty Leech Young Master Award. Ayite recently designed X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Met. Select Off-Broadway projects include: Goddess, Hell’s Kitchen, Merry Wives (The Public Theater), Buena Vista Social Club, Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic). Her work has also appeared Off Broadway at Signature Theatre, MCC Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, and Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage and more. Television: Netflix, Comedy Central. Awards: Obie, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, an Audelco and Jeff Awards.

Keith Parham (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre: The Thanksgiving Play, Describe the Night, The Great Leap, Time Stands Still, The Flick, The Herd, The Night Alive, Tribes, The Birthday Party. Chicago: The Cherry Orchard (Goodman); An Iliad, Berlin (Court Theatre). Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy (Second Stage); Therese Raquin (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway: Man from Nebraska (2econd Stage Theatre); The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (Atlantic Theater Company); Tribes, Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre); Stop the Virgens (Karen O at St. Ann's Warehouse/Sydney Opera House); A Minister's Wife (Lincoln Center Theatre); Adding Machine A Musical (Minetta Lane). TUTA (The Utopian Theatre Asylum) Company Member. Awards: Obie, Lortel.

Josh Schmidt (Sound Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Bug, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Herd, Tribes, The Birthday Party, The March, Time Stands Still, among others. Chicago: Dial M For Murder, The Da Vinci Code (Drury Lane), The Garbologists (Northlight), many others. New York: Therese Raquin (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54); House of Blue Leaves (Walter Kerr Theatre); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Nederlander Theatre); Water by the Spoonful (Second Stage Theater); Dinner with Friends (Roundabout Theatre Company); When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater); 3 Kinds of Exile, Dying For It (Atlantic Theater Company); About Alice (TFANA); among others. Chicago: The First Deep Breath, Pipeline (Victory Gardens Theatre); How I Learned to Drive (Raven Theatre); Twelfth Night (Writers Theatre, associate artist). Schmidt is the award-winning composer of ADD1NG MACH1N3 (Minetta Lane Theatre, Next Theatre); A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center Theater, Writers Theatre); Midwestern Gothic (Signature Theatre); and Gift of the Magi (American Players Theatre). Upcoming commissions: The Metropolitan Opera and Mercurius Theatre (UK). Film: The End (Neon / Final Cut for Real).

Rasean Davonté Johnson (Projection Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Book of Grace, The Great Leap, Ms. Blakk for President, La Ruta, You Got Older, BLKS, The Burn and Brothers Size. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers Theatre, Court Theatre, Manual Cinema. Regional: The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Detroit Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Portland Opera, Woolly Mammoth Theatre. He is the Director of Design for TAPS at the University of Chicago and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. raseandavontejohnson.com.

Kate DeVore (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached You Will Get Sick,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. 

Jonathan L. Green (Dramaturg) is the Director of New Play Development for Steppenwolf where his most recent dramaturgy credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Book of Grace, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, and both the world premiere and Broadway transfer of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose. Previously Green was the Director of New Works for Goodman Theatre, where his dramaturgy credits included the world premieres of Christina Anderson’s How to Catch Creation, Rogelio Martinez’s Blind Date, Charles Smith’s Objects in the Mirror, and Doug Wright’s, Scott Frankel’s and Michael Korie’s War Paint, as well as works in development by Charise Castro Smith, Octavio Solis, Abe Koogler, Bess Wohl, Paola Lázaro, and Dave Harris. As a director, he has worked with Sideshow Theatre, Steppenwolf, Diversionary Theatre, TheatreWorks, Greenhouse Theater Center, Silk Road Rising, Playwrights’ Center, and more. Green served as the Artistic Director of Sideshow Theatre Company from 2007-2020.

Michelle Medvin (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Favorites over the past 24 years include Leroy and Lucy, Sanctuary City, 1919, Choir Boy, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (stage and audio-play versions), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, two versions of The Crucible, August: Osage County, Clybourne Park, Purple Heart (also at Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival), The Pillowman, and many others. Chicago: Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane, Victory Gardens, Chicago Children's Theatre. Regional: Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage. Education: Smith College. Michelle has taught stage management at Columbia College Chicago and Governors State University. She is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity, wife to Mary, and mama to Elliott, Lena, and Sam.

Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: You Will Get Sick, 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.