Tarell Alvin McCraney (Playwright) (he/him) is Artistic Director of Geffen Playhouse. McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays. His script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Oscar–winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins also won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. He is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre and a member of Teo Castellanos D-Projects in Miami, a graduate of New World School of the Arts, The Theatre School at DePaul University, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. He is an associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch).

Awoye Timpo (Director) Recent credits include The Swamp Dwellers by Wole Soyinka (Theatre for a New Audience), The Wash by Kelundra Smith (New Federal Theater), Leroy & Lucy by Ngozi Anyanwu (Steppenwolf), Syncing Ink by NSangou Njikam (Apollo Theater), Elyria by Deepa Purohit (Atlantic Theater), Wedding Band by Alice Childress (Theatre for a New Audience). Other projects: concert performances for independent artists and the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, Ndebele Funeral (59E59, Edinburgh, South African Tour), “Black Picture Show” (Artists Space/Metrograph), and Bluebird Memories (Audible).  Awoye is a Creative Arts Consultant for the African American Policy Forum and a Founding Member of Classix, a collective created to explode the classical canon through an exploration of dramatic works by Black writers and Black performance history, theclassix.org. 

Andrew Boyce (Scenic Design) Recently at Steppenwolf: You Will Get Sick, Leroy and Lucy, The Thanksgiving Play. Recent Chicago credits include Translations (Writers), Catch Me If You Can (Marriott); Dear Evan Hansen (Paramount Theater). Regional credits with most major regional theaters across the U.S. Broadway: Dana H. Off-Broadway credits with Manhattan Theater Club, 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, among others. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Associate Professor of Design at Northwestern. www.andrewboycedesign.com

Qween Jean (Costume Design) is a proud Haitian Storyteller and human rights activist committed to protecting all humanity. She’s honored to be a part of Windfall. Broadway: Liberation, Cats The Jellicle Ball!. Off Broadway: Oh Happy Day, Saturday Church, Swamp Dwellers, Wedding Band, Macbeth In Stride. Film: Walden and Donja R. Love’s new film Home. Jean founded Black Trans Liberation, an organization that provides weekly fellowship, food, groceries and housing resources for the TGNC community. She is the author of Revolution is Love (Aperture). Obie Award. Qween recently won the Audelco Award and Henry Hewes Award for Cats The Jellicle Ball! Jean was a finalist for NYC David Prize. She was the cover of American Theatre Magazine entitled; A New Era! MFA from NYU Tisch. “NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL”. Learn more at blacktransliberation.com

Jason Lynch (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Book of Grace, 1919, Choir Boy (Jeff Award). Chicago: Ashland Avenue, Fat Ham, Inherit the Wind, English, Lucha Teotl (Jeff Award nom.), The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years, Layalina, the ripple, the wave that carried me home, Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, I Hate It Here, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Hymn, Beauty and the Beast, I, Cinna, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Lynch is represented by The Gersh Agency. Jasondlynch.com | @jasonlynch.design

Willow James (Sound Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: You Will Get Sick (Designer), Chlorine Sky (Designer), 1919 (Asst. Sound Designer), Guards at the Taj, The Roommate, Choir Boy (Sound Technician). Chicago: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Goodman Theatre), Eureka Day (TimeLine Theatre); Black Cypress Bayou (Definition Theatre); Fat Ham (Goodman Theatre/Definition Theatre); Miss Julie (Court Theatre). Regional: Sanctuary City (Next Act Theatre); Anna in the Tropics (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

Mahmoud Khan (Music Director) Chicago: Gospel at Colonus (Court Theatre); A Fool Such as I (ETA Creative Arts); Black Nativity (Congo Square Theatre Company at Goodman Theatre); Living All Alone: Phyllis Hymn Story (Theatre 47). Regional: Dreamgirls (Alhambra Dinner Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (William & Mary). Touring: Crowns (Arizona Theatre Company; Portland Center Stage; Actors Theatre of Louisville). Khan is the Music Director at Carter Temple C.M.E. Church and founder of Geniuskhan Music. @geniuskhan

Marie Ramirez Downing (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf after coaching Leroy and Lucy last season. Other credits include Voice and Dialect Coach for Sunny Afternoon (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Sally & Tom (Marin Theatre), Inherit The Wind (Goodman Theatre), and their upcoming production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Marie is a voice coach at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA for their professional actor training intensives. She is an Assistant Professor of Acting, Voice and Speech at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Designated Linklater Voice teacher. Education: MFA, Acting, The Theatre School, DePaul University.

Asiel Hardison (Movement Consultant) Touring/Live Stage: Zoot Suit (Center Theatre Group); Enrique Iglesias (Trilogy Tour); Shania Twain Las Vegas Residency; Gloria Estefan (Live & Re-Wrapped Tour). Film: Freakier Friday, Spellbound, Me, We, Live by Night. Television: Lady in the Lake (Apple TV+); American Horror Story (FX); East Los High (Netflix); Star Search (Netflix); So You Think You Can Dance, The Masked Singer, Dancing with the Stars (FOX); The Grammys (CBS); VMAs (MTV). Music Videos: Tension (Kylie Minogue); Head Over Heels (Jenevieve); What A Man Gotta Do (Jonas Brothers). Asiel is a Chicago-born choreographer whose work spans film, television, music, and live performance. He emphasizes the importance of creating an honest and free performance that allows the audience and performers to connect and experience a magical moment together. @AsielHardison

Bryar Barborka (Dramaturg) (they/them) is the Literary Manager and Casting Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and the Literary Manager of the Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. Steppenwolf Theatre Company dramaturgy credits include: Windfall, Amadeus, You Will Get Sick, a home what howls (or the house what was ravine), I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (audio adaptation), and Wally World (Assistant Dramaturg). They have also worked with: Second Stage Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Goodman Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Teatro Vista, Definition Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and the Ojai Playwrights Conference in various capacities. Education: B.F.A from DePaul University.

Michelle Medvin (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Favorites over the past 24 years include Mr. Wolf, 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 mom to three. This one is for Lena. 

Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Dance of Death, Mr. Wolf, 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.