Mia Chung (Playwright) received a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship, 2023 Whiting Award for Drama and a 2022 MAP grant for a new music-theatre work. Her play CATCH AS CATCH CAN premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Fall 2022 (2018 World Premiere, Off-Off-Broadway, Page 73). Additional work: BALL IN THE AIR (NAATCO/Public Theater 2022). DOUBLE TAKE (PH Almanac 2021). THIS EXQUISITE CORPSE (multiple awards). YOU FOR ME FOR YOU (Royal Court, National Theatre Company of Korea, Woolly Mammoth, multiple regionals. Published: Bloomsbury Methuen.) Awards, commissions, residencies include: Clubbed Thumb, Helen Merrill, Loewe Award for Music-Theatre, MTC/Sloan, NYTW, Playwrights' Center/Jerome, Playwrights Horizons/Steinberg, Playwrights Realm, South Coast Rep, SPACE/Ryder Farm. Alum: Huntington Playwriting Fellows, Ma-Yi Writers Lab, New Dramatists.
Amy Morton (Director) is an actor and director last seen her in You Will Get Sick. She has performed in or directed many plays at Steppenwolf including: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony nomination), August: Osage County (Tony nomination), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (also on Broadway), Hir, Cherry Orchard, The Berlin Circle, Three Days of Rain, The Unmentionables, Space, The Royal Family and many others. She has directed Guards at the Taj (both Atlantic Theatre and Steppenwolf), Glengary Glen Ross, Clybourne Park, American Buffalo, The Dresser, The Pillowman, Topdog/Underdog, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alliance Theatre), Awake and Sing (Northlight Theatre), and many others. Film: Rookie of the Year, 8MM, Falling Down, Backdraft, Up in the Air, Bluebird, It Ends With Us. Television: The Bear, Bluebloods, Girls, Homeland, currently a regular on Chicago PD as Sgt. Trudy Platt. Before joining Steppenwolf, Amy was a member of the Remains Theatre for 15 years.
Andrew Boyce (Scenic Design) Recently at Steppenwolf: Windfall, 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
Izumi Inaba (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Constellations, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Animal Farm, The Crucible, We Are Proud…, Miz Martha, Bald Sisters, Last Night and the Night Before, Sanctuary City, and Noises Off. Recent Chicago: South Pacific (Paramount Theatre), Two Sisters and A Piano (Writers Theatre), Veal (A Red Orchid). Recent Regional: We Had A World (Huntington Theatre), Noises Off (The Old Globe). Upcoming: Estate Sale (Barrington Stage Company), Macbeth (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival). Izumi is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA829 and represented by Gersh.
Yuki Link (Lighting Design) Chicago: Fidelio, Madame Butterfly (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Regional: Dial M for Murder, The Glass Menagerie (Alley Theatre); Angel Island (BAM Harvey/PROTOTYPE); Così fan tutte (Detroit Opera); Vanessa (HeartbeatOpera); Émigré (NY Phil David Geffen Hall); Complications in Sue, Sleepers Awake (Opera Philadelphia); In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera); Parsifal, Orpheus and Eurydice (San Francisco Opera); L'Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera). Off Broadway: I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan (Atlantic Theater Company); The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons); Torera (WP Theater). Upcoming: Romeo and Juliet, WOMB 2.0 (Alley Theatre); Elizabeth Cree (Music Academy of the West). yukinlink.com
Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design) is excited to return to Steppenwolf having previously worked on Fool For Love, Little Bear Ridge Road, No Man’s Land, 1919, Dance Nation. Other collaborations include Broadway productions of Little Bear Ridge Road, Uncle Vanya, Dana H (2022 Tony Award); Mexodus (Audible); How To Defend Yourself, I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW); Mother Russia, Cambodian Rock Band (Signature Theatre), Tambo & Bones, This Flat Earth, The Treasurer And A Life (Playwrights Horizons); and multiple releases with Audible Originals and Make Believe Association and original scores for various independent films. He is a member of TSDCA, and an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. www.mikhailfiksel.com
Kate DeVore (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached Amadeus, Mr. Wolf, 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, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, A Red Orchid Theatre, Drury Lane, Second City, Writers Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, 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 Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, 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.
Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 100 + productions over the past 38 years, most recently The Dance of Death, Amadeus and You Will Get Sick. 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, has been a member of Actors Equity Association for 36 years and recently won the inaugural Impresario Jeff Award in Stage Management.
Jaclynn Joslin (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Amadeus, The Book of Grace, Leroy and Lucy, Little Bear Ridge Road, Purpose, No Man's Land, Last Night and the Night Before, Bald Sisters, King James, Bug, True West, Familiar, Guards at the Taj, BLKS, The Crucible, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Flick, East of Eden. Chicago: Out Here, Big White Fog, A Raisin in the Sun, East Texas Hot Links, The Lion in Winter, Arsenic and Old Lace, Two Trains Running, Othello, Oedipus Rex, The Adventures of Augie March, For Colored Girls, Photograph 51, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, All My Sons, Harvey, The Hard Problem, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Court Theatre); Continuity, The King of Hell’s Palace (Goodman Theatre); Hard Times (Lookingglass Theatre); Roz and Ray (Victory Gardens). Regional: Linda Vista (Center Theatre Group); The Outgoing Tide, Oceanside, 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti, Year Zero (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Touring: Oklahoma!