Vichet Chum (Playwright) is a Cambodian American playwright, actor and novelist living in NYC. Bald Sisters will be his first time working at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, though he vividly remembers seeing The Pillowman directed by Amy Morton on a college theatre trip many moons ago. He can not actually believe his lucky stars. He is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and the Laurents/Hatcher Award. He currently serves as a board member for the New Harmony Project, a curator for Space on Ryder Farm, and a steering committee member for the Asian American Performers Action Coalition. Play groups (current and past) include Ars Nova, Page 73 and Space on Ryder Farm. He is presently working on commissions for Audible, Steppenwolf Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Chum is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company. vichetchum.com
Jesca Prudencio (Director) is a director and choreographer dedicated to developing new theatrical works that humanize issues nationally and internationally. Recent credits: King Liz (Geffen Playhouse), Can We Now? (La Jolla Playhouse WoW Fest), It’s a Ship Show! (Virgin Voyages), Interstate (Mixed Blood, East West Players). Other: The Great Leap by Lauren Yee (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Vietgone, Actually (San Diego Rep); Calling (La MaMa ETC); Man of God (East West Players); A&Q (Pineapple Lab, Philippines); FAN (B-Floor, Thailand). Upcoming: Dot Dot Dot (TheatreWorks USA), Exotic Deadly; or the MSG Play (The Old Globe). Jesca has developed new work at MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Arena Stage, NAMT, and La MaMa. She is a recipient of The Drama League Fellowship and the inaugural Julie Taymor World Theater Fellowship. Jesca is head of directing at SDSU where she is an Associate Professor. BFA: NYU Tisch, MFA: UC San Diego. Jescaprudencio.com
Andrew Boyce (Scenic Design). Steppenwolf debut. Recent Chicago credits include All’s Well That Ends Well (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Lady From The Sea (Court Theater); In Every Generation (Victory Gardens); Murder On The Orient Express (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, Kentucky Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. Television: Shining Girls (Apple TV); Poker Face (Peacock). MFA: Yale School of Drama. Assistant Professor of Design at Northwestern. www.andrewboycedesign.com
Izumi Inaba (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Miz Martha, Constellations, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Animal Farm, The Crucible, We Are Proud… Recent Chicago: Bull, A Love Story (Paramount Theatre); A Christmas Story (Marriott Theatre). Regional: Wife of A Salesman (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Fahrenheit 451 (Indiana Repertory Theatre); The Royale (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); An American Dream (Kentucky Opera.) Touring: Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (Evan Bernardin Productions). Upcoming: Andy Warhol is Iran (Northlight Theatre); Fen (Court Theatre). Education: M.F.A. in Stage Design, Northwestern University.
Stacey Derosier (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Bald Sisters. Off Broadway: La Race (Page 73); Where the Mountain meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club); Weightless (The Women’s Project); This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane); Fat Ham (Public Theater & National Black Theater); Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience); sandblasted (Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (The Shed); The Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic Theater Company); Stew (Page 73); Playing Hot! (Pipeline Theater Company); Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater). Derosier is a 2018 Lilly Award Daryl Roth Prize recipient.
Pornchanok Kanchanabanca (Sound Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Choir Boy, Seagull, The Great Leap, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Chicago: Gem Of The Ocean (Goodman Theatre), The Last Match (Writers Theatre). Regional: Common Ground Revisited (The Huntington Theatre); As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The wolves, Skylight (McCarter Theater); The Moors (American Player Theatre); House of Joy (St. Louis Rep); Macbeth (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). International: Damage Joy (Thailand, BIPAM 2019). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Nok is a Thai artist, sound designer, musician, and composer. She has collaborated with performing art groups and theatre companies in Thailand since 2008. www.wishnok-music.com
Mike Tutaj (Projection Design) Steppenwolf: The Way West, The Hot l Baltimore, Lord of the Flies, The Book Thief, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Chicago: Relentless (TimeLine Theatre Company); Objects in the Mirror, Gem of the Ocean (Goodman Theatre); Groundhog Day (Paramount Theatre); Regional: Titanic (Milwaukee Rep); The Reclamation of Madison Hemmings (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Off-Broadway: Ride the Cyclone (MCC Theater); Wilderness (EnGarde Arts); International: The Genesis Suite (London Symphony Orchestra); The Sound of an Orchestra (BBC Proms/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Mike teaches projection design at The Theatre School of DePaul University. Love to Emily. www.miketutaj.com
Courtney Abbott (Intimacy Director) [she/they] Steppenwolf: Choir Boy, with Greg Geffrard. Chicago: Tiger Style! (Writers); Enough To Let The Light In (Teatro Vista); Hurricane Diane (Theater Wit); In Every Generation (VG); Solaris (Griffin); The Jigsaw Bride (First Folio); Little Shop of Horrors (Citadel); Cabaret (Metropolis). Film: Departing Seniors; Lee & Charlie. Upcoming: And Neither Have I Wings To Fly (First Folio). Education: MFA, Ohio University; BS, Northwestern. @lee_and_charlie_film www.CourtneyAbbott.com
Silver Fox Wigs (Emily Young, Owner) (Wig Design) Silver Fox Wigs is so excited to be back at Steppenwolf with this amazing show. Steppenwolf credits include Seagull, BUG, The Minutes, True West, Rembrandt, Hir. In addition, our work can be seen on stages such as Drury Lane Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Broadway in Chicago, and many more as well as TV and movie productions in the city.
Polly Hubbard (Dramaturg) serves as the Director of New Play Development at Steppenwolf, and she was previously a Literary Agent with Abrams Artists Agency in NYC. Selected dramaturgical credits include: King James; La Ruta; The Doppelgänger (an international farce); Visiting Edna (Steppenwolf); Charm (Northlight); Rolling (Jackalope). Past work with The New Harmony Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens, The Kilroys, American Theatre Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, 13P, Lark Play Development Center, Princess Grace Awards, and Amnesty International. Education: Oberlin College, University of Evansville.
Gigi Buffington (Company Voice, Text & Dialect Coach) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Company Vocal Coach for five seasons. Steppenwolf: King James, BUG, Dance Nation, Lindiwe, The Great Leap, True West, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, The Children, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Familiar, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), Guards at the Taj, The Minutes, Hir, The Rembrandt, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe, East of Eden. Broadway: Cost of Living, The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men, King Kong Live on Broadway. Off- Broadway: Evanston Salt Cost’s Climbing, Catch As Catch Can, Camp Siegfried, The Devil Wears Prada, Corsicana, On Sugarland, Prayer For The French Republic; The Thin Place, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe, Pass Over, Coriolanus, The Tempest. International: Downstate (The National), The Merchant of Venice (Venice); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Maids (director), Pericles, Othello, An Illiad, The Seagull, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (American Players Theatre). Film: Text Consultant for Spike Lee’s Prince of Cats. Buffington is an Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, VASTA.
Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Choir Boy, King James, Lindiwe, True West, Downstate, Domesticated, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love Letters and many others over the past 32 years. Chicago: Butler, Whipping Man, Chapatti, Outside Mullingar, A Skull in Connemara and many others (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 proudly has worked with all 55 Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble members and has been a member of Actors Equity Association for 32 years.
Jaclynn Joslin (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: King James, Bug, True West, Familiar, Guards at the Taj, BLKS, The Crucible, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Flick, East of Eden. Chicago: 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!