Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Playwright) is the author of Where We Stand (Lucille Lortel, Drama League, AUDELCO, and ANTONYO award nominee), Last Night and the Night Before, Warriors Don’t Cry, Laid to Rest, and The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition. She is the recipient of The Whiting Award for Drama, Helen Merrill Playwright Award, The National Theater Conference’s Stavis Playwright Award, Lilly Award, Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award, and the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. For television she has staffed on Spectrum’s Manhunt, FX’s Y: The Last Man and served as Executive Story Editor on Joe Vs. Carole for Peacock. She is currently co-producer on Seconds for AMC. Broadway acting credits include: The Skin of Our Teeth, In The Next Room, or the vibrator play and Well. Off-Broadway: Where We Stand (WP Theater/Baltimore Centerstage), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb) O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), In the Footprint (The Civilians - as an Associate Artist), and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Primary Stages). Film: The Book of Henry, Wild Canaries, The English Teacher, and The Wrestler. Television: Recurring roles on New Amsterdam, Happy, Rubicon, Mercy and Law and Order: SVU. And guest starring roles on High Maintenance, The Night Of, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, A Gifted Man, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI and The Sopranos. Ms. Grays proudly hails from Columbia, South Carolina.

Valerie Curtis-Newton (Director) Valerie is currently Head of Directing & Playwriting at the University of Washington’s School of Drama. Valerie is the founding Artistic Director of The Hansberry Project – an African American Theatre Lab. She has previously served as the Artistic Director of Hartford Connecticut's Performing Ensemble, Inc. and the Artistic Director for Seattle's Ethnic Cultural Theatre. Her national credits include work with The Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Southern Repertory Theatre. 

Regina García (Scenic Design) Regina is a Chicago-based scenic designer from Puerto Rico. She has had long standing relationships with the Latinx Theatre’s renowned Teatros including Repertorio Español, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Teatro Vista and Pregones Theater. Recently completed projects include collaborations with The McCarter Theater, First Stage (Milwaukee), the Children's Theatre Center (Minneapolis), and Louisville Ballet. Regina is a Fellow of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and the Princess Grace Awards, USA; a Regional Associate member of the League of Professional Theatre Women; and company member with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and Boundless Theatre Company. She is the Head of the Scenic Design at The Theatre School, DePaul University, and a founding organizational member of La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Production Network.

Izumi Inaba (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Constellations, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Animal Farm, The Crucible, We Are Proud…, Miz Martha, and Bald Sisters. Recent Chicago: Andy Warhol in Iran (Northlight Theatre); Fen (Court Theatre). Regional: Wife Of A Salesman (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Fahrenheit 451 (Indiana Repertory Theatre); The Royale (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Off Broadway: How To Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Upcoming: Clue (Indiana Repartory Theatre); Origin Story (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park).

Mary Louise Geiger (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf: Debut. Chicago: Until the Flood (Goodman). Selected Regional: West Side Story, Annie, The Sound of Music, Grey Gardens (5th Avenue Theatre); Until the Flood; Forever, The Goat, Nickel and Dimed, Tongue of a Bird (Center Theatre Group), ACT Theatre, Denver Center, Goodman, Guthrie, Huntington, Shakespeare Theatre, OSF. Broadway: The Constant Wife (American Airlines). Off-Broadway: Atlantic, Audible Theatre, Acting Company, Mint, Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop. Dance: New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet. Awards: Helen Hayes, IRNE, NYSCA Grant. Training: MFA Yale School of Drama. Faculty: NYU/Tisch. www.mlgeiger.com

Larry D. Fowler, Jr. (Sound Design) Philadelphia: Fences (PA Shakespeare Festival); Death of A Driver (Interact Theater); A Hit Dog Will Holler (Azuka Theater); The Light (Theatre Exile); All My Mothers Dream In Spanish (Azuka Theater). Regional: Blues for an Alabama Sky (PlayMakers Rep), By The Queen (Trinity Rep), History of Theater (A Contemporary Theatre). Awards: 3-Time Barrymore Award Nominee. Upcoming: Galilee (Azuka Theater); Chicken and Biscuits (Bristol Riverside Theater); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (PA Shakespeare Festival); Zooman and the Sign (Theater In The X); Child Support (Camden Repertory).

Kirsten Baity (Intimacy Choreographer) [they/them] Steppenwolf: Debut. Chicago: Tick, Tick…Boom (BoHo Theatre); The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Theo Ubique Theatre ); Rent (Porchlight Music Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Cruel Intentions (Kokandy Productions); Mosque4Mosque, The Magnolia Ballet (About Face Theatre). Regional: Sugar in Our Wounds, and Stonewallin’ (Richmond Triangle Players). BA Columbia College Chicago. @ky_inpublic, www.KirstenBaity.com

Gigi Buffington (Company Voice & Text Coach) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Company Vocal Coach for six seasons. Steppenwolf: Describe The Night, Bald Sisters, Miz Martha, Seagull, King James, BUG, Dance Nation, and many more. Broadway: Cost of Living, The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men, King Kong Live on Broadway. Off- Broadway: Lucy; Evanston Salt Cost’s Climbing, Catch As Catch Can, Camp Siegfried, Corsicana, On Sugarland, Prayer For The French Republic. 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); Regional: The Outsiders; The Devil Wears Prada, The Maids (director), Pericles, Othello.  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: over the past 33 years some productions include Bald Sisters, King James, Lindiwe, True West, Downstate, Domesticated, Middletown, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love Letters and many others. 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 33 years.   

Jaclynn Joslin (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company:  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: 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!