Martyna Majok (Playwright) was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living, which debuted on Broadway this fall. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens and Ironbound. Other awards include The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Exceptional Playwriting, Hull-Warriner Award, Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Helen Merrill Prize, Helen Hayes Award, Jean Kennedy Smith, two Jane Chambers Awards, The Hermitage/Greenfield Prize, Francesca Primus Prize and NYTW's 2050 Fellowship. She is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and developing projects for TV and film.
Steph Paul (Director) is a first-gen Haitian-American director/choreographer who clears space for uninhibited physical truth. What comes up must come out. Her work includes How to Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop, Victory Gardens, Humana Festival), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club, Humana Festival), The Royale (Kansas City Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), The Last Match (Writers Theatre), The Wolves (Studio Theatre). Additional credits include Lincoln Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre, Definition Theatre. International credits include NYU Abu Dhabi, Royal Opera House Muscat and National Theatre of Scotland. Steph is a Princess Grace Award-winner, Helen Hayes Award-winner and a St. Louis Theatre Circle and Jeff Award nominee. She is a proud NYTW Usual Suspect, Chicago Dance Crash Artistic Associate, and SDC member. Steph is also a big fan of curating playlists and watching all of the sports. www.stephpaul.com
Yeaji Kim (Scenic Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Chlorine Sky, White (Definition Theatre). Chicago: The Island (Court Theatre); In Every Generation (Victory Gardens Theater); Dear Jack Dear Louise (Northlight Theatre); Bull, Fun Home (Paramount Theatre); Fences (American Blues Theater); Galileo’s Daughter, Passage, The Year Of Magical Thinking, Howards End, Bloomsday, Skin Of Our Teeth, Great Expectations (RemyBumppo Theatre); Solaris (Griffin Theatre); The Effects (Strawdog Theatre). Regional: The Chinese Lady (Geva Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, NY). Michael Merritt Awards Emerging Designer recipient (2022). Education: MFA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Korea University. Love to Olivia and Youngdae. yeajikimdesign.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, and Last Night and the Night Before. Recent Chicago: Ring of Fire (Drury Lane Theatre); A Distinct Society (Writers Theatre); School of Rock (Paramount Theatre), Fen (Court Theatre). Regional: Origin Story (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Wife Of A Salesman (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Fahrenheit 451, Clue (Indiana Repertory Theatre); The Royale (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Off Broadway: How To Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Upcoming: The Lehman Trilogy (Timeline Theatre).
Reza Behjat (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Rep, Wilma Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Actor Theater of Louisville, Geva Theater, Long Warf, Alabama Shakespeare, etc. Off-Broadway: Bees & Honey (MCC Theater), Arden Of Faversham (Redbull Theater), Good Enemy (AUDIBLE), Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater), Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), English (Atlantic Theater), etc. Awards: Obie Award for Designing English and Wish You Were Here (2022) and Obie Award Special Citation for English (2022), Knight of Illumination Award for Nina Simone: Four Women (2019). Upcoming productions at Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Public Theater, page 73, etc. Education: MFA, New York University
Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design) is excited to return to Steppenwolf having previously worked on No Man’s Land, 1919, Dance Nation and La Ruta. Other Chicago work includes The Goodman, Victory Gardens, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Albany Park Theatre Project. Other collaborations include Third Rail Projects, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre and his Broadway debut with Dana H for which he received the 2022 Tony Award for Sound Design. Audio production work includes various projects with Audible, WBEZ, and Make-Believe Association, including their recent Tribeca Festival featured sci-fi series “Lake Song”. Other recognitions include multiple Lucille Lortel and Jeff Awards and Nominations, and the 2020 Obie Award. He is a proud member of USA and TSDCA and is currently serving as Practioner-In-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.
Greg Geffrard (Intimacy Choreographer) [he/him] Steppenwolf Theatre: Chlorine Sky, Choir Boy (Intimacy & Fight), Bald Sisters (Assistant Intimacy); CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre: The Nacirema Society. The Lyric Opera: The Factotum (Intimacy & Violence); Remy Bumppo: Galileo's Daughter; Court Theatre: Fen; Chicago Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors. REGIONAL: Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Treemonisha, Tosca, Cosi, & Susannah; Denver Center of Performing Arts: The Color Purple; Huntington Theatre (Boston): K-I-S-S-I-N-G & Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Studio Theatre (DC): White Noise (Assistant Intimacy) UP NEXT: Refracted Theatre: Tambo & Bones; TheatreSquared: The Band’s Visit. OTHER: Associate Faculty with Theatrical Intimacy Education, and Head of BFA Acting & Associate Artistic Director at Brenau University.
Kate DeVore (Vocal Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached Steppenwolf for Young Adults productions The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and fml: how Caron 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, Piven Theatre Workshop, Theo Ubique, and Chicago Dramatists. Film/TV credits include The Outfit and Ripley. More about her books and coaching services at TotalVoice.net.
Michelle Medvin (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Chlorine Sky, 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.
Christine D. Freeburg (Assistant Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Another Marriage, Describe the Night, Miz Martha, Seagull, BUG, Wally World, Animal Farm, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, La Ruta, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), The Minutes, Linda Vista, Constellations, The Flick, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, The Herd, Airline Highway, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, American Buffalo (also at McCarter Theatre), The Tempest, The Seafarer, The Diary of Anne Frank, after the quake, Cherry Orchard. Chicago: Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre. Freeburg is the Head of Stage Management at The Theatre School at DePaul University. She is happily married to Thom Cox and the proud mother of Joan Marie. For Malcolm.
Kathleen Dickinson (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Tribes, The Way West, Hushabye. Chicago: Is God Is, The Malignant Ampersands, The Moors, Traitor, 33 to Nothing, Victims of Duty, Small Mouth Sounds, Fulfillment Center, Killing Game, Grey House (A Red Orchid Theatre); United Flight 232 (The House Theatre of Chicago); Fallen Angels, Clean House (Remy Bumppo).