Selina Fillinger (Playwright) is an LA-based writer and performer. Original plays include THE COLLAPSE; SOMETHING CLEAN; FACELESS; and THE ARMOR PLAYS: CINCHED/STRAPPED. She recently made her Broadway debut with her seven-woman farce, POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Alley Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory and Roundabout. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat; SOMETHING CLEAN is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and CINCHED/STRAPPED received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. POTUS was on the 2019 Kilroys List. Selina wrote for the third season of Apple TV’s THE MORNING SHOW; she’s developing a feature with Chernin/Netflix, and a pilot with Hunting Lane/Hulu.
Audrey Francis (Director) currently serves as Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre, alongside Glenn Davis, where she has been an Ensemble member since 2017. She is an actor, director, educator, and coach. Recent Steppenwolf performing credits include The Herd, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Fundamentals, Doppelgänger (an International Farce), and Dance Nation. Recent TV credits include Justified: City Primevil, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Empire. Recent film credits include Knives and Skin, Later Days, Distant Learners, and the upcoming Perpetrator. She has taught acting in New York, LA, Toronto, Sydney, and Melbourne, as well as at The University of Chicago, The Theatre School at DePaul, and The School at Steppenwolf. Audrey is a professional acting coach for Showtime, NBC, Fox, and Amazon, and is the co-founder of Black Box Acting.
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 American Players Theatre, The McCarter Theater, 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 both 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.
Raquel Adorno (Costume Design) Chicago: Describe the Night (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Gospel at Colonus, The Island, The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor of Venice (Court Theatre); Measure for Measure, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Georgiana and Kitty, Intimate Apparel (Northlight Theatre); Wife of a Salesman (Writers Theatre). Regional: Rent (The MUNY); The Wolves (McCarter Theatre Center); The Tempest, Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival); A Raisin in the Sun, The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2 ( American Players Theatre). Film: Curio, Limerence. Education: Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. www.raqueladorno.com
Heather Gilbert (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include Another Marriage, Bug (Jeff Award), Dance Nation, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, Constellations, A Separate Peace, First Look 2013, The Infidel, Pot Mom. Broadway credits include Parade (Tony nomination) and The Sound Inside (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination). Regional credits include Actor’s Theatre Louisville; The Muny St Louis; Goodman Theatre; Center Theatre Group; Studio Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Kansas City Rep; Alley Theatre; American Repertory Theater; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Playhouse. Off Broadway credits include Barrow Street Theatre. International credits include Almeida Theatre in London; Singapore Rep; Encuentro Festival Teatro Buendia, Montreal. Additional credits include NEA/ TCG Career Development Grant and the 3Arts Award; Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago; M.F.A. The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Pornchanok Kanchanabanca (Sound Design and Composition) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Describe the Night, Bald Sisters, Seagull, Choir Boy, The Great Leap, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Chicago: Gem Of The Ocean (Goodman Theatre, Jeff Award), The Last Match (Writers Theatre). Regional: The Three Musketeers (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage) The Wolves, Skylight (McCarter Theater). International: Damage Joy (Thailand, BIPAM 2019). Awards: 2022 Jeff Award, Original music in play. Education: MFA, Drama at Yale. www.wishnok-music.com
Almanya Narula (Fight Choreography) is an international award-winning Actor, Writer, & Fight Choreographer. Recent Chicago credits: Teenage Dick, The Whistleblower (Theater Wit), Mosquitoes (Steep); Regional: Dial M for Murder (TheatreSquared); Off Broadway: Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy (Theatre Row); Film: Pandaal, The Ushers; Music Video: Feed the Machine (Nickelback); Select Awards: Soaring Solo Social Impact Award, Best Solo Performance Nominee (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Jeff Award Nominee, Sarah Siddons Scholarship; Education: Stella Adler: Art of Acting; M.A. New Arts Journalism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; B.A. Theatre & Advanced Management, minors in Stage Combat & Voice Over, Columbia College Chicago. @almanyanarula
Maya Vinice Prentiss (Intimacy Choreographer) is an SAFD Certified Actor-Combatant, Fight Choreographer, and Dialect Coach. Steppenwolf: Miz Martha. Chicago: Clyde’s, How to Catch Creation, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre); Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre) Eclipsed (Pegasus Theatre Company); An Octoroon (Definition Theatre Company). Regional: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (TheatreSquared); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, and Caesar (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Origin Story (Illinois Theatre). Film: Jade. Television: The Chi (Showtime). Awards: Jeff Award- Best Fight Choreography (Ethiopianamerica), Best Ensemble (Marie Antoinette). Education: BFA in Drama, Spelman College; MFA in Acting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kate DeVore (Vocal Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached 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, 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.
Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 85+ productions over the past 35 years, most recently No Man’s Land. 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 and has been a member of Actors Equity Association for 33 years.
Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 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: world premieres of Cambodian Rock Band, A Doll’s House Part 2, Office Hour (South Coast Repertory) and productions with Geva Theatre Center, Florida Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Mason Street Warehouse. Kat is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan.