Samuel D. Hunter (Playwright) grew up in Moscow, Idaho and lives in New York City with his husband and daughter. His plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Case for the Existence of God (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, Hull-Warriner Award), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Greater Clements (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Honoree), Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing and The Harvest, among others. His screenplay adaptation of The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser, was nominated for the 2023 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received two Oscars, including Best Actor. He was also a writer and producer on all four seasons of FX’s Baskets. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and Juilliard.

Joe Mantello (Director) recently directed David Ives and Stephen Sondheim’s Here We Are at the Shed. Broadway directing credits include: Grey House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hillary and Clinton, Three Tall Women (Tony nom.) The Boys in the Band, Blackbird, The Humans (Tony nom.), Airline Highway, The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Other Desert Cities, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, Laugh Whore, November, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nom.), Wicked, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Love! Valour! Compassion!  (Tony nom.) Off-Broadway: Dogfight, The Pride, A Man of No Importance, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Corpus Christi. As an actor he has appeared in American Horror Story: NYC (FX), Hollywood, The Watcher (Netflix), The Normal Heart (HBO, Emmy Nom.) and FEUD Season 2: Capote vs. The Swans (FX). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nom.), Angels in America (Tony nom.). Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Clarence Derwent, Obie, Joe A. Callaway and SDCF “Mr. Abbott" awards. Member of the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Scott Pask (Scenic Design) Steppenwolf: Airline Highway. Chicago: The Book of Mormon (Broadway in Chicago) and The Barber of Seville (Chicago Lyric). Selected Broadway: Grey House, Gutenberg!, Shucked (Tony Nomination.), Some Like It Hot (Tony Nom.),  Ain’t No Mo’, American Buffalo (Tony Nom.), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2020), The Prom, The Band’s Visit, Mean Girls, Waitress, Something Rotten!, It’s Only a Play, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, Pippin (Tony Nom.), The Book of Mormon (Tony Award, also London, Australia,  National Tours), The Pillowman (Tony Award, also National Theatre, London), The Ritz, Promises Promises, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nom. Drama Desk Award), HAIR, Pal Joey (Tony Nom.), November, 9 to 5, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Awards), Nine, Take Me Out, and Urinetown. He designed the Emmy Award winning specials John Mulaney - Kid Gorgeous at Radio City and Baby J. Also for Netflix, Hasan Minhaj - The Kings Jester (Art Directors Guild Award nom.) and Oh Hello.  Also: Peter Grimes, Metropolitan Opera, and Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna.  @scottpaskstudio

Jessica Pabst (Costume Design) Chicago: Murder on the Orient Express, Steel Magnolias, And Then There Were None (Drury Lane); Roe (Goodman Theatre), Regional: The Whistleblower (Denver Theatre Center); Clarkston, Fortress of Solitude (Dallas Theatre Center); A Permanent Image (Boise Contemporary Theatre); Cost of Living, A Great Wilderness, (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Broadway: Cost of Living, Marvin’s Room, The Heidi Chronicles. Select Off Broadway: Marjorie Prime, The Qualms, Pocatello, The Whale (Lucille Lortel Award) (Playwrights Horizons); The Harvest, Her Requiem, Kill Floor (Lincoln Center); The Few, Buyer and Cellar, The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick Theatre); Murder Ballad (Manhattan Theatre Club) jessicapabst.com

Heather Gilbert (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include POTUS, 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 Dead Outlaw (Audible), 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.

Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design) is excited to return to Steppenwolf having previously worked on No Man’s Land, 1919, Dance Nation. Other collaborations include Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center Theatre), I Love You So Much I Could Die and How To Defend Yourself (New York Theater Workshop), and Mexodus (Baltimore Center Stage, Mosaic Theater, Berkeley Rep). Audio production work includes various projects with Audible, WBEZ, and Make-Believe Association, including their recent Tribeca Festival featured sci-fi series “Lake Song” (winner of the 2023 Signal Award for Original Music). Other awards include the 2024 Michael Merritt Award, 2022 Tony Award for Sound Design, and multiple Lucille Lortel and Jeff Awards. He is a proud member of USA and TSDCA and is currently serving as Practioner-In-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.

John Baker (Dramaturg) Off Broadway: A Case for the Existence of God (Signature); Greater Clements (Lincoln Center); Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick); Among the Dead (Ma-Yi); A Bright New Boise (Partial Comfort). Co-founder & Artistic Director of Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency; former Director of Artistic Programs at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth, and Artistic Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival; 10+ seasons as a dramaturg with The O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference. Training: BA, Boston University; MFA, The University of Iowa.

Gigi Buffington (Voice & Text Coach) Steppenwolf: Eight Seasons; Broadway: Stereophonic, The Outsiders, Mother Play, Prayer For The French Republic, Grey House, Cost of Living, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men; Off- Broadway: Jonah, Stereophonic, Lucy; Evanston Salt Cost’s Climbing, Catch As Catch Can, Camp Siegfried, Corsicana, On Sugarland, Prayer For The French Republic, Heroes of the Fourth Turning; International: Downstate, 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, Ts (director), Five Seasons at APT; Film: Text Consultant for Spike Lee’s Prince of Cats. Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, VASTA.

Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 85+ productions over the past 36 years, most recently Purpose. 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 34 years.     

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