Sam Shepard’s (Playwright) first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1964. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theatre groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of a Crime and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love, True West, A Lie of the Mind and Buried Child, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame two years later. As a writer and director, he filmed Far North and Silent Tongue. As an actor, he appeared in numerous films, including The Right Stuff, Days of Heaven and Resurrection. His final works of prose, The One Inside and Spy of the First Person, were published in 2017, the year of his death.

Jeremy Herrin (Director) Theatre includes: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Chichester); People, Places and Things (Trafalgar Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); A Mirror (Trafalgar Theatre); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); A Mirror (Almeida); Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End, South Bank Show Award for Best Theatre Production); All My Sons (The Old Vic); The Visit, or the Old Lady Comes to Call; The Plough and the Stars; Statement of Regret (National Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/ Headlong/ West End/ UK tour/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); This House (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatres/ West End); Labour of Love (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); The Nether; That Face; South Downs; Absent Friends; Death and the Maiden; The Glass Menagerie (West End); Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/ West End/ Broadway, Evening Standard Award for Best Director); Junkyard; The Absence of War; The Nether (Headlong); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (International Tour); The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Almost Famous (Old Globe, San Diego); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Haunted Child; The Heretic; Kin; Spur of the Moment; Off the Endz; The Priory (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); Tusk Tusk; The Vertical Hour; That Face (Royal Court); South Downs; Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre); Marble (The Abbey, Dublin); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse); Blackbird (Market Theatre, Johannesburg). Jeremy Herrin was previously Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre, Artistic Director of Headlong and is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions.

Todd Rosenthal (Scenic Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Noises Off, Purpose, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), Mary Page Marlowe and many others. Select Broadway: August Osage County (Tony), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Tony Nom), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Of Mice and Men, This is Our Youth, Straight White Men, Linda Vista. International: August Osage County (London, Australia); Nice Fish, Downstate (London); Madama Butterfly, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Ireland). Exhibitions: Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition; International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes, Victoria: T-Rex. Rosenthal also designs in Chicago and at many regional theaters. Awards: USITT Distinguished Achievement, Olivier, Helen Hayes, Ovation, Joseph Jefferson, Michael Merritt. Professor, Northwestern. Graduate, Yale Drama.

Raquel Adorno (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Thanksgiving Play, POTUS, Describe the Night. Chicago: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Antigone, Gospel at Colonus, The Island, The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor of Venice (Court Theatre); Measure for Measure, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Little Women, Dial M for Murder, Georgiana and Kitty, Intimate Apparel (Northlight Theatre); Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, The Band’s Visit, Wife of a Salesman (Writers Theatre). Regional: Waitress, Rent (The MUNY); Choice, The Wolves (McCarter Theatre Center); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 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 www.raqueladorno.com

Heather Gilbert (Lighting Design) recent Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include Leroy and Lucy, Little Bear Ridge Road, POTUS, Another Marriage, Bug (Jeff Award), Dance Nation, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT. Broadway credits include Parade (Tony nomination) and The Sound Inside (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Cult of Love (Second Stage).  Regional credits include Actor’s Theatre Louisville; The Muny St Louis; Goodman Theatre; Center Theatre Group; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Alley Theatre; American Repertory Theater; Magic Theatre. Off Broadway credits include Barrow Street Theatre, Audible at the Minetta Lane, and Atlantic Theatre Company. M.F.A. The Theatre School at DePaul University. 

Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design and Original Music) is excited to return to Steppenwolf having previously worked on Little Bear Ridge Road, 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.

Kate DeVore (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, Purpose, a home what howls (or the house what was ravine), POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, 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 (most recently, Betrayal and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, A Red Orchid Theatre, Drury Lane, Second City, Piven Theatre Workshop, Writers Theatre, Theo Ubique, and Chicago Dramatists. Film/TV credits include The Outfit, Ripley, and Caddo Lake. More about her books and coaching services at TotalVoice.net.

Jonathan L. Green (Dramaturg) is the Director of New Play Development for Steppenwolf where his most recent dramaturgy credits include the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Purpose. Previously Green was the Director of New Works for Goodman Theatre, where his dramaturgy credits included the world premieres of Christina Anderson’s How to Catch Creation, Rogelio Martinez’s Blind Date, Charles Smith’s Objects in the Mirror, and Doug Wright’s, Scott Frankel’s and Michael Korie’s War Paint, as well as works in development by Charise Castro Smith, Octavio Solis, Abe Koogler, Bess Wohl, Paola Lázaro, and Dave Harris. As a director, he has worked with Sideshow Theatre, Steppenwolf, Diversionary Theatre, TheatreWorks, Greenhouse Theater Center, Silk Road Rising, Playwrights’ Center, and more. Green served as the Artistic Director of Sideshow Theatre Company from 2007-2020. 

Samantha Kaufman (Fight and Intimacy Choreographer) she/her Chicago: Betryal (Goodman Theatre); The Flying Dutchman, Jenufa, Proximity, Rigoletto, Le Comte Ory, Carmen, Fidelio (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Her Honor Jane Byrne (Lookingglass Theatre). Regional: The Tempest, Revenge Song, The Importance of Being Earnest, Fat Ham (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Breaking the Waves (Houston Grand Opera); Eclipse (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Cake (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Hair (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Clue, The Folks at Home (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Julius Caesar (Indianapolis Shakespeare Company). International: 40+ various Shakespeare productions (Prague Shakespeare Company). SamanthaJKaufman.com

JC Clementz, CSA (Casting) is the Casting Director and an Artistic Producer at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Highlights include the world premieres of Linda Vista (also Los Angeles, Broadway) and The Minutes by Tracy Letts, Downstate by Bruce Norris (also National Theatre, UK), and Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over, which was filmed at Steppenwolf by Spike Lee. JC holds an MFA in Directing from Western Illinois University and frequently directs productions across the country. jcclementz.com

Jessica Ronane CDG CSA (Casting) Theatre includes: The Little Foxes, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Ulster American, The Caretaker, People, Places and Things, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Mirror, The Glass Menagerie (Second Half Productions), Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Lehman Trilogy (West End), Pygmalion, A Christmas Carol, Lungs, Present Laughter, Girl from the North Country, The Master Builder (The Old Vic). Television includes: True Detective: Night Country. Film includes: Queer (Luca Guadagnino), Good Grief (Dan Levy), Emma. (Autumn de Wilde). Upcoming film includes: After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino), Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho), The Woman in Cabin 10 (Simon Stone).

Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 85+ productions over the past 36 years, most recently Noises Off, Little Bear Ridge Road, 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.

Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, a home what howls, POTUS, 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.