Suzan-Lori Parks (Playwright) is a multi-award-winning American writer/musician and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently enjoyed its twentieth anniversary Broadway revival. The production won the 2023 Tony Award, (Best Revival Of A Play). Last season she had new works which received world premieres, notably, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Sally & Tom and, at Joe’s Pub in New York City, Plays for the Plague Year (winner of The Drama Desk Award for Best Music in a Play). As a college student, Parks studied creative writing with James Baldwin, who encouraged her to begin writing for the theatre.

Steve H. Broadnax III (Director) Broadway: Thoughts of a Colored Man. Additional: Branden Jacobs- Jenkins's Appropriate at the Old Globe, Suzan-Lori Parks's Sally and Tom at the Public Theatre/ Guthrie Theatre (World Premiere), Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize Premiere The Hot Wing King at Signature Theatre, Lee Edward Colston’s The First Deep Breath, Geffen Theatre (Jeff Awards Best New Work), Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby at Signature Theatre and Blood at the Root at the National Black Theatre (Winner of Kennedy Center's Hip Hop Theater Creator Award) and William Jackson Harper’s Premiere Travisville Ensemble Studio. Ensemble Studio Theatre member, Associate Artistic Director at People’s Light Theatre, Professor of Theatre at Penn State University, and Head of MFA Directing.

Arnel Sancianco (Scenic Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, We Are Proud to Present…, The Crucible. Chicago: Fat Ham, The Nacerima Society…, Lottery Day; I Hate it Here; Ohio State Murders; The Sound Inside (Goodman Theatre); Athena, A Doll’s House (Writers Theatre); The Falsettos, The Mousetrap, Photograph 51, The Belle of Amherst (Court Theatre). Regional: Rent, Once On This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Appropriate (The Old Globe) Put Your House in Order (La Jolla Playhouse); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Huntington); I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Denver Center); Aint No Mo (Woolly Mammoth); The Great Leap (Asolo Rep); The Lifespan of a Fact (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Arnel currently is the head of Scenic Design at UC Berkeley. Instagram @ArnelDesigns www.ArnelDesigns.com

Raquel Adorno (Costume Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Fool for Love, The Thanksgiving Play, POTUS, Describe the Night. Chicago: A Raisin in the Sun, 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

Jason Lynch (Lighting Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 1919, Choir Boy (Jeff Award). Chicago: Fat Ham, Inherit the Wind, English, Lucha Teotl (Jeff Award nom.), The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years, Layalina, the ripple, the wave that carried me home, Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, I Hate It Here, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Hymn, Beauty and the Beast, I, Cinna, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Lynch is represented by The Gersh Agency. jasondlynch.com | @jasonlynch.design

Curtis Craig (Sound Designer & Composer) Regional: Old Globe, Guthrie, Geffen Playhouse, People’s Light, Cleveland Playhouse, Lantern Theater, Syracuse Stage, Denver Center Theater Company, Philadelphia Theater Company, and many more. NYC: Signature Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Apollo Theater, New York Fringe. World Premieres: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally & Tom at the Guthrie, Dominique Morriseau’s Bad Kreyol and Confederates at Signature Theater, Mud Row at People’s Light and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap, Denver Center. Music: A classical music producer and engineer for releases on CRI, Albany, Gasparo, and Chandos records. Awards: World Stage Design Gold Medal in Sound Design for the American Premier of Frankenstein (Calgary 2022), Gold Medal in Sound Design for Pentecost (Seoul 2009), and a Silver Medal for Sound Design for All The Way (Taipei 2017). AUDELCO Award for Sound Design, Confederates (2022). Barrymore Award for music & sound design for Bonez (2024). Associate Professor of Sound Design, School of Theater, Penn State University. www.curtiscraig.com

Rasean Davonté Johnson (Projection Design) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Great Leap, Ms. Blakk for President, La Ruta, You Got Older and BLKS; Steppenwolf for Young Adults: The Burn and Brothers Size. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers Theatre, Court Theatre, Manual Cinema. Regional: The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Portland Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Portland Opera, Woolly Mammoth Theatre. He is the Director of Design for TAPS at the University of Chicago and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. raseandavontejohnson.com.

Maya Vinice Prentiss (Fight and Intimacy Consultant) is an Actor-Combatant, Fight & Intimacy Choreographer, and Dialect Coach. Steppenwolf: Miz Martha, Last Night and the Night Before, POTUS, A Home What Howls, Leroy and Lucy. Chicago: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Remy Bumppo); FAT HAM, Penelopiad, Clyde’s, How to Catch Creation, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre); Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Night Watch (Raven), Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (Jeff Award, The Story Theatre) Eclipsed (Pegasus Theatre Company); Duchess of Malfi (Babes with Blades); An Octoroon, EthiopianAmerica (Jeff Award), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down, Judy’s Life’s Work, An Educated Guess (Definition Theatre Company). Regional: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (DCPA); School Girls (TheatreSquared); Q Bros Christmas Carol (STL Shakes); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). Film: Jade, Nya Does Nothing, PLENUM. Television: The Chi (Showtime), Donut Boyz (Pilot). Education: BA, Spelman College; MFA, U of I at Urbana-Champaign.

Kate DeVore (Dialect & Voice Coach) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she coached Fool for Love, 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), 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. 

Michelle Medvin (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Leroy and Lucy, Sanctuary City, 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.

Jaclynn Joslin (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Leroy and Lucy, Little Bear Ridge Road, 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: A Raisin in the Sun, East Texas Hot Links, 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!