Tom Stoppard (Playwright) Stoppard’s most recent play, Leopoldstadt, opened at Wyndham's Theatre in 2020 and transferred to Broadway in 2022. It won multiple Awards, including an Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist in Bristol. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention Of Love, The Coast Of Utopia, Rock’n’Roll, Dogg’s Our Pett, New-Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Hard Problem. Adaptations include Tango, Undiscovered Country, On The Razzle, Rough Crossing and Dalliance. Translations include The Seagull, Henry IV, Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The House Of Bernarda Alba and Largo Desolato. He wrote eight Evening Standard Award-winning plays, and five of his plays won Tony Awards.

Radio plays include Darkside (set to Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon), On ‘Dover Beach’, If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge (Italia Prize Winner), M Is For Moon Among Other Things, The Dissolution Of Dominic Boot, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending A Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In The Native State. Television adaptations include Parades End (BBC/HBO), A Walk On The Water (from Enter A Free Man), Three Men In A Boat and The Dog It Was That Died. Original television screenplays include Another Moon Called Earth, A Separate Peace, Neutral Ground, Teeth and Professional Foul, which won awards from BAFTA, the Broadcasting Press Guild and Squaring The Circle. He adapted his television dramatisation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat for BBC Radio.

Screenplays include Anna Karenina, Despair, The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Brazil, Empire Of The Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate, Poodle Springs, and Shakespeare In Love (with Marc Norman), which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a Golden Globe and the Broadcast Film Critics and American Guild Awards for Best Screenplay 1998. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which won the Prix d’Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990 for Best Film.

Tom Stoppard was a CBE and was knighted in 1997.

CAREY PERLOFF (Director) is a director, playwright, producer and educator who was the Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco from 1992- 2018,and of the Classic Stage Company in New York from 1986 - 1992. At A.C.T. and in New York, Perloff staged eleven of Stoppard’s plays with the playwright in residence, a collaboration that spanned over thirty years and culminated in her 2022 book PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR’S VIEW (Bloomsbury 2022). Perloff continues to direct and write for theaters across America. Recent work includes The Cherry Orchard and Waste at Marin Theatre, Leopoldstadt and The Lehman Trilogy at the Huntington and her own play Vienna Vienna Vienna at Six Points in St. Paul. Upcoming: OEDIPUS: KING/COLONUS at Playmakers and BETRAYAL at Marin. This production is dedicated to my mother Marjorie Perloff nee Gabriele Mintz, who fled Vienna in 1938. Careyperloff.com 

KEN MACDONALD (Scenic Designer) has designed for all of the major theatre companies in Canada as well as many major theatres across the United States. Notable designs include: Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre/Shakespeare Theatre Company); Frankenstein: Revived, Private Lives, Moby Dick (Stratford Festival); The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring (Vancouver & Tapestry Opera); A Thousand Splendid Suns (ACT, San Francisco); Anything Goes, Newsies (Arena Stage); Sweet Charity, When We Are Married (Shaw Festival); Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Overcoat, (Canadian, US and UK tours). 

Awards include a Gemini Award, a Betty Mitchell Awards, four Dora Awards, a San Diego Critics Award and seventeen Jessie Richardson Awards.

ALEX JAEGER (Costume Designer) is thrilled to make his design debut for Writers Theatre with this masterpiece, Leopoldstadt. He works nationally as a costume designer as well as teaching at UCLA. Some credits include Two Sisters and a Piano for the Public Theater in N.Y., Mr. Burns for the Guthrie, Other Desert Cities and A Parallelogram for the Mark Taper Forum as well as many productions for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Huntington Theatre in Boston, Great Lakes Theatre in Cleveland and with Carey Perloff at A.C.T in San Francisco. You can see a full resume and photographs of his work on his website www.alexjaegerdesign.com. 

TOM WATSON (Hair, Wig and Makeup Designer)

KEITH PARHAM (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

JANE SHAW (Sound Designer & Original Music)

TOMMY RAPLEY (Choreography & Intimacy Director)

AMBER WUTTKE (Violence and SFX Coordinator) is delighted to return to Writers Theatre with this production! Her work was last seen in the award-winning Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 and the current hit, JOB. She has choreographed for movement, dance, and fights for over a decade, including being a co-founder of Violent Delights; an award nominated stage combat and intimacy design team in Chicago. Select recent credits include: The Full Monty (Paramount Theatre); The Wedding Singer, 9 to 5 (Metropolis); Annie, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, Brigadoon, Pippin (Music Theater Works); The Crucible, Macbeth (Invictus Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune (Elsinore Ensemble). | @violentdelights_chi

EVA BRENEMAN (Text Coach) is delighted to be back at Writers Theatre. Writers credits include: As You Like It, Translations, The Last Match, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arcadia. RECENT CHICAGO: Heartbreak Hotel (Marriott Lincolnshire); Top Girls (Raven); Pot Girls (The Story Theatre). Billie Jean (Chicago Shakespeare); Primary Trust (Goodman).

Other Chicago theatres: Steppenwolf, Court, Timeline, Lookingglass, Northlight, Shattered Globe, Remy Bumppo, Drury Lane. BROADWAY: Airline Highway (Samuel Friedman Theatre). OFF-BROADWAY: Boswell (59E59). REGIONAL: Romeo and Juliet (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Boswell (Next Act); ten seasons -- American Repertory Theater; The Chinese Lady (Denver Center); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville).

CHARLES HAUGHLAND (Dramaturg)

DREW LICHTENBERG (Dramaturg)

KATIE GALETTI, CSA (Casting Director) is the Artistic Producer and Casting Director at Writers Theatre in Glencoe and a member of CSA. She also serves as the Casting Consultant at Remy Bumppo Theatre in Chicago, and is a freelance casting director regionally. In addition to her casting work, Katie produces and directs events of multiple genres, including opera, digital, experiential, and film. She's worked with Little Cinema Digital, 13Exp, and HERE Arts & Culture Consulting as a producer, is the founder and Artistic Director of Janus Concert Series, and is a founding member of the Chicago Opera Collective. Outside of theater, Katie is a volunteer with Resilience Chicago as a Sexual Assault Crisis Advocate and a classically trained vocalist. More information can be found at www.katiegaletti.com.

KATIE KLEMME (Stage Manager)

FAITH HART (Assistant Director)

KIRK OSGOOD (Youth Performer Supervisor)

LAUREN PORT (Youth Performer Casting)

ELLE ERICKSON (Assistant Costume Designer)

JOSIAH CROEGAERT (Assistant Lighting Designer)

LAUREN PETERS (Assistant Stage Manager)

JAKE SNELL (Assistant Stage Manager) is a graduate from Loyola University Chicago where he studied theater and psychology. This is Jake’s first show at Writers and he is thrilled to work with such amazing artists and his dream team, Katie and LP. Recent credits include work with Northlight Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Black Ensemble Theatre, Definition Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, and Trap Door Theatre. Jake would like to thank his family and friends for their endless love and support and the entire cast and crew for all their hard work!

BRADEN ABRAHAM (Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Artistic Director) joined Writers Theatre in 2022 as the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Artistic Director. In his first two seasons, he directed Translations and Eurydice. Previously, as Artistic Director of Seattle Rep, Braden directed six world premieres and over 20 productions, including True West, Clybourne Park, Photograph 51, Betrayal, Luna Gale, A View from the Bridge, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. While at Seattle Rep, he revitalized the New Play Program, commissioning and premiering works by playwrights including Anna Zeigler, Samuel D. Hunter, and Cheryl L. West. Many projects developed under his leadership gained acclaim nationwide, including Irene Sankoff and David Hein's Come From Away and the exclusive production of David Byrne's Here Lies Love outside New York and London. His final initiatives at Seattle Rep included 20x30: Reimagine the Anthropocene, commissioning twenty new plays by 2030, and New Directions, a program supporting generative work from directors. Around the country, Braden has developed new work at Ojai, O'Neill, Denver Center, and Perseverance Theatre. He has been a guest artist at Stanford, Gonzaga, and Seattle University. Braden is the co-creator of Sound Place Love, an audio installation about the life and work of Emmy-Award winning sound ecologist Gordon Hempton.

 KATHRYN M. LIPUMA (Executive Director, Writers Theatre) joined Writers Theatre as Executive Director in 2007, where she serves as lead producer, overseeing all management, administration, and operations for the company. She led the fundraising, planning and construction of Writers Theatre's new $34 million performing arts center, designed by internationally renowned architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects.  Prior to Writers, Kate spent nine seasons as Executive Director at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre Company in New York. At Signature, she worked with and produced plays and programs from such acclaimed writers as Edward Albee, Lee Blessing, Horton Foote, Maria Irene Fornés, John Guare, Bill Irwin, Romulus Linney, Arthur Miller, Paula Vogel, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson. During her tenure, she helped create and launch Signature’s groundbreaking $15 Ticket Program. Prior to her time at Signature, she spent six years with Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Kate currently is the President of the Producers’ Association of Chicago Area Theatres (PACT), an association of Chicago area theatres operating under the Chicago Area Theatre contract; is on the Board of Directors for Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide advocacy coalition; and the Board of Directors and Past Chair of the League of Chicago Theatres, an alliance representing more than 200 Chicago-area theater companies and producers. She is also the Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.  She is also the co-creator of DoNorth, an umbrella organization joining four cultural neighbors—Chicago Botanic Garden, Kohl Children’s Museum, Ravinia Festival and Writers Theatre—to attract new audiences to the cultural, environmental and community activities of Chicago’s North Shore. She was born and raised in the West Suburbs of Chicago and is a graduate of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.