Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Detroit by Steppenwolf Theatre Company

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4 WELCOME from Artistic Director MARTHA LAVEY 16 LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Playwright Lisa D’Amour discusses Detroit with Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl

22 AMERICA’S TRIPLE DREAM: Second Chance for the First Ring

This innovative new play development program offers three playwrights a distinctive opportunity resulting in a fully staged production while allowing our audiences unprecedented access to the creation of new work.

By Associate Producer REBECCA RUGG

THE ETIQUETTE OF VIGILANCE

THE NORTH PLAN

What’s your favorite book about or set in suburbia?

by Jason Wells directed by Kimberly Senior

28 UNFREEZING THE PLAY

THE OLD MASTERS

by Robert O’Hara directed by Timothy Douglas A contemporary meditation on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, O’Hara’s poignant new play asks us to consider the wounds still healing in Chicago from the days of city-sanctioned segregation.

by Sam Marks directed by Daniel Aukin In Marks’ new drama about creative authenticity, frustrated artist Ben Schmitt starts to wonder what might happen if he takes advantage of a missing friend’s burgeoning fame.

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By Director of Artistic Development POLLY CARL

In Wells’ new dark comedy, a man imprisoned in a small-town Missouri jailhouse claims to possess a giant database containing the name of every American citizen slated for persecution by a new, unchecked governmental regime.

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W E LC O M E

We are our “family selves,” our “work selves,” our “just-among-friends selves,” our “all alone selves” and, increasingly, our “multiple online selves.” Are we lying? No, we’re human. We are a multiplicity of selves. Like the actor on stage, we construct personae that are me/not-me in any given situation. In any given situation we live simultaneously in a public/private self. The dynamic tension of these various selves can provide a creative space in which we can re-invent who we are: the self we create in one space— virtual or real—might provide a way to try on an aspirational self, to play the role of who we’d like to be or become. It’s this terrain that we are interested in exploring this season in five plays that make vivid this human dynamic.

Welcome to Steppenwolf's 35th season. We are delighted that you have joined us for the world premiere of Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit. I encourage you to return to Steppenwolf for our season-long conversation about Our Public/Private Self. When we considered a theme relevant to the way we live now, we were intrigued by the idea of the public/ private self in contemporary culture. The myriad of communication technologies that have gained currency over the past decade have pressurized the dynamic tension between our public and private lives. The 24-hour news cycle has made elusive the maintenance of privacy in the lives of our public figures: whether in the arena of politics, entertainment or sports, we have witnessed the disclosure of their intimate lives. Social networking websites have provided a platform for the anonymous to give voice and visibility to the minute details of their most private thoughts and behaviors. Facebook and MySpace provide platforms for the construction of a public self that gives permission to whatever level of intimacy a person chooses to mine. People clamor to participate in reality TV to expose their private interactions to a world-wide audience. YouTube provides a venue for the broadcast of whatever ideas and intimacies seize the participant's imagination. Twitter makes possible the constant broadcast of our thoughts, opinions and current activities. It's not surprising that the rules surrounding access and privacy, taste and decorum, are undergoing constant revision.

In Detroit, we meet two couples at a moment of re-invention. Both couples are committed to revising the narrative of their lives and their roles in that narrative. To start their lives over, they try on the identity of suburban homeowners. The setting Lisa has provided for these couples is eloquent: the play is set in a suburban community outside of Detroit, a city in desperate need of re-invention. Suburbia is the Eden to which they have migrated to escape the detritus of a previous, failing life (for which Detroit stands as a metaphor). We learn that the identity of their suburban neighborhood, built in the late ’60s, has been conceived around metaphors of “light.” The subdivision is called “Light Houses” and the streets all take their names from the concept of light: “Sunshine Lane,” “Ultraviolet Lane” but also “Feather Boulevard.” This conflation of light in both its meanings of illumination and weightlessness is marvelously clever: we understand that their journey away from the dark center of their lives is a search for illumination that is, at bottom, weightless, untethered. (“Holy shit!” says Kenny, “Helium Street.”)

The theater is a particularly appropriate venue to interrogate questions of the public and private because the essential action of the theater is the disclosure of private lives for a collective, public audience. We watch the characters in a drama in their homes, at work and play, in their most intimate relationships, all within the conceit that they do not know they are being watched. The “truth” of their lives is revealed to the extent that they have not constructed a persona: they are being overseen, discovered, by a public audience. They are not broadcasting self, they are being.

Helium, indeed. The giddiness that ensues as the couples explore their new lives explodes into a backyard bacchanal that prompts Ben to shout, “I'm feeling like telling the truth!” The burden of Ben's public face, his aspirational self, is laid down and the momentary exultation of coming to “zero” is promptly succeeded by Mary's question, “But what are we going to do?” Detroit is a wonderfully insightful exploration of our public/private negotiation of self. Lisa offers us an imagining of what it means to find the ground zero of our lives. What happens next? What is beautiful about the play is the way Lisa weaves these lives into the larger narrative of the American dream. The suburban home is the putative Eden of the American dream: home ownership, family, a neighborhood. This is the public face of the American dream. What is its private life? The front yard/backyard metaphor that Lisa deploys throughout the play is an eloquent expression of the way that we organize our lives in community. The final image of the play is one expression of what the collapse of those boundaries looks like. Mary's question hangs in the air: “...what are we going to do?”

It's a complex conceit. Because, of course, the actor playing a character knows full well that s/he has constructed a character who is being watched. The actor designs a performance to convey a self, the actor plays a role, and in the strange alchemy of the theater, both the self of the actor and the essence of the character merge. For the actor, the role is a not-me condition that is, nonetheless, a deeply personal condition of being. Theater has been described as “lying in the service of the truth.” The fiction of the play is designed to reveal the deeper truths of our lives. There’s a delicious irony in play: the fiction of the play promises a deeper insight into human truth than everyday behavior can provide. And why? Because we spend so much of our lives hiding our truths. Part of the social contract we make with one another is to play our roles, to respect the conventions of any given social situation, to cooperate with the script.

— Artistic Director Martha Lavey

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Artistic Director Martha Lavey †

Executive Director David Hawkanson

DETROIT A new play by: Lisa D’Amour Directed by: ensemble member Austin Pendleton

Featuring: Kevin Anderson†* Kate Arrington†* Ian Barford†* Robert Breuler†* Laurie Metcalf†*

Scenic Design: Kevin Depinet + Costume Design: Rachel Healy + Lighting Design: Kevin Rigdon + Sound Design and Original Music: Josh Schmidt + Dramaturg: Polly Carl Choreographer: Tommy Rapley Fight Choreographer: Matt Hawkins Stage Manager: Michelle Medvin* Assistant Stage Manager: Rose Marie Packer*

Lisa D’Amour is an inaugural recipient of a new multi-play commission made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Individual Sponsor for Detroit is Merle Reskin. New work at Steppenwolf is also sponsored by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Zell Family Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and members of the Directors Circle. The Residency of Lisa D’Amour is partially funded by Frances Wilkinson.

ComEd is the 2010-11 Season Lighting Sponsor AT&T is the Corporate Sponsor of Post-Show Discussions

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communication Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater. Pictured: ensemble member Laurie Metcalf Photo: Saverio Truglia

†Member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers +Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of the IATSE.

S R O T U B I R T N O C & T S CA CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE LAURIE METCALF †* _________________ Mary KATE ARRINGTON†* _________________ Sharon KEVIN ANDERSON†* _________________ Kenny IAN BARFORD†* ____________________ Ben ROBERT BREULER†* _________________ Frank

SETTING PLACE _______________ A “first-ring” suburb outside of a mid-sized American city. TIME ________________ Now. There will be a post-show discussion immediately following the performance.

UNDERSTUDIES KARIN ANGLIN __________________________ Sharon, Mary ANDREW J. STEN ________________________ Frank RON THOMAS ___________________________ Ben, Kenny

ADDITIONAL STAFF ERICA DANIELS Casting Director

EMILY GUTHRIE Properties Overhire

ADAM GOLDSTEIN Assistant Director

KELLY CROOK Stage Management Apprentice

ANTHONY WERNER Assistant Dramaturg

Carpenters ANDREW BERG JOHN GINTER CHRISTOPHER GRUBB

GINA PATTERSON Lighting Assistant BRENDAN CONNELLY Assistant to the Sound Designer, TCG Design Fellow JOANN WHITE Charge Scenic Artist MELISSA RUTHERFOORD Assistant Charge Artist

Painters EMILY ALTMAN ZOE SHIFFRIN

† member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble.

* member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

KEVIN ANDERSON (Kenny) just

KATE ARRINGTON (Sharon) joined the

returned from London’s West End and Dublin as Andy Dufresne in the new stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption. An ensemble member since 1984, other plays at Steppenwolf include I Never Sang for My Father, Our Town, Three Sisters, Earthly Possessions and Orphans, which took him to New York (Theatre World Award), London’s West End and eventually the movie with Albert Finney. Other Chicago credits include A Guide for the Perplexed (Victory Gardens); Pal Joey and Death of a Salesman (The Goodman); among others. Broadway and off-Broadway include Death of a Salesman (Outer Critics and Drama Desk awards, Tony® nomination), the musical Brooklyn, Orpheus Descending, Moonchildren, Brilliant Traces, The Red Address, Speaking in Tongues and Summer and Smoke. Other London theatre credits include the original Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard and Dinner with Friends. Some of his films include Charlotte’s Web, Miles from Home, In Country, Sleeping with the Enemy, Liebestraum, Hoffa, The Night We Never Met, Rising Sun, Firelight, A Thousand Acres, Eye of God, Doe Boy and the new Al Pacino docu-drama Wilde Salome. Cable films include Orpheus Descending, The Wrong Man, Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, Ruby’s Bucket of Blood, Monday Night Mayhem and Power and Beauty. He starred in the TV series Nothing Sacred, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Steppenwolf ensemble in 2007. She has appeared at Steppenwolf in A Parallelogram, Fake, When the Messenger is Hot, The Well-Appointed Room, The Pain and the Itch and The Violet Hour. Recently, Kate appeared in Happy Now? offBroadway (Drama Desk nom., Best Play). Kate also appeared as Regan in King Lear with Stacy Keach at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. and The Goodman Theatre. New York theatre credits include work at the Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club (Biltmore Theatre), 59E59 Theater, Classic Stage Company, Soho Repertory, The Mint Theatre and HERE. Regional theatre credits include the Goodman Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Maine State Shakespeare Theatre and North Carolina Theatre. Her film credits include The King of Irontown and The Missing Person. Kate is a graduate of Northwestern University where she majored in Performance Studies. This one is for her family, her beautiful new one and of course, the original.

IAN BARFORD (Ben) has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 2007. This past summer Mr. Barford originated the role of Dr. Khassan Baiev in The Oath at the Weston Playhouse, based on Dr. Baiev's autobiography of the same name. Credits at Steppenwolf

S R O T U B I R T N O C & T S CA include: Endgame, Up, Art, August: Osage County (also Broadway and London’s National Theatre), The Crucible, Betrayal, Love Song, Lost Land, Three Days of Rain, The Berlin Circle, The Libertine, As I Lay Dying, Time of My Life, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and others. Additional Chicago credits include: All the Rage and Design for Living (Goodman); Othello (Chicago Shakespeare); and Mad Forest (Remains). In Los Angeles: The Weir, God’s Man in Texas and Take Me Out (Geffen Playhouse); and Dead End (Ahmanson). Film and TV credits include: Road to Perdition, 13 Going On 30, The Beast, Medium, Numbers, Without A Trace, Zoey 101, The Last Rites of Joe May and many others.

ROBERT BREULER (Frank) joined the ensemble in 1987. His last Steppenwolf production was Of Mice and Men. His favorite roles were Andrei Botvinnik in A Walk In The Woods, Big Daddy in Cat On A Tin Roof, Les Moss in The Infidel, Pa Joad in The Grapes Of Wrath, Father Lux in Our Lady Of 121st Street and The Armenian in Time Of Your Life. Broadway shows include The Grapes Of Wrath, Carousel, The Song Of Jacob Zulu and Death Of A Salesman. He has worked at The Goodman, Northlight, Playmakers in North Carolina, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, American Conservatory Theatre, The Guthrie, Hartford Stage Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Persephone Theatre of Saskatoon, the National Theatre of London and His Majesty’s Theatre of Perth—Western Australia. He most recently starred in the Film Acres

Independent Production of The Brother. His all-time favorite role is The Devil in Stravinski’s L’Histoire du Soldat with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Films: The Crucible, A Piece of Eden, Love and Action in Chicago, Shimmer, Trial By Jury, Painted Heart, Miles From Home, Purple Haze and the forthcoming Lac de Flambeau. Television: Prison Break, Early Edition, NYPD Blue, Angel Street, Keeper of the City, Father Clements Stor, The Untouchables— The Series and BBC’s Darger and the Detective. He has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 36 years. He is the recipient of a William and Eva Fox Fellowship.

Jason Isaacs. Other TV credits include The Beast with Patrick Swayze, LIFETIME’s Family Practice, FOX’s Prison Break, NBC’s E.R., CBS’s Turks and ABC’s Cupid. Film credits include Mr. 3000, The Watcher, Kwik Stop and Dirty Work with Detroit director Austin Pendleton. Karin also records a myriad of TV and radio voiceovers. Her favorite roles are wife to Trevor and mom to Liam and Fiona.

ANDREW J. STEN (u/s Frank) is very happy and honored to be working at Steppenwolf for the first time. He was last seen by Chicago audiences as Judge Wargrave in …And Then There Were None (Viaduct Theatre). Other credits include Hunger and Thirst (A Red Orchid Theatre); Petrified Forest, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui and Screwtape Mary-Arrchie Theatre); and No Place To Be Somebody and Confessional (Chicago Actors Ensemble). He has also appeared in many commercials produced and directed by Joe Sedelmaier. He gives special thanks to family, friends, teachers and directors with whom he has worked, particularly Joe Sedelmaier, Michael Shannon and Richard Cotovsky.

LAURIE METCALF (Mary) has been an ensemble member since 1976. Her many Steppenwolf credits include Frankie and Johnny, Purple Heart, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Pot Mom, Balm in Gilead, True West, My Thing of Love, Libra, Educating Rita and Coyote Ugly. For the Geffen Theater in LA, her credits include Looking for Normal, The Quality of Life, and All My Sons (also at the National Theatre in London). In NY she recently appeared in November (Tony® nomination) and A Lie of the Mind (OBIE award). Recent films include Scream II, Leaving Las Vegas, JFK, Desperately Seeking Susan, Internal Affairs, Toy Story and Uncle Buck. She was a series regular for nine years on Roseanne and for three years on Norm.

RON THOMAS (u/s Kenny, Ben) is stoked to be working on his first production at Steppenwolf. Recent credits include: Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth and Much Ado about Nothing (Utah Shakespearean Festival); And Then They Came for Me... (The Skokie Theatre); Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Richard III (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). Ron earned his MFA in Theatre Arts from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

KARIN ANGLIN (u/s Sharon, Mary) is thrilled that her return to the stage is kicked off at Steppenwolf. Prior to working on Detroit, Karin filmed Pleading Guilty, a pilot for FOX with

LISA D’AMOUR (Playwright) writes plays

for theaters and creates interdisciplinary performance. She often makes work with her collaborator, Katie Pearl. Currently, they are creating How to Build a Forest, a performance installation that will premiere at The Kitchen in New York City in June 2011. Other recent projects include Terrible Things, a dancetheater piece she created with Pearl and choreographer Emily Johnson (PS122 in New York), Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (a performance for a fleet of seven handmade boats on the Hudson River designed by SWOON) and Stanley 2006 (a solo she wrote for her brother Todd to perform, HERE Arts Center in New York). Lisa’s work has been presented by theaters such as Salvage Vanguard, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, the Walker Arts Center, Crowded Fire Theater, Children’s’ Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, New Georges, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf and the Women’s Project, and has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, NYSCA, the MAP Fund, Creative Capital and the NEA/TCG Residency for Playwrights. She received an OBIE Award along with Katie Pearl and Kathy Randels for Nita & Zita, and received the Alpert Award in the Arts for theater in 2008. Lisa often collaborates with ArtSpot Productions in her hometown of New Orleans. She is core alum of the Playwrights’ Center and a recent alumna of New Dramatists. lisadamour.com / pearldamour.com

AUSTIN PENDLETON (Director) has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1987. His acting credits at Steppenwolf include The Sunset Limited, Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso and Educating Rita. His previous directing credits at Steppenwolf include Love Song, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,

S R O T U B I R T N O C & T S CA Harvey, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Three Sisters, Loose Ends and Say Goodnight, Gracie. His play Orson’s Shadow premiered in the Steppenwolf Garage and was seen again in the same production (directed by David Cromer) at the Chicago Center of Performing Arts and the Barrow Street Theatre in New York. His other plays have also been produced in Chicago: Uncle Bob (Steppenwolf) and Booth (Writers’ Theatre). He recently appeared in the Public Theater production of Mother Courage and Her Children and appeared on Broadway in the revival of The Diary of Anne Frank and off-Broadway in the title roles of Hamlet, Richard III and Richard II. His film credits include Dirty Work, The Ballad of Betty Page, A Beautiful Mind, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Simon, Trial and Error, What’s Up Doc, Catch-22 and the forthcoming Wall Street 2. Recent TV appearances include episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, OZ and Homicide.

KEVIN DEPINET (Scenic Design) is delighted to be working with Steppenwolf once again where he last designed American Buffalo, Dublin Carol, First Look Repertory of New Work (2008 & 2009). Other Chicago credits include The Crowd You’re In With, High Holidays (Goodman Theatre); What the Butler Saw (Court Theatre); The Emperor’s New Clothes (Chicago Shakespeare); Oh Coward! (Writers’ Theatre); Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ragtime (Drury Lane). Regional credits include: American Buffalo (McCarter Theatre); Another Part of the Forest, The Comedy of Errors (American Players Theatre); The Complete Work of William Shakespeare (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); and Around the World in 80 Days (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Mr. Depinet also worked on Michael Mann’s new film Public Enemies.

JOSH SCHMIDT (Sound Design and Original Music) is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf, where recent credits include The Tempest, Love-Lies-Bleeding, A Tale of Two Cities, Things Being What They Are and World Set Free. Other Chicago credits as composer/ co-author: A Minister’s Wife (Writers’ Theatre); ADD1NG MACH1N3 (Next Theatre). As composer/sound designer: productions at Writers’ Theatre (Associate Artist), TUTA, Northlight Theatre, Next Theatre, Seanachai, others. On Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs (with Fitz Patton). Off-Broadway: as Composer/Co-Author– ADD1NG MACH1N3 (Minetta Lane); Whida Peru (59E59); Incidental Scores: When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center); Fifty Words (MCC Theater); others. Regionally, he has designed over 100 productions at venues across the country.

He studied at Ball State University and The Yale School of Drama and is now an adjunct professor of design at DePaul University.

RACHEL HEALY (Costume Design) returns to Steppenwolf where she previously designed Love Song and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Based in Chicago, Ms. Healy’s costume designs have been seen on various stages including The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, American Theater Co., Next Theatre, TimeLine Theatre. Regionally, she has designed with the Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theater of Milwaukee, American Players Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre. Ms. Healy is also a professor at DePaul University teaching costume design and drawing techniques to theatre designers. Website: rahealy.com

POLLY CARL (Dramaturg) joined Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a newly created position, Director of Artistic Development in September 2009. Carl produces the Garage Series—nine plays in repertory, oversees new play development and commissions and participates in season planning. Prior to Steppenwolf, she served 11 years at the Playwrights’ Center— seven as Producing Artistic Director. At the Center, Carl programmed the Ruth Easton Lab and served as the Lab’s lead dramaturg. Carl has sat on numerous boards, panels and committees including the Steinberg Advisory Committee to select their distinguished playwright award—the Mimi, the NEA Theater panel and the MAP Fund panel. Her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society is from the University of Minnesota.

KEVIN RIGDON (Lighting Design) returns to Steppenwolf where he has designed the scenery and lighting for more than 110 productions since 1976. Other credits include the Broadway productions of The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu, The Caretaker, The Old Neighborhood, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ghetto, A Streetcar Named Desire and Our Town. In London, his credits include Orphans, Waiting for Godot and You Never Can Tell. Kevin is the Associate Director/Design for the Alley Theatre and Head of Graduate Design at the University of Houston.

TOMMY RAPLEY (Choreographer) is best known for his work with The House Theatre of Chicago where he has choreographed 18 world premieres including The Sparrow, Cave With Man, The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan, The Valentine Trilogy and The Nutcracker. He has choreographed regionally with Hartford Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other notable Chicago credits include: DORIAN (Bailiwick); 100 Dresses (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Threepenny Opera (The Hypocrites); and Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the Midwest premiere of Yeast Nation (American Theater Company). Tommy is thrilled to be working with Steppenwolf for the first time on Detroit. MATT HAWKINS (Fight Choreographer) is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf after working on A Separate Peace. Most recently he directed the remount of Red Noses (Strawdog) and was last seen as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers’ Theatre). This fall he will be serving as the Movement Director for Peter Pan at Lookingglass. Matt is a Founding Member of The House Theatre of Chicago, an Artistic Associate and Resident Director with Strawdog, an Artistic Associate with 500 Clown, the recipient of two Non-Equity Jeff Awards and a graduate of Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. MICHELLE MEDVIN (Stage Manager) is pleased to return to Steppenwolf. Her recent credits include Blue Door (Victory Gardens) and Endgame, Fake, Art and Dublin Carol (Steppenwolf). Also at Steppenwolf: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Crucible, August: Osage County, The Pillowman, The Unmentionables, Love Song, The Well-Appointed

S R O T U B I R T N O C & T S CA Room, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Theatrical Essays, The Fall to Earth, Man From Nebraska, Purple Heart (also traveled to Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival), We All Went Down to Amsterdam and others. Additionally, Michelle has worked with Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Portland Center Stage. She is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity, a graduate of Smith College and married to Mary.

ROSE MARIE PACKER (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Steppenwolf for Detroit. Additional credits include The Brother/Sister Plays, The Seafarer, Superior Donuts, Tranquillity Woods, The Unmentionables, Love Song, The Well-Appointed Room and Last of the Boys (Steppenwolf); Nixon’s Nixon, The Turn of the Screw and The Puppetmaster of Lodz (Writers’); The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Lady with all the Answers (Northlight); Elmina’s Kitchen, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Black Nativity (Congo Square); Looking for Normal, Floyd Collins and A Man of No Importance (The Circuit Playhouse); and Funny Girl and The Game (Barrington Stage Company).

MARTHA LAVEY (Artistic Director) has been an ensemble member since 1995 and has appeared at Steppenwolf in Endgame, Up, Good Boys and True, Love-Lies-Bleeding, Lost Land, I Never Sang for My Father, The House of Lily, Valparaiso, The Memory of Water, The Designated Mourner, Supple in Combat, Time of My Life, A Clockwork Orange, Talking Heads, SLAVS!, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Ghost in the Machine, A Summer Remembered, Love Letters, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Savages. Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight and

Remains theaters and in New York at the Women’s Project and Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Three Arts, USA Artists and the City Arts panel of Chicago. Lavey holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is a member of the National Advisory Council for the School of Communication at Northwestern and is Board President of TCG. She is a recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award and an Alumni Merit Award and honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University.

DAVID HAWKANSON (Executive Director) prior to Steppenwolf was the Managing Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the artistic leadership of Joe Dowling. Before the Guthrie, he served for eight years as the Managing Director of Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut with Artistic Director, Mark Lamos. Earlier in his career, he was Managing Director of the Arizona Theater Company and a Guest Administrator at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. He was a former senior staff member at the National Endowment for the Arts and subsequently chairman of its Theater Program. He has also had an active career as an arts consultant and trustee for such national organizations as the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Ford Foundation’s Working Capitol Fund, National Arts Stabilization Fund, the League of Resident Theatres, Theatre Trustees of America, Theatre Communications Group and the American Arts Alliance. He currently serves as a trustee of Door County’s Peninsula Players and the League of Chicago Theatres and is Chairman of the Illinois Arts Alliance.

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Playwright Lisa D’Amour discusses Detroit with Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl

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POLLY CARL: Lisa, the play is called Detroit, but you specify in the script that it’s not necessarily set in Detroit itself. Would you tell us about the play’s setting and how it’s important in the story you’re telling?

LISA D’AMOUR: Well, the play is set in what’s known as a “first ring” suburb—these are the first suburbs that were built near urban areas. These suburbs have houses that are older, smaller houses, built over 40 or 50 years ago. In my mind, the title Detroit could certainly mean Detroit, but I think this neighborhood could also exist on the edges of many other cities in the U.S. When it was built in the 1960s, it was the picture of American Optimism—all the streets in the play are named to evoke a feeling of “light.” In 2010, however, the original houses still standing are starting to fall apart; others have been bulldozed to build homes twice as big.

LD: There is a general anxiety in the play about what it means to be a middle class American. What are the expectations when you are trying for the American Dream? Couples like Mary and Ben (who we meet in Detroit) are biding their time, hoping to save enough money to move to a newer development. However in many ways, their home is all they have—they aren’t particularly connected to their neighbors, or their jobs. Perhaps their home is a kind of lifeboat? It almost seems like whatever is “out there” is scary to them. They’d like to venture “out there,” and perhaps “in there” to places in themselves they have never gone. But that might mean sacrificing a kind of security. So yes, perhaps that is the significance of the setting of the play: it is a “known” place to Mary and Ben, a place that is familiar but maybe a little ill-fitting, like a shirt you bought a year ago that doesn’t quite fit right anymore.

PC: At the core of the play there seems to be a kind of uneasy feeling or anxiety around this suburban setting. What’s the source of the anxiety?

LD: I think the characters in this play desperately want to reveal their true selves to others. But they are deeply scared. When they relate their dreams, it’s like they accidentally take their shirts off and reveal something mysterious that they cannot name. Dreams and dream logic show up a lot in my plays. I love giving audiences the chance to free associate, to track an idea or image through a play, at first not knowing what it means, and letting meaning accrue. We don’t have a lot of time to think sideways in our daily lives—we’re too busy trying to get from point A to point B. We should be allowed (and encouraged) to think in circles when we are in the theater, to see what provocative ideas we might stumble across.

PC: Dreams figure prominently in many of your plays, as in Detroit. What do you think our dreams reveal about us? Do you see a relationship between the language of dreams and the language of theatre?

The metaphor is so overt: a dwelling which is supposed to represent safety and security is failing us. While the suburban setting is essential to the play, I think perhaps it is people who have passed through my life that have been the greatest source of inspiration: friends or family members who are stuck in jobs that they totally hate, but are too afraid to get out of; other people I know turning to substance abuse or other forms of escape to avoid facing the demons in their lives. I know a lot of amazing people who are miserable because they are too afraid to take a risk and venture into something that is unknown to them. And sometimes I think America runs on fear of the unknown. What happens when the unknown moves in next door to you? What can you learn? What assumptions can you let shatter? PC: I want to talk just a little about how we have commissioned you to write two plays through a grant we received from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and we’ve asked you to keep Steppenwolf’s ensemble members in mind while you’re writing. Have you written plays before with particular actors in mind? How does that impact your process?

LD: I did not have a typical suburban upbringing. My early years were actually spent in West Virginia and we moved to Harahan (15 minutes from downtown New Orleans) when I was 10. Sometimes when I picture the houses in Detroit, I do picture that first street we lived on, Park Ridge Drive, a street that had like five different home designs that alternated down the street. So perhaps there is a little influence there, in terms of the look of the play. To be honest, the main source of inspiration was a small detail I read in an article about “first ring” suburbs, which is that many of them were built in the ’60s, but the plywood used to build them has a shelf life of like 40 years, so the walls of these houses are literally caving in, betraying the very notion of “house.”

PC: You’ve lived in New Orleans, Minneapolis and now New York. Do you have first-hand experience with suburban living? What did you rely upon as you imagined the landscape of the play: any particular experiences, images, books, articles, movies?

LD: I have written for a company of actors in mind. I was commissioned by the NEA to write a play for Infernal Bridegroom Productions in Houston. I worked with that company for a year, writing a play inspired by Texas ghost towns. We took a lot of road trips to different either dying or dead towns and I wrote a play inspired by the trips and the actors.

I’ve also had the experience of writing for children’s theater, where I wasn’t writing for particular actors in mind, but for a particular theater space and for a particular audience—a young audience. I got a lot of guidance as I worked through that play about what it meant to write for a specific group of actors. So yes, I have experience but writing for the Steppenwolf ensemble is a completely new and exciting challenge. Such experience! Such range! I’m like that proverbial kid in that even more proverbial candy store.

steppenwolf PC: You’re known as a multidisciplinary artist. You’ve done performance art and challenging site specific productions, which are perhaps more intimate and different than the Steppenwolf stage. How does it feel to write for a large space in mind?

LD: I love working in intimate spaces and I think my plays work well with them. I think I did write this play with a smaller space in mind because that’s what I’m most familiar with. Right now, I’m in the process of meeting with designers who are designing for the Steppenwolf mainstage. A 500 seat theater—talk about the unknown!

It’s transforming the play a little bit, and in a really positive way. While the characters seem “everyday” when the play opens, their lives take some epic shifts as the play moves forward. I think the overall design we can achieve in such a large theater is going to allow these shifts to live in ways I would never be able to see in a smaller space. In terms of the next play I will write for Steppenwolf – it’s allowing me to go to a place that’s kind of epic, even with a smaller cast size. American Buffalo has this epic feel with a cast of three. There is such a history of magnitude at Steppenwolf—plays and performances that are larger than life. This gives me so much room to dream big about what I can write for this company. LD: The play takes place entirely outdoors—in the frontyards and backyards of the characters’ houses. There’s a distinct difference between the conversations that happen in the front yard and in the back yard and there are a lot of questions about what is going on inside the houses of the neighbors. There’s a moment in the play when Mary, who has been living in the neighborhood for quite some time, goes inside the house of this new couple. When she comes out, it seems her perception of them has completely changed. She’s come a little closer to their “private self” and it makes her uncomfortable. In some ways I feel like the whole play is about the opening up of the private self to the public self.

PC: One last question. Detroit is kicking off a season in which we are looking at the relationship between our public and our private selves. Do you have any thoughts about the play in this regard?

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CHICAGO’S YOUNG PROFESSIONAL LEADERS. Socializing with like-minded civic leaders at special events Supporting Steppenwolf’s education programs through the annual Red or White Ball * Making a difference for the next generation of theater-enthusiasts

Steppenwolf Theatre: A Home for Playwrights

Lisa D’Amour

A recent grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed Steppenwolf to enshrine our core value of ensemble in a new playwright commissioning program. We have commissioned Lisa D’Amour (author of Detroit) and Tanya Saracho (adaptor of The House on Mango Street), the program’s inaugural playwrights, to create two new plays each for the Steppenwolf ensemble. Over the next three years, Steppenwolf will commission two additional playwrights, who along with D’Amour and Saracho, will write a total of eight new plays for the theatre’s ensemble. By committing to a two play sequence with each writer we are making concrete the implicit promise of ensemble. We are investing in the voice of the writer and removing anxiety about the commission as a “test.” By providing them access to the ensemble and to our audiences on an ongoing basis, we are placing emphasis on integrating the writer into the culture. We hope you will join us in welcoming Lisa and Tanya into their new home here at Steppenwolf.

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Tanya Saracho * 2011 Red or White Ball is taking place on Friday, April 8, 2011. Call 312-654-5681 for more information.

Plywood has a lifespan of 40 years. Over time, the glue that holds plywood together dries up. Then, walls buckle, split and peel. Panels pop loose. Rooms, doors and windows morph into trick-or-treat versions of themselves. —Herbert Muschamp, New York Times, October 19, 1997

On the page, Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit begins with the epigraph above. In the full article, The Nation; Becoming Unstuck On the Suburbs, famed architecture critic Herbert Muschamp describes how the building materials of the “first ring” suburbs—subdivisions of single-family homes built around metropolitan cores from the post-WWII period through the mid-1970s—are wearing out. Along with the literal glue, so too is the social glue of these communities wearing thin. He declares a state of emergency in the suburbs, where what historian Dolores Hayden calls a “Triple Dream,” of house plus land plus community, has long failed to materialize as residents have hoped. Muschamp notes that “some planners believe that the recycling of the “first ring” is the key to determining the way that Americans will live in the next 50 years.” He asserts that the reinvention of the “first ring” is crucial to the health of the cities they border. By extension, the health of the suburbs can also be seen as crucial to the health of the nation as a whole and its life blood, this triple-faceted American Dream.

AMERICA’S TRIPLE DREAM SECOND CHANCE FOR THE FIRST RING By Associate Producer: REBECCA RUGG

As a city dweller working in a major cultural institution, this interdependence makes sense to me. Since the 1950s and ’60s “white flight” from urban centers, to today’s redevelopment of the urban core as desirable high-end real estate, the lives and fortunes of cities and the people who live in them have long been intertwined with how people live just outside metropolitan zip codes and school districts. Do “first ring” suburbanites come downtown, into cities, to work, eat and see plays? Or, do they commute the other direction, farther out, to work and shop in the second and third rings of development, where some corporations have bypassed the city altogether, opting for convenience of the nearby airport, assigned parking spaces for all employees, gigantic mall, big box strip and hotel? If the latter, what are the implications then for downtown museums, parks and theater districts? In preparation for Steppenwolf’s production of Detroit, I was curious to investigate what seemed at first to be a simple stage direction for the play’s setting in a “first ring” suburb. I wondered when were the suburbs built, and why? What dreams and drives inspired people to move there in the first place? Who lives there now and who doesn’t? Of course, the play itself is a meditation on all these questions and its answers illuminate how community itself is conceived in today’s United States. And it does so in the way that only storytelling can. These questions are especially immediate to Steppenwolf and our audiences as we open a season centrally concerned with the nature of the divide between public and private life.

LEAVE IT TO BEWITCHED. The architecture of “first ring” suburbia in the post-WWII period was made immortal by the TV sitcom. Father Knows Best, Make Room for Daddy, The Dick van Dyke Show and Bewitched (with its interesting difference) dramatized a particular family ideal that can look bizarre from a contemporary perspective. Though suburbia seems to sidle up so naturally to a post-WWII cultural aesthetic, the story of how people live inside or at the edge of cities is as old as cities themselves. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first usage of the word suburb circa 1380, and provides references from Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton! In the U.S., from the 1820s, there is a lively history of ideas surrounding the movement of people to the edges of cities and beyond.

KEEP OFF THE GRASS. Dolores Hayden’s comprehensive Building Suburbia describes several evolving patterns of suburban development in the U.S.: the building of individual estates in borderlands around cities began in 1820, primarily for an affluent elite who wanted and were able to escape the noxious industry of city life. By the 1850s, this impulse had developed into a communitarian ideal of the “picturesque enclave,” in which groups of country homes were built with nearby common space, often featuring natural aspects of the landscape, such as a waterfall, to promote community

life. To enshrine the ideal of shared beliefs, developers and residents began limiting access to communities on the basis of ethnicity, race and class. Pricing was the clearest way to ensure an affluent community, but other means to guarantee exclusivity were codified over time. The conflict over segregation in housing is one of the most infamous parts of America’s built history. Redlining mortgages for certain groups along lines of race and class became a common practice in the twentieth century, followed by more formal restrictive local covenants. The fight for federal legislation against housing discrimination and court battles to defend it once it passed are yet another chapter. The story is linked to the shift in class demographics of the suburbs which came in the 1870s with the advance of readily available utilities. Streetcar buildouts grew the city in a hub-and-spoke linear geometry, as housing developers partnered with transportation entrepreneurs to entice working-class city dwellers to buy lots of undeveloped open space at the end of streetcar lines.

urban scale with what we now call the “first ring” suburbs, which appeared in the mid-1940s, largely as a response to the need for housing returning veterans and their families. The most famous of the early first ring are named for their developer, William Levitt, the “father of modern suburbia,” whose “Levittowns” in Long Island and New Jersey remain today, though their plywood buckles with age. These patterns of suburban development reflect the borderland as the place where across the decades, Americans have played out their dreams for, among other things, community, family, spiritual life and private property. Suburban residents’ “triple dream” of a community, a house and unspoiled land is at odds with increased development and the other American Dream: profit. For developers, lawyers and utility owners, the suburbs were the location of other kinds of ambitions. From the use of plywood that breaks down after 40 years, is the implication that the dream developers were selling need only last until the contract was signed and payment made in full? Mid-century developers often provided no infrastructure for the groups of houses they built— no utility access, no ongoing management of the subdivision and in some cases, no plan for waste or sewage. These failures sometimes led residents to create community out of emergencies—their need for schools, for instance—and to incorporate, to tax themselves to pay for necessary services.

ONE SIZE FITS ALL. In 1900, mail order and self-built suburban homes became all the rage and people began to order pre-fabricated homes from Sears Roebuck and other catalog companies, with a dream of erecting them by hand. From the prefab, mail-order home, it was just a short distance to the midcentury developers who essentially took the same idea into mass production and

Today’s frontline of development is no longer the post-war “first ring,” whose homes are falling into disrepair, although, as Detroit shows us, these neighborhoods remain the site of dreams for many people. Contemporary developments go by many names in the annals of architectural thinking and urban studies. Galactic metropolis, regional city, sprawl city, postsuburb, technoburb, exurb, outer city, shock suburb, outtown, edge city, boomburb, exopolis—these are all terms coined since the 1980s by those trying to describe contemporary patterns of settlement, and trying to solve the suburban state of emergency that Muschamp declared in 1997. The history of the suburbs and the play’s narrative beg the question, what is today’s triple dream? Do “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” still translate in material terms to home plus land plus community? Or, is today’s American Dream composed of other ideals entirely? Safe passage to school, a sustainable environment, internet access for all? How might a better understanding of today’s ideals help create a second chance for the first ring?

Sources: Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000. New York: Pantheon, 2003. Herbert Muschamp, “The Nation; Becoming Unstuck On the Suburbs,” The New York Times, October 19, 1997.

WE ASKED THE ENSEMBLE... WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE BOOK ABOUT OR SET IN SUBURBIA?

Austin Pendleton: I think maybe my favorite book about suburbia is still The Collected Stories of John Cheever. Those stories are printed in the order he wrote them and they start before World War II, so of course suburbia doesn't enter the picture for a while in the book. But when it does, everything changes. America changes. Peoples' souls change. He captures it wittingly and harrowingly, as Lisa does in this play.

Kate Arrington: Well, it feels a little weird to say because this book has since taken on a greater significance for my family, but my favorite book about suburbia is definitely Revolutionary Road. (Footnote: it was the very first gift I ever gave to Michael [Shannon] long before there was any notion of a movie being made). I love it because it is such a flawless marriage of hilarious and tragic. And also because it documents the beginnings of suburbia in our country and the circumstances that led people to choose that lifestyle. Yates begins the novel with a John Keats quote: “Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!” I think of that sentiment often as I read Detroit. I actually think it's probably a pretty amazing quote to contextualize any artistic work set in suburbia. Robert Breuler: I loved John Updike's Rabbit novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and others. A personal note: suburbia actually terrifies me. It's terra incognito or rather terra obscura, both really, to me, I bring my passport with me whenever I go out there. They drive like maniacs and live under a different code of ethics. But don't get me started on that one.

Laurie Metcalf: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates, is set in a Connecticut suburb. It was written in 1961 but seems as contemporary to me as Detroit does. Two unlikely couples bond having chosen suburbia. They enjoy the feeling of sophistication the suburb offers, while also being able to blame it for their unhappiness. Win-win situation.

Kevin Anderson: Most of what I read is sort of anti-suburbia! One book that affected me when I was young was On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It's not exactly suburbia, but it's about characters that desperately want out of the conventional suburban life. This kind of writing has always appealed to me, being a child of the ’60s. I first read it totally by chance in an apartment I was subletting in NYC about 25 years ago. It was on the bookshelf there and I just picked it up and was so riveted I couldn't put it down. Growing up in north-suburban Gurnee, I related to these bohemian characters travelling the country exploring possibly a deeper, more spontaneous way of existing. Reading this book definitely inspired my love of travelling and avoiding the kind of settled, suburban lifestyle that most Americans seem to strive for. Ian Barford: I come from a small Midwestern university town called Charleston, Illinois. Suburbia was not something I began to experience until college and even then only rarely. I still feel that my point of view on suburbia is general and fairly uninformed today. As far as books go, the book I would recommend is, weirdly, not American—but Australian. It's called Bliss, by Peter Carey, and it follows a fellow named Harry Joy—a man in advertising. After surviving a major heart attack, he discovers what is meaningful in his life.

freezing the play UN

In his book Violence, Slavoj Zizek, in the chapter ‘Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself!,’ redeﬁnes the term neighbor from both a local and international perspective. He suggests, “What increasingly emerges as the central human right in late-capitalist society is the right not to be harassed, which is a right to remain at a safe distance from others.” In a sense this is a suburban value. Each home in the suburbs is built a safe distance from the next and daily activities move to the backyard where a chain link fence to keep the dog “in” has been replaced by a six foot high opaque “privacy” fence—to keep the neighbors out.

THEATER IS A SERIES OF ONGOING INTERPRETATIONS. THE ARTISTS COME TOGETHER IN A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS SEEKING A MULTITUDE OF POSSIBILITIES FOR THE PRESENTATION OF A PLAY. BUT AT SOME POINT, IN ORDER TO BRING IN THE AUDIENCE, THE PLAY FREEZES AND EVERYTHING IS “FINALIZED.” BUT THE POSSIBLE MEANINGS OF THE PLAY ARE OPEN TO INTERPRETATION LONG AFTER THE CURTAIN CALL. I HOPE TO PROVIDE SOME HEAT TO YOUR POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS—TO THAW WHAT WE’VE TEMPORARILY FROZEN AND INVITE YOU TO COLLABORATE IN MAKING MEANING AND THEATER WITH US.

The suburban condition perpetuates what Zizek would contend is our intense desire not to know each other. A public façade of uniformity on the outside perpetuates the lie of sameness on the inside—enforcing a belief in a human condition driven by similar wants and desires. The myth of the tranquil, peaceful suburb relies on neighbors being alienated from each other. “I know, but I don’t want to know that I know, so I don’t know.” For Zizek the neighbor is the “traumatic intruder—someone whose different way of life disturbs us, throws the balance of our way of life off the rails.” Weeds has been so successful because it turns the “little boxes on the hillside” inside out, exposes every private act and confirms the eventual public impact of what we wish we did not know about the people living next to us, of what we wish we could hide about ourselves. As Sharon says in Detroit, “If you get home and the neighbor is out setting off the timer on their watering system then you look at the ground or maybe give a quick wave and run inside… and when you get inside behind your closed door, quiet in your house, you make a pact with yourself to talk to them the next time.”

Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same. These 1962 Malvina Reynolds lyrics that open the Showtime series Weeds evoke an image of the kind of ﬁrst tier suburb described in Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit. The song is a reﬂection of static mid-20th century America where we all wanted the same things—the American dream of job, family and home ownership.

by Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl

The great attraction to Weeds is the way it subverts its theme song, subverts the idea that the suburbs perpetuate a comforting familiarity and sameness among neighbors. It’s a show about a neighborhood where the houses might look the same but the neighbors aren’t what we expect. Nancy Botwin, played by Mary Louise Parker, is a widowed soccer mom who turns to selling pot to keep her family living in the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed. Nancy is the opposite of the traditional mini-van driving suburban mom. Her desire to escape her circumstances puts her suburban community of Agrestic at risk—at risk of becoming the center of a large drug trade and at risk of eventually (over six seasons) of burning right to the ground. Weeds suggests that even if our houses look the same, our neighbors’ lives are a mystery.

Although I don’t live in the suburbs, I do have neighbors. When we moved to our little bungalow a year ago there was a jar of homemade cherry jam on the front stoop from our neighbors. What a perfect welcome! But then every time we saw them in the yard they never acknowledged us. We realized that the jam was a way of saying “hi” and please respect our desire to be left alone. Detroit takes Zizek’s deﬁnition of neighbor as its starting point in part because our alienation from one another in this new economic reality has gone from being privatized to being made fully public through foreclosures and boarded up homes. In this new suburbia, although the neighbor may still be a traumatic intruder, alienation is no longer comforting. The public exposure of private pain (economic and social demise) is so imminent for Detroit’s Ben and Mary that reaching out to their neighbors is a preemptive strike so to speak, some recognition that conditions are such that we can no longer live side by side and ignore one another. Detroit places us in a completely new reality and the play is an opportunity to rethink the purpose of a neighborly backyard barbecue.

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WHAT’S ON AT STEPPENWOLF? COMING UP IN OUR 2010/11 SEASON: DEC 2 2010 - FEB 13 2011

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OCT 12 - NOV 12, 2010

Steppenwolf for Young Adults Presents

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD By: HARPER LEE Dramatized by: CHRISTOPHER SERGEL Directed by: HALLIE GORDON Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this American Classic!

On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple finds themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self-deceptions they forged for their own survival. Ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton face off as one of theatre’s most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee’s hilarious and harrowing masterpiece. Set in Alabama during the Great Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows the journey of Jem and Scout Finch, whose father has been appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of assaulting a white woman. As the trial progresses, Jem and Scout witness their community in a tense tug of war between justice and racism. This timeless classic compels us to take an honest look at our nation’s past and our moral responsibility to each other.

October 27 – November 14, 2010

6TH ANNUAL FIRST LOOK REPERTORY OF NEW WORK Join us in The Garage for three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory, plus a series of free play readings.

THE ETIQUETTE OF VIGILANCE A new play by: ROBERT O’HARA Directed by: TIMOTHY DOUGLAS A contemporary meditation on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, O’Hara’s poignant new play asks us to consider the wounds still healing in Chicago from the days of city-sanctioned segregation.

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In Marks’ new drama about creative authenticity, frustrated artist Ben Schmitt starts to wonder what might happen if he takes advantage of a missing friend’s burgeoning fame.

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The Steppenwolf Ensemble The Steppenwolf ensemble first began performing in the mid-1970s in the basement of a Highland Park church, the ambitious brainchild of three high school and college friends: Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise. Fast forward 35 years and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company has become the nation’s premier ensemble theater—redefining the landscape of acting and performance. The ensemble has grown to 43 members who represent a remarkable generation of actors, directors and playwrights. Thrilling, powerful, groundbreaking productions from Balm in Gilead and The Grapes of Wrath to August: Osage County—and accolades that include the National Medal of Arts and nine Tony® Awards—have made the theatre legendary. Steppenwolf’s artistic force remains rooted in the original vision of its founders: an artist-driven theatre, whose vitality is defined by its sharp appetite for groundbreaking, innovative work.

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Steppenwolf Theatre founders: Jeﬀ Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise Photo by: Sandro

Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, Alana Arenas, Randall Arney, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Robert Breuler, Gary Cole, Kathryn Erbe, K. Todd Freeman, Frank Galati, Francis Guinan, Moira Harris, Jon Michael Hill, Tim Hopper, Tom Irwin, Ora Jones, Terry Kinney, Tina Landau, Martha Lavey, Tracy Letts, John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Mariann Mayberry, Tarell Alvin McCraney, James Vincent Meredith, Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Jeff Perry, William Petersen, Yasen Peyankov, Martha Plimpton, Rondi Reed, Molly Regan, Anna D. Shapiro, Eric Simonson, Gary Sinise, Lois Smith, Rick Snyder, Jim True-Frost, Alan Wilder

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MALCOLM EWEN CHRISTINE D. FREEBURG LAURA D. GLENN MICHELLE MEDVIN DEB STYER ROSE MARIE PACKER KATHLEEN PETROZIELLO Stage Managers CALL CENTER CASEY VANWORMER Call Center Manager PATRICK WALSH Call Center Supervisor LAUREN FISHER CHARLES FRYDENBERG TYLER GREENE MARILYN HILLARY ALISON HOEFNAGEL KIMBERLY MARCANO TERRENCE MOSLEY TOM NEWMAN CARMEN QUISHPE Call Center Representatives

TRUSTEES Sarah Beardsley David H. Blake Carole L. Brown Terri L. Cable Michael Cahan Keith Cardoza Elizabeth H. Connelly Beth Boosalis Davis J. Scott Etzler Rich Feitler John N. Fox, Jr. Scott P. George Lawrence M. Gill

AFRICANAMERICAN FELLOW NORA TAYLOR APPRENTICES MICHAEL HUEY KENDRA MILLER JESSICA ROSENLIEB JOELLE WEBER MARIA GERBINO AARON PIJANOWSKI RICHARD FIELDS MORGAN WASHINGTON LAUREN SIVAK KELLY KERWIN HENRY RIGGS ERIN DODD LIESL PEREIRA JESSICA KORPELA OLIVIA CASTILLON KELLY CROOK ASHLEY SINGH

Robert J. Greenebaum, Jr. John H. Hart John Hass Charles H. James III George A. Joseph David S. Kalt Donna La Pietra Martha Lavey Janet Melk Charles G. Mueller Geoff Nyheim Susan A. Payne David C. Pisor Kenneth J. Porrello Mark L. Prager Grace M. Puma Deborah H. Quazzo Merle Reskin Michael R. Salem John R. Samolis Manuel “Manny” Sanchez Nancy Schumacher Anna D. Shapiro Avy H. Stein John R. Walter Willard L. Woods, Jr.

EMERITUS TRUSTEES J. Robert Barr Lawrence Block Gloria Scoby NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS Joan Allen Carolyn Bivens Lynette Harrison Brubaker Michael J. Cavanagh John H. Costello Edward R. Erhardt Matthew J. Scheckner Gary Sinise PAST CHAIRPERSONS William L. Atwell Larry D. Brady Douglas R. Brown Laurence Edwards John N. Fox, Jr. Elliott Lyon Gordon Murphy William H. Plummer Bruce Sagan Gloria Scoby Donna Vos

TRUSTEE SPOTLIGHT Carole L. Brown is Senior Managing Director at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L.L.C., heading the firm’s Chicago office, managing the firm’s Midwest municipal underwriting practice and leading numerous national accounts. Carole also serves on several boards. In September of 2003, she was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley as Chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority Board, a position she held through September 2009.

J. R. LEDERLE Lighting Supervisor ERNESTO GOMEZ House Electrician

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Without the gifts of generous individuals our productions would not be possible. Steppenwolf is a not-for-proďŹ t organization and ticket sales cover less than half of operating expenses.

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45% Contributions 46% Ticket Sales 9% Additional Income A gift of any amount makes a diďŹ&#x20AC;erence. Ways to give Online at www.steppenwolf.org/support Call Steppenwolf, at 312-654-5615 Mail Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 758 W North Avenue 4th Floor Chicago IL 60610 Visit the box office

The Brother/Sister Plays, 2010

SEASON SPONSORS

STEPPENWOLF SALUTES OUR SEASON SPONSORS

STEPPENWOLF PROUDLY THANKS OUR INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION SPONSORS ENDOWMENT SPONSORS Nancy L. Wald Production Endowment Fund Hope Abelson Fund for New Play Development John and Carol Walter Production Endowment Fund

LEAD SPONSORS Merle Reskin* Joyce Chelberg

Avy and Marcie Stein Sustaining Fund for the Ensemble Daniel E. McLean National and International Production Fund Richard and Mary L. Gray Production Endowment Fund

Tom Smithburg and Colette Cachey Smithburg Susan and Harry Seigle* Helen Zell*

Tim Cavanagh Jim and Sheila Clary Ellen M. Costello Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

Sharon Fairley David and Mimi Fiske Katie and Brian Flanigan

CONSORTIUM SPONSORS

CORPORATE PRODUCERS

CORPORATE INVESTORS

CORPORATE BACKERS

American Express AT&T Foley & Lardner LLP Fortress Data Management The James Hotel Motorola Foundation PEAK6 Investments LP The Talbott Hotel

Abbott Labs BOKA/Landmark The Grainger Foundation Mesirow Financial Northern Trust

Baxter International, Inc. Chopper Trading, LLC Ernst & Young LLP Illinois Tool Works Foundation The McGraw-Hill Companies Newcastle Limited PointBridge

Orli and Bill Staley David Herro and Jay Franke Julie and Roger Baskes* Philip and Janice Beck Douglas R. Brown* Sean and Nora Daley Conroy* Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly* The Harris Family Foundation* Mr. and Mrs. King Harris Kathy Harris Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Szokol Mr. and Mrs. William Friend Mr. and Mrs. John Harris Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Lynn Lockwood Murphy and Barrett B. Murphy* The Negaunee Foundation

George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman Martha Lavey, Nina B. Winston John Hart and Carol Prins Geoff Goldberg and Lynne Remington, Carol Lavin Bernick Nancy and John DiCiurcio John H. Hart and Carol Prins Weezie and Jack Kramer Janet Melk Beth and J. Barry Mitchell Jaclyn Warren Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Bob and Trish Barr Melvyn E. Bergstein Cathy and Michael Brennan

Gordon and Wendy Gill Dianna and Jim Goldman M. Julie and Michael Gustafson David R. Hawkanson, Kathie and Robert Kolodgy Julie and Fred Latsko Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall Judith and Jeffrey Silverman Kimo Williams

* Multi-year commitment to the Steppenwolf Ensemble Fund

Contact Brooke Walters, Director of Major Gifts, at 312-654-5601 or bwalters@steppenwolf.org to learn more about this unique way to support the work on our stages.

For more information on how you can support Steppenwolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic initiatives as a sponsor or corporate partner, please contact Katy E. Hall at 312-654-5697 or khall@steppenwolf.org.

All individual sponsorship gifts to Steppenwolf through the year 2011 are being matched by a generous challenge grant from The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust.

INTRODUCING

THE STEPPENWOLF ENSEMBLE FUND

The Steppenwolf Ensemble Fund honors donors who pledge annual support at $10,000 or more for three years. Donors are acknowledged as production sponsors during the term of their commitment. For more information, please contact Brooke Walters, Director of Major Gifts, at 312-654-5601 or bwalters@steppenwolf.org.

A WAY FOR INDIVIDUALS TO PROVIDE THE WORLD-RENOWNED STEPPENWOLF ENSEMBLE WITH THE ANNUAL SUPPORT THEY NEED TO TAKE ON ADVENTUROUS, ARTIST-DRIVEN WORK. YOUR MULTI-YEAR COMMITMENT TO THE STEPPENWOLF ENSEMBLE FUND WILL ENSURE THAT OUR ARTISTS HAVE THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO FULLY REALIZE THEIR CREATIVE VISIONS SEASON AFTER SEASON. ENSEMBLE FUND SPONSORS Merle Reskin Julie and Roger Baskes Douglas R. Brown Sean and Nora Daley Conroy Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. King Harris Kathy Harris Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Szokol Mr. and Mrs. William Friend Mr. and Mrs. John Harris

Barrett B. Murphy and Lynn Lockwood Murphy Harry and Susan Seigle Helen Zell

The Tempest, 2009

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTORS

GRAND BENEFACTORS $100,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation‡ William Randolph Hearst Foundations‡ Joyce Foundation‡ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation*‡ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation‡ Microsoft Corporation* Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust‡ Nonprofit Finance Fund‡ Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. Polk Bros. Foundation*‡ Shubert Foundation, Inc. Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust‡ United Airlines Wallace Foundation‡ Zell Family Foundation

Turner Construction Company Foundation Winston & Strawn, LLP

BENEFACTORS $50,000-99,999 Alphawood Foundation Chicago Community Trust Crain Communications Inc Crain's Chicago Business ComEd Julius Frankel Foundation Harris Bank* JPMorgan Chase & Co.* Northern Trust* PNC Reverb Capital LLC Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust Smart Family Foundation Target Vinci PRODUCERS $25,000-49,999 American Express AT&T* Bank of America* Boeing Company Davee Foundation Foley & Lardner LLP Fortress Data Management

Grosvenor Capital Management Illinois Tool Works Inc.* The James Hotel Motorola Foundation* National Endowment for the Arts PEAK6 Investments LP Saliba Family Charitable Foundation Inc. The Talbott Hotel PATRONS $10,000-24,999 Anonymous (2) Abbott Fund Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Allstate Insurance Company* Baxter International Inc.* Buchanan Family Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Crown Family Dancing Skies Foundation Deloitte DLA Piper LLP (US) Dr. Scholl Foundation Ernst & Young LLP* Feitler Family Fund Field Foundation of Illinois Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Goldman, Sachs & Co. Grainger Foundation Green Courte Partners, LLC Harris Family Foundation Illinois Arts Council InterCall James S. Kemper Foundation Kraft Foods* Macy's Mesirow Financial Navistar, Inc. The Negaunee Foundation Nordstrom Rhoades Foundation Sage Foundation Sara Lee Corporation Seigle Family Foundation Siebert Brandford Shank & Co.

Swett & Crawford Group William Blair & Company, LLC SUSTAINERS $5,000-9,999 Ariel Investments CME Foundation Chopper Trading, LLC Hackberry Endowment Partners Irving Harris Foundation Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. The Grover Hermann Foundation J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Foundation La Trattoria del Merlo LVMH Fashion Group Americas, Inc McGraw-Hill Companies* Newcastle Limited PointBridge Robert J. and Loretta W. Cooney Family Sacks Family Foundation Siragusa Foundation David Yurman

GUARANTORS $1,000-2,499 Anonymous Sidley Austin Foundation Bank of America Foundation Blackman Kallick Blue Foundation Blue Plate Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC Circa Comer Foundation Complete Mailing Service Inc. Gehl Foods, Inc. HUB Midwest Limited Kohler Donald S. Levin Family Foundation McKinsey & Company, Inc. Meltzer, Purtill and Stelle LLC Modestus Bauer Foundation Neal & Leroy LLC New Horizon Foundation Prudential Rubloff Properties Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Sanchez & Daniels Schiff Hardin LLP Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving William Wood Skinner Foundation

SPONSORS $2,500-4,999 Arts Federation City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs Crowe Horwath, LLP Fifth Third Bank Hamilton Thies & Lorch LLP Hayes Mechanical Norcon, Inc National Property Valuation Advisors Suite Home Chicago

‡Multi-year pledge *Corporations and foundations that have made employee matching gifts

Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust’s longstanding support of new work at Steppenwolf has been essential to our growth as a leader in the field. This season the Trust’s sponsorship of First Look Repertory of New Work reaffirms our shared commitment to championing American playwrights. We are proud to partner with the Trust in the ongoing work of developing new plays, new artists and new audiences.

AT&T Communication is a critical part of the world in which we live. As the Corporate Sponsor of Post-Show Discussions, AT&T ensures that the conversation continues long after the show has ended. Offered after every performance at Steppenwolf, these discussions provide a robust outlet for audiences to publicly connect, engaging in challenging and bold conversations around theater.

Target Each year, nearly 2,000 families attend Steppenwolf for Young Adults productions through the Target 2-for-1 Sunday Matinees program. Steppenwolf is proud to partner with Target to reach the Chicago community with thought-provoking plays that speak directly to the lives of teens today. The theater is pleased to continue this important program for the fifth year in the 2010-2011 season.

Talbott Hotel One of the top-ranked hotels in Chicago, The Talbott Hotel offers travelers a unique respite from the everyday in a luxury boutique setting just steps away from Michigan Avenue. We are privileged to feature The Talbott Hotel as Steppenwolf’s Hotel Partner for Detroit, working together to offer guest experiences that capture Chicago’s distinctive culture.

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Visionary Circle

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Directors Circle

We are honored to recognize the following individuals who have included Steppenwolf in their will or estate plans. The esteemed members of the Visionary Circle help ensure the vitality of Steppenwolf for future generations. Contact Sandy Karuschak at 312-654-5621 or sandyk@steppenwolf.org to learn more about the giving options to consider in your estate planning.

Ms. Christine M. Long Steven D. Loucks Jim and Kay Mabie Amos and Anat Madanes Malkin Family Irma Parker Joan and David Parsons Peer Pedersen Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Cari and Michael J. Sacks Robin and Mark Seigle Robert and Nancy Singleton Toni Sandor Smith Jacqueline Tilton Frances Tuite Mr. Daniel C. Ustian Steven L. and Stephanie A. Victor Michael and January Ward Nina B. Winston Robert and Leslie Zimmerman

Anonymous Robert C. Anderson Robert H. Glaze Dr. Paul Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Dr. Edward O. Riley T. Marshall Rousseau Judy Sugarman

We remember the following members of the Steppenwolf family who have made a bequest to the theater. Their legacy will help to ensure that Steppenwolf continues to flourish. Hope A. Abelson Alba Biagini Jo Hopkins Deutsch Marjorie Douglas Nancy L. Wald

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Directors Circle The generosity of Steppenwolf’s Directors Circle members annually provides vital support for Steppenwolf’s many streams of artistic and community programming. In recognition of their contributions, members receive complimentary subscriptions with VIP ticketing services and are invited to private events with the artists of Steppenwolf. To join this distinguished group, call 312-654-5672 or directorscircle@steppenwolf.org. GRAND PATRONS $25,000+ Anonymous David H. Blake Douglas R. Brown Terri L. Cable Joyce Chelberg Jim and Sheila Clary Elizabeth H. Connelly Sean and Nora Daley Conroy Robert and Amy Greenebaum David Herro and Jay Franke David and Susan Kalt Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Charles G. Mueller Geoff Nyheim Susan A. Payne Mark L. Prager Grace Puma Deborah and Stephen Quazzo Merle Reskin Michael R. Salem John R. Samolis Harry and Susan Seigle Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Jane Warner Helen and Sam Zell

DISTINGUISHED PATRONS $10,000-24,999 Julie and Roger Baskes Sarah Beardsley and Theodore R. Tetzlaff Philip and Janice Beck Carol Lavin Bernick Henry and Leigh Bienen Ms. Carole L. Brown Keith and Kathleen H. Cardoza Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Scott Etzler Fred Eychaner Sharon Fairley Alexandra and David W. Fox, Jr. Christine Albright and Lawrence Gill Valerie and Paul Goodrich John H. Hart and Carol Prins Mrs. John M. Hartigan Charles H. James III George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman Michael J. and Kathryn G. Kennedy Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal Martha Lavey

Dr. Paul M. Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Barrett B. Murphy and Lynn Lockwood Murphy Janet Melk James F. Oates Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall Mr. and Mrs. Randall K. Rowe George and Kimberly Ruhana Mr. Patrick G. Ryan, Sr. Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Robert and Louise Sanborn Manuel Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez The George H. Scanlon Foundation Tom Smithburg and Colette Cachey Smithburg Bonnie and James Spurlock Bill and Orli Staley Marcie and Avy Stein Edward A. Studzinski Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Valenti Willard L. Woods, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Wrigley, Jr.

PATRONS $5,000-9,999 Anonymous Loren Almaguer Bob and Trish Barr William Bartholomay Susen H. Berg and James C. Berg Betty Bradshaw Michael and Merle Cahan Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Robert and Loretta W. Cooney Fred J. Costello Patricia Cox, Katie and Will Hunckler Mayor and Mrs. Richard M. Daley Donald Deutsch Joy and Leon Dreimann Mary Jo and Robert Fasan John and Katherine Fox Chris and Joe Galvin Scott and Rita George Gordon and Wendy Gill Richard and Mary L. Gray M. Julie and Michael Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Tariq Hassan Willard and Lori Hunter-The Hunter Family Foundation Dr. Mary Dochios Kamberos Mary Jeanne and John Kneen Robert M. and Diane VS. Levy

SUSTAINERS $2,500-4,999 Anonymous Anthony Anderson Kristopher J. Anderson Andrew and Susan Arnold Candy and Bill Arnold Paula Ausick William and Sharon Baker Kevin Baldwin John and Caroline Ballantine Zoe and Ken Barley Cheryl and Carl Belles Larry and Margaret Benjamin Henry R. Berghoef Susan O. Berghoef Dr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Berman Dr. Mary E. Belford MD and Mr. Ric Berta Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Berto Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Debbie Bricker Ray and Marie Brown Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Cleve Carney Ann and Richard Carr Drs. Rex Chisholm and Kathleen Green Dr. Rosalyn Chrenka Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cohen Pam and Howard Conant Jerry and Josephine Conlon Kate Cornelius-Schecter Ana Cristiano Alecia Dantico Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Maxwell S. Davis and Beth Boosalis Davis Robert and Quinn Delaney Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Philip and Marsha Dowd

Bernard J. Dowling Drs. Thomas E. Durica and Susan Jacob Donald and Anne Edwards Laura and Scott Eisen Richard and Gail Elden Mary M. Emerson Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal Carol and Steven Felsenthal David and Mimi Fiske Harold and Madeline Francke Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Terri and Stephen Geifman Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Richard E. Ginsberg Ethel and Bill Gofen Bob and Carol Goldberg Liza and Eric Gravengaard Sue and Melvin Gray Charles R. Grode James and Brenda Grusecki Michael G. Hansen and Nancy E. Randa John Hass and Mary Frances Budig David R. Hawkanson David Kistenbroker and Cynthia Heusing Judy and Jay Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hodges Dr. and Mrs. David Ingall Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck Reis and Sherri Kayser Adam and Renee Keats Melinda Kempton and Jane Fleming Brad and Kim Keywell Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Korbet Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kramer Suzy Krueckeberg Mr. Matthew Kutcher and Ms. Rebecca Richards Neil Labute Christine and Michael LaTona Julie and Fred Latsko Steven and Jody LaVoie Don and Margie Leventhal Bernard and Averill Leviton Robert Bud Lifton and Carol Rosofsky Stephanie F. Linn and Seth B. Krantz Timothy and Christine Loyer Mark and Frances Mann Becky and Bob McLennan Barry and Beth Mitchell Bill and Lorna Fillipini-Mulliken Mike and Adele Murphy Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Bob and Joyce O'Malley

Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Jennifer and Perry Pinto Christine and Michael Pompizzi Frank Ponterio Mr. Matthew Pritzker Bradley and Patricia Reid Lynne Remington and Geoff Goldberg Bob and Mary Reusché Solvig and Harry Robertson Neil Ross MD and Lynn Hauser MD Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Patrick G. Ryan, Jr. Ellen Sandor David and Susan Schmid Gloria and Michael Scoby Smita N. Shah Matthew Shapiro Rose L. Shure Gary Sinise David B. and Barbara Speer Matthew Steinmetz Kristin and Stan Stevens Lisa Swanson Corrine P. Taylor Richard and Elaine Tinberg Mr. Jim Walesa John and Carol Walter Ms. Jaclyn Warren Robert and Susan Warrington Shannon and John Waterfield Nicholas and Nora Weir Dr. Carey Weiss and Dr. Karen Pierce Elizabeth Ziegler BENEFACTORS ($1,500-2,499) Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Emilio and Trish Albertini Nicholas and Kathleen Amatangelo Kimball Anderson & Karen Gatsis Anderson Carolyn H. Andress Stephanie and Dana Arnett Jeffrey S. Arnold and Ellen J. Neely Joanie and Chuck Arredia Mr. and Mrs. Brian Atwood Gerald and Linda Avery John and Irene Bacevicius Richard and Janice Bail Yuri and Elena Balasanov Mr. and Mrs. James N. Bay Martha and Al Belmonte Ms. Sheridan Prior and Mr. Michael Bender Joel W. Benson Adam and Elizabeth Berger Ron and Colleen Bess Andrew and Jennifer Bezaitis Nicholas Biederman Marc D. Blakeman George W. Blossom III Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boychuck

Larry and Debbie Brady Mr. and Mrs. John M. Brannigan Ray and Marie Brown Kevin and Linda Buggy Barbara and Eric Burgess Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith David Callahan and Terri Abruzzo Philip Chang Mr. and Mrs. H.L. "Chappie" Chapman Antonio and Houda Chedid Clayton A. Cohn Fred and Maggie Compton Merle R. Cooper Charles and Judith Cory Dennis R. Cowhey Shirley Craven, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher Kevork and Rolanda Derderian Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Anne M. Donahoe Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Mark and Sandy Ehlert Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Tom and Pat Erickson Marc Falleroni David and Mary Farkas Mr. and Mrs. John Favia Rajiv Fernando W. Clinton and Lois Farrell Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Peter Foreman Jana French and Peter Gotsch Kate Friedlob Kay and Howard Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Lori Mae Frith Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Dr. Michael Gelbort and Ms. Sherryl Steinberg Gelbort Stephen C. George Harold and Diane Gershowitz Larry and Marla Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Bruce and Lisa Goldman Sheila and Tom Gorey Mr. Thomas G. Gorman The Green Family Jack and Donna Greenberg Mary and Jim Greene William and Nanci Greene Warren Grimsley and Jane Jacobs Mr. Brian Gupton and Dr. Linda Mueller Jack and Sandra Guthman Mrs. Louise Hart Stacie R. Hartman Jean Heller Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson Gail and Michael Heneghan Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger Paul and Susan Hill

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Directors Circle

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund

Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig David and Deborah Holloway Kimberly and Matthew Horowitz Nancy and John Ide Robert A. Imig Terrell J. Isselhard Marian, Fruman & Lisa Jacobson Tom and Jan Jakobsen Patricia Jeffers Hal and Dona B. Jensen Valerie B. Wiley and Timothy B. Johnson Gregory K. Jones and Family Thomas D. Kaczmarek Peter and Susan Kelly Pamela Kendall-Rijos and John Rijos Mr. Mark Killian Rachel Kohler and Mark Hoplamazian David and Kathleen Kovarik Jonathan and Sally Kovler Ann M. Krilcich Raminder and Vinay Kumar Michele Kurlander Carol and Jerome Lamet Gerald R. Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Foundation Victoria S. Lautman Eileen and Paul LeFort Benita Levy Beth Loeb Frank G. and Gertrude Dunlap Fund Michelle and Alan Luke Mary MacLaren Sandy and Jerry Manne

Roger and Courtney McEniry Mr. Mike Merwin Jerry Mickelson Leslie Milton Mr. Thomas Murray Terry Newman Paul Ordynski Mr. and Mrs. Mark Osmond Mr. and Mrs. Pajakowski Philip W. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parkinson, Jr. Gary and Valentina Patitucci Sharon and Jerry Rhoads‡ The Rooney Family Eric and Jana Schreuder Nancy Schumacher and Mark Schumacher David and Judith Sensibar Anna D. Shapiro and Ian Barford Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Silverman Joan and Thomas Skiba‡ Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skinner Heather and Adam Smedstad‡ Curtis Spears Matthew Summy Heidi Thatcher and Rory Rafter Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas Lisa and Charles Tribbett Reed and Rosemary Tupper Elena Urschel Carolyn Watson Dia Weil Jeanne Marienthal Westcott Patricia J. White Donna Wilkinson‡ Mr. Kimo Williams Ronald and Geri Yonover Eugene and Tita Zeffren

Barbara and Larry Margolis Mrs. Winifred A. Martin James and Carolyn McClureMary McClure Miller Foundation Bob and Barb McCullough Brad and Dee Dee McLane Kevin and Beth McMeen Ms. Helen Melchior Ellie and Bob Meyers - Harvey B. Levin Charitable Trust Amy Laiken and Tim Michel Michael and Susan Miller Sherif and Melanie Mityas Dr. and Mrs. George and Maureen Miz Robert and Audrey Morris Jon and Tanya Morrison William and Kate Morrison Peter A. and Katherine M."Penny" Morse Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Murer Michael T. Noonan Susan and George Obermaier Barbara and Daniel O'Keefe Bridget R. O'Neill Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Phyllis Parish Amy and Brent Peebles Simon and Kim Perutz Dale and Loretta Pierson Sherri and Ted Pincus Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Susan Piser and Sandy Bank Carl and Barbara Plochman Andrew and Judy L. Porte

Elizabeth Price Linda Reid Mr. and Mrs. James M. Reum Sheri and Bob Reum New Horizon Foundation Susan and Edwin Ritts John C. Roberts and Lynn D. Fleisher Barbara and Jim Robins Holly B. Rothschild Janet and Philip Rotner Richard H. Sanders Pamela and Fred Sasser Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Michelle Maton and Mike Schaeffer Matthew and Tina Schubert Richard and Betty Seid Diana and Richard Senior James and Mary Jo Slykas Dr. William and Cherie Bunn Jeff and Michelle Soble Paul and Elizabeth Sobotka Thomas Stappas Gail and Eugene Steingold Jeff Stoller Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Josh and Kimberly Sutton James and Sara TenBroek Laura A. Tomasovic John and Maribeth Totten Nick Trakas and Marc Ceron Ms. Carrie Truckenbrodt Tali and Liat Tzur Annette Rotolo and Donald Van Hulle

Susan and Victor Venturi Mr. and Mrs. R. Todd Vieregg Donna and Dirk Vos Lisa and Jason Wadler Albert Wald, In Memory of Nancy Wald Ms. Monica L. Walker Dr. David Wasserman In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Bryan and Jennifer Weinstein Jane and Greg Wintroub Meredith Bluhm-Wolf and Bill Wolf Bobbi Zabel

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Steppenwolf thanks the many supporters who help bridge the gap between annual operating costs and ticket sales. We regret that, due to space limitations, we are unable to recognize gifts below $150. To all our benefactors, we thank you for making possible another season of engaging, provocative theater. Make your gift today by visiting www.steppenwolf.org/support or calling Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615. PRODUCERS $1,000-1,499 Anonymous Jack J. Adrian Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Bruce and Ann Bachmann Grace Barry Louis Berger Mr. Melvyn E. Bergstein Gerhard and Kathleen Bette Shaun and Andy Block David C. Blowers John and Barbara Bowlin

Michael and Cathy Brennan Leslie Burns Ms. Glenda Cain Chuck & Rita Carlson Mr. Tim Cavanagh Sheila J. Chapman and David D. Soo Michelle L. Collins Frances Comer Joel Cornfeld Ms. Ellen Costello Kent and Liz Dauten Inge de la Camp Charles B. Edelstein George Engeln

Ms. Stacey Fellars Mr. and Mrs. Brian Flanagan Mr. Steven Florsheim and Mrs. Jennifer Friedes Mr. James Frank Jim and Sandy Freeburg‡ Aileen Furlong Raymond Godbout James and Dianna Goldman Richard And Catherine Gottfred Sabrina P. Gracias Mary Winton Green Victoria and Charles Harris‡ Hawkanson Family Foundation Laura Hazelwood

Patricia Hendrick Melinda and Craig Hilsenbeck Melinda Jakovich David Kathman‡ Brian Feiges and Tamar Kelber Klaff Family Foundation Jean Ann Klingenstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kolodgy Ms. Oya Kosebay Rachel Kraft Anne Lanser Bob and Pat Lavey‡ Mark and Carol Lorenz Beryl and Sue Lovitz Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Mansur

ENSEMBLE $500-999 Anonymous (10) George and Fay Adams Carole and Paul Adams Judith and Fred Adler Robert C. Anderson Michael Andrews and Ryan Ruskin Corby Arnold, Esq. Jean Arrington Mr. and Mrs. James Aslaksen Peggy Bagleyand Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker‡ Ms. Rose Baker Robert and Sharon Barton Sandra Bass Stephanie and Barry Batson Brandon Benson‡ Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III Maggie Bobbitt Ms. Heather Bollinger Patricia Boye-Williams and Chad Williams Hunter Bradford

Myriam Bransfield, In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Abdon and Eileen Bray Janyce Brengel Samuel Briones Larry and Susan Broutman Julia Brown George and Joyce Brown‡ Julie A Brown Lois Browning Lynette Harrison and Paul Brubaker Richard and Barbara Bull Janet Burch JoAnn Cantalupo Mr. Adam Carpenter Kyle Carstensen Scott Casty Nancy Ciezki and Diane Kostecke Daniel Clark John-Marc Clark James and Julie Coffman Dr. Mimis Cohen and Mrs. Andrea Biel-Cohen Steven Collens Ramon Colorado Everett and Susan Conner‡ Ed and Melissa Cook Mr. and Mrs. Jason Cooper Ms. Ellen Cotter and Mr. David Burnett Mr. Bruce Crown Carl and Cynthia Curry Josh Daitch Liese Dallbauman Rathin Datta Richard and Lisette Davison Lauren V. Dettloff Dianna L. Di Iorio Peter and Connie Dickinson Jeffrey and Lori Diemand Roberta S. Dillon‡ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Doyen Christine Dudley Will Dunne Thomas Duszynski John F. Dziedziak‡ Jennifer M. Ellin Deborah and S. Cody Engle Ms. Heather Erickson Mr. and Mrs. R. Jeffrey Euritt Lynette and Kent Fair‡ Juliet and Marc Fallah Gregory Faron Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Nancy and Rick Firfer Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fisch Brad and Lisa Fisher and Family Elaine Fishman Lisa Folkers Cyndi and Cory Fosco‡ June Freidlich Susan and Sy Frolichstein Susan Fuchs, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Erik Fyrwald Mr. and Mrs. Frank Galioto Jami Gekas

Matthew A. Gelbin William J. Gibbons Van H. and Sandra Vitt Gilbert Mr. Alex Gillan Ms. Reney Gitajn Stan and Gerry Glass‡ Lydia Glowaty Keith Goggin Alan Gold Florence Bonnick and Jay M. Goldberg Paul E. Golden Alvin Goldfarb Kerry and Kim Grady‡ Jonathan and Sarah Graham John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Laurence and Carrie Grant Renata and Michael Grossi‡ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker‡ Kevin Haight Ms. Katy E. Hall Janice Halpern David Harrington‡ Ms. Joan W. Harris Lois and Marty Hauselman Robert and Linda Hauser Mr. Jason Held and Mr. Steve Oxman Maryan and John Helmerci James and Kathleen Henderson Leslie Herzog‡ James and Margot Hinchliff The Hirschfields Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Richard and Kathryn Holland Bonny and Todd Hoover Mary and Dermot Horgan Richard and Janet Horwood Francis J. Houlihan Robin and Harry Hunter Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink‡ Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Robert A. Imig Tim Jaster Linda and Christopher Johnstin Mr. Jeff Jozwiak Mr. Anthony Juozapavich Stephen Kane Arnold Kanter Robert A. Katz Judith and Jerry Kaufman Jen and Brad Keck Sheryl and Tom Keith‡ Gerould and Jewell Kern Jeffrey Kerr Helen Kessler Jennifer Kim Anne and Ken Kinney Maureen and Kim Klatt Cynthia Kobel Pat and Mike Koldyke Stephen Kriegel‡ Peter and Linda Krivkovich Deborah S. Krolik Mr. Robert Krug

Deborah L. Kuhn Mr. Alan Kuska Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad George M. Langlois, Ph.D.‡ Roberta L. Larson and Richard G. Larson‡ Jonathan Lebedoff and Karla Yeh Peter and Judith Lederer Ms. Tanya Levshina Travis Life Arlene Lim Jean Linsner Abby and George Lombardi Thomas and Susan Long Fran Lambros and John Lowry Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve‡ Kristin Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mack Arlene Manelli‡ Maria Manhart Holly and Edward S. Mann John and Claire Marich Helen Marlborough and Harry Roper Dr. James Martin Kimberly Masius Kevin and Linda Matheny Mr. Walter Mathews Mr. and Mrs. George J. Matkov Jerry and Joan Mattson Michele C. Mayes Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister John McCambridge Mr. Raymond F. McCaskey Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mccolgan Margaret S. McGee Michael McGuinnis and Ruth Ann Gillis Hugh and Marybeth McLean Charlotte and William Mehuron Dr. Janis Mendelsohn‡ Susan Messing Robert Middleton‡ Mr. Brian Miller Dr. and Mrs. George Miz Hardye and Donald Moel Phillip Moll J. Morgan Chism-Diebold‡ Patrick Morris and Peggy Unger Kathy Morris and Mark Biat‡ Mr. John Mulhall Christopher and Eileen Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Murray J. Christopher Neagle Joan Neil Emily and Hank Neuberger Howard and Cathy Niden Kris Nielsen‡ Paul and Nancie Oetter Paul Oostenbrug and Dr. Jeremiah Kelly Rachel Orlikoff Mr. and Mrs. John O'Toole and Ms. Frani O'Toole Grayce Papp

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman‡ John and Roberta Paskvalich Mr. Mike Pauletti Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Sandra and Michael Perlow Clarisse Perrette and Larry Freed Clifford R. Perry III Barbara Peters Anne and Donald Phillips Irene and Eero Pikat Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Nathan Popkins Jim and Meg Prendergast Jeff and Susan Rashid Dr. and Mrs. Mehul Raval Gabriel and Dorit Raviv Molly Regan and Conrad Osborne Shirley and Frederick Richter Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone‡ Doreen and Michael Rothstein T. Marshall Rousseau Charles and Lisa Rule Francis Sadac Dr. M. Ramez Salem Henry J. Sampson‡ A. Sue Samuels Arturo Sanchez‡ Brett Saternus Bill Savage Laura Schalekamp Marie-Claude Schauer Jonathan Schmugge‡ Joseph and Judith Scully Doug and Maureen Seaman Eli Selinger Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk‡ Michelle Semisch Lara Shackelford Rebecca M. Shanahan Michael Shapiro and Deb Gohr Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Dr. Lisa Shives Julia Simpson Kathryn Simpson Suzanna and Kraig Smiegowski Patricia and Robert Smietana Ron Smith and Leslie Simonton-Smith Mr. David Sollitt Lawrence and Shirley Solomon Candace Song and Alexander Gail Sherman Patty Sternberg Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stoeckel Gail and John Straus Mr. Sean Sullivan Yvonne Sutor‡ Ms. Patti Szabo Mr. Brad Szczecinski Jim Thompson Carrie Thoms Kevin Tottis

Audarshia Townsend Olga Tsipursky Dana and Scott Turban‡ Brady I. Twiggs‡ Marilee Unruh‡ Chaidan Upp Sarah and Kamiar Vossoughi Tom and Michelle Wake Michael and Gere Warnecke‡ Chuck Wehland Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Tom and Blaine Wells Natalie West and Keith Viridiana Moore Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman Anne and Jay Whipple Brian and Nancy Whitlock Jan Williams‡ Matthew Wilson and Anne Posner Terry and Mary Winkler Ruth Winter David Wise and Dianna Niebylski Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski‡ Iris S. Witkowsky Stanley Wojcicki‡ Charlotte Wojnowski‡ Ms. Andrea Worth‡ Carol N. Yamamoto Stephanie Yancey Peter A. Zadeik Mark and Margie Zivin DESIGNERS $250-499 Anonymous (27) Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin Nancy Abshire Catherine Adduci Mr. Justin Alden Thomas B. Aldrich III Helen and Mark Alison Brian and Jennifer Alves Ron Amdur Ms. Mary Ammermann Wendy and Mike Anderson Mary and Paul F. Anderson Melissa Andrews Janet and Steven Anixter Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Mr. Joseph Asbury John Asplin and Christine Orders Mr. and Ms. Paul Athens Kaye B. Aurigemma‡ Rebecca and Steven G. Ayre Ms. Monica Badlani Ms. Lauren Anne Baird Bill and Ann Baker Barbara Baldwin John and Sharon Baldwin Mr. Gary Baltusis Michael and Mary Baniak Catherine Bannister

Leslie and Bill Barker Tom and Sherry Barrat Warren and Beverly Bartel Allison and Daniel Baskes‡ Mia A. and Scott Bass Ms. Teresa Battaglia Laura M. Batzer‡ Patricia L. Baylis Chris and Judith Beardsley Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Ted and Robbie Beaty Daniel Beck Donna and Patrick Belics Mr. and Mrs. John Bell Lawrence Bell Paula P. Benton Julian and Joan Berman Sean Berringer Alan and Nancy Berry Jason Linforth Maurice J. and Lois Beznos Lois J. Bider Jerry Biederman Noel and Shirley Biery Beryl and David Bills‡ Mr. Kevin Blackman Cindy Blaszak R. Darrell Bock Kevin Boehm and Courtney Moon Anthony Boggiano Steve and Lynn Bolanowski Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bolas Mr. Kevin Booth Kirk and Lucy Borland Mr. and Mrs. Randy Boswell Donald F. Bouseman Samuel and Phyllis Bowen‡ Philip Boyd Michael and Kate Bradie‡ Nicole and David Braun David Briggs‡ Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brobst Lyn J. Bromley Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Jean Broom Susan Brophy Frank and Dale Brull Elle Bruno Mr. John Bubb Susan Buchanan and Steve Brown Michelle and David Buck‡ Wade and Kate Buckles Robert J. Buford Paul Burkhardt Tripp Burton Richard Butler Jenica Byers John Byrd John and Libby Cady Mark Caldwell Debra Callozzo Deirdre Campbell Mr. Geoff Caplea and Mrs. Andrea Caplea Mr. Ted Cappas

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Polly Carl and Lynette D'Amico Barbara and Mark Carlson Steve Chamberlin and Cathy Colton Mr. Ted Champion Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler Mr. Tarun Chandran Gerry and Carol Chrisman Sam and Kathleen Ciulla‡ Amy Clark Sue Clark Bente Clausen‡ Mr. and Mrs. Ron Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman John Collins Constance Coning‡ Michelle Conrad Adam Cook Dave and Jane Cooke The Cortes Family Edward and Caroline Costello Ms. Christina Crawford Mr. Louis Crisostomo Maureen Crowley and George‡ Kermit and Jennifer Daniel Stephen F. Danziger Bert Davenport and Emilie De Angelis Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Davidson Ms. Kim Davis and Mr. Brian Eble Mrs. Edith F. De Mar Michelle and Ronald De Vlam‡ Jessica and Robert Dean Bernard J Deir and Cynthia Deir Mark and Rose DeMeo Ms. Joan E. Desmond Jerry and Karyn DeVault Tim and Liz Devine Michael and Melinda Dickler Mr. and Mrs. Kerry and Ellen Dickson Lisa Dickson Lauri Dietz Ms. Rachel Domaracki Mr. and Mrs. Brian Donnelly Brian and Joanna Donohue Mr. Shane Donovan Patricia and Richard Doonan Paula Douglass Susan V. Downing Marie L. Dufault Greg and Kathy-Sue Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dutcher Ms. Naomi Dwyer Mr. Ryan Edlefsen and Ms. Julie Lissner Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten Brent Eldridge Paul and Catherine Embree Teri Engler Dale and Jo Ann Engquist Erika Erich Malcolm Ewen Lori Eyre Elizabeth Fahey

Edith and Gerald Falk Maurice Fantus and Judith Aiello Toni and Joel Fenchel Charlie Ferreira Michael Fine and Terri Keeley Paul and Christy Fisher‡ Tim and Andrea Fitzgerald Catherine S. Flanagan John and Patti Flanagan Eleanor Flavin Foley Family Foundation Jean and Jim Foley Marilyn and Eric Fors‡ Reverend Mark A. Fracaro‡ Dr. and Mrs. James Franklin Roger and Fiona Frechette Bill and Pat Fuller‡ Tom and Beth Garrow Diane Riley Gavin Dr. and Mrs. Mark Gendleman Hank and Sandy Gentry Mr. Gary Gephart Katie Gerdes and John Stoops Ms. Julianne Getty Sandra Gidley Bruce D. Gilpin and Susan Gilpin Joanne and Lisa Girardi Jennifer Lauren Glasse David Glueck and Brooke Bremner Eileen M. Golan Paul Goldstein and Nasrin Mahani Enid J. Golinkin‡ Sue-Gray Goller Ms. Randell Golman Samuel J. Goodman Jason T. Gorczyca Paula Turner Grasso Dr. Kitty Green Karen Greenbaum Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg Michael and Lisa Greenfield Katherine and Adam Greetis Colette S. Gregory Melissa Grund Kelly and Robert Guglielmi Grace and John Gunthorp Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis Nidal Haddad Sarah Hadley Susan Haery Donald and Susan Hallberg Linda Halperin Christine Buss and Ed Halpern Bill Hamilton Amy and Brian Hand Chester and Phyllis Handelman Dr. Raymond and Arlene Handler Bonnie and Tom Hardin Vincent Harrell Donald and Sharon Harris Rosalind Henderson Harris Mr. Eric Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hassan Christine Hauri

Matthew Heller and Susan Holmes Stephen and Jaqueline Helm‡ Hendrick Family Timothy Herboth Franklin Hester and David Hines Frank and Midge Heurich Rosalie Hewitt‡ Martin and Marjorie Hickman Fred Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hill Robert and Sydney Himes Michael Hinz Nancy and Allen Hirschfield Jane Hodgkinson Jennifer Hogberg Drs. Sally and Carlos Hojvat Sharon Holland‡ Mr. Kilton Hopkins‡ Jack and Bonnie Horbovetz Paula Horn Leigh and John Hourihane Andrea Howard Trent Hrncir Ron Huberman Mr. and Mrs. John Huffman Mr. Dave Dimmlich and Ms. Beth Hummelberg Mark Ibanez William Ibe Jim and Joyce Ibers Becky Iliff David and Beth Inlander Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irvine Janet Irving Jim and Peggy Isherwood Ms. Michelle James John David Jawor‡ Douglas and Margaret Jayes Ms. Kenya Jenkins-Wright and Mr. James Wright Shirley and Clarence Johnson Carolyn Hutchinson Dixie Johnson Loren B. Johnson Sharon Johnston James A. Jolley, Jr. and R. Kyle Lammlein Brad Jonas Mrs. Bev Jones-Gordon Todd and Jennifer Jones Andrew Jorczak Daniel G Jordan and Mrs Mary Ann Jordan Leslie Josefowicz Janet and Carl Kalbhen Tom and Esta Kallen Mary Jo Kanady Joseph J. Kane Olwyn J. Kane Norma and Nolan Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James Kargman Ernest and Harriett Karmin Dennis and Kathryn Karsh Sandy and John Karuschak Diana and Leslie Kates Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer‡

Faylyn Kaufman Polly Kawalek Daniel and Nancy Kaye J.T. Keane Carter T. Kennedy Bunny and George Kennedy Rich Kerhlikar and Judith Barringer Erik Kesteloot Andrew Keyt Robert and Cynthia Kieckhefer Mr. and Mrs. T. Eric Kilcollin Sue Kiner Benjamin and Louis King‡ Mike and Leslie King Sylvia and John Kinney Judy and Phil Kirk Dr. M. Barry and Diane Kirschenbaum Michael Klearman and Saralyn Sacks Carol and James Klenk Matt and Karen Klickman Hilary and James Kline Anne Chipman and Joe Knecht Rita and Jim Knox Don and Cheryl Kobetsky Stanley and Billie Kocal Den and Jinny Koide Electra D. Kontalonis Seth Krantz Robert and Marie Kreisman Jennifer A. Krug Ken and Jan Kubis Neal Kulick Family Fund Linda Kulikowski Bob Kunio Ms. Carolyn Kurtz and Mr. Gary Steinberg‡ Terri Lacy Mr. Kurt Lagerloef‡ Karen Lalor Ms. Susan Langworthy Robert Larrimore‡ Nancy and Alan Lasser Patricia Lauber Kathleen Lawlor Bart Lazar Ephraim Lee Sheila Fields Leiter Jeffrey and Elise Lennard Madeline Lesnik Dr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Levin Mark Levitin Richard and Joanne Levy Fran and Chuck Licht Arlene Lieb Dr. Vicki Greene Stacy and Peter Lindau Sue Lippe Edward Lisberg Darlene Little Margit "Maggie" Livingston‡ Roger and Kay Loftin Christopher and Marcia Long‡ Ms. Lorraine Loomis Katherine M. Lorenz Christine Lovejoy

Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal‡ Doug and Susan Lyons Mr. Joe Madden Frank and Chris Maggio Edward and Carol A. Maier Reynato Mallari Samantha & David Mann Tom and Lori Manning Ruthann Marcelle‡ Gloria and Joseph R. Marcus Christine and David Markovitz Steve and Melissa Marovich Mr. and Ms. Peter Mars Zulma and Julian Martinez Dr. Norman E. Masters, Jr.‡ Erica and Frank Matagrano Jennifer Mathis David and Karen Mattenson Mr. and Mrs. Carmine Mattozzi Margaret F. May Susan McCann Ms. Katie McCoy Nancy McDaniel Suzanne McDermott‡ Terrance and Jane McElroy Sharon McGee Edward and Patricia McGreevy Paul and Lana McHenry Carol McKeone‡ Kathy and Alan McLaughlin‡ Janelle Hoekstra and James McMullin Mr. and Mrs. Pierce McNally Ms. Mary Murphy McNally Sheila McNulty and Craig Oswald Mr. Thomas Meagher, Jr. Loni Mecum Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Tim Meneely John and Lisa Merlock Mia and Jonathan Miller‡ Karen Miller and Sheba MillerMorris Willie and Clothield Miller Scott and Heather Milligan Ralph Miner Robert and Lois Moeller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Mohs Mort and Joan Mollner Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague‡ Jack Montgomery‡ William Mooney Kenneth Moore Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Scott Morehead, Jr. and Karisa Bruin Joyce Morimoto Mr. and Mrs. John Morlock Sheba Miller-Morris Drs. Gayle and Gregory Morris Vlad and Jeannie Moskin Janet and Morrie Much Gerald and Maia Mullin Marisa Murillo‡ Christian Murphy

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Hollace Murphy Zina and Nicholas S. Murray Dr. and Mrs. Michael Myers Mary and David Myles Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Wendy Norris Jeremy F. Nepomuceno Janelle Ibeling Ness Liz Newell and Jack Kragie‡ David Ellis and Hope Nightingale Cheryl and Bill Niro Rebecca Noble K.C. Norman Cliff and Sarah Norris Ms. Susan Noyes Christopher Nugent Mariano Nunez Ortiz‡ Charlene Nuti Peg O'Connor‡ Ms. Judith M. O'Dell Chris and Dianne O'Flinn Dennis J. O'Keefe and Mary Jo Barrett Larry and Barbara Olin Albert and Mona Oliver Don Olson Bruce Oltman Timothy O'Neill and Jane Rutherford Eric and Bridget Orsic Mayor John and Jacqueline Ostenburg Patrick and Eileen O'Sullivan Frances and William Paden Deborah Page Ms. Anne Palumbo Ms. Joy Pamintuan Dr. Georga Parchemand Dr. Allen Parchem Jana O'Brien and Wayne Parman Charles and Melanie Payne Mel and Lynn Pearl Elyse and Howard Pearlman Kate Pecoraro Mr. Chad Pedigo Margaret Pendry Amy and Troy Peters Andy Phelps Willie and Erma Pickens Dale and Loretta Pierson Charles and Bettina Pietri William and Suzan Pinsof Charles and Judith Piper Michael and Deborah Piraino Brett Plyer Dan Polsby‡ Frank C. Pond‡ Pam and Dean Pontikes Andy and Brynne Poole Avner and Joan Porat Tracey L. Power‡ V. Pristera, Jr.‡ Jerry Proffit Dave and Darby Putman Elliott Quigley David Rambo Ms. Barbara Rapp

Mr. and Mrs. John Reed P. Kevin Reidy Clisson and Patricia Rexford Mr. James Reynolds Fred and Karen Rhynders Ms. Beth Richman Laura Riddle Dr. Edward O. Riley Carol and Riney Robertson Ms. Carey Robin Mary Lu and Kenneth Roffe Lynn Hellwig and Dr. Dan Roller The Romano Family Gerald and Carol Roper Mrs. Linda Rosenblumand Mr. Steven Swiryn Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Mrs. Hilary Rosenthal Ms. H. Cary Ross Joseph Ross Michael and Erin Lavelle Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Mrs. Donald S. Roth Ms. and Mr. Julie Rubin Susan B. andDr. Myron E. Rubnitz Manfred Ruddat Ms. Marilyn Rusnak Ray Rusnak Diana and Ed Ruthman Brad and Emily Salmon‡ Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sandoval Christopher and Ann MarieSaternus John and Mary Satter Gina Saunders Edna Schade Curt Schade Rob and Judith E. Schaefer Susan Tobias and Alan Shapiro Kathleen and Richard Schillo Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Schimeck Rosa Schloss Frank and Karen Schneider Ms. April Schoepel The Schwartz/Stancik Family Suzanne Scibek Carla Scott Thomas and Marry Ellen Scott Nancy and R. J. Seidel Mr. Stephen Seliger Andrea K. Selley and Scott Urban Kathleen Semler Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Jeffrey S.Sharp & Elizabeth D. Sharp Linda and Steve Sharp Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade Timothy Sherck‡ Mr. Oliver Shields Brent Siegel‡

Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott‡ Jodi Silberman‡ Brandy and Jason Simon Mr. and Mrs. Ajay Singh Jonathan and Elizabeth Sion Ellen Mrazek and Daniel Slattery Christine A. Slivon Annette and Marvin Smith Neil and Isabella Smith Marc Smoler Jackie Snuttjer Henry So and Joe Senese Brian Soderberg and Christine Ramberg Mr. Patrick Spangler Laura Catherine Speltz Shantha Sreekanth Diana and Thomas Stamborski Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stanford Mr. Joseph Starshak Seena and Carey Stein Susan Stein Christine Anderson and Jay Steinberg Steven and Susan Steinmeyer Wallace Stenhouse Dorie Sternberg J. Timothy Stewart Kelly Stonebraker andDebra Stonebraker Arlo and Judith Straight Katherine Gould Straight Nels Stromborg Judy Sugarman Ms. Kamilla Svajgl and Mr. James Svajgl Mrs. Leonora Svihra Michael A. Swafford Alan and Emily Basque Mr. Mark Sweeney Michelle Sweet and Scott Bourne Linda K. Swift‡ Walter Swiston William and Julile Szematowicz Peter and Obie Szidon Richard and Anne Taft Benjamin and Gloria Tarver Michael J. Tatak ESQ. Michael Tatum and Susie Young-Tatum Nancy M. and Marc A. Taxman Ms. Elaine R. Taylor John R. and Catherine Taylor Mr. Alex Tenorio and Ms. Anne Marie Hendrickson Michael Teplitsky Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra Richard and Alice Teutsch Cheryl Thaxton Barbara and Randolph Thomas Ms. Sue Thompson Carrie and John Thurber Skip & Eileen Thurnauer Mr. and Mrs. John Tipton Richard Tobiason

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Fred Tokowitz Ms. Sharlene Toney John and MadalynTraff Michael Trenkmann Mr. Michael Treon Ms. Sally Truckenbrodt John Tullsen Edward and Edith Turkington Stacey Turner Annette Turow Dennis and Jane Uehara David and Mickey Unger Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Walter B. VandeWerken Peter and Lilian Vardy Kathryn Vehe‡ Dr. Susan Vineyard Susan Vonderheid Paul D. Waas Jonathan Wagner‡ Margaret Walsh Brooke and Greg Walters Mark Walters Karen and Herb Wander John F. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Ward Gwenyth B. Warton James Watson Robert Watson Steven Wayland Melanie and Judson Weeks Sherrie and Albert Weiss Cary Weldy Karl Wenzel Adam and Jamie Weyeneth John W. Wheeler Michele and Ray Whittington Larry and Susan Wikman Barbara Wilder‡ John Willand Ada Gugenheim‡ Gary and Modena Wilson‡ Nick and Nancy Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wislow Ms. Ann Witting Mr. Patrick Wojtak Ken Wolfe Ms. Sarah Wolff and Mr. Joel Handelman Richard Woodbury Mr. John Woodcock Brian and Amie Wrubel Mr. John Xenos Farhan Yasin Julia and Tom Young‡ Beverly and Arnold Yusim Kathy Willhoite and Rodd Zolkos Karen Zupko Stuart PLAYERS $150-249 Anonymous (45) Richard and Louise Abrahams Philip and June Aimen Stephanie Aldort‡ Karen and Scott Alexander Barbara and Oscar Alonso‡ Jim and Sheila Amend

Bradley Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Juan Angelats Jim Appel Jean Arndt Ms. Blayr Austin Linda A. Bacci Ms. Kara Bachman Barbara Badger Mary Lou Bailey Ann Baker Paramita Bandyopadhyay Sanford and Renee Bank Linda Banks Mr. Solomon Barnett Mr. Matt Bartel Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer‡ Mr. and Mrs. George Beck Ms. Beverly Beine Julie and Howard Benario Susan R. Benner Mr. Stuart Benzal Jacqueline Bergen Peter and Michelle Bergren Anne Berkeley Laura Berkley Mandy Berry‡ Barbara E. Bevan‡ Robert Bionaz and Ms. Karen Christianson Lois and Stanley Birer James and Dorothy Bishop LaDonna and Ed Black James Blackman‡ Ms. Sydney Blattner Ronald and Barbara Blumenthal Frima H. Blumenthal Claudia and John Boatright Fred Boelter Mr. Christopher P. Bohus Roula Alakiotou Larry and Margo Bostrom Mr. Todd Brady Andrea Brands Mark Bransfield and Ashley Vaughn Michael BreDahl Michael Bremer and Lynn Sieben Sarah Brittin‡ Morris E. Brodwin Keith and Arlene Bronstein Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks‡ Beth Brown Carol S. Brown Jodie Brown John Brown Ms. Kate Brown Robert and Ilene Brown Ed Bucher Jay K. Buck Rita Buczynska Carol Burke Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Burman Raymond B. Carney and Janice Burnham Jim and Lori Burns Jean and Thomas Burns

Philip Burton Crystal and Thomas F. Bush Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bushman Linda S. Buyer Robert and Cheryl Byron Thomas and Karen Calpin Jr. Ronald Campbell Joseph and Cory Cancila Barry Carlson Christine Carparelli Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Sharon Carr Mr. Brent Carstensen Constance Casey Richard and Cheryl Chamblin Susan and Jon Chapman Rajeev Chopra James Christle Bernard Chung Ms. Beth Cieminski Tobia Ciottone Drs. William and Elizabeth Clark Carol and Michael Clarke Neil Clipstone Jeff Cogan Thomas and Bette Cogan Marvin R. Cohen Martina A. Cole Thomas Connally Peter and Judith Connolly‡ Mr. Michael Connor Mr. Bryce Cooper Diane R. Cooper Colleen Costello Beth Coughlin and David Wang Harvey and Arlene Coustan Robert Crawford Phyllis Cretors Colin and Teri Cross Linda Curtis Ms. Jennifer Cutshall Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Davis Mary DeCresce Michelle and Christopher DeMent James Dersnah and Lida Wagner Theresa and Nitin Desai Matthew J. Devereux Donna and Joseph De Vita Stewart and Shari Diamond Peter and Elizabeth Dietz Sandra Dismore Stacy and Jeff Dixon Glen and Suzanne Dobosz William and Phyllis Dobrin Ms. Paige Donaldson Mr. Jordan Dorfman Sally and James Downey Michele and George Dragisity Monte Dube Maynard H. Dubow Ms. Allison Duffy Clinton Dunn Tom and Adele Dunn Bryan Duplechain Joan and William Dutton Caroline Dwanand Dan Coogan Wendy Eager

Ms. Louisa Economou Judy and Howard Edison Wiley and Merry Edmondson Sharon Eiseman Tom and Victoria Eley Steven and Michelle Elliott Eugene and Jean Emeson Serpil Emre Mark and Virginia Erlanson Marilyn D. Ezri M.D. Dr. Malcolm E. Fabiyi Brian R. Falb Tom and Terry Fallon David C. Farmer Loren Klug and Bridget Farrelly Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fegan Jim and Michael Ferstle Robert and Kathleen Fife Sean Finn Peter Fischer Mark and Christine Fisher Sara Stern and Ted Fishman‡ Lois Flaherty Sandy Fliegelman Charlotte and Robert D. Flinn Alicia Flodstrom Ms. Janice Fong Paul Fong Mr. and Mrs. James Forlenza Timothy and Janet Fox Deitrich Freigang Bruce and Barbara Friedman Richard and Lois Fuhrer Mary Gabel Paul and Helen Gallagher Raymond and Patricia Gass Ralph and Elayne Gebert Mr. and Mrs. John Gebo Mark and Bonnie Gehrman Christopher Gent Amy George Hugh and Doris Gilbert Pavi and Amy Gill Ms. Tara Gillespie Clark and Nancy Gilpin Lori and Steve Ginsburg Dennis L. Glavin and Janet Bantz Glavin Anneliese Glick Sue Golan Sue Goldenberg Jessica L Gonzalez Robert Gordon Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab Russ and Desiree Grant Mr. Peter Grant Judy Grasmick Dr. and Mrs. Robert Greendale Tara Nussbaum and Alan Greene Mr. Gilbert C. Greenway The Greffin Family Rochelle Grill James and Lynn Grogan Merle and Barry Gross Mrs. Katharine C. Gross Jamee and Terry Gross

David Grossman John Grossman Kate and Francis Guinan Donna and Steve Gulley Susan and Michael Gullotto Marie L. Gunn Mr. Rolf Gunnar Ms. Joanne Gustafson Catherine and Warren Guthrie Pilar Gut-Rod Faith Dansereau & Larry Haefner JIm and Dee Haklin Andrew Halbur Joan Hall‡ Claire M. Halloran Craig and Terry Halverson Richard Halvorsen‡ Betsy and Mike Hammond Timothy R. Hanley Renee Hardt and Scott Moehrke Anne Harney Ilene and Morton Harris Dr. Robert A Harris Teddy and Sarah Tom and Virginia Hartley‡ Lee Haupt, Yvonne Lange and Ted Steck Alan Hauser and Anne Suh J. Michael and Barbara Heaton Ms. Melissa Hellstern Andrew Henkel Pat and Ron Henning Mr. Randall Herbstman Joyce K. Herdliska Lance G. Herning Jeffrey and Peggy Herron Russell Herron andLauren Raphael Lina and Dave Hilko Marc Hilton and Judith Aronson William Hitt Vivian and David Hock‡ Thomas Hogan Michelle and Glenn Holland Nina Hollins Mr. Grayson Holmbeck and Ms. Anne Updegrove Donald and Karen Holmberg David and Suzanne Holmes‡ Brian M. Holt Jo Holzer Mr. David Hooker Hornbostel Family Aileen M. Horowitz William Hottinger Ina and John Houck Susan Howard Robin Hulshizer Karen Hunken‡ Patricia Hunt Barbara Hunter and Cottrell Meadors Harry and Diana Hunter Patricia Hurley Richard Hutner and Lena Motev The Hyman Family William and Christine Ieuter

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Daniel Ingram and James Crawley Joan Istrate Lisa A. Iverson Ron and Lizette Jacobson Evan Jacover Ben Jafarnia Janice and Boyd Jarrell Dilecta Jenkins Davis Jenkins Alison Jensen Patricia A. Jiganti Christopher Johnsen Rita and Larry Johnson Sarah A. Jolie‡ Michael and Fran Jones Mr. Michael Jorda Melvin and Annie Kahn Paula R. Kahn Mr. and Ms. Chad E. Kail Don Kaley Fran and Harvey Kaluzna Mr. Michael Kanzler Mr. Matt Karingada Mr. Sandgren Karl Ms. Melissa Karlin Ms. Claudia A. Katz Charles Katzenmeyer Sara Kaufman Sandra Blau and Norton H. Kay Sherry Keating Dr. Susan Kecskes Matthew Keller, Jr. Courtney Kennedy Rita Kerns William Ketchum Dr. Ilene Kettering Seema Khan John and Jacki Kilcullen Linda Behan and Vincent Kinehan Deborah Kirkorsky Mary Anne Kiser Carol Chor and Stephen Klafter Ms. Marian Klaus Janet Knauff Douglas and Catherine Knuth David and Deborah Koenen Mr. Ann Kohler Robert and Janet Kohrman Annette Baldwin and Paul Kolansinski Mark and Jill Kolker Jay and Patti Kouba Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krantz Anne and Ira J. Kreft Barry and Cheryl Kreiter Don and Jude LaCasse Chuck and Diane Laff George and Carla Lambrechts Phil and Helen Lambruschi Judith Land Ed and Bettine Landon Arlene Lannon Renee Lantner Edward and Laverne Larsen Dr. and Mrs. Jules H. Last Emily Lavin

Lance Lawson and Jimmy Wetzel William Lee and Malinda Hamann Susie and Toby Lees Mary Lynn Leland Ms. Laurie Leli Deidre LeMire Mr. Darrell Leonard and Mr. Ed Nowak Susan Levitt Michael N. Levy Robert and Martha Lichter Fred Lieber‡ Mr. Stephen Lieberman Barbara and Edward Linn Dr. Jeffrey M. Lisowski Anissa Listak and Eric Johnson Ms. Juliana Littlejohn Burton and Nancy Litwin Mark Lococo William Loesch Laurens and Diane Lohmann Ms. Andrea Long William Long Chris Lonn Dr. and Mrs. Dale Loomis Mr. Nathan Lopp Mr. Christopher Lovejoy Lloyd and Susan Lowy Kelly Luchtman‡ Rosey Lugo Mr. and Ms. Ben Lumpkin David Lundeen Ms. Sherry Lundell James and Janet Lusk Elliott and Miriam Lyon Joyce MacDonald James Maclennan Sandy and Judy Macnab Todd Magazine Kathleen Majkowski Dixie and Ken Malek Mindy and Barry Malkin Mr. John Victor Malkovich Brooke and Mike Mandrea Robert and Susan Mangano Ken and Nancy Marks Ms. Kahindo Mateene and Mr. Kisa Mate Mark Materna Shawn Mathis Henry and Peggy Matson Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Matthews Sharon K. Matz Ellen and Kevin May Patricia McBride John and Nancy McCabe Mike and Cindy McCabe Mr. Daniel B. McConnell Drs. Linda Skitka and William McCready Stacey and Patrick McCusker Merilee and Logan McDougal Wilhelmina McGee Laura McGrew Daniel McGuigan Anastasia McGuire The McGuire Sisters

Erin E. McInerney Robert and Lorel McMillan Tom and Adrienne McMullen Mr. Matthew McQueen Kathleen A. McQueeny Claretta Meier Derek Meier May and Murl Meredith Robert Merrilees Eric and Jess Mersmann Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison David and Linda Metschke Janet Midgley Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Kerry A. Miller Dan and Mary Miller Ron and Pat Miller Sandy and Scott Miller‡ Wilfred and Barbara Horiarchi Ms. Barbara L. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minehart Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell Mike Mittermann Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt Roger and Pauline Mohr Brian Weatherford and Steven Montgomery Arthur Moore Mr. Louis C. Moore Jr. Sharon Moore Robert J. Moretti Martha Clare and Jim Morris Michelle and Michael Morris Bob and Ileen Morris Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison Ms. Natalie Moskovich and Mr. Allon Katz Karen Mouscher Greg and Colleen Moyer Dr. Martin Mozesand Mrs. Chava Mozes‡ Josephine and John Muchmore William Myers Nance Nalepa Robin and David Nankin Cathy and Bob Nathan Janet and David Neal Mr. Josh Nelson Karen Nemchik Jack and Leanne Neurauter Marilyn and Russell Newlin Mark and Maggie Nichter‡ Scott Nickell and Brenda Crank Margaret Niedermaier Lynne Nieman Emily Nixon Ann and Dan O'Brien Sally O'Brien Mary Pat O'Brien Karen J O'Connor John M. O'Donnell and Bonnie L. Humphrey Mr. and Mrs. Julian Oettinger Patrick O'Harris Colleen M. O'Leary

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Annual Fund Hershel and Adelle Oliff Paul Oliver Brian and Theresa O'Neil Peter and Alanne Ori Margie and Derk Osenberg Sandra and Mark Ostler Richard Ostrow Judy Paglis Kim Palmbush Mr. Alfredo Pamintuan Katina Panagopoulos Jane Panther Kelly C. and Marshall H. Paquette Catherine and Robert Parks Audrey and John Paton Ms. Margaret Paul Richard and Marcia Pauling Peggy Paulsen Mr. James H. Pawlak M.K. Peagram Paula J Pederson Andre and Julie Pernet Raymond and Alice Perry Mr. William Pesetski David and Lindsey Peters Elizabeth Peterson Margaret Madden and Richard Phillips Barb and Ned Piehler David M. Pierce Pamela Plehn Podolsky Family Foundation Mrs. Chad Potter Kirsten and James Potter Carrie and Michael Powers Dr. Jean E. Prebis Karen Price‡ Wanda Price Judy Prince Charles and Sharon Pritchard Lynn and Clayton Pruitt David Pruitt and Marjorie Baltazar Ms. Carryn Quibell Renee Quimby and Robert Rowe Karen and Mark Quinn Bill and Rita Quinn Jennifer Quinn Broda Marsha Raanan Walter Radloff Jonathan Ramos Ruth Rankin John and Linda Rebrovic Irene and Alan Redman Jane Rees‡ Michael Reese Elena Reinert Lisa Remby Mr. Glen Rexing James R. Richardson Bruce A Richmond Dr. Ralph Richter, Jr. and Mrs. Constance Richter‡ Dean Ricker Ed and Suzette Rickert Sandi Riggs Patrick Riley

Mr. and Mrs Edwin Rivera Bill and Deborah Roberts Ms. Liz Roberts Stephen and Caryn Robin Ms. Sharon Robinson Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman Mr. Bruce Rodman Susan W. Rogaliner Cleo Orthel Izabela Roman Sherman and Sarene Rosen Michael Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. B. Rosenstein Mr. Richard Rosenthal Ann M. Rothschild Chuck and Peg Rowe William Rowe Helen and Marc Rubenstein Ms. Teri Rys-Maki Mr. and Mrs. Joe Saccomanno Van and Sue Salmans Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Julia Nowicki and Timothy A. Sanborn MD Carolyn Clayton and Patrick Sandercock Mary Ellen Schaid and William Lenz Maria Schane Stephanie Scharf and David Taber Allison and Charles Scherer Scheuring Family Bernice Elbinand Seymour Schiff The Schirato Family Madeline Schneider Elizabeth M. Schornak David Schuler Susan and Gary Schuman Ms. Susan J. Schwartz Joyce Schwegel Celeste and Tony Scolaro Barbara Jo and Thomas D. Scott Nedinia Searle Elizabeth G. Selmier David Shanahan Sugar Shankman Arthur M. Shapiro Jonathan and Lynne Shapiro Kathryn Shenk Cheryl and Philip Sheridan‡ Mr. Tom Shermanand Ms. Amy Perry Sandra Shimon Gina Shropshire Mr. Evan Siegel Ms. Rochelle A. Siegel Eric and Sabrina Sigg Margaret and Alan Silberman Susan and Paul Silverman Teresa and Bob Simmons Miroslaw and Jolanta Skalski Maureen Slavin Jeffrey and Patrica C. Slovak Hugh and Becky Smart Charles Smith

Chuck Smith Jill and Stephen Smith Peter E. Smith Queen Smith Margaret Snow Andrea Snyder Ben Sosewitz Jane and Lee Sotos John Sowinski John Spahr Gary Spangler & Julie B. AimenSpangler Joan Spedale Eugene and Ruth Spina Mirja and Ted Haffner Diane Springford Geoffrey and Elise Stanbury Dr. Lisa D. Stanford Thomas Starshak Nikki and Fredric Stein Mark and Donna Steinbach Mr. and Mrs. William Steinmetz Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stern Mr. Gardner H. Stern Deborah Stewart and Roy Plotni Linda Sahagian and Douglas Stewart Michael Stogdill Kurt Strand Mr. Gary Strandlund Jennifer Strople Mr. Larry Stuckey Margaret and Edwin Stueben Sidney Summey and Melissa Cox Melissa Suster Mr. Brandon Swalve Tiffany Taft Ms. Sarah Tarpy Bonnie K. Tarry Mr. Martin Telfer Juanita Temple Arthur and Judith Tepfer Mr. Jeff Thomas and Ms. Rebecca Coleman Ms. Judy M. Thome Tim and Carolyn Thompson Mr. Tommy Thornton Mr. Rich Thoroe Anne and Bill Tobey Ms. Mona Tousi Daniel Trainor and Claudia Berg Carol D. Trapp Catherine Turner Susan Tuteur Dmitry Tyomkin William Udovich Virginia Vale Michael Van Zalingen Ms. Susan VandenBosch Janice and Frank Vanek Thomas and Kathryn Vargish Tracy Vercillo Ms. Colleen Wade Robert and Rose Wagner James and Karen Wagstaffe Gary and Carleen Wald

Babs Waldman Alice and Charles Walker William and Patricia Walsh Sharon Ward Ms. Candice Warltiar Deborah and Neil Warner Ms. Sally Warner Mary and Bill Watt Candace Wayne Betsy Shaw Weiner Kimberly Weiner Judy Weingartner Keren Weiss Judith Rogers and Howard Weiss Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Brooke and Ted Whittemore Dot and Dan Whittenberger Mark Wiens Harry and Geri Jender-Wildfeuer Steven and Mary Willcox Deborah B. Williams Ph.D.‡ Cynthia Wirth Ms. MJ Witt Julia Wold Lisa Wolfe Ann R. Wolfe Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Joyce Woods Dr. Anne H. Wright Mr. Andrew Yang Judith Youngs Ray and Bobbie Yozwiak Glenn Zabec Eileen Zampa David and Nikki Zarefsky Ed and Lisa Zeitler Mr. and Mrs. Marc Zeman David and Teresa Zembower Ron and Charlie Zia Mr. Daniel Ziembo and Ms. Nancy Cook Tighe Zimmers Burton and Eleanor Zoub Daniel Zox Bob and Janice Tonoko Zurawski

‡ These donors have generously made a three-year pledge to the Annual Fund, ensuring a stable foundation for our artistic projects.

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Auxiliary Council

IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS

Comprised of over 150 Young Professionals, Steppenwolf’s Auxiliary Council works each season to raise funds for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults Programs. We salute the 2009-2010 governing members for giving generously of their time and resources. Contact Annie Lebedoff at 312-654-5681 or auxiiarycouncil@steppenwolf.org to become an Auxiliary Council member today.

Steppenwolf salutes the following individuals and organizations who donated significant goods and/or services.

Executive Officers Nancy Schumacher* President Lauren V. Dettloff* Vice President Stephanie Linn*‡ Secretary Kyle Carstensen* Treasurer Michael T. Noonan* Immediate Past President Marisa Bryce* Nora Daley Conroy*‡ Founding Officers

Governors Justin Alden Michael Andrews Kevin Baldwin Colette Cachey Smithburg*‡ Mark Caldwell Philip Chang Steve Collens Joel Cornfeld Louis Crisostomo Alecia Dantico* Diana Di Iorio* Heather Erickson* Gregory Faron* Aileen Furlong* Sarah Galioto Jami Gekas Lydia Glowaty Liza Michaels Gravengaard‡

Kevin Haight Stacie Hartman Adam Keats Andrew Keyt Seth Krantz‡ Anne Lanser Maria Manhart Kim Masius Brett Plyler* Francis Sadac* Lara Shackelford Laura Schalekamp* Candace Song Matt Summy Mike Swafford Frank Trocchio Kamiar Vossoughi Steven Wayland

*Executive Committee Member ‡Directors Circle Member

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS/Honorary Gifts By making an honorary or memorial gift to Steppenwolf Theatre Company over the past year, the following individuals celebrated a special occasion or paid tribute to a loved one. Make an honorary gift by contacting Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615 or eevenskaas@steppenwolf.org. In Honor of Nora Daley Conroy

In Honor of Susan Payne

Shawn M. Donnelley Dia and Ed Weil

Andrea Biel-Cohen

A New Leaf ABC’s Modern Family The Affinia Shelburne AlphaGraphics Joan Allen Leonard Becker, Attorney at Law BOKA/Landmark Broadway in Chicago Chicago Magazine ClientFirst Consulting Group Crain Communications Inc. CSI: NY & CBS Studio Center Michael Davis, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Jenny DiLuciano Edge Audio Devlin Elliott The Elysian Hotel EntertheChef.com Frost Lighting Goose Island Brewery Grey Goose – World’s Best Tasting Vodka Deb and John Gross

In Memory of Mervilee Lee Brown, Jr. Carol S. Brown

Jack and Sandra Guthma Joan W. Harris Judith and Jerry Kaufman

Stacy and Peter Lindau

In Honor of Anna D. Shapiro In Honor of Jared Kaplan

Lori and Steve Ginsburg

In Memory of Nan Lipstein Cathy Nathan

In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Dr. David Wasserman

Steven Fischer and Tobi Mackler

In Honor of Sandy Karuschak

In Honor of Anne Shropshire Hyde

Charles Katzenmeyer

Gina Shropshire

In Honor of Jonathan G. Lebedoff

In Memory of Mickey Arkin

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Head

Shirley and Frederick Richter

In Honor of James Vincent Meredith

In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr.

Esther Gross

Myriam L. Bransfield

In Memory of Sharon Muraka Cary Weldy

In Memory of Ellie Punkay Enid Golinkin

In Memory of Nancy Wald Edward and Carol A. Maier Albert Wald

In Memory of Esther Zadeik Mr. Peter A. Zadeik

Russell Poole POP Red Star Printing Riviera Todd Rosenthal Sara Lee Corporation Sepia Anna D. Shapiro The Sheraton Universal Hotel Shochu Shure Incorporated Gary Sinise Eric Stonestreet Structured Development A Table for Two The Talbott Hotel Timeout Chicago Tipsycake David Turner Photography United Airlines Vinci

Please note that gifts listed above reflect contributions made as of 6/30/2010. Every effort is made to ensure that the information included in our program is accurate. If you have a question about your recognition or wish to alter your listing, please call the Individual Giving Department at 312- 654-5615.

In Honor of Bruce Sagan In Honor of David and Susan Kalt and Eric and Liz Lefkofsky

Halls Rental John Hart: Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Heffernan Morgan, Inc. HMS Media The James Hotel Neringa Kardelyte Tom Kirdahy Donna La Pietra La Trattoria del Merlo Tracy Letts Limelight Loyola University, Department of Anthropology John Malkovich Chef Jason McLeod Chef Michael Kornick-MK Restaurant Microsoft Corporation Amy Morton NBC’s Park’s & Recreation Nick Offerman Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. Perennial David Pisor

Accessibility Committed to making the Steppenwolf experience accessible to everyone, we feature: • A sign language-interpreted performance (for guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing) during the run of each subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults production. •

Audio described performances, artistic conversations and touch tours of the stage (for guests who are blind or visually-impaired) during the run of each subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults production.

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Audio recordings of program articles, available for free on our Watch and Listen page at steppenwolf.org.

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Braille programs (available for our audio described performances).

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Large print programs (available for all subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults performances at our book shop, located across from the box office in the Downstairs lobby).

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Assistive hearing devices for every performance in our Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres.

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Wheelchair accessible seats in all three of our theatres.

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A complimentary courtesy wheelchair (available through the Front of House office).

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If you or someone you know would like to utilize or learn more about one of these services (or if you just sprained your ankle that morning, and prefer a seat without steps), just let us know as soon as you can in advance of your visit! Audience Services 312-335-1650 TTY 312-335-3830 E-mail access@steppenwolf.org

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Steppenwolf Customer Service tips In your car and on your way to the theatre? Rather than arriving to discover that our garage has reached capacity (which can happen during busy performances), please enter the Steppenwolf Parking Hotline (312-335-1774) into your cell phone and call us when you’re a few minutes away—we’ll tell you if there’s still space available in our parking facility, or suggest the most convenient alternative. Spending your intermission in line at the bar? Enjoy the entire break by ordering and paying for your intermission refreshments before the show. When you exit the theatre at the end of the first act, your drinks will be waiting for you. Need directions, restaurant information or the score of the ballgame? Visit our book shop and information desk at the south end of the lobby, and our concierge will find an answer for you. Hailing a cab after the play? This is typically an easy affair – Halsted is a busy street and sees a fair amount of taxi traffic. If you’d like assistance hailing a cab or calling a company, though, just ask a member of the house staff—we’re happy to help. Lost or Found? Just gotten home, only to discover you’ve lost something? Call the house manager’s office at 312-932-2445. Found an item? Please give it to a member of the house staff, along with the location where it was found.

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Want to provide feedback? Your input is always valuable to us and has several avenues. Have an opinion about the play or artistic content? Stick around for the post-show discussion featured after every performance, fill out the 60Second Survey inserted in this program or visit the Steppenwolf blog at blog.steppenwolf.org. Have a comment about your overall experience at the theatre? Please ask us for a customer service form to fill out, or e-mail us at customerservice@steppenwolf.org. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager. The theater reserves the right to limit admission of children under the age of six. The taking of photographs and the use of any type of recording device is not allowed in the theater during performances and is a violation of state and federal copyright laws. Digital media will be deleted, and tape or film will be confiscated.

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