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WELCOME FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARTHA LAVEY on laughter and the afterlife in theatre A Discussion with Playwright Will Eno, Director Les Waters and Artistic Director Martha Lavey

FINDING MIDDLETOWN By Artistic Apprentice Kendra Miller

THE PLACES WE REMEMBER By Associate Producer Rebecca Rugg and Artistic Apprentice Kendra Miller

unfreezing middletown By Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl

program staff Editors David Rosenberg, Nora Taylor, Yael Eytan, Rebecca Rugg

Artistic Features Martha Lavey, Kendra Miller and Rebecca Rugg

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Contributors Eric Evenskaas, Evan Hatfield, Louise Geraghty, Kaleigh Lockhart, Suzanne Miller, Joel Moorman, David Schmitz and Megan Schuchman

COVER Ensemble member Alana Arenas Photo by Saverio Truglia

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Welcome We are delighted to present Will Eno’s Middletown as the fifth play in our season exploring our public/private selves. Middletown is a wonderful confluence of writerly precision and emotional fullness—it has purchase on both the page and the stage. My first thought, upon reading the play, was of its resonance with Thornton Wilder’s signature play, Our Town. In both plays, we witness life in a small town and hear the echoes of our larger cosmic surround. I love that Will titles the play Middletown. It signals both the prototypical small town in America (there are 16 Middletowns in the U.S.) and alerts us to the subject of the play, our continuing liminality. We are forever “betwixt and between,” in the middle of things, as we struggle to find meaning and purpose. Just before the intermission of the play (midway through), Will introduces characters who are identified as the “audience” and they begin commenting on the play. This conceit— introducing characters into the play at intermission who stand in for us, the audience to Middletown—directs us to the play’s fascination: the middle of things. Which is, as Will asserts, “a serious mystery.” This fascination with the middle is iterated throughout the play: we are in the middle of our lives, poised between birth and death; in the middle of human history, surrounded as we are by monuments of our predecessors; and we are fixed, cosmically, in a middle position between the earth’s core and the stars. Will offers an array of characters, each of whom provides a vantage point on the life of Middletown. At the center of the story are Mary Swanson, a newcomer to Middletown; and John Dodge, a life-long resident of the town. We witness the arc of their relationship from their first meeting to its resolve, in a common site: a beginning, middle and an end. The surrounding characters are mostly identified by their professions: “Cop,” “Mechanic,” “Librarian,” “Doctor,” etc. These characters—the population of Middletown—are defined by their function and their professional titles, and each designate an angle of vision on life in the town. Will offers a tour guide conducting a tour of Middletown, and fantastically, an astronaut from Middletown who is able to view, from the skies, his home town. All of these characters in the play offer a perspective that is “in it but not of it.” All of us—and certainly all of the characters in the play—are in the middle of our lives. The suggestion of the play is that there is a perspective, hovering nearby, that witnesses our lives with a beneficence and understanding. Our astronaut, looking down at Earth says, “...it doesn’t look lonely from up here. Everything looks right-next-door. It’s where you’re sitting, right now. How ‘bout that? You’re breathing

the Earth’s atmosphere. You got mountains and clouds, oceans. People out doing things together... Inexpressible, you know. How’d we get so lucky?” The great fascination of the play is, I think, how human speech—our ability to articulate our situation—is transformative. Will is meditating on the tremendous complexity and utter simplicity of life: the fact that we are all a part of a story with a beginning, middle and end. Each life a particular journey, each life a common experience. The moments of numinosity are gained through speech, through our ability to conceive of, and articulate, our place in the whole cosmic event. As the Doctor says to Mary at the moment of childbirth: “Be yourself. You look great. You look like someone’s mother. Don’t forget—it’s so easy to forget, but—everyone in the world was born... So just be a part of the whole crazy thing. The rest is details, little tests, taps of a tiny hammer.” Or, as Greg, the astronaut says, looking from space at Middletown and remembering a guy who found a rock he thought was a meteorite: “That rock, that guy who found it, the field he found it in, all these things are miraculous because all these things are earthly. The words he used to refer to it, the breath it took to make the words, all of it. Just sacredly and profoundly and mysteriously—well, yeah—earthly.” Middletown is beautiful to me because it issues a loving reminder that we are always in the middle of things, always a part of the mystery of the middle, but that there exists an angle of vision that is also always ours, of a larger view. We are earthly, bound by gravity, but the stars are above us. Again, the astronaut, looking down at earth from space says, “God. All this space, it is just pure majesty, it’s endless, majestic. But it’s cold, it’s just raw data, raw mathematics. Then you see little planet Earth and—my God, she’s just so welcoming and good.” We are suspended in space—right in the middle of things—and amidst it, great friendliness is ours. We are in Middletown: the most common and most extraordinary place to be.

Martha Lavey, Artistic Director

Announcing the Steppenwolf for Young Adults 2011/12 Season: Two Plays in Conversation. Join us as we explore the process through which art and literature evolve through adaptation and interpretation—how an original work can be born from the ideas and themes of a classic text. October 11 – November 4, 2011

the heart is a lonely hunter Adapted by Rebecca Gilman Based on the novel by Carson McCullers Directed by Hallie Gordon

February 28 – March 18, 2012

fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life A world premiere by Sarah Gubbins Directed by Joanie Schultz

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Artistic Director Martha Lavey†

Executive Director David Hawkanson presents

Middletown By Will Eno Directed by Les Waters Featuring Alana Arenas†*, Brenda Barrie*, Molly Glynn*, Tim Hopper†*, Ora Jones†*, Keith Kupferer, Martha Lavey†*, Tracy Letts†*, Danny McCarthy* and Michael Patrick Thornton* Scenic Design Antje Ellermann+, Costume Design Janice Pytel+, Lighting Design Matt Frey+, Sound Design Richard Woodbury+, Casting Erica Daniels, Fight Choreographer Matt Hawkins, Stage Manager Laura D. Glenn*, Assistant Stage Manager Michelle Medvin* Exclusive Corporate Production Sponsor

Major Foundation Production Support

Individual Production Sponsors Joyce Chelberg, Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, Antonio and Sabrina Gracias, Robert and Louise Sanborn, Douglas R. Brown, Sean and Nora Daley Conroy, Michael G. Hansen and Nancy E. Randa, Martha Lavey, Jim and Kay Mabie, Deborah and Stephen Quazzo, Gary Sinise, Helen Zell, Hope Abelson Fund for New Play Development, Avy and Marcie Stein Sustaining Fund for the Ensemble. Additional support for Middletown is provided by The Davee Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. ComEd is the 2010-2011 Season Lighting Sponsor. AT&T is the Corporate Sponsor of Post-Show Discussions. Middletown was produced by the Vineyard Theatre, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, New York City, Fall 2010. Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communication Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater. † 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.

cast/contributors cast (in alphabetical order) Alana Arenas†* Tour Guide, Sweetheart, Attendant 2, Intercom Brenda Barrie* Mary Swanson Molly Glynn* Female Tourist, Attendant, Woman on Date Tim Hopper†* Public Speaker, Male Tourist, Greg, Freelancer, Male Doctor, Radio Science Show Host Ora Jones†* Aunt, Female Doctor, Classical Music Show Host

Keith Kupferer* Man on Date, Landscaper, Janitor, Ground Control Martha Lavey †* Librarian Tracy Letts†* John Dodge Danny McCarthy* Cop Michael Patrick Thornton* Mechanic

setting Middletown There will be one 15-minute intermission. There will be a post-show discussion immediately following the performance.

understudies

additional staff

Donna McGough Librarian, Aunt, Female Doctor Christopher Holloway John Dodge Howie Johnson Cop, Public Speaker, Male Tourist, Greg, Freelancer, Male Doctor, Man on Date, Landscaper, Janitor, Ground Control Bradley Grant Smith Mechanic Stacy Stoltz Mary Swanson, Tour Guide, Sweetheart, Attendant 2, Female Tourist, Attendant, Woman on Date

Patrick Walsh Assistant Director David Calder Assistant Dramaturg Steven Sorenson Lighting Assistant Joann White Charge Scenic Artist Melissa Rutherfoord Assistant Charge Artist Zoe Schiffrin Painter Kyle Land / Matt Retzlaff Carpenter Overhire Emily Guthrie Properties Overhire Yasmin Dincer-Ubl / Matt Retzlaff / Vanessa Rundle Running Crew Savannah Peregoy Wardrobe John Rooney Script Manager Olivia Castillon Stage Management Apprentice

Please be advised that actors will be using the aisles during the performance. As a courtesy to the actors and your fellow patrons, please turn off your cell phones before the performance and after the intermission.

† member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. The taking of photographs and the use of any type of recording device are 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.

Alana Arenas (Tour Guide, Sweetheart, Attendant 2, Intercom) joined the ensemble in 2007 and created the role of Pecola Breedlove for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of The Bluest Eye, which also played at the New Victory Theater Off-Broadway. She recently appeared in The Hot L Baltimore, The Etiquette of Vigilance and The Brother/Sister Plays at Steppenwolf and The Arabian Nights at Lookingglass Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Kansas City Repertory Theater. Other theatre credits include The Tempest, The Crucible, Spare Change and The Sparrow Project (Steppenwolf Theatre); Black Diamond (Lookingglass Theatre); Eyes (ETA); SOST (MPAACT); WVON (Black Ensemble Theater); and Hecuba (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Television and film credits include The Beast, Kabuku Rides and Lioness of Lisabi. She is originally from Miami where she began her training at the New World School of the Arts. Alana holds a BFA from the Theatre School at DePaul. Brenda Barrie (Mary Swanson) is thrilled to be back at Steppenwolf, making her mainstage debut. She recently understudied and performed in Sex with Strangers, as well as the staged reading of Bethany (First Look Repertory of New Work) and understudied Of Mice and Men (Steppenwolf for Young Adults). Other Chicago credits include: Memory (Non-Equity Jeff nomination for

Actress in Leading Role), Aunt Dan and Lemon, How I Learned to Drive and Waiting for Lefty (as an Ensemble Member with Backstage Theatre Company); Mrs. Caliban (Lifeline Theatre, Non-Equity Jeff nomination for Actress in a Leading Role); the world premiere of Graceland (Profiles Theatre); Mariette in Ecstasy (Lifeline Theatre, Nonequity Jeff nomination for Actress in a Leading Role); A Streetcar Named Desire (Metropolis Performing Arts Centre); and Caravaggio (Silk Road Theatre Project). Brenda received her BFA in Theatre from the University of Indianapolis and studied theatre at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. A special thank you to Andrew Jay for his endless awesomeness. Molly Glynn (Female Tourist, Attendant, Woman on Date) is delighted to return to Steppenwolf where she was last seen in Orange Flower Water. Other Chicago credits include: Permanent Collection (Northlight Theatre); The Uneasy Chair (Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Theatre); Heritage and Strictly Dishonorable (American Blues Theatre); Kate in Short Shakes! The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); as well as work at Apple Tree Theatre, Famous Door Theatre, First Folio, Next Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Seanachai and others. Film and TV credits: Something Better Somewhere Else, No Sleep â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til Madison and Early Edition.

Tim Hopper (Public Speaker, Male Tourist, Greg, Freelancer, Male Doctor, Radio Science Show Host) joined the ensemble in 1989 and most recently appeared at Steppenwolf in The Tempest. Other recent roles include Malcolm/God in David Greenspan’s Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons); Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla Playhouse); and Dr. Rank in A Doll’s House (Long Wharf Theatre). Steppenwolf appearances include The Crucible, The Violet Hour, Hedda Gabler, The Glass Menagerie and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. In New York, he received an Obie Award for his performance in More Stately Mansions at New York Theatre Workshop. His film appearances include Tenderness, School of Rock, Personal Velocity, Pipe Dream and To Die For. His television credits include White Collar, Grey’s Anatomy, Medium and Law and Order: SVU, among others. Ora Jones (Aunt, Female Doctor, Classical Music Show Host) has been an ensemble member since 2007. Steppenwolf credits include Mama Moja in The Brother/Sister Plays, Jessie Brewster in The Violet Hour (Jeff Award nomination), Aunt Mimi in The Unmentionables and Marilyn in Carter’s Way (Jeff Award nomination). Chicago credits include: Animal Crackers, A Christmas Carol, The Good Person of Setzuan, Proof, Marvin’s Room (Goodman

Theatre); The Madness of George III, Twelfth Night, A Flea in Her Ear (After Dark Award), The Merry Wives of Windsor and Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Other Chicago credits include: Our Town (Writers’ Theatre, After Dark Award), A Year With Frog and Toad (Chicago Children’s Theatre) and Execution of Justice (About Face Theatre). Ms. Jones’ film credits include The Weatherman, Stranger Than Fiction, Save the Last Dance and Were the World Mine. Keith Kupferer (Man on Date, Landscaper, Janitor, Ground Control) theater credits include God of Carnage, High Holidays, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play and The Old Neighborhood (Goodman Theatre); Of Mice & Men, Carter’s Way, Men of Tortuga, Things Being What They Are, Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train and Tavern Story (Steppenwolf Theatre); Trust and Hillbilly Antigone (Lookingglass Theatre); Execution of Justice (About Face Theatre); Cat Feet and The Old Neighborhood (Northlight Theatre); Desire Under The Elms (a co-production between Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre and Chicago’s Court Theatre); and the long-running hit, Shear Madness. Keith is a founding member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and was seen in their productions of 26 Miles, Expecting Isabel, Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, Be Aggressive, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 & ¾, Mommapalooza!, My Simple City, Hamlet and Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Other Chicago credits include The Unseen, The Meek, Canus Lunis Balloonis, (nominated for a 1998 Joseph

Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble) and The Physicists (A Red Orchid Theatre). Film credits include the latest Ron Howard project, The Dilemma, Dark Knight, Public Enemies, The Express, Meet the Browns, Stranger Than Fiction, Road to Perdition directed by Sam Mendes, Bad City, Fred Claus, Let’s Go to Prison, The Last Rights of Joe May and The Merry Gentleman directed by Michael Keaton. TV credits include ABC’s Detroit 1-8-7, A&E’s The Beast, the Fox series Prison Break, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on WB and the CBS series Early Edition. Martha Lavey (Librarian) is an ensemble member and the Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre and has appeared at Steppenwolf in Endgame, Good Boys and True, Love-LiesBleeding, 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 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, The Theatre Communications Group (TCG), 3Arts, US 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. She is a recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award and an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University. Martha is currently serving as Board President of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG). Martha received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University. Tracy Letts (John Dodge) joined the ensemble in 2002. Previous Steppenwolf productions include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (also Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.), American Buffalo, Betrayal, The Pillowman, Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross (also Dublin and Toronto), Three Days of Rain, many others. Other productions include: Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre, NY); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (A Red Orchid Theatre); Conquest of the South Pole (Famous Door); Bouncers (The Next Lab). TV and film: Guinevere, U.S. Marshals, Profiler, Prison Break, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, many others. As a playwright, he is the author of Killer Joe, Bug (also screenplay), Man from Nebraska (Pulitzer finalist), August: Osage County (Pulitzer Prize, Tony® Award for Best Play), Superior Donuts and the upcoming adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Steppenwolf.

Danny McCarthy (Cop) returns to Steppenwolf where he was last seen in The Pillowman. Other Chicago credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers’ Theatre); Abigail’s Party, The Unseen (A Red Orchid Theater, ensemble member); Take Me Out (About Face Theatre); Phyrogiants, Serenading Louie (Roadworks); American Dead (ATC); Early and Often, Ghetto (Famous Door Theatre). TV credits: Prison Break, Detroit 1-8-7, Chicago Code, ER, Early Edition. Movie credits: The Express, Fred Claus, Stranger Than Fiction, Derailed, Flags of Our Fathers, Proof and the upcoming Transformers 3. Michael Patrick Thornton (Mechanic) is grateful to return to Steppenwolf after appearing onstage here in The Elephant Man and directing Of Mice & Men. Artistic Director/Co-Founder of The Gift Theatre, Michael is a Jeff Awardwinning actor and was recently honored with a Jeff nomination for his performance in Gift’s Suicide, Incorporated. A graduate of The School at Steppenwolf, Michael improvises with Natural Gas at The Gift and with Susan Messing in Messing With a Friend/Thornton & Messing. Michael plays Dr. Gabriel Fife on ABC’s Private Practice and lives blissfully with his wife, Lindsey. Will Eno is one of his favorite playwrights.

Christopher Holloway (u/s John Dodge) is very happy to be returning to Steppenwolf. He last worked with Steppenwolf as an understudy to Ian Barford in Bridget Carpenter’s Up. Mr. Holloway has been in the entertainment industry in varying forms over the past twenty years. A graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, Mr. Holloway is a founding member of the Jeff Award-winning Eclipse Theatre Company and has appeared in numerous TV, voice over and commercials. Mr. Holloway would like to thank his fellows at the Monitor Group for their support and patience in this endeavor. Donna McGough (u/s Librarian, Aunt, Female Doctor) is excited to be working with Steppenwolf where she last appeared in The Time of Your Life. Other Chicago credits include Death of a Salesman, Happy Days, Angels in America and The Glass Menagerie (The Hypocrites); The Rimers of Eldritch and Frame 312 (Eclipse Theatre); The Seagull (TimeLine Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation, An Enemy of the People and The Time of Your Life (Raven Theatre); The Freedom of the City (Mary-Arrchie Theatre). Donna is a three-time Joseph Jefferson recipient for Actress in a Principal Role. Howie Johnson (u/s Cop, Public Speaker, Male Tourist, Greg, Freelancer, Male Doctor, Man on Date, Landscaper, Janitor, Ground Control) is thrilled to be working at Steppenwolf for the first time. Chicago credits include Killer Joe and reasons to be pretty (Profiles Theatre); Leaving Iowa (Touring, Theater Building, ATC, Royal George Theatre); Ivanov, Bible B sides and Too Much Memory (SiNNERMAN); Lepers of Baile Baiste, Creeps, and The Vortex (Boxer Rebellion); and 4H Club

In rehearsal photos by Joel Moorman

(left to right) Ensemble member Alana Arenas, Director Les Waters and Molly Glynn.

(Mary-Arrchie Theatre). TV credits include ER, Prison Break, Matadors, Chicago Code and Shameless. Film credits include The Informant, The Express, Contagion, The Site and Pyrite. He thanks Susie for bringing home the bacon and allowing him more than his share. Brad Smith (u/s Mechanic) is proud to be a part of this production. Chicago theatre credits include: CommComm and Reverb (Goodman Theatre/New Stages Series); The Weir (Seanachai Theatre); David’s Mother (Apple Tree Theatre); USA001 (American Theater Company); and Trueblinka (Collaboraction). Film credits include The Ice Harvest, Stranger Than Fiction and Let’s Go To Prison. Brad received his BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and also writes and performs music under the name Sad Brad Smith. Thanks for reading. Stacy Stoltz (u/s Mary Swanson, Tour Guide, Sweetheart, Attendant 2, Female Tourist, Woman on Date, Attendant) is very happy to be working at Steppenwolf.

Chicago credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers’ Theatre, Jeff nomination); Comedy of Errors (Court Theatre); Over The Tavern (Noble Fool Theatricals); Oedipus, Our Town, Miss Julie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 4.48 Psychosis and Henry 5 (The Hypocrites); Hatfield and McCoy and Dave DaVinci Saves the Universe (The House Theatre). Off-Broadway credit: The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide (59E59 Theatres). TV credit: The Chicago Code. She is married to Matt Hawkins. Will Eno (Playwright) lives in Brooklyn. In addition to Middletown, his other plays are Thom Pain (based on nothing), a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize; The Flu Season, which won the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for Best New York Debut; Gnit, an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt; Tragedy: a tragedy, which was also directed by Les Waters and produced in Chicago by Red Tape Theatre, directed by Jeremy Wechsler, and other plays. His work is published by TCG, DPS, playscripts and Oberon Books in London. Other work has also appeared in Harper’s, The Believer and The Quarterly.

In rehearsal photos by Joel Moorman

(left to right) Ensemble member Martha Lavey with Danny McCarthy and Brenda Barrie.

Les Waters (Director) is delighted to be working at Steppenwolf again. Chicago credits include: The Designated Mourner and The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf Theatre); and Big Love (Obie Award), Spinning Into Butter and Ghost on Fire (Goodman Theatre). Since 2003, Les has served as the Artistic Associate Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where his productions include: Three Sisters (in a version by Sarah Ruhl), Eurydice, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, FĂŞtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, Girlfriend, To the Lighthouse, Tragedy: a tragedy, The Glass Menagerie, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman and Yellowman. New York credits include Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, the Connelly Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival, Second Stage Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway. Elsewhere in America, he has

directed for American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, the Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. In his native England, Waters worked with the Bristol Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre Club, Joint Stock Theatre Group, the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Traverse Theatre Club. Waters led the MFA directing program at UC San Diego and is an associate artist of The Civilians. Antje Ellermann (Scenic Design) is happy to return to Steppenwolf where she designed Art. Also in Chicago, she designed Nine Parts of Desire (Next Theatre at the Museum of Contemporary Art). In New York, designs include work at NY Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, The Play Company and Naked Angels. Regionally, Ms. Ellermannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work has been seen at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, the Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Denver Center, Geffen Playhouse,

Seattle Rep, Fisher Center and Pittsburgh Opera Center. She has been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, an Ovation Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for Nine Parts of Desire and an Emmy Award for Becoming American on PBS. Janice Pytel (Costume Design) Previously at Steppenwolf: The Seafarer, Sonia Flew, Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch, The Drawer Boy, The Infidel, Goodbye, Stranger and The Designated Mourner (directed by Les Waters). Broadway: 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife. Recent Chicago credits: Festen (Steep Theatre); Precious Little (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); Float, Sweet Tea (About Face Theatre); Late: A Cowboy Song (Piven Theatre Workshop); A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic (Writers’ Theatre); The Long Red Road (Goodman Theatre); Distracted (ATC); Our Town (Lookingglass Theatre); Fences (Court Theatre). Regional: Crime and Punishment (Centerstage); The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre); Winesburg, Ohio, The Glass Menagerie (Kansas City Rep.); 33 Variations (Arena Stage and La Jolla Playhouse); Lombardi: The Only Thing, Topdog/Underdog (Madison Rep.); Los Angeles: The Seafarer (Geffen Playhouse); Multimedia: Catherine Sullivan’s Triangle of Need (Walker Art Center, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Metro Pictures Gallery). Janice is a member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. Matt Frey (Lighting Design) recently designed This, Go Back To Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons); Futura (Portland Center Stage); Woodysez (Arts Theatre, London); Freefall (Corn Exchange at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin); There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick Theater); Orange, Hat, & Grace (Soho Rep); This Wide Night (Naked Angels). Other credits

include: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, Ridge Theater Company, The New Group, Manhattan Class Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Berkeley Rep and Paper Mill Playhouse, as well as many other theaters, regional and abroad. Richard Woodbury (Sound Design) Broadway credits include original music and/or sound design for Desire Under the Elms, August: Osage County, Talk Radio and others. Chicago credits include Up, The Seafarer, August: Osage County and others (Steppenwolf Theatre); Candide, The True History of the Johnstown Flood, Hughie, Krapp’s Last Tape and others (Goodman Theatre). Richard has received Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes and Ruth Page Awards as well as nominations for Drama Desk and Ovation Awards. He has composed numerous scores for dance and is Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Artist at Columbia College Chicago, serving as Music Director in the Dance Department. Matt Hawkins (Fight Choreographer) is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf after working on Detroit and A Separate Peace. Most recently he served as Movement Director for Peter Pan (Lookingglass Theatre) and fight choreographer for The Original Grease (ATC). In the fall, he will direct Cyrano for The House Theatre of Chicago. Matt is a Founding Member of The House, an Artistic Associate and Resident Director with Strawdog, an Artistic Associate with 500 Clown and a graduate of Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is married to Stacy Stoltz.

In rehearsal photos by Joel Moorman

(left to right) Ensemble member Tracy Letts with Danny McCarthy.

Laura D. Glenn (Stage Manager) Over the past 22 years, some Steppenwolf credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird, A Parallelogram, Up, Superior Donuts, I Never Sang for my Father, The Violet Hour, Purple Heart, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and many others. Northlight Theatre credits include production stage management for Sense and Sensibility, A Life, Souvenir, Better Late, Retreat from Moscow, Permanent Collection, Cat Feet, Blue/Orange, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, Sky Girls, Rounding Third and A Skull in Connemara. International credits include Better Late (Northlight Theatre); Orange Flower Water and Purple Heart (Steppenwolf Theatre) all at the Galway Arts Festival in Galway Ireland; The Man Who Came to Dinner – BITE festival at the Barbican Center in London (Steppenwolf Theatre); and the regional and Broadway productions of Buried Child (Steppenwolf Theatre). Michelle Medvin (Assistant Stage Manager) marks her 10th anniversary with Steppenwolf this summer and is thrilled to spend it working with this terrific ensemble. Recent projects include Detroit, Endgame, and Fake (Steppenwolf Theatre); Tree and

Blue Door (Victory Gardens Theater); and Jackie and Me (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Also at Steppenwolf: Art, The Crucible, August: Osage County, The Pillowman, The Unmentionables, Love Song, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Man From Nebraska, Purple Heart (also at Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival), We All Went Down to Amsterdam, and many 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. 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

(left to right) Brenda Barrie, Molly Glynn, Director Les Waters and Stage Manager Laura D. Glenn.

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), 3Arts, US 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.

on laughter and the afterlife in theatre A Discussion with Playwright Will Eno, Director Les Waters and Artistic Director Martha Lavey

Martha Lavey: First of all, I’m thrilled that we’re going to be working together on Middletown. Will Eno: I’m so excited and honored to be at Steppenwolf. I’m not playing nice, I’m just really psyched and grateful for you guys. ML: Thank you very much, Will. I don’t let any Les opportunity go by. Les Waters: This is number three!

tor. Then I went to University and read some plays, and I ended up at the Royal Court Theatre, where I assisted my mentor Max Stafford-Clark on many plays, including the original production of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine. I was extraordinarily lucky to be the baby in a gang of people including StaffordClark Caryl Churchill and Howard Brenton. I came to this country because I directed Churchill’s play Fen, which was invited to the Public Theatre in New York, and it was a big, big hit. And that’s how I got started.

ML: I’m thrilled! Now, Will, did you always write plays?

“Middletown is a miraculous play.

i was attracted to doing it because i love things that are simultaneously one thing and the other. the play is very, very huge and absolutely tiny.” -les waters

WE: I started fiction writing with Gordon Lish, who introduced me to Don DeLillo. His play, The Day Room, maybe haunts Middletown even more than Our Town. I was trying to write short stories and poems and wasn’t able to figure that out really. So now it’s been 15 years or so trying to write plays. ML: Les, can you tell us your background? LW: I was a boy soprano. But I never really wanted to perform because I don’t like being looked at—which seems to be a major component of being a performer. So by 16, I’d made a decision that I wanted to be a direc-

ML: Les, I’m not surprised that you love Will’s work because it seems to me in my past experience with you, that you have great interest in plays that pay a lot of attention to language. That’s fair to say, Will, right? That paying attention to language is something that you do? WE: Yes. But then—and I don’t mean this in a disputative way—but just for the record, what the hell else would a writer be paying attention to? … but yes, style of language and surface of language. ML: When I say you pay attention to language, I mean to say that in your writing one is aware of a really intimate and essential

relationship between the entire construction of the world and how one speaks. WE: Well, yes, absolutely! And…I wasn’t barking at you. ML: No! WE: I was sort of saying, with you, “Yeah!” And, I guess, “why do we even notice it when a writer pays attention to language?”

ML: I hear you! You don’t want to get boxed into a corner of like, “here’s my contemporary riff of Our Town!” WE: Right exactly, yeah. Notably, there’s no third act or afterlife of any kind in Middletown. That’s one of the differences. And no stage manager, which is essentially the thing that makes Our Town, Our Town. ML: Les what attracted you to the script?

“Theatre, in a grown up and

brave way, just seems drenched with death, and drenched with humanness—which has death as a component. ” -will eno

ML: Speaking specifically of Middletown, there are certain echoes of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. And I think previously you’ve spoken of Wilder’s influence on your work. How would you describe the relationship between these two plays, Our Town and Middletown? WE: Our Town certainly lives in my heart as a great play and an important play. But there are a number of other plays that essentially take a specific location and try to make it stand for the whole world. In the most conscious way, I was trying to differentiate Middletown from Our Town, and make sure I wasn’t repeating it. I know there are echoes of Our Town, but I wasn’t striving for my play to exist as half of a conversation with another pre-existing work.

LW: I’m doing Chekhov’s Three Sisters and then Middletown and I’m just absolutely thrilled to be doing two of the saddest plays ever written. Two wonderful ensemble plays about the delights and terrors of everyday existence. Middletown is a miraculous play. I was attracted to doing it because I love things that are simultaneously one thing and the other. The play is very, very huge and absolutely tiny. I am from a very small town in England, it seemed profoundly humane to me and really fucking funny. As a director, what I want to do is go out and camp out for many weeks in somebody else’s imagination. And with this play I thought, “I would be very, very happy to live there for a while.” ML: I think that’s a good way to think about theatre, as “camping out in someone else’s

imagination.” When you think about it, that’s the gesture that plays are always making, right? They’re asking the audience to live in somebody else’s imagination for a little bit. Will, I want to ask you about this relative just to the act of playwriting and making theatre. Over time, it has become increasingly obvious to me that theatre has something to do with dying. Does that make sense to you? WE: It does. Les and I have had great discussions about this. Actually, “discussions” seems too, uh, too dour a word, because they’ve been lively. We’ve had good times talking about the “D” word. Theatre, in a grown up and brave way, just seems drenched with death, and drenched with humanness—which has death as a component. There was a time when I was into certain artists because they died in embarrassing ways at young ages and certain bands because they hated sunshine. I had this teenager-y attraction to dark things. And now it just seems like something you have to face in order to understand how great looking at a puppy dog in a store window is and baseball and the taste of food. In theatre, the lights go down and then come up, and that performance is done and gone forever. And then there’s the curtain call, which is strangely… ML: It’s fantastic! WE: I have cried more times in the theater at the curtain call than during a play. There’s something so brave and human and sad and silly about the king who died early in the fourth act coming back out there, and waving. ML: Yes. WE: Playwriting is playwriting because it understands that no matter how many actors you have in your play in terms of bulk weight, there is always more humanity in the audi-

ence. There is more consciousness there. At least half of what you’re doing is taking place in an audience, where there are people coughing and phones going off. You have to love people if you want to do this. Even if it’s a suspicious and prickly kind of love. ML: I’ve become very aware as an actor of the rituals of theatre which are just so exquisite, and antique. “Ladies and gentlemen, half hour.” “Five minutes, ladies and gentlemen.” LW: “Mr. Eno, Mr. Waters, Mr. So-and-So, ‘Places, please.” Nobody addresses anybody like that anymore, do they? ML: And you go out of your dressing room and into a world which is in your body already, and in your voice, and you do it with this great sincerity to make it new and real each time. Yet, you already know just everything about it. There’s incredible joy in it. ML: Will, do you want to say anything more about Middletown? WE: I’m proud of the play and I worked really hard over a bunch of years on it, and I kept stumbling, and kept chickening out from the original, very simple vision. But finally I’m pretty close to the original notion. I know that to produce it on stage will require grown-ups with big, huge, bloody hearts and big, beautiful brains to make it work. So, I just wanted to say it again, how much I’m looking forward to working on it. I’ve come to love life on earth and I didn’t always and I still have some big questions. But both of those things, the love and the questions, I tried to put in the play. And it’s a great feeling to feel that you both and a bunch of the other people understand that in some way. And have your own loves and own questions to add.

FINDING MIDDLETOWN By Artistic Apprentice Kendra Miller Will Eno’s Middletown is not specifically set in a particular town but feels as though it could take place in any small town in America. The town created within the play provokes feelings of familiarity and close proximity but also remains mysterious. As the Librarian explains, “a thousand years ago, the area was home to the Chakmawg Indian and it was called Inpetway, which no one knows what it means, but it might have meant, ‘You are far away’ or, ‘Between the snowing.’” Words lose meaning as their context changes, she seems to say. But, as the familiarity of the title suggests, words also can powerfully anchor our understanding of the world to place. The world is Middletown, but where in the world is it? Look for “Middletown” on a map and the number of them will surprise you. There are 16 “Middletowns” in the U.S., not counting the multiple counties, townships, censusdefined areas and small but distinct cultural neighborhoods across the country that also bear the name. They are practically evenly distributed across every state in the coun-

try. It is likely that there is a neighborhood named Middletown close to many places once familiar to you, such as the city where you went to college or across the highway in the new developments in your hometown. The more common “Middleton” is found across the world in many different countries, from Ireland to South Africa. “Middletowns” are prolific, and they seem to have nothing in common besides their shared name. Strangely, perhaps, the most well-known Middletown in America is actually named Muncie, Indiana. Nicknamed “Middletown” by a married team of sociologists, Robert and Helen Lynd, this small city in east central Indiana has inspired a number of different sociological and cultural studies aimed at analyzing change in Middle America during the 20th century. Originally focusing on religious practices in the city, The Lynds first began their study of “Middletown” in 1929, with research funded by the Rockefeller Institute of Social and

Religious Research. As the Lynds developed their work they expanded their focus to include interpersonal and civic relationships. The study came to define many “interwoven strands of behavior” that the Lynds believed created the city unit, defined as: • Making a living • Training the young • Making a home • Using leisure in various forms of play, art, etc. • Engaging in religious practices • Engaging in community activities Studying these behavioral strands led the Lynds to build on their scientific and cultural fascination with the typical American middleclass community in their first study, titled Middletown: A Study in American Culture. In 1929, Muncie was a city transitioning into recovery from economic hardship during the Great Depression. More than 70% of the city’s residents worked in manufacturing operations, and Muncie’s distinct separation of working-class citizens and business-class citizens characterized its politics and created a deep social stratification. Yet the Lynds found that Middletown “tends to regard its institutions–its capitalist economy, its religion, its education, its form of government–as substantially final products of ‘progress’ and as the ‘best in the world.’” They concluded that such pride was found in human societies and cultures everywhere and that the tendency to resist cultural change and further progress was only obvious to the observer. When they returned to Muncie in 1937 for their second study, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflict, the Lynds found that the city had undergone remarkably little social change. Many of the citizens’concerns from the first study about the growing influence of

technology in their lives, social programs and the strength of their community were echoed in the second study. From the first study in 1924, a man is quoted as saying, “We’ve lost the ability to ponder over life. We’re too busy.” Nowhere else in America has a city of this size been so rigorously documented, observed and analyzed for the better part of a century. A similar self-consciousness is part of many of the characters in Will Eno’s Middletown. From John Dodge’s retrospective appreciation of his simple beginnings to the Librarian’s

recounting of Middletown’s Indian ancestry, the Middletown of Will Eno’s imagination is a place populated by people acutely aware of their own history and searching for a place to live within it. The appeal of creating a Middletown for America to study itself is a factor in why Muncie has become the most well-known representation of average America. The Lynds’ research inspired The National Science Foundation-funded studies from 1976-1981 and 1999-2000, which in turn inspired two books by Theodore Caplow, and a PBS docu-

Middletown thus exists physically in more locations than we might at first expect, but also figuratively, as a metaphor for a greater concept, the ideal of small-town America. The characters in Will Eno’s Middletown don’t exactly live in Muncie, but the questions that drive their lives also resonate beyond each of them individually. The play suggests many questions, some of which veer away from the Lynds’ strands of social interaction, and into a more fluid questioning. Some might be:

START mentary entitled The First Measured Century in 2000. The Ball State Center for Middletown Studies, which is located in Muncie itself, is devoted to a continued investigation of the town. Further interest in the city’s history has led to the current development of a virtual Middletown in the popular online simulated world, Second Life, described as a place where users can recreate the history of Middletown over and over again. Pollsters frequently use Muncie as preliminary indication of election results, as it has successfully predicted the election of most U.S. presidents, and it remains a resource for advertising and news agencies to access what they believe is the life most Americans are leading. In selecting Muncie as the town to represent an entire society, the Lynds’ studies also captured America’s vision of itself as a country of small towns. Much of America lives in small cities and towns that qualify as locally defined areas with populations of 25,000 people or less. Even those of us who didn’t grow up in a small town find the setting familiar through portrayals, especially in film and television, of neighborliness and safety. In popular culture, the small town is apparently a place to escape to, but just as often, a place from which to flee.

• What do you get up for in the morning? • Why did you decide to have children, or not have children? • Do you consider the place that you live your home? • How do you find meaning in life? • What do you believe in? • Where is your community? As the Librarian says, “I think we’re born with questions and the world is the answer.” Will Eno’s Middletown gives us a town and its inhabitants in the thick of the question: how do we continue to live together? Part of the answer lies in the moments of connection we have every day with our neighbors, and in the small ways we give recognition to life as it is happening.

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The Places We RemembeR

By Ass o c iate Pr o d u c e r Rebecca Rugg & Arti sti c Appr e nti c e K e n d ra M i l l e r

At Steppenwolf, we love to bring actors’ voices alive in our programs, and for Middletown we also wanted to talk about how regular places are made important by the memories we attach to them. We asked the cast to answer two questions from a list of 20–some serious, some playful–about various places that left an impression. We received more answers than we can print here, so if you find them as fascinating as we do, please look for more on the Steppenwolf website at: steppenwo lf.o rg / m i d d letown / wh ere

W h e r e w as t h e f i rs t t i m e y o u changed a tire?

Where Did you l e ar n t o s w i m ?

W h e r e w as y o u r fa v o r i t e p l a c e t o r u n a w a y as a k i d ?

R . I . P.

Tim Hopper: Interstate 75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Alana Arenas: I don’t know how to swim but there were attempts at a public pool.

Keith Kupferer: I would run away to a cemetery down the road.

where is the best p l a c e t o s e e t h e s t ars ? Molly Glynn: Lying on a blanket in Juddville Cemetery in Door County, Wisconsin.

W h e r e ( a n d w h a t ) w as y o u r f i rs t c o n c e r t ? Alana Arenas: Chicago Theatre, Brian McKnight. Where did you get your f i rs t l i b rar y c ar d ? Michael Patrick Thornton: Jefferson Park, Chicago.

where Did you have y o u r f i rs t k i ss ? Tracy Letts: Twin City Drive-In, Denison, Texas. The movie was “Night Creature” starring Donald Pleasence.

Th e Places we REM EmBEr  steppenwo lf.o rg / m i d d letown / wh ere

sa w t h e o c e a n ? • w h e e r e i s t h e b e s t p l a c e y o u h a v e e v e r g o n e c am p i n g ?

• w h e r e w as y o u r fa v o r i t e p l a c e t o r u n a w a y t o as a k i d ? • w h e r e D i d y o u h a v e y o u r f i rs t c u p o f c o ff e e ? •

W h e r e D o y o u r e m e m b e r f i rs t c r y i n g i n p u b l i c ? • w h e r e Was t h e p l a c e

W h e r e w as y o u r f i rs t j o b ? Martha Lavey: As a waitress at Big Boy restaurant in the Northland Shopping Mall in Detroit, Michigan during high school. We worked like dogs.

WHE R E DID YOU G O A F TE R YOU M OVED OUT ? Keith Kupferer: To an apartment above a pizzeria in Poughkeepsie, New York.

W h e r e ( a n d w h a t ) w as y o u r f i rs t c o n c e r t ? Danny Mccarthy: Pink Floyd at the St. Louis Arena. Or was it still called the Checkerdome? I remember a flying pig.

W h e r e Was y o u r f i rs t j o b ? Brenda Barrie: I loved working at that hot dog stand in Whiting, Indiana. My next big job was working at a port-apotty factory… I oddly found this even more fun. W h e r e Was y o u r f i rs t j o b ? Tim Hopper: International House of Pancakes in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dishwasher.

W h e r e D i d y o u l e ar n t o s w i m ? Ora Jones: I learned to swim in Panama. When there’s water on either side, and tropical storms above, it’s a good idea.

• W h e r e d i d y o u l e ar n t o c o o k ? • W h e r e w as t h e f i rs t t i m e y o u c h a n g e d a t i r e ? • W h e r e W e r e y o u w h e n

t h a t y o u r e a l l y w a n t e d t o d r i v e af t e r y o u g o t y o u r d r i v e r ’ s l i c e n s e ?

y o u l o s t a l o v e d o n e f o r t h e f i rs t t i m e ? • w h e r e w as t h e f i rs t t i m e y o u

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UN/ FREEZING THE PLAY By Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl

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 overwhelming impression is that you are in a space, a formed thing, but you’re not encouraged to think about it as form, as construction, that it is made for you, to keep you in.” —from Exteriority in Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point. Ander Monson’s essay Exteriority in his “anti” memoir Vanishing Point examines the surfaces of our environment, the exterior walls of a room, the margins that form the limits of a page, doors that define the boundary between inside and outside. In Middletown, Will Eno is acutely aware of the basic elements that provide our lives with a frame of continuity and familiarity—the exterior surfaces that make up life in any town—libraries, hospitals, police stations, monuments. In middle America, or perhaps anywhere in America, there are people and houses and trees and babies and plumbers—a world of familiar surfaces that includes strip malls and Olive Gardens and Ikeas. There are 16 “Middletowns” in this country and its ubiquity makes it difficult to locate the difference between one library or another or one bus station or another. As the Mechanic in Middletown says, “I was somebody’s golden child, somebody’s little hope. Now I’m more just, you know, a local resident. Another earthling.” We enter the world with great promise but the inevitability of the human condition ultimately reduces us to a sameness—ashes to ashes, dust to dust. To keep our erasure at bay, we desperately seek to prove we are distinct from one

another. We use language and technology to excavate our interior selves pushing our difference to the surface—exclaiming, “I am here.” As Monson points out in his essay, our search for distinction has lead to “a rising national obsession with individualization, customization, the realization of our alleged dreams, and, most importantly, the realization of our dreams of capability, of being able to do these things ourselves.” We must believe that we construct our own history, and fight against the notion that history is propelled by forces beyond our control. And so we design our own iPad covers, create quippy Facebook status lines and Twitter our uniqueness wirelessly around the world. We paint our own living rooms, build our own brick pathways and refinish our own hardwood floors. And, in the process, we delineate our homes and our towns and ourselves. But I think Will Eno asks us in Middletown to consider whether such delineation only makes us more alienated—whether the impulse to self-define is just an act of “making sounds with your mouth” as Mary describes John’s way of talking in the play. As I type this essay, my twitter feed streams “@pizzahut

how can you be out of pan pizza dough” and I, too, ask what lives beyond the exteriority of words and buildings and towns? We make our private selves public but to what end? Both Eno and Monson give me perspective. As John Dodge says to Mary, “Sometimes you get used to the words for things, and then you suddenly remember the things. And so I suddenly saw you, the real Mary, not a word.” Eno seeks to uncover meaning beneath the surface of language, and Monson asks us to think of a wall as more than a surface. A wall has content, “its repeated layers of paint and wallpaper a minor wonder of house geology, a history worthy of tracking and tracing.” So our responsibility as citizens and theatergoers is to recognize the containers for what they are, surfaces with histories worth tracking and tracing. We must look past lips moving and see into the opaqueness of walls and words and people so that we might glimpse purpose and meaning and hope. Perhaps then we will learn something more about each other and ourselves.

11/12 SEASON

When everyday lives are touched by war.

FIVE STORIES ABOUT WINNING AND LOSING. FIVE STORIES ABOUT COMING HOME. 32

CLYBOURNE PARK By Bruce Norris Directed by ensemble member Amy Morton

Ensemble member Frank Galati

Ensemble member Amy Morton

September 8 – November 6, 2011

Featuring ensemble member James Vincent Meredith

Based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow Adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati

General William Tecumseh Sherman, Uncle Billy to his men, marches 62,000 Union soldiers through lush Georgia countryside. Bearing along both black and white refugees, the march destroys everything in its path, turning home into exile and exile into home. Its epic force forever changes the lives of those caught up in its sweep: a liberated slave, a sheltered daughter of a Southern judge, a pair of Confederate deserters and Uncle Billy himself.

December 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012

PENELOPE

By Enda Walsh Directed by ensemble member Amy Morton Featuring ensemble member John Mahoney

On a sun-scorched island off the coast of Greece, beautiful Penelope awaits the return of her husband from war. Beneath her window, four Speedo-clad men camp in an empty swimming pool, a cock-eyed internment where both provisions and time are running low. Locked in a do-or-die competition to win Penelope’s love, they preen and posture and connive in a last ditch effort to cheat their fate.

January 19 – May 13, 2012

Ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro

Ensemble member John Mahoney

THE MARCH

Featuring ensemble members Alana Arenas, Ian Barford, Tim Hopper, Martha Lavey, Mariann Mayberry, James Vincent Meredith, Yasen Peyankov and Alan Wilder

On two separate afternoons, 50 years apart, a modest bungalow on Chicago’s northwest side becomes a contested site in the politics of race. September 1959: Russ and Bev are moving out to the suburbs. They’ve inadvertently sold the house to the neighborhood’s first black family and ignited a community showdown. September 2009: the neighborhood is ripe for gentrification and the house is again changing hands. This time to a young white couple with plans for demolition and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Ensemble member Austin Pendleton

April 5 – June 10, 2012

June 28 August 26, 2012

THREE SISTERS By Anton Chekhov Adapted by ensemble member Tracy Letts Directed by ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro Featuring ensemble members Ian Barford, Ora Jones and Sally Murphy Inside the grand Prozorov house, the family chafes at the narrow constraints of life in their small provincial town, once a bustling army garrison where their late father served as general. Attempts to shore up their fraying social status lay bare the larger forces of unrest that will soon engulf them all.

TIME STANDS STILL

By Donald Margulies Directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton Featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan and Sally Murphy For photojournalist Sarah Goodwin, happiness is rushing from hotspot to hotspot capturing images of global conflict. When she barely survives a bomb blast in Iraq, she’s forced to return home into the care of her long-time lover, James. She’scaught off-guard by James’ desire for family and by the simple domestic life pursued by Richard, her editor, and his much younger girlfriend, Mandy. Pressed to consider settling into a “normal” life, Sarah must confront her addiction to the drama and chaos of war.

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Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise

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Artistic Polly carl Director of Artistic Development ERICA DANIELS Associate Artistic Director JOY MEADS Literary Manager REBECCA RUGG Artistic Producer NICK WARD Casting and School Assistant TRACY LETTS AMY MORTON ANNA D. SHAPIRO RICK SNYDER JESSICA THEBUS Associate Artists SHELDON PATINKIN Artistic Consultant STEPPENWOLF FOR YOUNG ADULTS HALLIE GORDON Artistic and Educational Director, Steppenwolf for Young Adults MEGAN SHUCHMAN Education Manager, SYA Lauren Sivak Education Associate AMANDA JANE DUNNE LARRY GRIMM ROBERT HINES III NICOLE RIPLEY EMILIO ROBLES CARLA STILLWELL Teaching Artists

Administration DAVID M. SCHMITZ Managing Director

Molly Kobelt Special Events Associate

Allan Waite Group Sales Associate

RACHEL DOMARACKI Director of Finance

LOUISE GERAGHTY Donor Relations Associate

SCOTT MACOUN IT Manager

KALEIGH LOCKHART Corporate Relations Associate

Roseann Bishop TARA BRANHAM Rebecca Butler BILLIE BRYANT ALI HOEFNAGEL LACEY HOLMES SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS MARISSA MCKOWN PETER PARSONS MEG SANTISI elizabeth schewe rachel welling Audience Services Associates

ERIN COOK Company Manager BRIAN HURST Finance Associate LUPE GARCIA Quiles Events Management Associate Angela johnson Office Management Associate & Receptionist

MARKETING, publicity & AUDIENCE Services LINDA GARRISON Director of Marketing and Communications

RICHARD KANG IT Assistant

YAEL EYTAN Marketing Director

CORY CONRAD Facilities Manager

JAMES PALMER Executive Assistant

DAVID ROSENBERG Communications Director

ANDERS JACOBSON RYAN PALMA Facilities Staff

JULIA DOSSETT MORGAN Promotions and Media Manager

VICTOR DAVID Tika Ram Kafley HAROLD KRIPPS Ethan ozaniec Custodial Staff

Jackie Snuttjer Finance Specialist DEVELOPMENT SANDY KARUSCHAK Director of Development ERIC EVENSKAAS Director of Individual Giving and Donor Services KATY E. HALL Director of Corporate Relations DEBORAH STEWART Director of Foundation and Government Relations RUTH STINE Director of Major Gifts KENDRA VAN KEMPEN Director of Special Events JESSICA GRETCH Individual Giving Coordinator PAUL G. MILLER Development Coordinator

Suzanne Miller Donor Services Associate

THOMAS WEITZ Digital Assets Manager LUCAS CRAWFORD Marketing Associate JOEL MOORMAN Digital Content Producer SUSANNAH KIM Digital Design Associate LUIS A. IBARRA Graphic Designer NORA TAYLOR Marketing and Program Associate TAMARA TODRES Director of Audience Services JIMMY FREUND Audience Services Manager STEPHANIE HELLER Audience Services Subscription Manager Mike brunlieb MATTHEW LYLE Audience Services Supervisors

Operations JAY JUSSAUME Director of Operations

EVAN HATFIELD Front of House Manager

LAUREN LOUER, THE SAINTS Volunteer Usher Coordination Production AL FRANKLIN Production Manager DIXIE UFFELMAN Associate Production Manager RUSSELL POOLE Technical Director ADEN WATSON Assistant Technical Director ROGELIO RIOJAS Scene Shop Foreman KEN BLENC ROBERT BROWN MARCOS EVERSTIJN Scenic Carpenters Jenny DiLuciano Properties Master ANDRIA SMITH Assistant Properties Master CHARLES MOSER Master Properties Artisan RICK HAEFELE House Carpenter

LIBET WILFONG House Manager

DAWN PRZYBYLSKI Stage Carpenter

RON BOGACKI Mary Bowmann MATT CAMPBELL Julia Curns Kassandra Deans Heidi Germann ROBERT HINES III JESSICA LIND Jack Miggins Becky Mock Christine Olivier RICHARD RUBIO Danielle shindler Cat Tries Sean Wesslund Front of House Staff

CARYN WEGLARZ KLEIN Costume Director

MUSTAFA CHAUDHRY DONALD COULSON Indra Kafley PETER VAN KEMPEN Parking Staff

MAE HASKINS Assistant Costume Designer LAUREL CLAYSON Head Draper KEVIN PETERSON Shop Foreman Myron Elliott Staff Draper JESSICA STRATTON Wardrobe Supervisor MARTHA WEGENER Audio Engineer GREGOR MORTIS Assistant Audio Engineer J. R. LEDERLE Lighting Supervisor ERNESTO GOMEZ House Electrician

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 SYDNEY CRISTOL LAUREN FISHER CHARLES FRYDENBERG TYLER GREENE MARILYN HILLARY Rania Salem Manganaro Terrence Mosley Call Center Representatives RICHARD BARAZZA NAOMI BRODKIN PAUL DORAN BRITTON ESPOSITO EVAN GARRETT ERIN HEMMING MICHAEL MCBRIDE TERRENCE MOSLEY ALLISON ORR ANDREW ROVNER ANNE SAWYIER FRED SCHMIDTARENALES JONATHAN STARZYK SARAH WAGENER Interns

board of trustees Executive Committee Nora Daley Conroy, Chair Eric Lefkofsky, Secretary Paul W. Goodrich, Treasurer Henry S. Bienen Douglas R. Brown Michael Cahan Sharon Fairley Lynn Lockwood Murphy Deborah H. Quazzo Randall K. Rowe Bruce Sagan Harry J. Seigle Stephanie B. Smith Helen Zell

Trustees Sarah Beardsley Michael W. Bender Carole L. Brown Terri L. Cable Keith Cardoza Dennis Cary Elizabeth H. Connelly Beth Boosalis Davis J. Scott Etzler Rich Feitler

John N. Fox, Jr. Scott P. George Lawrence M. Gill Robert J. Greenebaum, Jr. John H. Hart George A. Joseph Donna La Pietra Martha Lavey Ronald J. Mallicoat, Jr. Janet Melk Geoff Nyheim David C. Pisor Kenneth J. Porrello Mark L. Prager Merle Reskin Francis C. Sadac Michael R. Salem John R. Samolis Manuel “Manny” Sanchez Anna D. Shapiro John R. Walter Willard L. Woods, Jr.

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

Emeritus Trustees J. Robert Barr Lawrence Block Gloria Scoby

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

Operating Income Contributions 45%

Additional Income 9%

46% ticket sales

A gift of any amount makes a difference. ways to give Online at www.steppenwolf.org/support

Call Steppenwolf at 312-654-5615

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season sponsors GRAND BENEFACTORS

BENEFACTORS

endowment sponsors Hope Abelson Fund for New Play Development Artistic Endowment established through the Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Douglas R. Brown Playwright/Director Endowment Fund Ford Foundation Artistic and General Operating Endowment Funds Richard and Mary L. Gray Production Endowment Fund John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fund for the Development of New Work

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Daniel E. McLean National and International Production Fund Avy and Marcie Stein Sustaining Fund for the Ensemble Steppenwolf Board Designated Endowment Fund Steppenwolf Theatre Company Endowment Fund created with Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust Nancy L. Wald Production Endowment Fund John and Carol Walter Production Endowment Fund

INdividual production Sponsors Lead Sponsors Joyce Chelberg Liz and Eric Lefkofsky* Merle Reskin*

production sponsors Julie and Roger Baskes* Philip and Janice Beck Henry and Leigh Bienen* Douglas R. Brown* Sean and Nora Daley Conroy* Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly* Sabrina and Antonio Gracias Robert and Amy Greenebaum* Michael G. Hansen and Nancy E. Randa* 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

David Herro and Jay Franke Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kiphart Martha Lavey* Jim and Kay Mabie Lynn Lockwood Murphy and Barrett B. Murphy* The Negaunee Foundation Deborah and Stephen Quazzo* Randy and Susi Rowe* Robert and Louise Sanborn Susan and Harry Seigle* Gary Sinise Edward A. Studzinski Helen Zell*

Individual sponsors Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Mr. Michael Bender and Ms. Sheridan Prior Michael and Cathy Brennan John Buckley Stephanie and Jason Child Kent and Liz Dauten

Leticia Davis Rebecca and Barry Friedland Margo and Pete Georgiadis Gordon and Wendy Gill Richard and Catherine Gottfred John H. Hart and Carol Prins David R. Hawkanson Karen Kuenster and Jim Osick Michel C. Mayes Janet Melk Barry and Beth Mitchell Steve and Michelle Monieson Kenneth Porrello and Sherry L. McFall George and Kimberly Ruhana Ralph Senst and Karen Zelden Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Mr. and Mrs. Steele John and Carol Walter Frances Wilkinson Nina B. Winston

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

Steppenwolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010-2011 fiscal year is ending August 31st. We need your gift to help balance the books and continue producing ambitious theater.

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corporate, foundation & government contributors GRAND BENEFACTORS

PRODUCERS

($100,000+) Chicago Community Trust The Davee Foundation ‡ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ‡ Elysian Hotel Chicago 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

($25,000-49,999)

BENEFACTORS ($50,000-99,999)

Alphawood Foundation ComEd Crain’s Chicago Business The Crown Family‡ Deloitte Julius Frankel Foundation Harris Bank* JPMorgan Chase & Co.* National Endowment for the Arts PNC Smart Family Foundation Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust Target Vinci

Allstate Insurance Company* American Express AT&T* Bank of America* Foley & Lardner LLP Fortress Data Management Grosvenor Capital Management Illinois Arts Council The James Hotel Northern Trust* OptionsHouse Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. The Talbott Hotel

PATRONS ($10,000-24,999)

Anonymous (2) Abbott Fund Baxter International Inc.* Helen Brach Foundation Buchanan Family Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Chopper Trading, LLC CNA Financial Corporation Dancing Skies Foundation DLA Piper LLP (US) Dr. Scholl Foundation Ernst & Young LLP* Feitler Family Fund The Field Foundation of Illinois Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Goldman, Sachs & Co. Grainger Foundation Green Courte Partners, LLC Illinois Tool Works Inc.* James S. Kemper Foundation Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Kraft Foods* McKinsey & Company, Inc. Navistar, Inc. Nordstrom Prince Charitable Trusts Reverb Capital LLC Rhoades Foundation Sage Foundation Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman LLP

Sara Lee Corporation Seigle Family Foundation Schiff Hardin LLP Swett & Crawford Group Tasty Catering UBS William Blair & Company, LLC

SUSTAINERS ($5,000-9,999)

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Ariel Capital Management Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc Groupon John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Grover Hermann Foundation MB Financial Bank The McGraw-Hill Companies* Motorola Foundation* Newcastle Limited Norcon, Inc PointBridge POP Princess Grace Foundation-USA J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Siragusa Foundation Winston & Strawn, LLP

SPONSORS ($2,500-4,999)

Amsted Industries Foundation AON Corporation Arts Federation City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Hayes Mechanical Saks Fifth Avenue Suite Home Chicago Turner Construction Company Foundation

GUARANTORS ($1,000-2,499)

Blackman Kallick Blue Foundation Blue Plate Circa Complete Mailing Service Inc. Crowe Horwath, LLP Fortress Data Management Hamilton Thies & Lorch LLP Hope 360° Inc. IBM Corporation Jensen Reporting and Video Conferencing Donald S. Levin Family Foundation Loop Capital Meltzer, Purtill and Stelle LLC Modestus Bauer Foundation Neal & Leroy LLC New Horizon Foundation Perkins Coie Prudential Rubloff Properties Sahara Enterprises, Inc. William Wood Skinner Foundation Tod’s Van Cleef & Arpels, Inc. Youngblood Executive Search, Inc.

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

corporate, foundation & government contributors Steppenwolf is proud to recognize United Airlines as our Exclusive Corporate Production Sponsor of Middletown. United Airlines has made it possible for the Steppenwolf community to represent Chicago on the global stage while remaining committed to enriching the arts here at home. As the Official Airline of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, United Airlines has demonstrated their commitment to nurturing the arts community of Chicago for over twenty years.

The Chicago Community Trust is our region’s community foundation, built by generations of Chicagoans with whom Steppenwolf shares a commitment to making this city a vibrant place to live and work. We are honored to partner with the Chicago Community Trust in our 35th season. With its support of Middletown, the Trust helps to bring a major new American play to Chicago audiences, advancing our city’s reputation as a major cultural center.

For nearly three decades, the National Endowment for the Arts has supported Steppenwolf’s effort to produce artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation. With the National Endowment for the Arts’ support, we are proud to introduce our Chicago audiences to a dynamic contemporary American playwright whose reputation continues to grow nationally.

A major advocate for excellence in the performing arts in America, the Shubert Foundation’s longstanding support of Steppenwolf has been instrumental to its growth as a leading national theater. The Shubert Foundation’s ongoing investment allows Steppenwolf to realize its ambitions with challenging plays, including this production of Middletown, that help to shape the American theater today.

THE

Davee

Foundation

Through its generous support of major civic, educational and cultural institutions throughout the city, The Davee Foundation has been a leading contributor to the vitality and livability of Chicago. The Foundation’s multi-year commitment in support of Steppenwolf’s Artistic Enhancement Fund provides the resources to produce such substantial projects as Middletown-plays of scale and grand scope for which our audiences have a demonstrated appetite and that few American theaters today can manage.

individual contributors/Visionary 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. Anonymous Valerie and Joseph Abel Robert C. Anderson Dr. Marvin and Joyce Berman Robert H. Glaze

Dr. Paul Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Dr. Edward O. Riley T. Marshall Rousseau Rose L. Shure 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 Steppenwolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Directors Circle members annually provides vital support for Steppenwolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Sarah Beardsley and Theodore R. Tetzlaff David H. Blake Carole L. Brown Douglas R. Brown Terri L. Cable Joyce Chelberg Jim and Sheila Clary Elizabeth H. Connelly Sean and Nora Daley Conroy Rich and Margery Feitler Robert and Amy Greenebaum David Herro and Jay Franke Mrs. John M. Hartigan David and Susan Kalt Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Charles G. Mueller Geoff Nyheim Susan A. Payne Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall Mark L. Prager Deborah and Stephen Quazzo

Tony and Moira Saliba Merle Reskin Randy and Susi Rowe Michael R. Salem John R. Samolis Robert and Louise Sanborn Harry and Susan Seigle Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Charles and Janet Stern Edward A. Studzinski Helen Zell DISTINGUISHED PATRONS ($10,000-24,999) Julie and Roger Baskes Philip and Janice Beck Carol Lavin Bernick Henry and Leigh Bienen Keith and Kathleen H. Cardoza Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Fred Eychaner Rajiv Fernando Alexandra and David W. Fox, Jr. Scott and Rita George

Christine Albright and Lawrence Gill Valerie and Paul Goodrich Antonio and Sabrina Gracias Michael G. Hansen and Nancy E. Randa King and Caryn Harris John H. Hart and Carol Prins George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman Kathryn G. and Michael J. Kennedy Richard and Susan Kiphart Martha Lavey Dr. Paul M. Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Steven D. Loucks Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal Jim and Kay Mabie Lynn Lockwood and Barrett B. Murphy Janet Melk Negaunee Foundation James F. Oates

Ms. Sheridan Prior and Mr. Michael Bender Grace M. Puma George and Kimberly Ruhana Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Sage Foundation Manuel Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez The George H. Scanlon Foundation Gary Sinise Tom Smithburg and Colette Cachey Smithburg Bonnie and James Spurlock Bill and Orli Staley Marcie and Avy Stein John and Carol Walter Terry and Mary Winkler Kerry and Sarah Wood PATRONS ($5,000-9,999) Loren Almaguer William and Sharon Baker Bob and Trish Barr Bill Bartholomay

individual contributors/directors circle Larry and Debbie Brady Michael and Merle Cahan Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Dennis Cary Fred J. Costello Patricia Cox, Katie and Will Hunckler Maxwell S. Davis and Beth Boosalis Davis Donald Deutsch Joy and Leon Dreimann Frank G. and Gertrude Dunlap Fund Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Scott Etzler Sharon Fairley Mary Jo and Robert Fasan John and Katherine Fox Mr. and Mrs. Erik Fyrwald Chris and Joe Galvin Stephen C. George Richard and Mary L. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Tariq Hassan Mellody Hobson Willard and Lori Hunter, The Hunter Family Foundation Dr. Mary Dochios Kamberos Mary Jeanne and John Kneen Robert M. and Diane VS. Levy Ms. Christine M. Long Amos and Anat Madanes Susan Noel Irma Parker Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Pritzker Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Neil Ross MD and Lynn Hauser MD Robin and Mark Seigle Rose L. Shure Scott Stacke Jacqueline Tilton Frances E. Tuite Michael and January Ward Frances Wilkinson Nina B. Winston Willard L. Woods, Jr. Robert and Leslie Zimmerman SUSTAINERS ($2,500-4,999) Andrew and Susan Arnold Candy and Bill Arnold Paula Ausick John and Caroline Ballantine Zoe and Ken Barley 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 Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein George W. Blossom III Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boychuck Debbie Bricker Ray and Marie Brown Lois Browning Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Ann and Richard Carr Philip Chang Nicole and Billy Cheeseman Drs. Rex Chisholm and Kathleen Green Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cohen Pam and Howard Conant Jerry and Josephine Conlon Kate Cornelius-Schecter Joel Cornfeld Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Ms. Kim Davis and Mr. Brian Eble Diane Dawson Robert and Quinn Delaney Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Mr. and Mrs. John DiCiurcio Philip and Marsha Dowd Bernard J. Dowling Drs. Thomas E. Durica and Susan Jacob Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Donald and Anne Edwards Laura and Scott Eisen Richard and Gail Elden Mary M. Emerson Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal David and Mimi Fiske Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Ethel and Bill Gofen Bob and Carol Goldberg Liza and Eric Gravengaard Sue and Melvin Gray William and Nanci Greene James and Brenda Grusecki M. Julie and Michael Gustafson John Hass and Mary Frances Budig David Kistenbroker and Cynthia Heusing Judy and Jay Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Hill Marko Iglendza Dr. and Mrs. David Ingall Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck

Reis and Sherri Kayser 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 Neil Labute Christine and Michael LaTona 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 Kevin and Beth McMeen Barry and Beth Mitchell Mike and Adele Murphy Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Bob and Joyce O’Malley Anne and Donald Phillips Dale and Loretta Pierson 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 Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Ellen Sandor Ms. Kate Cornelius-Schecter David and Susan Schmid Gloria and Michael Scoby Smita N. Shah Matthew Shapiro Judy and Jeffrey Silverman Toni Sandor Smith Gail and Eugene Steingold Matthew Steinmetz Kristin and Stan Stevens Richard and Elaine Tinberg Reed and Rosemary Tupper Steven L. and Stephanie A. Victor Mr. Jim Walesa Ms. Jaclyn Warren Robert and Susan Warrington Steven Wayland Jane and Greg Wintroub Elizabeth Ziegler Neal Zucker

BENEFACTORS ($1,500-2,499) Anonymous (5) Dawn and Harmon Brown Mr. and Mrs. John Favia Jack J. Adrian 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 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Atwood John and Irene Bacevicius Richard and Janice Bail Yuri and Elena Balasanov Martha and Al Belmonte Joel W. Benson Susen H. Berg and James C. Berg Adam and Elizabeth Berger Ron and Colleen Bess Nicholas Biederman Kevin and Linda Buggy Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith David Callahan and Terri Abruzzo Cleve Carney Jay Cavey Mr. and Mrs. H.L. “Chappie” Chapman Dr. Rosalyn Chrenka Clayton A. Cohn Merle R. Cooper Dennis R. Cowhey Shirley Craven, Ph.D. Ana Cristiano Alecia Dantico Emilie De Angelis and Bert Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher Kevork and Rolanda Derderian Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Anne M. Donahoe Stephen and Dorne Eastwood Mark and Sandy Ehlert George Engeln Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Tom and Pat Erickson Marc Falleroni David and Mary Farkas Carol and Steven Felsenthal W. Clinton and Lois Farrell Fisher Elaine Fishman

individual contributors/directors circle Al Franklin Jana French and Peter Gotsch Kate Friedlob Kay and Howard Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Lori Mae Frith Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Terri and Stephen Geifman Dr. Michael Gelbort and Ms. Sherryl Steinberg Gelbort Mr. Gary Gephart Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Bruce and Lisa Goldman Sheila and Tom Gorey Peter and Joellen Granson The Green Family Jack and Donna Greenberg Mary and Jim Greene Warren Grimsley and Jane Jacobs Charles R. Grode Renata and Michael Grossi Jack and Sandra Guthman Mrs. Louise Hart Stacie R. Hartman Emily Haus David R. Hawkanson Jean Heller Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger Paul and Susan Hill Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hodges Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig Kenneth Hoffman David and Deborah Holloway Mr. and Ms. Nehl Horton Dr. Candice J. Hunter Mr. Michael Hyter Nancy and John Ide Robert A. Imig Ann Israel Terrell J. Isselhard Marian, Fruman and Lisa Jacobson Tom and Jan Jakobsen Patricia Jeffers Hal and Dona B. Jensen Timothy B. Johnson and Valerie B. Wiley Gregory K. Jones and Family Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Jozwiak Thomas D. Kaczmarek Adam and Renee Keats Jen and Brad Keck Anna and Jeff Kelch SBK and Associates Jonathan Klein and Susan Cohn

Rachel Kohler and Mark Hoplamazian David and Kathleen Kovarik 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 T. Levy Beth Loeb Carmen H. Lonstein Fran Lambros and John Lowry Michelle and Alan Luke Mary MacLaren Sandy and Jerry Manne Barbara and Larry Margolis Mary McCauley James and Carolyn McClure-Mary McClure Miller Foundation Bob and Barb McCullough 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 Jon and Tanya Morrison William and Kate Morrison Bill and Lorna Fillipini-Mulliken Judy Neafsey and Terry Conway Susan and George Obermaier Bridget R. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Phyllis Parish Joan and David Parsons Amy and Brent Peebles Simon and Kim Perutz Sherri and Ted Pincus Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Carl and Barbara Plochman Andrew and Judy L. Porte Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley 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 Paul and Joan Rubschlager 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 Howard and Kate Siegel Robert and Nancy Singleton James and Mary Jo Slykas Neil Smith Family Paul and Elizabeth Sobotka Mr. David A. Sollitt Jeff Stoller Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Josh and Kimberly Sutton Lisa Swanson William and Julile Szematowicz Corrine P. Taylor James and Sara TenBroek Laura A. Tomasovic and Jim A. Hargis John and Maribeth Totten Nick Trakas and Marc Ceron Tali and Liat Tzur Annette Rotolo and Donald Van Hulle Shawn VanDerziel and Jay Clarke Susan and Victor Venturi Donna and Dirk Vos Lisa and Jason Wadler Ms. Monica L. Walker Dr. David Wasserman-In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Bryan and Jennifer Weinstein Dr. Carey Weiss and Dr. Karen Pierce Lorrayne and Steve Weiss Jeanne Marienthal Westcott 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. Gifts are as of 4/6/2011. PRODUCERS ($1,000-1,499) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Bruce and Ann Bachmann Grace Barry Robin Loewenberg Berger Mr. Melvyn E. Bergstein Gerhard and Kathleen Bette Andrew and Jennifer Bezaitis Shaun and Andy Block Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III Stephen and Lynn Bolanowski Janyce Brengel Michael and Cathy Brennan John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Mr. and Mrs. Justin Casciola Mr. Tim Cavanagh Mr. Bryce Cooper Ms. Ellen M. Costello Joan Hall Carl and Cynthia Curry Jennifer and John Doran Mr. and Mrs. Michael Doyen Ms. Stacey Fellars Marilyn and Larry Fields Brian Flanigan Mr. Steven Florsheim and Mrs. Jennifer Friedes Lisa Folkers Mr. and Mrs. Peter Foreman Mr. James Frank Jim and Sandy Freeburg Aileen Furlong Tom and Beth Garrow Gordon and Wendy Gill James and Dianna Goldman Richard and Catherine Gottfred Mary Winton Green Victoria and Charles Harris Laura Hazelwood Patricia Hendrick Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Melinda Jakovich Mr. and Mrs. David Joseph David Kathman Pamela Kendall-Rijos and John Rijos Klaff Family Foundation Jean Ann Klingenstein

Pat and Mike Koldyke Robert and Kathie Kolodgy Jonathan and Sally Kovler Mr. Matthew Kutcher and Ms. Rebecca Richards Anne Lanser Julie and Fred Latsko Mark and Carol Lorenz Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve Mrs. Winifred A. Martin Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Mr. Mike Merwin Jerry Mickelson Mr. Thomas Murray Jo and Wally Nard Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Sharon and Jerry Rhoads Paul Scavone and Donna Pawlus Nancy and Mark Schumacher David and Judith Sensibar Joan and Thomas Skiba Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skinner Heather and Adam Smedstad Nikki and Fredric Stein Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas Lisa and Charles Tribbett Frank Trocchio Scott Turow Elena Urschel Mr. and Mrs. R. Todd Vieregg Tom and Michelle Wake Shannon and John Waterfield Chuck Wehland Dia Weil Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman Patricia J. White Donna Wilkinson Mr. Kimo Williams Matthew Wilson and Anne Posner Ms. Andrea Worth Ronald and Geri Yonover Eugene and Tita Zeffren ENSEMBLE ($500-999) Anonymous (6) Judith and Fred Adler Robert C. Anderson Michael Andrews and Ryan Ruskin

Ms. Shonta Arrington Mr. and Mrs. James Aslaksen Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker Mr. Michael Barbiei Leslie and Bill Barker Robert and Sharon Barton Sandra Bass Stephanie and Barry Batson Ms. Natalie M. Baumann Brandon Benson Mary Rose & Laurence Birch Marc D. Blakeman Maggie Bobbitt Ms. Heather Bollinger Hunter Bradford Betty Bradshaw Larry and Susan Broutman Julie A. Brown George and Joyce Brown Lynette Harrison and Paul Brubaker Richard and Barbara Bull Janet Burch John Byrd JoAnn Cantalupo Mr. Adam Carpenter Kyle Carstensen John P. Casey Scott Casty Sheila J. Chapman and David D. Soo Nancy Ciezki and Diane Kostecke John-Marc Clark James and Julie Coffman Dr. Mimis Cohen and Mrs. Andrea Biel-Cohen Mrs. Marge Collens Steven Collens Everett and Susan Conner Ed and Melissa Cook Kevann M. Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Jason Cooper Charles and Judith Cory Ellen Cotter and David Burnett Maureen Crowley Mr. Bruce Crown Josh Daitch Liese Dallbauman Kermit and Jennifer Daniel Rathin Datta Richard and Lisette Davison Inge de la Camp

Lauren V. Dettloff Tim and Liz Devine Dianna L. Di Iorio Roberta S. Dillon Christine Dudley Will Dunne John F. Dziedziak Jennifer M. Ellin Deborah and S. Cody Engle Erika Erich Ms. Heather Erickson Marilyn D. Ezri M.D. Lynette and Kent Fair Juliet and Marc Fallah Gregory Faron Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Stephanie Fields and Geoff Cooke Michael Fine and Terri Keeley Foley Family Foundation Cyndi and Cory Fosco Joanne B. Friedland Susan Fuchs, M.D. Jami Gekas Matthew A. Gelbin Andrew R. Gelman William J. Gibbons Van H. and Sandra Vitt Gilbert Stan and Gerry Glass Lydia Glowaty Keith Goggin Alan Gold Florence Bonnick and Jay M. Goldberg Paul E. Golden Mrs. Jane Goodrich Kerry and Kim Grady Susan Graff Jonathan and Sarah Graham John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Dedrea Gray Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker Faith Dansereau & Larry Haefner Kevin Haight Ms. Katy E. Hall Janice Halpern Amy and Brian Hand Ednalyn and Barbara Hansen David Harrington Lois and Marty Hauselman

individual contributors/annual fund Robert and Linda Hauser Maryan and John Helmerci Leslie Herzog Melinda and Craig Hilsenbeck James and Margot Hinchliff The Hirschfields Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Richard and Kathryn Holland Bonny and Todd Hoover Kilton Hopkins Arnold and Judith Horwich Richard and Janet Horwood Francis J. Houlihan Robin and Harry Hunter Ryan Huntson Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink Janet Irving Tim Jaster Stephen Johnson Stephen Kane Ernest and Harriett Karmin Sharon Keehn Sheryl and Tom Keith Bunny and George Kennedy Gerould and Jewell Kern Jeffrey Kerr Helen Kessler Andrew Keyt Anne and Ken Kinney Maureen and Kim Klatt Janet Knauff Rachel Kraft Stephen Kriegel Mr. Robert Krug Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad George M. Langlois, Ph.D. Roberta L. and Richard G. Larson Bob and Pat Lavey Peter and Judith Lederer Ms. Tanya Levshina Patricia Levy Catherine Leyser Fran and Chuck Licht Jean Linsner Darlene Little Abby and George Lombardi Mary Christine Lovejoy David Lundeen Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mack Arlene Manelli Maria Manhart John and Claire Marich Helen Marlborough and Harry Roper Steve and Melissa Marovich Kimberly Masius Kevin and Linda Matheny Mr. and Mrs. George J. Matkov Michele C. Mayes

Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister John McCambridge Michael McCaslin Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mccolgan Margaret S. McGee Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward McGreevy Brad and Dee Dee McLane Charlotte and William Mehuron John and Lisa Merlock Susan Messing Robert Middleton Mr. Brian Miller Robert and Lois Moeller Phillip Moll Jack Montgomery Blake and Debra Moritz Patrick Morris and Peggy Unger Mr. John Mulhall Christopher and Eileen Murphy Zina and Nicholas S. Murray Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Murray Cathy and Robert Nathan Joan Neil Emily and Hank Neuberger Howard and Cathy Niden Kris Nielsen Michael T. Noonan Mattie Olsen Paul Oostenbrug and Dr. Jeremiah Kelly Rachel Orlikoff Richard Ostrow Elizabeth, John and Frani Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole Grayce Papp Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman John and Roberta Paskvalich Mr. Mike Pauletti Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Kate Pecoraro Sandra and Michael Perlow Clarisse Perrette and Larry Freed Irene and Eero Pikat Chuck and Judy Piper Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Brett Plyer Nathan Popkins Avner and Joan Porat Jim and Meg Prendergast Marsha Raanan Jeff and Susan Rashid Dr. and Mrs. Mehul Raval P. Kevin Reidy Shirley and Frederick Richter Laura Riddle Mr. and Mrs Edwin Rivera

Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone Mrs. Donald S. Roth Doreen and Michael Rothstein T. Marshall Rousseau Francis C. Sadac Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Henry J. Sampson A. Sue Samuels Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Brett Saternus Bill Savage Laura Schalekamp Stephanie Scharf and David Taber Carrie Schloss Jonathan Schmugge Carla Scott Eli Selinger Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk Lara Shackelford Rebecca M. Shanahan Ms. Hope Sheffield Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Jodi Silberman Julia Simpson Ron Smith and Leslie Simonton-Smith Lawrence and Shirley Solomon Candace Song and Alexander Gail Sherman Arlene Lim Colin Stalnecker Seena and Carey Stein Christine Anderson and Jay Steinberg Dorie Sternberg Patty Sternberg Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stoeckel Gail and John Straus Matthew Summy Andrew and Leonora Svihra Peter and Obie Szidon Ms. Elaine R. Taylor Lisa A. Taylor Alex Tenorio and Anne Marie Hendrickson Jim Thompson Carrie Thoms Mr. and Mrs. John Tipton Fred Tokowitz Dana Turban Catherine Turner Brady I. Twiggs Marilee Unruh Chaidan Upp John F. Ward Michael and Gere Warnecke Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Tom and Blaine Wells Natalie West and Keith

Viridiana Moore Anne and Jay Whipple Brian and Nancy Whitlock Leslie Whittet Jan Williams Nick and Nancy Wilson Cynthia Wirth Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski Stanley Wojcicki Charlotte Wojnowski Carol N. Yamamoto Peter A. Zadeik Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Zessar Mark and Margie Zivin DESIGNERS ($250-499) Anonomous (27) Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin Nancy Abshire Carole and Paul Adams Mr. Justin Alden Thomas B. Aldrich III Helen and Mark Alison Brian and Jennifer Alves Jim and Sheila Amend Ms. Mary Ammermann Ken and Donna Amos Phil and Denise Amsrud Kristopher J. Anderson Mary and Paul F. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Juan Angelats Janet and Steven Anixter Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Jim Appel Jean Arrington Marie Asbury John Asplin and Christine Orders Mrs. Kellee Athens Kaye B. Aurigemma Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Ms. Lauren Anne Baird Bill and Ann Baker Barbara Baldwin John and Sharon Baldwin Kevin Baldwin Mr. Gary Baltusis Michael and Mary Baniak Cindy Barbera-Brelle Mr. Matt Bartel Warren and Beverly Bartel Allison and Daniel Baskes Mia A. and Scott Bass Laura M. Batzer Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Ted and Robbie Beaty

individual contributors/annual fund Daniel Beck Lawrence Bell Julie and Howard Benario Dr. David Bentrem and Dr. Heather Haukness Anthony Bergamino Jr. John and Elizabeth Berge Harvey and Helene Berlin Julian and Joan Berman Raeann and Sidney Berman Larry and Phyllis Berning Mandy Berry Jason Linforth Adrian and Arta Beverly Maurice J. and Lois Beznos Lois J. Bider Jerry Biederman Noel and Shirley Biery Beryl and David Bills Mr. Kevin Blackman Judith Block R. Darrell Bock Anthony Boggiano Mr. Kevin Booth Kirk and Lucy Borland Mr. and Mrs. Randy Boswell Albert Boumenot Samuel and Phyllis Bowen Philip Boyd Michael and Kate Bradie Abdon and Eileen Bray Susan M Brazas Michael Bremer and Lynn Sieben Ms. and Mr. Amberly Brewer David Briggs Robert and Joell Brightfelt Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brobst Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Jean Broom Susan Brophy Quentin A. Brown Elle Bruno Karen Bryant Leslie Buchbinder Ed Bucher Michelle and David Buck Wade and Kate Buckles Paul Burkhardt Tripp Burton Richard Butler Jenica Byers Robert and Cheryl Byron David Cabrera John and Libby Cady Mark Caldwell Karen A. Callaway Noah Cooper and Nick Campanario Andrew Campbell and Dana Campbell

Curtis V. Canada and Lyn Kendrick Joseph and Cory Cancila Ray Capitanini Andrea and Geoff Caplea Norma Carey Polly Carl and Lynette D’Amico Barry Carlson Barbara and Mark Carlson Ms. Sheila Carney Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Steve Chamberlin and Cathy Colton Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler Mr. Tarun Chandran J. Morgan Chism-Diebold Gerry and Carol Chrisman Sam and Kathleen Ciulla Drs. William and Elizabeth Clark Bente Clausen Michael and Edie Cohen Marvin R. Cohen Martina A. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman Beth Collier John Collins Chanel Coney Constance Coning Sigrid Connor The Cortes Family Ms. Christina Crawford Robert Crawford Phyllis Cretors Mr. Louis Crisostomo Colin and Teri Cross James Culp Melissa Dalrymple Mr. James Daly Paul and Deanna Danao Stephen F. Danziger Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Davidson Michelle and Ronald De Vlam Jessica and Robert Dean Bernard and Cynthia Deir Dr. Mark and Rose DeMeo Dick Deranian and Terri Mertz Ms. Joan E. Desmond Pierre Desy and Michel Desjardins Bob & Sharon DeWitt Lauri Dietz Dorothy L. Domuray Ms. Angela Donaldson Patricia and Richard Doonan Paula Douglass Raymond and Marybeth Drake Ms. Leah Durst Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dutcher Joan and John Dysart Judy and Howard Edison

Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten Susan Emmerson Teri Engler Kelly Epstein Juanita S. Evans and Family Malcolm D. Ewen Lori Eyre Brian R. Falb Edith and Gerald Falk Maurice Fantus and Judith Aiello Bill Farrand Toni and Joel Fenchel Mr. Mark Ferry Sean Finn Terry Doyle Finnerty Nancy and Rick Firfer Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fisch Paul and Christy Fisher‡ Eric and Tina Fishhaut Catherine S. Flanagan John and Patti Flanagan Jim and Yvonne Fogerty Paul Fong Marilyn and Eric Fors Timothy and Janet Fox Reverend Mark A. Fracaro Dr. and Mrs. James Franklin Donna and Robert Fredricksen Mark and Susanne Frey June Freidlich Bill and Pat Fuller Alexis Funches Ellen Garippo Ralph and Elayne Gebert Dr. and Mrs. Mark Gendleman Hank and Sandy Gentry Philis and Alex George Thomas and Patricia Germino Sandra Gidley Mr. and Ms. Stuart Gilchrist Ms. Tara Gillespie Marina and Sander Gilman 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 Sue-Gray Goller Samuel J. Goodman Darla Goudeau Laurence and Carrie Grant Susan Grant Paula Turner Grasso Dr. Kitty Green Dr. and Mrs. Robert Greendale Katherine and Adam Greetis James and Lynn Grogan

Melissa Grund Marie Gunn Mr. Rich Gunter Grace and John Gunthorp Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis Sarah Hadley Sean-Edward Hall Donald and Susan Hallberg Bob and Melanie Halvorson Elise Hamilton Chester and Phyllis Handelman Dr. Raymond and Arlene Handler Vincent Harrell Donald and Sharon Harris Rosalind Henderson Harris Mr. Eric Harrison Kirk T. Hartley Suraya Hasan Ali Hassan and Amber Fritz Alan Hauser and Anne Suh Neil and AnnMarie Hawkins Jean Hawkinson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hayman Rebecca Hedberg Susan and Andre Heglin Matthew Heller and Susan Holmes Stephen and Jaqueline Helm‡ Hendrick Family Timothy Herboth Frank and Midge Heurich Rosalie Hewitt Martin and Marjorie Hickman Fred Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hill Mr. Stanley Hill Robert and Sydney Himes Michael Hinz Gail And Tom Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Conery Hoffman Jennifer Hogberg Sharon Holland Jo Holzer Jack and Bonnie Horbovetz Kathleen and Jack Horn Paula Horn Michael and Kara Hotz Thomas and Karen Howell Trent Hrncir Ron Huberman Mr. and Mrs. John Huffman Holly E. Humphreys Karen Hunken William E. Ibe Jim and Joyce Ibers Becky Iliff Heather Ingraham Jim and Peggy Isherwood Ms. Latoya James Christina Jarmolowski

individual contributors/annual fund John David Jawor Douglas and Margaret Jayes Dilecta Jenkins Kenya Jenkins-Wright and James Wright Bob and MaryBeth Jirgal Shirley and Clarence Johnson Carolyn Hutchinson Dixie Johnson Loren B. Johnson Sharon Johnston Mrs. Bev Jones-Gordon Todd and Jennifer Jones Andrew Jorczak Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Jordan Daniel and Mary Ann Jordan Leslie Josefowicz Beth and John Jostrand Bob and Sheila Joynt Howard and Marianne Jump Melvin and Annie Kahn Janet and Carl Kalbhen Tom and Esta Kallen Mary Jo Kanady Joseph J. Kane Olwyn J. Kane Arnold Kanter Norma and Nolan Kaplan Dennis and Kathryn Karsh Jerry and Nancy Karson Leslie Kates Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Faylyn Kaufman Polly Kawalek J.T. Keane Dr. Susan A Kecskes Brian Feiges and Tamar Kelber Rich Kerhlikar and Judith Barringer Diane Kerr Erik Kesteloot Seema Khan Sue Kiner Mike and Leslie King Sylvia and John Kinney Judy and Phil Kirk Dr. M. Barry and Diane Kirschenbaum Matt and Karen Klickman Hilary and James Kline Dawn Klingensmith and Jeff Pinkerton Don and Cheryl Kobetsky James Kochalka Den and Jinny Koide Annette Baldwin and Paul Kolansinski Amy R. Korin Jeffrey Kriv Deborah L. Kuhn

Neal Kulick Family Fund Linda Kulikowski Terri Lacy Chuck and Diane Laff Mr. Kurt Lagerloef Karen Lalor Katherine Lampert Robert Larrimore Nancy and Alan Lasser Patricia Lauber Jonathan Lebedoff and Karla Yeh Ephraim Lee Hannah Lee Bill Lee and Malinda Hamann Sheila Fields Leiter Jeffrey and Elise Lennard Mr. Darrell Leonard and Mr. Ed Nowak Madeline Lesnik Dr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Levin Mark Levitin Richard and Joanne Levy Fred Lieber Stacy and Peter Lindau Sue Lippe Alan Lipsitz Margit “Maggie” Livingston Christopher and Marcia Long Katherine M. Lorenz Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal Jim Lupo and Joy Wykowski James and Janet Lusk Denise and Eric Macey Richard Stazinski Mr. Joe Madden Fred and Tracy Madison Frank and Chris Maggio Robin Mahler Mr. and Ms. Michael P. Malone Samantha & David Mann Tom and Lori Manning George and Stephanie Mantis Ruthann Marcelle Gloria and Joseph R. Marcus Christine and David Markovitz Joan Marks Kevin Mars Mr. and Ms. Peter Mars Diane Martin Patty Martin Zulma and Julian Martinez Dr. Norman E. Masters, Jr. Erica and Frank Matagrano Jennifer Mathis David and Karen Mattenson Dawn Mattozzi and Amy Phinney Jerry and Joan Mattson Margaret F. May Susan McCann

Mr. Brian McCarthy Ms. Katie McCoy Suzanne McDermott Sharon McGee Paul and Lana McHenry Liz McHugh Carol McKeone Kathy and Alan McLaughlin Hugh and Marybeth McLean 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 Rita and Mike Melius Tim Meneely Eric and Jess Mersmann Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison Mia and Jonathan Miller Leslie Milton Ralph Miner Mr. Mark Mitten Mort and Joan Mollner Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague Janet and Robert Montgomery William Mooney Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Moran Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Scott Morehead, Jr. and Karisa Bruin Joyce Morimoto Mr. and Mrs. John Morlock Sheba Miller-Morris Martha Clare and Jim Morris Corinne Morrissey Janet and Morrie Much Gerald and Maia Mullin Holly and Edward Murawski Christian Murphy Hollace Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Michael Myers Mr. Peter G. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Randy Nease Wendy Norris Jeremy F. Nepomuceno Liz Newell and Jack Kragie Elizabeth and John Newman Cheryl and Bill Niro Mr. and Mrs. Jamin Nixon Rebecca Noble Barbara Rawley and Daniel Nordby Jeff and Pam Kinney

Ms. Susan Noyes Mariano Nunez Ortiz Peg O’Connor John and Megan O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. Chris O’Flinn Dennis J. O’Keefe and Mary Jo Barrett Larry and Barbara Olin Rodrigo and Kelly Olivares and Family Don Olson Bruce Oltman Timothy O’Neill and Jane Rutherford Mayor John and Jacqueline Ostenburg Christine Ott-Shaw Janet Ozarchuk Frances and William Paden Deborah Page Mr. Jason Palmquist Lynne Pantalena Ms. Sally Papedis Bob and Nora Pardo Catherine and Robert Parks Jana O’Brien and Wayne Parman Sheldon Patinkin Charles and Melanie Payne Lynn and Mel Pearl Elyse Pearlman & Brad Teckenbrock Mr. Chad Pedigo Margaret Pendry Mr. and Mrs. William Pesetski Amy and Troy Peters Anne Peterson Andy Phelps David M. Pierce Paulette G. Pierre Charles and Bettina Pietri William and Suzan Pinsof Dan Polsby Frank C. Pond Pam and Dean Pontikes Andy and Brynne Poole Tracey L. Power John R Poynter Jean and Preston Price Wanda Price V. Pristera, Jr. David Pruitt and Marjorie Baltazar Hedy Pua Sue Puffpaff Jane Purdy Elliott Quigley Richard W. Quinn and Karen Kruza Thomas J. Ramsdell Ms. Barbara Rapp Gabriel and Dorit Raviv

individual contributors/annual fund Mr. and Mrs. John Reed Clisson and Patricia Rexford William N. Reynolds Fred and Karen Rhynders Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Richter Jr. Thomas Kapacinskas and Judith Robert Stanley Roberts Carol and Riney Robertson Stephen and Caryn Robin Mary Lu and Kenneth Roffe Lynn A. Hellwig and Dr. Dan Roller Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Mrs. Hilary Rosenthal Ms. H. Cary Ross Michael and Erin Lavelle Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Ms. and Mr. Julie Rubin Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Manfred Ruddat Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruff Aaron M. Rumack Ms. Marilyn Rusnak Ray Rusnak Brad and Emily Salmon Julia Nowicki and Timothy A. Sanborn MD Carolyn Clayton and Patrick Sandercock Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Albert and Marcelle Saporta Christopher and Ann Marie Saternus John and Mary Satter Gina Saunders Rich Scarle Edna Schade Curt Schade Jeanne and Daryl Schimek Rosa Schloss Mr. Edward H. Schmitt, Jr. Ms. April Schoepel Alan Schriesheim Susan and Gary Schuman Suzanne Scibek Tony and Celeste Scolaro Nedinia Searle Carrie and Victoria Seliger Mr. Stephen Seliger Michelle Semisch Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Linda and Steve Sharp Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade Timothy Sherck Karen Shields Brent Siegel

Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott Margaret and Alan Silberman Heather and Steve Silver Brandy and Jason Simon Mr. and Mrs. Ajay Singh Jonathan and Elizabeth Sion Christine A. Slivon Jeffrey and Patrica C. Slovak Charles Smith Annette and Marvin Smith Marc Smoler Jackie Snuttjer Henry So and Joe Senese Raymond Socki Erin and Michael Soroosh Ben Sosewitz John Spahr William Spears Mirja and Ted Haffner Dr. and Mrs. Scott Springer Shantha Sreekanth Diana and Thomas Stamborski Mary Clare and Joseph B. Starshak Mr. and Mr. Michael Stashwick Peggy Steffy Susan Stein The Steinbachs Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Steven and Susan Steinmeyer Wallace Stenhouse Kay Stephens Mary Stern Linda Sahagian and Douglas Stewart Jason Stipp and Tate Geborkoff Mr. Nick Stocking Kelly Stonebraker and Deborah Stonebraker Kurt Strand Eric Strickland Nels Stromborg Mr. Larry Stuckey Judy Sugarman Yvonne Sutor Kamilla and James Svajgl Michael A. Swafford Linda K. Swift Walter Swiston Richard and Anne Taft Bonnie K. Tarry Michael J. Tatak Esq. Nancy M. and Marc A. Taxman John R. and Catherine Taylor Arthur and Judith Tepfer Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra Richard and Alice Teutsch Christopher Thiersch Ms. Sue Thompson

Tommy Thornton Skip & Eileen Thurnauer Mr. and Mrs. Michael Timmers Ms. Sharlene Toney Jeanne Towns John and Madalyn Traff Michael Trenkmann Mr. Michael Treon Carlos Trevino John Tullsen Edward and Edith Turkington Stacey Turner David and Mickey Unger Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Kathryn Vehe Dr. Michael Viglione Dr. Susan Vineyard Sarah and Kamiar Vossoughi Paul D. Waas Jonathan Wagner Margaret Walsh Brooke and Greg Walters Mark Walters Karen and Herb Wander Carol Warshawsky Laura and Bob Watson James and Christine Webb Michael Weiland and Shelley MacGregor Sherrie and Albert Weiss Cary Weldy Karl Wenzel John W. Wheeler Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Michele and Ray Whittington Barbara Wilder John Will and Ada Gugenheim Deborah B. Williams Ph.D. Gary and Modena Wilson Eugene H. Winkler Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wislow Iris S. Witkowsky Ms. Ann Witting Mr. Patrick Wojtak Ken Wolfe Ms. Sarah Wolff and Mr. Joel Handelman Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Mr. John Woodcock Brian and Amie Wrubel Mr. John Xenos Stephanie Yancey Dr. Rodney and Susan Yergler Julia and Tom Young Eileen and David Zampa Carolyn Ziebarth Kathy Willhoite and Rodd Zolkos David Zoltan Karen Zupko Stuart

PLAYERS ($150-249) Anonymous (38) Linda Loving and Richard Aaronson Steven and Nancy Abraham Richard and Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Adler Philip and June Aimen Stephanie Aldort Karen and Scott Alexander Barbara and Oscar Alonso Ron Amdur Bradley Anderson Douglas Anderson Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Jean Arndt Rosemary Crowley and Mort Arnsdorf Ms. Blayr Austin Ms. Audrey Avila Barbara Badger Jennifer Baker Paramita Bandyopadhyay Sanford and Renee Bank Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Bill Beach Chris and Judith Beardsley Mr. and Mrs. George Beck Susan R. Benner Mr. Stuart Benzal John and Taru Berg Anne C. Berkeley Ruth Berns Barbara E. Bevan Robert Bionaz and Karen Christianson Lois and Stanley Birer James and Dorothy Bishop LaDonna and Ed Black James Blackman Claudia and John Boatright Fred Boelter Steven Borkan and Lauren Brown Larry and Margo Bostrom Donald F. Bouseman Andrea Brands Myriam Bransfield, In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Lisa and Steven Bosco Karen Breen Elia and Louis M. Elia Judith and Harold Bregman Sarah Brittin Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks Beth Brown Carol S. Brown Ms. Kate Brown Robert and Ilene Brown

individual contributors/annual fund Susan Buchanan and Steve Brown David A. Buls John Burcher Javier and Laura Burgos C. Burke The Burman Family Crystal and Thomas F. Bush Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bushman Linda S. Buyer Toni and Mike Cainkar David and Janna Caldarelli Ms. Amy Callahan Raymond B. Carney and Janice Burnham Sharon Carr Nicholas Carriere Mr. Brent Carstensen Michael Case Mrs. Constance K. Casey Susan and Jon Chapman Stephen and Jane Chernof Rajeev Chopra James Christle Ms. Beth Cieminski Maria Cinelli Amy Clark Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Carol and Michael Clarke Betty Cleeland Neil Clipstone Thomas and Bette Cogan Amy and Neil Coleman Cheryl and Gary Conley Peter and Judith Connolly Diane R. Cooper Barbara Coriden Harvey and Arlene Coustan Max Freedman and Family Ms. Jennifer Cutshall Heidi Dare Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Davis Mrs. Edith F. De Mar Mary DeCresce Ms. Geralyn L. Delaney Michelle and Christopher DeMent Joy Derwenskus Karen Deschere Matthew J. Devereux Katie Devine Donna and Joseph De Vita Mr. and Mrs. Adam DeWitt Stewart and Shari Diamond Peter and Elizabeth Dietz Mr. and Mrs. Habeeb Dihu Robert and Karen Dirmish Lisa Disch William and Phyllis Dobrin Marisa Doherty Ms. Rachel Domaracki

Ms. Paige Donaldson Susan V. Downing Michele and George Dragisity Judy and Jerry Drommerhausen Clinton Dunn Wendy Eager Wiley and Merry Edmondson Sharon Eiseman Brent Eldridge Tom and Victoria Eley Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Ms. Julie Ellafrits Mark and Virginia Erlanson Maurice and Ruth Ettleson Ed Everett Tom and Terry Fallon Demitri and Pamela Fardelos Jim & Michael Ferstle & Anne Kelly Ms. Elaine Filus Peter Fischer Sara Stern and Ted Fishman Marilyn E. Fites Peter and Catherine McCafferty Lois Flaherty Charlotte and Robert D. Flinn Roberto Flores Mike Folk Ms. Janice Fong David Forrester Deitrich Freigang Joy Frey Mr. Danny Friedman Richard and Lois Fuhrer Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Galinsky Dr. and Mrs. Mario Garza Raymond and Patricia Gass Mr. and Mrs. John Gebo Therese Geissler Bob and Mary Gerstein Julianne Getty Norman and Katherine Gharrity Joe Gibbs Hugh and Doris Gilbert The Giles Family Pavi and Amy Gill Clark and Nancy Gilpin Ari and Melissa Glass Francis Gleason Anneliese Glick Sue Golan Jaye and John Golanty Sue Goldenberg Karen Goldstein Enid J. Golinkin Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Golub Jessica L. Gonzalez Sandra and James Goodman

Bruce Gorchow and Marie Fioramonti Jason T. Gorczyca Robert Gordon Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab Bobby Grant Mr. Peter Grant Judy Grasmick Tara Nussbaum and Alan Greene Michael and Lisa Greenfield Mr. Gilbert C. Greenway The Greffin Family Ms. Nicole Griffith Barbara Johanson Grigola Rochelle Grill Merle and Barry Gross Mrs. Katharine C. Gross John Grossman John Gruber Ms. Joanne Gustafson Catherine and Warren Guthrie Pilar Gut-Rod Ms. Jasmine Guy Steve Anneken MD and Dalia Gvildys MD Beth and Matthew Hafter JIm and Dee Haklin Andrew Halbur Joan Hall Richard Halvorsen Renee Hardt and Scott Moehrke Dr. Robert A. Harris Teddy and Sarah Tom and Joie Harris Tom and Virginia Hartley Richard and Dorothy Harza Lee Haupt, Yvonne Lange and Ted Steck Cara and Derrick Hawthorne J. Michael and Barbara Heaton Ms. Melissa Hellstern Mr. Randall Herbstman Joyce K. Herdliska Olimpia Hernandez Jeffrey and Peggy Herron Russell Herron and Lauren Raphael Stuart Hersh and Karen Sheehan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hession Lina and Dave Hilko Mr. John Hill Ms. Tyhani Hill and Ms. Tyharrie Hill Marc Hilton and Judith Aronson Nancy and Allen Hirschfield Bill and Pat Hitt Michelle and Glenn Holland Nina Hollins Grayson Holmbeck and Anne Updegrove

Donald and Karen Holmberg David and Suzanne Holmes Ina and John Houck Susan Howard Arthur Howe Peter M. Hsu Brian W. Huebner Christopher & Susan Hultquist Patricia Hunt Barbara Hunter and Cottrell Meadors Patricia Hurley Craig Hurwitz The Hyman Family William and Christine Ieuter David and Beth Inlander Beartriz Iorgulescu Ms. Courtney Irvin Joan Istrate Bernadette Ivers David Iverson Ron and Lizette Jacobson Evan Jacover Ben Jafarnia Charles H. James III Linda James John Janda Sue Jenkins Patricia A. Jiganti Christopher Johnsen Craig and Heidi Johnson Rita and Larry Johnson Laura R. Johnson Sarah A. Jolie Mark and Karla Jones Paula R. Kahn Mr. and Ms. Chad E. Kail Ms. Candice Kane Mr. Matt Karingada Jerry Karlin Ms. Claudia A. Katz Richard and Kathleen Katz Charles Katzenmeyer Matthew Keller, Jr. Chris Kendrick and Kasturi Haldar Harry Kenny Rita Kerns William Ketchum Katherine and Frank Kinney Maureen Kirby Allan and Sari Kirson Michael Klearman and Saralyn Sacks Jim and Sue Klein Carol and James Klenk David Klumpp and Gretchen Norman Claire Knapp Kathy and Roger A. Knuth John Kobza

individual contributors/annual fund Robert and Janet Kohrman Mark and Jill Kolker Chuck and Wanda Korcz Sharon Korn Jay and Patti Kouba Stanley J. Koziol Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krantz Anne and Ira J. Kreft Barry and Cheryl Kreiter Amy Krukowski Ken and Janet Kubis Bob Kunio and Libby Roth Ms. Elaine Kurczewski Don and Jude LaCasse Randoph Lam and Britni Tozzi Phil and Helen Lambruschi Ed and Bettine Landon Arlene Lannon Thomas Lariviere Edward and Laverne Larsen Dr. and Mrs. Jules H. Last Peter and Shirley Dugdale Laundy Mr. Mark Lavin and Mr. Eddie Herbeck William Laytin Bart Lazar Marc-Paul Lee Dayna Lee Peggy and Greg Legan Deidre LeMire Susan Levitt Michael N. Levy Gregory Lewis and Mary Strek Robert and Martha Lichter Arlene Lieb Paul Liebenson Mr. Stephen Lieberman Julie and John Linehan Barbara and Edward Linn Dr. Jeffrey M. Lisowski Ms. Juliana Littlejohn Burton and Nancy Litwin Mark Lococo Ms. Renee Logan William Long Dr. and Mrs. Dale Loomis Sarah Tanzer and Scott Looper David Lowdon Judy and George Lowman Kelly Luchtman Ms. Tamika Lynch Elliott and Miriam Lyon James Maclennan Sandy and Judy Macnab Alice R. Macy Claude Maechling and Carrie McNally Todd Magazine Martin and Allison Malecki Mindy and Barry Malkin

Mr. John Victor Malkovich Brooke and Mike Mandrea Nancy and Kenneth Marks Anthony and Laura Massaro Douglas Masters and Jane Pence Ms. Kahindo Mateene and Mr. Kisa Mate Mark Materna Henry and Peggy Matson Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Matthews Patricia McBride Mike and Cindy McCabe Mr. Daniel B. McConnell Drs. Linda Skitka and William McCready Stacey and Patrick McCusker Terrance and Jane McElroy Wilhelmina McGee Laura McGrew Daniel McGuigan Anastasia McGuire The McGuire Sisters Joseph and Agnes McHugh Erin E. McInerney Robert and Lorel McMillan Tom and Adrienne McMullen Kathleen A. McQueeny Derek Meier David and Linda Metschke Chuck and Sylvia Meyers Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Karen Miller and Sheba Miller-Morris Dan and Mary Miller Ron and Pat Miller Stephen and Kimberley Miller Sandy and Scott Miller Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minehart Marcus Mintz Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt Brian Weatherford and Steven Montgomery Arthur Moore Mr. Louis C. Moore, Jr. Robert J. Moretti Michelle and Michael Morris Bob and Ileen Morris Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison Natalie Moskovich and Allon Katz Karen Mouscher Greg and Colleen Moyer Dr. Martin Mozes and Mrs. Chava Mozes John and Jo Muchmore Denise Nedza Charlotte Newfeld

Mark and Maggie Nichter Scott Nickell and Brenda Crank Lynne Nieman Mark Noethen The Nuzzos Ann and Dan O’Brien Mary Pat O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Julian Oettinger Patrick O’Harris Colleen M. O’Leary Mr. Erik Olson and Ms. Tamara Wolski Daniel and Laura O’Neill Clifford Opatken Peter and Alanne Ori Jerome and Kathryn Osen Margie and Derk Osenberg Pilar Ossorio Sandra and Mark Ostler Richard Otto and Jennifer Mueller Brian A. Paetow and Gretchen K. Beetner Mr. and Mrs. Pajakowski Katina Panagopoulos Jane Panther Kelly C. and Marshall H. Paquette Mr. and Mrs. Richard Park Audrey and John Paton Dr. Steven and Mimi Binette Mr. James H. Pawlak Denny and Kay Pearson Caroline Pearson Paula J. Pederson Andre and Julie Pernet Raymond and Alice Perry David and Lindsey Peters Tim Peterson Linda S. Piccolo Barb and Ned Piehler Christine Pilat Chrystin and Lonnie Pleasants Pamela Plehn Podolsky Family Foundation Ellen Pomes Stephen Porvin Sally Potapenko Mrs. Chad Potter Kirsten and James Potter Thomas M. Power Carrie and Michael Powers Karen Price Mr. and Mrs. William B. Prugh Lynn and Clayton Pruitt Mr. John Puma Gail Purkey and Dave Konkol Dave and Darby Putman Mark Pyburn Laura Quayle Ms. Carryn Quibell

Renee Quimby and Robert Rowe Bill and Rita Quinn Karen and Mark Quinn Walter Radloff Richard Ralph Jonathan Ramos Mr. and Mrs. Josh Rauh Irene and Alan Redman Jane Rees Lisa Remby Deborah Rethemeyer and Patricia Locke Mr. Glen Rexing Ms. Joan Richards Bruce A. Richmond Dean Ricker Ed and Suzette Rickert Sandi Riggs Dr. Edward O. Riley Joanna Riopelle The Ripley Family Mr. Michael Risinger Bill and Deborah Roberts Ms. Liz Roberts Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman Mr. Bruce Rodman Susan W. Rogaliner Cleo Orthel Sherman and Sarene Rosen Michael Rosenberg Mrs. Linda Rosenblum and Mr. Steven Swiryn Mr. and Mrs. B. Rosenstein Mr. Richard Rosenthal Ann M. Rothschild Chuck and Peg Rowe Nathan Rowlett Helen and Marc Rubenstein Van and Sue Salmans Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Robert and Mary Ann Savard Susan Schaffrath & Jim Lindholm Susan Tobias and Alan Shapiro Marie-Claude Schauer Allison and Charles Scherer Bernice Elbin and Seymour Schiff The Schirato Family Edward, Emily and David Schlag Rose Schmidt Frank and Karen Schneider Elizabeth Schornak Robert I. Schwartz Susan J. Schwartz Thomas and Marry Ellen Scott Elizabeth G. Selmier Leslie Shad Surendra and Dorothie Shah David Shanahan

individual contributors/annual fund Kay Shannon Ms. Shelly N. Shannon Arthur M. Shapiro Jeffrey S. Sharp & Elizabeth D. Sharp Elizabeth and Willian Sharpe Dr. Mitchell and Sharon Sheinkop Kathryn Shenk Cheryl and Philip Sheridan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheridan Mr. Tom Sherman and Ms. Amy Perry Mr. and Mrs. William Shorey Bradley and Ellen Shorser Gina Shropshire Ellen and Richared Shubart Ms. Joan Siavelis Evan Siegel Eric and Sabrina Sigg Judy Silverman Katherine Silvey Teresa and Bob Simmons Elbert Singleton Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinise Ellen Mrazek and Daniel Slattery Hugh and Becky Smart Suzanna and Kraig Smiegowski Margaret Snow John Sowinski Curtis Spears Sharon Specht Joan Spedale Joseph Spellman William E. Spencer and Family Nicholas and Elizabeth Speziale Rebecca Stanfield Bryon C. Stanislaw Ms. Sarah Stec Mr. and Mrs. William Steinmetz Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stern Mr. Troy Stewart Michael Stogdill Katherine Gould Straight Mr. Gary Strandlund Robert and Mary Strezewski Mr. Jeffrey Stroebel Jennifer Strople Ms. Jennifer Stuart Sidney Summey and Melissa Cox Sara Swift Tiffany Taft Gail and Patrick Tagney Ms. Sarah Tarpy Mr. Martin Telfer Juanita S. Temple Cheryl Thaxton Charles R. Thomas Jeff Thomas and Rebecca Coleman

Jacare Thomas Mr. Karleton Thomas Barbara and Randolph Thomas Judy M. Thome Kenneth Thompson Floyd Thompson Rich Thoroe John Tilford Anne and Bill Tobey Richard Tobiason David Eldon Toombs Carol D. Trapp The Trzcinski family Susan D. Tuteur William Udovich Gretchen Vacendak Virginia Vale Michael Van Zalingen Peter and Lilian Vardy Thomas and Kathryn Vargish Mr. Stephen Vaughn Ms. Colleen Wade Mrs. Jimmye Wade Robert and Rose Wagner Eugenia Wainwright Alice and Charles Walker William and Patricia Walsh John Ward Ms. Candice Warltiar Deborah and Neil Warner Sandra Wolsfeld Warner Gwenyth B. Warton Susanjane Watson Betsy Shaw Weiner Kimberly Weiner Keren Weiss Karen Weiss Kathleen and John Westberg Adam and Jamie Weyeneth Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Esther White and Mindy Terrell Brooke and Ted Whittemore Dot and Dan Whittenberger Larry and Susan Wikman Harry and Geri Jender-Wildfeuer Steven and Mary Willcox Ms. Margaret and Mr. Robert Williams Ward Wilson Fredlyn Wilson Ms. MJ Witt Julia Wold Peter Tortorello and Bob Wolf Drs. Toni and Steven Wolf Andrew and Janelle Wood Richard Woodbury Joyce Woods Patrick Woods Nicala Carter-Woolfolk Dr. Anne H. Wright Mr. Andrew Yang

Mary B. and James B. Young Mr. Clifford Yuknis David A. Zarembka and Bradley D. Burke Ed and Lisa Zeitler Mr. and Mrs. Marc Zeman David and Teresa Zembower Daniel Ziembo and Nancy Cook Barbe and Bill Zillman Tighe Zimmers Bob and Janice Tonoko Zurawski

Please note that listings reflect gifts received as of 4/6/2011

individual contributors/step by step We salute the following individual donors who have committed to a reccurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work. Anonymous (21) Stephanie Aldort Barbara and Oscar Alonso Jim and Sheila Amend Ken and Donna Amos Kaye B. Aurigemma Borislava Baeva Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker Jennifer Baker Cindy Barbera-Brelle Laura M. Batzer Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Bill Beach Dan Bell Brandon Benson Anthony Bergamino Jr. John and Elizabeth Berge Harvey and Helene Berlin Mandy Berry Barbara E. Bevan Beryl and David Bills James Blackman Stephen and Lynn Bolanowski Steven Borkan and Lauren Brown Albert Boumenot Samuel and Phyllis Bowen Philip Boyd Michael and Kate Bradie Michael Bremer and Lynn Sieben Ms. and Mr. Amberly Brewer David Briggs Sarah Brittin Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks George and Joyce Brown Quentin A. Brown Karen Bryant Ed Bucher Michelle and David Buck Greg Burkhardt Shirley Burr Janet Burroway and Peter Ruppert David and Janna Caldarelli Andrew Campbell and Dana Campbell Norma Carey Nicholas Carriere Michael Case John P. Casey Sam and Kathleen Ciulla Bente Clausen Gina Coffee Amy and Neil Coleman Constance Coning Everett and Susan Conner Ms. Maia E. Conner Peter and Judith Connolly

Sigrid Connor Max Freedman and Family Maureen Crowley Jenifer Cullinan James Culp Paul and Deanna Danao Ms. Mary Davidson Michelle and Ronald De Vlam Jessica and Robert Dean Katie Devine Roberta S. Dillon Jeff Dineen Lisa Disch Raymond and Marybeth Drake John F. Dziedziak Kelly Epstein Juanita S. Evans and Family Lori Eyre Lynette and Kent Fair Bill Farrand Terry Doyle Finnerty Paul and Christy Fisher Sara Stern and Ted Fishman Peter and Catherine McCafferty Catherine S. Flanagan Roberto Flores Jim and Yvonne Fogerty Marilyn and Eric Fors Cyndi and Cory Fosco Reverend Mark A. Fracaro Jim and Sandy Freeburg Joy Frey Bill and Pat Fuller Alexis Funches Tom and Beth Garrow Philis and Alex George Thomas and Patricia Germino Marina and Sander Gilman Stan and Gerry Glass Ari and Melissa Glass Jennifer Lauren Glasse Francis Gleason Alan Gold Karen Goldstein Enid J. Golinkin Mr. and Mrs. John Goodman Darla Goudeau Kerry and Kim Grady Bobby Grant Susan Grant James and Lynn Grogan Nancy Grossman Cynthia Gunderson Marie Gunn Grace and John Gunthorp Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker Beth and Matthew Hafter Joan Hall Sean-Edward Hall Richard Halvorsen Bob and Melanie Halvorson

Elise Hamilton Vincent Harrell David Harrington Victoria and Charles Harris Tom and Virginia Hartley Suraya Hasan Ali Hassan and Amber Fritz Alan Hauser and Anne Suh Susan and Andre Heglin Stephen and Jaqueline Helm Marcia and Darrell Herschler Leslie Herzog Rosalie Hewitt Sharon Holland David and Suzanne Holmes Kilton Hopkins Arnold and Judith Horwich Michael and Kara Hotz Karen Hunken Ryan Huntson Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink John David Jawor Dilecta Jenkins Kirk Johnson Sarah A. Jolie Beth and John Jostrand Bob and Sheila Joynt Jerry and Nancy Karson David Kathman Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Douglas and Patty Kaulas Dr. Susan A Kecskes Sheryl and Tom Keith Seema Khan Dawn Klingensmith and Jeff Pinkerton Janet Knauff Stephen Kriegel Jeffrey Kriv Mr. Kurt Lagerloef Karen Lalor Randoph Lam and Britni Tozzi George M. Langlois, Ph.D. Jessica Lanius Thomas Lariviere Robert Larrimore Roberta L. and Richard G. Larson Bob and Pat Lavey Bill Lee and Malinda Hamann Dayna Lee Hannah Lee Peggy and Greg Legan Gregory Lewis and Mary Strek Catherine Leyser Fran and Chuck Licht Fred Lieber Mary Lou Lipscomb Margit “Maggie” Livingston Christopher and Marcia Long Mary Christine Lovejoy

Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve Kelly Luchtman Jim Lupo and Joy Wykowski Richard Stazinski Fred and Tracy Madison Claude Maechling and Carrie McNally Arlene Manelli Ruthann Marcelle Joan Marks Maggie Martensen Kirk Mason Dr. Norman E. Masters, Jr. Suzanne McDermott Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward McGreevy Liz McHugh Carol McKeone Kathy and Alan McLaughlin Rita and Mike Melius Dr. Janis Mendelsohn David and Linda Metschke Chuck and Sylvia Meyers Robert Middleton Sandy and Scott Miller Mia and Jonathan Miller Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt Chris and Kathe Monley Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague Jack Montgomery Janet and Robert Montgomery Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Alejandra Moreno Joyce Morimoto Blake and Debra Moritz Dr. Martin Mozes and Mrs. Chava Mozes Bill and Kim Murphy Jo and Wally Nard Liz Newell and Jack Kragie Elizabeth and John Newman Mark and Maggie Nichter Scott Nickell and Brenda Crank Kris Nielsen Lindsay K. Nivens Mark Noethen Barbara Rawley and Daniel Nordby Jeff and Pam Kinney Kitty Norton Jones Mariano Nunez Ortiz John and Megan O’Connor Peg O’Connor Richard Ostrow Janet Ozarchuk

individual contributors/STEP by step Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman Bob and Nora Pardo Anne Parker Eric Patnoudes Caroline Pearson Marla Peckler Bob Pierce Paulette G. Pierre Dan Polsby Frank C. Pond Stephen Porvin Olivia and Andrew Poska Mike Powell and Deb Boyda Tracey L. Power Carrie and Michael Powers John R. Poynter Karen Price Jean and Preston Price Ronald Primeau V. Pristera, Jr. Jane Purdy Marsha Raanan Jane Rees The Reeves Family P. Kevin Reidy Sharon and Jerry Rhoads Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Richter, Jr. Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruff Aaron M. Rumack Jeffrey and Ellen Sadur Brad and Emily Salmon Henry J. Sampson Robert and Mary Ann Savard Rich Scarle Stephanie Scharf and David Taber Heddi Schellbach Rose Schmidt Jonathan Schmugge Susan Schwall Tony and Celeste Scolaro Carla Scott Carrie and Victoria Seliger Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Timothy Sherck Cheryl and Philip Sheridan Karen Shields Mr. and Mrs. William Shorey Brent Siegel Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott Jodi Silberman Heather and Steve Silver Judy Silverman Katherine Silvey Elbert Singleton Joan and Thomas Skiba Maureen Slavin Heather and Adam Smedstad Jackie Snuttjer Raymond Socki

Erin and Michael Soroosh Steven Spanbauer Peggy Steffy The Steinbachs Gail and John Straus Robert and Mary Strezewski Yvonne Sutor Linda K. Swift Gail and Patrick Tagney Michael J. Tatak, Esq. Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison Jeanne Towns Michael Trenkmann Carlos Trevino Dana Turban Brady I. Twiggs Dmitry Tyomkin Marilee Unruh Kathryn Vehe Dr. Michael Viglione Dr. Susan Vineyard Jonathan Wagner Eugenia Wainwright John Wallace June and Patrick Walsh Michael and Gere Warnecke Deborah and Neil Warner Laura and Bob Watson Pamela Weir Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman Leslie Whittet Barbara Wilder Donna Wilkinson John Will and Ada Gugenheim Deborah B. Williams, Ph.D. Jan Williams Gary and Modena Wilson Cynthia Wirth Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski Ms. Ann Witting Stanley Wojcicki Charlotte Wojnowski Nicala Carter-Woolfolk Ms. Andrea Worth Dr. Rodney and Susan Yergler Julia and Tom Young Greg Youngdahl

Donors as of 04/6/2011

individual contributors/auxiliary council 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 governing members for giving generously of their time and resources. Contact Kaleigh Lockhart at 312-654-5681 or klockhart@steppenwolf.org to become an Auxiliary Council member today. Executive Officers Francis C. Sadac* President Seth B. Krantz*‡ Vice President Heather D. Erickson* Secretary Philip S. Chang* Treasurer Nancy Schumacher* Immediate Past President Stephanie F. Linn*‡ Directors Circle Liaison Marisa Bryce* Nora Daley Conroy*‡ Founding Officers

Governors Kristopher J. Anderson* Michael Andrews Natalie Baumann Justin Casciola Jay Cavey Katie Clow Steve Collens Chanel Coney Joel Cornfeld* Melissa Dalrymple Alecia Dantico* Kim Davis* Dianna Di Iorio Aileen Furlong Frank Galioto Jami Gekas Stephen George* Lydia Glowaty Liza Michaels Gravengaard*‡ Stacie Hartman‡ Kenneth Hoffman Adam Keats Renee Keats

Andrew Keyt Amy Korin* Anne Lanser Maria Manhart Kim Masius Carrie Neill Clarisse Perrette Brett Plyler* Nathan Popkins Laura Schalekamp Dina Searle Lara Shackelford Colin Stalnecker Mike Swafford* Lisa Taylor* Alex Tenorio* Frank Trocchio Steven Wayland David Zoltan

*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.Â Make an honorary gift by contacting Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615 or eevenskaas@steppenwolf.org. In Honor of Polly Carl, Whitney Dibo and Kimberly Senior Richard Hutner and Lena Motev

In Memory of Guy Adkins Mark Lococo Ernest Rients

In Honor of Nora Daley Conroy Shawn M. Donnelley Marko Iglendza Neal Zucker

In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Myriam L. Bransfield

In Honor of Greg Desmond John Burcher In Honor of Kelly Ford Scott Whiteley Carter In Honor of David and Susan Kalt and Eric and Liz Lefkofsky Laura and Scott Eisen Stacy and Peter Lindau In Honor of Annie Lebedoff Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Head In Honor of Moira L. MacDonald Joyce and John MacDonald In Honor of Jan Melk Richard and Katie Gottfred In Honor of Merle Reskin Geoffrey and Susan Grossman In Honor of Bruce Sagan Jack and Sandra Guthman

In Memory of Ian Giles Pete and Diana Arsenault In Memory of Diana Kates Leslie Kates In Memory of Walter Kulikowski Linda Kulikowski In Memory of Fred Lifton Livia and Michael Kiser In Memory of Nan Lipstein Cathy Nathan In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Dr. David Wasserman In Memory of Michael Maggio Sandra Gidley In Memory of Sharon Muraka Cary Weldy In Memory of Ellie Punkay Enid Golinkin In Memory of Esther Zadeik Mr. Peter A. Zadeik

in-kind contributors Steppenwolf salutes the following individuals and organizations who donated significant goods and/or services. AlphaGraphics Alana Arenas ARK Restaurant Group Chef Rick Bayless Leonard Becker, Attorney at Law BOKA/Landmark Bryant Park Grill Catering Chocolate CBS’s The Good Wife Josh Charles The Chicago Cubs Chicago Magazine Chicago Music Exchange ClientFirst Consulting Group Coco Cola Crain Communications Inc. Custom House Tavern Michael Davis, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Garret Dillahunt Edge Audio Elysian Hotel Chicago EntertheChef.com Epoch Floral Event Creative Fox’s Raising Hope

Food for Thought Frontera Grill Frost Lighting Frank Galati Goose Island Brewery Grey Goose – World’s Best Tasting Vodka Halls Rental John Hart, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Jon Michael Hill HMS Media The James Hotel David Kalt Neringa Kardelyte Terry Kinney Kith and Kin Donna La Pietra Limelight John Mahoney Microsoft Corporation Sandro Miller Amy Morton Lucas Neff Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. David Pisor Martha Plimpton

POP Red Star Printing Riviera Pat Sansone Sara Lee Corporation Schiff Hardin LLP Shanghai Terrace at the Peninsula Hotel Shure Incorporated Gary Sinise Sono Wood-Fired Jon Stirratt Structured Development The Talbott Hotel Tamari Wines Tasty Catering Tesla Motors Time Out Chicago Tipsycake Topiarius David Turner Photography United Airlines Vinci Whole Foods Sarah and Kerry Wood

Please note that gifts listed above reflect contributions made as of 4/6/2011. 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.

special events spotlight gala 2011 May 7, 2011 Steppenwolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Gala offers a truly original perspective into the work on and behind our stage. Gala 2011 included an exclusive showcase of Lanford Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed ensemble-driven play The Hot L Baltimore, cocktails and gourmet dinner followed by a live auction featuring adventures with the Steppenwolf ensemble. The evening culminated with a performance by Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band and a late night DJ set by Toast and Jam.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Steppenwolf Board Chair Nora Daley Conroy and Artistic Director Martha Lavey

Kerry and Sarah Wood

Steppenwolf Trustee Sarah Beardsley with ensemble member Amy Morton

Steppenwolf Co-Founder Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band

Gala Co-Chairs Kenneth Porrello, Carole Brown, Michael Salem and Stephanie Smith

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Accessibility Committed to making the Steppenwolf experience accessible to everyone, we feature: • One sign language-interpreted and one open-captioned performance (for guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing) during the run of each subscription performance. • 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. • Audio recordings of program articles, available for free on our Watch and Listen page at steppenwolf.org. • Braille programs (available for our audio described performances). • 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). • Assistive hearing devices for every performance in our Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres. • Wheelchair accessible seats in all three of our theatres. • A complimentary courtesy wheelchair (available through the Front of House office). 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

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. 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 60-Second 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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