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Contents 4

Letter from Artistic Director Martha Lavey

Find a New Language, Construct New Worlds A conversation with playwright Enda Walsh and Steppenwolf Literary Manager Aaron Carter

The Many Riffs on The Odyssey

Three Questions for the Cast

Survival of the Fittest: Competition and Cooperation in Penelope By Steppenwolf Literary Manager Aaron Carter

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seasons, we begin to understand the strange and eloquent choice to place them in an emptied swimming pool. Using Walsh’s implied seasonal metaphor, the men live in a world fit only for one season of a man’s life: the season of the swimming pool is summer. The environment is, in this declension, a world created by and for Quinn—the man of the summer. If the contest for Penelope’s favor is conducted as a competition among the men, Quinn is the man in power.

Welcome to Penelope

For Quinn, to love is to conquer and violence is inevitable. As he says, “Each person we meet is there to be beaten down and knocked into place. It’s subtle at first; otherwise it’s all a bit aggressive and a little too obvious for us men of the world. But idle chit-chat is there to be won, friendships are there to be used, love is a fucking weapon.”

We’re thrilled to present Enda Walsh’s Penelope as the second play in our season, “Dispatches from the Homefront.” Penelope uses as its referent Homer’s great epic, The Odyssey, the story of Odysseus’ return home after the Trojan War. Homer’s poem is an anchoring text in the canon of Western literature and has served as a pretext for many subsequent works of literature because of the way in which its robust narrative provides an archetypal structure for the hero’s journey and return.

Burns opens the play washing the blood of his dead friend, Murray, from the sides of the swimming pool. Murray was driven to suicide by the taunts of Quinn and his death haunts Burns throughout. In his final plea to Penelope, Burns invokes the memory of his friendship with Murray as a hopeful sign of his own capacity to love: “It didn’t seem possible for trust to exist on this island, for friendship to form; but we’re talking without deceit, we’re speaking of other things other than the game we’re playing. And if I have a liking and a love for this one person, perhaps I have a capacity to love other things.”

Homer is examining the moment after the war: what is exacted of the victors? The Greeks, having defeated Troy, celebrate madly, forgetting what they owe the gods who steered their victory. The Odyssey details the ten-year trial that their hubris visits upon them, using the Greek captain, Odysseus, as the signature hero. War exacts a terrible price on the victors and vanquished alike, and the gods must be served for their role in steering the victors to triumph. The Odyssey can be read as the story of the warrior’s return to society and the trials required to restore the cosmic order in the wake of human conflict and destruction.

The play is a profound meditation on the dueling forces of love and war. The tangle of these impulses in Penelope is played out in the seduction of Penelope and the competition among the men. By contextualizing this struggle among these fully human, infinitely fallible and limited men within the great heroic epic of The Odyssey, Walsh invites us to question the progress of history. What have we learned from our history of war and our habit of violence? The Odyssey shows us the arduous journey that is required of the warrior to return home, to make himself available to the love of his wife and son. Does our culture value the warrior and the conquest over the bonds of affiliation and love? What have we learned?

Enda Walsh adopts an oblique angle on the story of Odysseus. Where The Odyssey focuses on the story of the hero, Penelope concentrates on the minor players of the epic. Walsh’s focus on these common men cooperates with the larger project of modernity: the chronicle of the hero dethroned. Absent gods, absent royalty, the suitors—minor players in Homer’s epic—take center stage in the story of our time. Walsh’s characters, four men spanning in age from 30s to 60s, have lived in an emptiedout swimming pool on Odysseus’ estate for ten years. Human decline is registered in the progression from the 30-year-old Burns to the 60-year-old Fitz. As Dunne, our 50-year-old character (he, in the “autumn” of his life) says: “Death I can do but the journey towards death, the long walk.... The thievery of Autumn when we are robbed of Summer sunshine and led further into the depression of the dying year....” (to which Burns, our youngest character, replies, “Fuck it, I need a drink!”).

Penelope is a wild ride. It is wickedly funny, irreverent and vaudevillian, and, beautifully poetic and deeply serious. Walsh is interrogating our lust for victory and the price we pay for dominance. In this, he echoes Homer’s inquiry: What cost war? What victory love?

When we recognize that Walsh is representing the human journey through life—and, importantly, the male journey—in these four men and associating them with the four

Steppenwolf Artistic Director Martha Lavey

Artistic Director Martha Lavey†

Executive Director David Hawkanson

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Rx

penelope

By Enda Walsh Directed by ensemble member Amy Morton December 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012 Featuring

Ian Barford†* Scott Jaeck* Tracy Letts†* Yasen Peyankov†* Logan Vaughn

Production

Steppenwolf salutes the sponsors for our production of Penelope Individual Production Sponsors Avy and Marcie Stein Sustaining Fund for the Ensemble John and Carol Walter Production Endowment Fund Merle Reskin

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Walt Spangler+ Scenic Design Ana Kuzmanic+ Costume Design James F. Ingalls+ Lighting Design Rob Milburn+ & Michael Bodeen+ Sound Design and Original Music Kirk Anderson Fight Choreographer Erica Daniels Casting Malcolm Ewen* Stage Manager Christine D. Freeburg* Assistant Stage Manager

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communication Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theatre. † 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 and Contributors

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Ian Barford (Burns) Last seen at Steppenwolf in Detroit. More recently in Love Song at 59e59 in New York City. Originated the role of Dr. Khassan Baiev in an adaptation of his autobiography (an extraordinary read) called The Oath at Weston Playhouse. Mr. Barford’s first mainstage show at Steppenwolf was The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (also on Broadway-Outer Critics nom.). Recent Steppenwolf credits include: Endgame, Up, Art, August: Osage County (Broadway and National Theatre in London), The Crucible and others. Some older favorites are: The Libertine, Three Days of Rain, As I Lay Dying, Berlin Circle. Goodman Theatre: All the Rage, Design for Living. In Los Angeles: The Weir, Take Me Out and God’s Man in Texas at the Geffen Playhouse. Dead End at the Ahmanson. National Tour of Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Film: The Last Rites of Joe May, Road to Perdition, 13 Going on 30. Numerous TV appearances. Recipient of the National Theatre Conference award in 1996.

Ian Barford†* Burns Scott Jaeck* Dunne Tracy Letts†* Fitz Yasen Peyankov†* Quinn Logan Vaughn Penelope

Understudies

John Gray Burns/Quinn Joe D. Lauck* Dunne/Fitz Yunuen Pardo Penelope

Additional Staff

Terrence Mosley Assistant Director Rick Jarvie Wig Designs Gina Patterson Lighting Assistant Steven Maturno Studio Lighting Assistant Emily Gutherie Props Assistant Zoe Shiffrin Scenic Painter Matthew Buettner Kyle Land Eric Wegener Scenic Carpenters

Jay Sangster Wardrobe Crew Yasmin Dincer-Ubl Matt Retzlaff Running Crew Mary Hungerford Stage Management Apprentice Also

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† member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

Scott Jaeck (Dunne) is pleased to be making his Steppenwolf debut. Previously, he appeared with the company in the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County. Other Chicago credits include: Stage Kiss, Mary, The Seagull, Dinner with Friends, Uncle Vanya, Galileo and A House Not Meant to Stand (Goodman Theatre); Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida,

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Henry IV - Parts 1 & 2, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Richard II (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Inherit the Wind, Red Herring, How I Learned to Drive and Light Up the Sky (Northlight Theatre); Benefactors and Our Town (Writers’ Theatre); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Victory Gardens Theater); and Long Day’s Journey into Night (Court Theatre). Regionally he has appeared at theaters including Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Scott has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon. His many film and television appearances include: The Lucky Ones, Washington Square, Boardwalk Empire, Prison Break, Charmed, E.R. and Seinfeld. Tracy Letts (Fitz) joined the ensemble in 2002. Previous Steppenwolf productions include Middletown, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (also Washington DC’s Arena Stage, upcoming Broadway 2012), 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);

Cast and Contributors 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. Yasen Peyankov (Quinn) has been an ensemble member since 2002 and last appeared at Steppenwolf in The Hot L Baltimore. Other Steppenwolf appearances include: The Diary of Anne Frank, Lost Land, Cherry Orchard, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Time of Your Life, Hysteria, The Berlin Circle, Morning Star, The Pillowman, Time to Burn, The Tempest and Superior Donuts (also on Broadway). Other theatre credits include: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Ivanov, Scenes from an Execution, Agamemnon and Caligula (European Repertory Company); The Odyssey (Goodman Theatre); Hamlet, Piano and Twelfth Night (Court Theatre); and Medea (American Theatre Company). Film credits include: A Very Harold and Kumar 3D-Christmas, Contagion, Transformers 3, Crime Fiction, The Company, Novocaine, U.S. Marshals and Payback. Television credits include: The Practice, The Beast, Gifted Hands, Karen Sisco, Alias, Early Edition, The Unit, The Evidence, Numb3rs, E-Ring and others. His translation of Chekhov’s Ivanov, produced by European Repertory, was published by Ivan R. Dee. He is the recipient of a Jeff Award, Fox Fellowship

Cast and Contributors and heads the theatre program at UIC, where he teaches acting. Logan Vaughn (Penelope) makes her Steppenwolf debut in Penelope. As a dancer, Ms. Vaughn is a company member of A Long Walk Home and has performed at Harvard, Brown, Princeton and Columbia universities. Her work as a choreographer has been featured at Chicago Opera Vanguard, Second City Theatre and DMG Freedom. Logan is the Casting Associate at the Goodman Theatre. As a director and assistant director, she has worked with Collaboraction, New Leaf Theatre, Teatro Vista and Court Theatre. Logan has been featured as a model in national and international publications including: Lucky, Brune and Globetrotter Magazine. Television: The Playboy Club (NBC). Love to A. Vaughn, S. Scott and A. Belcuore. John Gray (u/s Burns/Quinn) returns to Steppenwolf where he was last seen in Superior Donuts. Other Chicago credits include: The Front Page (TimeLine Theatre); the Midwest premiere of The Censor (Ebb and Flow Theatre); Minna, Horses at the Window, Alice in Bed, Old Clown Wanted, Amerikafka, The Crazy Locomotive, Quills and Bremen Freedom (Trap Door Theatre); Curse of the Starving Class (New Leaf Theatre); Hellcab (Famous Door Theatre); The Freedom of the City (Mary-Arrchie Theatre); The Physicists (A Red Orchid Theatre); and Killer Joe (Scott Morfee, Producer). Film credits: Wake and Hatred of a Minute. Special thanks to Erica and Amy and love to Ellie and his two children John and Hayley.

Joe D. Lauck (u/s Dunne/Fitz) is very pleased to be working with the team at Steppenwolf. Recent Chicago credits include: Circle Mirror Transformation and Eurydice (Victory Gardens Theater); and Sugar (Drury Lane Theatre). Joe thanks his wife Eileen and his family for their continued support. Yunuen Pardo (u/s Penelope) is thrilled to be working at Steppenwolf. Ms. Pardo’s Chicago theater credits include: El Nogalar (Goodman Theatre); Erendira (Aguijon Theater) and Mala Hierba (Victory Gardens Theater’s IGNITION Festival). She wrote, produced and starred in the short film Another Life (Otra Vida), which was awarded second place in the People’s Choice category at the 2010 Chicago Latino Film Festival. Her forthcoming projects include the feature film Las Alas Rotas del Cuervo by Victor Osuna, with Ofelia Medina and Luis Felipe Tovar. Ms. Pardo studied at The School at Steppenwolf, and holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago. Enda Walsh (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter who shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 with his play Disco Pigs. In 2007 and 2008, Walsh won Fringe First Awards at two consecutive Edinburgh Festivals for his plays The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. The former led The Guardian to name him “one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.” Since his initial success as a playwright, Walsh has gone on to write for the screen. His 2008 biopic, Hunger, told the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and won a host of awards, including the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the

Dinard International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven BIFAs (including Best Screenplay), six British Film and Television Awards (including Best Screenplay and Best Independent Film) and BAFTA’s Outstanding British Film Award 2009. Amy Morton (Director) is an actor, director and has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1997. Her Steppenwolf acting credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, August: Osage County (also Broadway, London and Sydney), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (also on Broadway), Betrayal, Last of the Boys, The Well-Appointed Room, Berlin Circle, The Royal Family, Homebody/ Kabul, Three Days of Rain, The Unmentionables, Cherry Orchard, The Time of Your Life and many others. Directing credits include: Clybourne Park, American Buffalo, Our Country’s Good, The Weir, Glengarry Glen Ross, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dublin Carol, Topdog/Underdog, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Pillowman, LoveLies-Bleeding, The Dresser and Awake and Sing. Before joining Steppenwolf, she was a member of The Remains Theatre Ensemble in Chicago for 15 years. She can be in seen in the films Up in the Air, Rookie of the Year, 8mm, Falling Down and The Dilemma. Walt Spangler (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to be working with Amy Morton and Steppenwolf for the first time. Chicago credits include: Desire Under the Elms, King Lear, Heartbreak House, Turn of the Century, Hollywood Arms, A True History of the Johnstown Flood and Blue Surge (Goodman Theatre); The Original Grease and Yeast Nation (American Theater Company); and upcoming: A Christmas Story: The Musical (Chicago Theatre); and Time Stands Still (Steppenwolf Theatre).

Cast and Contributors

Ana Kuzmanic (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be back at Steppenwolf Theatre, where she designed costumes for The Hot L Baltimore, Sex with Strangers, August: Osage County, Dublin Carol, The Pillowman, among others. Broadway: Desire Under the Elms, Superior Donuts and August: Osage County. As a frequent collaborator of Tony® Award-winning director Robert Falls, Ana designed costumes for King Lear, Desire under the Elms, A True History of Johnstown Flood and The Seagull under his direction at The Goodman Theatre. Ana’s work has represented the United States at the Prague Quadrennial (2011 and 2007) and World Stage Design (2005). Ms. Kuzmanic teaches costume design at Northwestern University. www.anakuzmanic.com.

In Rehearsal Photos by Joel Moorman 1 Ensemble members Ian Barford and Yasen Peyankov with Scott Jaeck 2 Ensemble member Ian Barford

James F. Ingalls (Lighting Designer) returns to Steppenwolf where his designs include: A Parallelogram, Endgame, Kafka on the Shore, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Well-Appointed Room, after the quake, The Pain and the Itch, The Violet Hour, Purple Heart, The Royal Family, Valparaiso and As I Lay Dying. Other work in Chicago includes: Stage Kiss, Dollhouse, House and Garden, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Good Person of Setzuan, The Three Sisters, The Night of the Iguana, The Iceman Cometh and Galileo (Goodman Theatre); and Hercules and Dr. Atomic (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Recent projects include: The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company/NYC); and Desdemona (New York/Berkeley/Paris). Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (Original Music and Sound Design) Broadway credits include: music composition and sound for The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing

of Love and sound for Superior Donuts, reasons to be pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off-Broadway credits include: music and sound for Inked Baby, After Ashley, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space and Marvin’s Room, sound for Jitney, Family Week, Juvenilia, Brundibar and The Pain and the Itch and music direction and sound for Eyes for Consuela and Ruined. They have created music and sound at many of America’s resident theaters (often at Steppenwolf ) and at several international venues. Kirk Anderson (Fight Choreographer) is thrilled to be back at Steppenwolf, where he has appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank, Huck Finn, Lady Madeline, Uncle Vanya and The Duel. Kirk has staged fights with European Repertory Theatre, TUTA, Theatre Oobleck and Trap Door Theatre. Most recently he appeared in Overweight, Unimportant: Mishape (Trap Door Theatre); There Is A Happiness That Morning Is (Theater Oobleck); and The Wedding (TUTA). Other credits include: The Ballad Of Emmet Till (Goodman Theatre); Teibele And Her Demon, Go Away-Go Away, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Slavs!, Zoyka’s Apartment and Ivanov (European Repertory); and many others. Malcolm Ewen (Stage Manager) first stage managed for Steppenwolf in 1987 with Frank Galati’s production of Born Yesterday. Since that time he has worked for Steppenwolf on four continents and has taken three Steppenwolf shows to Broadway, including The Grapes of Wrath. Steppenwolf credits include: Who’s Afraid of

Cast and Contributors Virginia Woolf?, Endgame, American Buffalo, The Tempest, The Diary of Anne Frank and Man From Nebraska. On Broadway, he was the Production Stage Manager of Paul Simon’s musical, The Capeman. A graduate of Amherst College, he returns every summer to the Green Mountains of Vermont to direct at the Weston Playhouse. Christine D. Freeburg (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre credits include: Sex with Strangers, A Parallelogram, American Buffalo (also at McCarter Theatre), The House on Mango Street, The Tempest, The Seafarer, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Good Boys and True, The Diary of Anne Frank, Sonia Flew, Love-Lies-Bleeding, after the quake and Cherry Orchard. Other Chicago credits include: The Vanishing Twin, In the Eye of the Beholder and Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre); Hamlet, Fraulein Else and Scapin (Court Theatre); Once on This Island, M. Butterfly, Old Wicked Songs and Violet (Apple Tree Theatre). Christine also spent nine summers stage managing at the Weston Playhouse in Weston, Vermont. Love to Thom and Joanie. Martha Lavey (Artistic Director) has been an ensemble member since 1995 and has appeared at Steppenwolf in Middletown, 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 Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre and Remains Theatre and in New York at the Women’s Project and

Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Three Arts, U.S. Artists and the City Arts panel of Chicago. Lavey holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, is a member of the National Advisory Council for the School of Communication at Northwestern and is on the board 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 Theatre 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 Capital 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 Arts Alliance Illinois.

In Rehearsal Photos by Joel Moorman 3 Ensemble members Yasen Peyankov and Ian Barford 4 Ensemble member Yasen Peyankov with Scott Jaeck 5 Scott Jaeck

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Aaron Carter: I’ve read that you’ve had no formal training in playwriting. How did you come to be a playwright? Enda Walsh: I was, I suppose, bullied into becoming a playwright. In my early twenties I had notions of being an actor. I joined a new theatre company in Cork called Corcadorca. I had trained in film and worked as a film editor, but I loved live performance and the freedom theatre can give you—as opposed to the terrible literalism of film.

Find a New Language, Construct New Worlds

AC: What inspired you to reinvent a section of The Odyssey? EW: I have a 15 year relationship with a German dramaturg called Tilman Raabke. He moved to a small theatre in Oberhausen. They had commissioned five European writers to take on various sections of The Odyssey—and I straight away went for the suitors. I read the book as a boy and when I returned to it I still found them intriguing, devious, desperate men. I wrote Penelope in autumn 2008 during the early stages of Ireland’s financial ruin. There were a lot of stories of desperate, spent men in the newspapers and there was a small part of me that wanted to respond to that—though the play became other things.

Playwright Enda Walsh

AC: It’s easy to be drawn into very serious talk about the ancient classic The Odyssey. But your very funny version includes men in speedos and a Taunton Deluxe Barbecue that can’t cook sausages. Would you call your take irreverent? EW: The conceit is Homer’s: this selfimprisonment. So I set up a more detailed situation. Men in their back gardens around barbecues is something I find funny; I started

A conversation with playwright Enda Walsh and Steppenwolf Literary Manager Aaron Carter

there, knowing that it would ultimately be a play about death. For me it all became physiological. What are these men’s bodies like? It’s morning-time and hot, the swimming pool is drained of water, they’ve seemed to encamp there because it’s cooler—but they’re drinking cocktails and peacocking around a defunct barbecue and running out of conversation. Something has to give. Some omen needs to arrive. AC: And an omen does arrive, in the form of a dream that features cooking men on that very barbecue. Despite such a potent sign, do the men believe they can escape their fate? EW: I think the men believe that they have the ability to change fate—but they are deluded. They are doomed anyway. You can deceive yourself all you want—but you can’t escape death. Quinn believes that by winning Penelope, Odysseus will be struck by the Gods and left shipwrecked, but I am listening to that and thinking this is a desperate man here. But you know this is theatre, so perhaps Quinn is right and perhaps these men can die and yet live in another way. AC: Many of your plays deal with characters who are trapped in circumstances or places that they’ve created. Why do you think this theme figures so prominently in your work? EW: It’s how I feel to be honest. I’m exhilarated and terrified by life. I’ve somehow found myself living the life of a playwright, and like many jobs it’s a bastard for routine. Getting up every morning and belting away at a story and trying to hone it and say something honest. I fell into this world, am stuck in this world, feel totally inadequate in it

“As a boy I didn’t talk much apparently. I hated the sound of my own voice. I remember that.” —Enda Walsh most times…and yet I’m able to lie to myself enough to continue doing it. Much like my life outside writing, really. AC: In the text of the play, you are quite specific that the suitors range in age from 30s to 65. Are you exploring the stages of man and masculinity? EW: Yes. There’s a lot of bluster early on, a lot of one-upmanship. But it starts to become a play about lives squandered and how these men can salvage something. These are very unlikely heroes. Apparently there were over a hundred men on that island trying to woo Penelope and they are the last four. Can you imagine what the other men were like?! Are these the four best? But I can see that I wanted them to be good, or do some good— for once. Faced with their deaths, this may have come across as a desperate attempt to atone for their sins—but the men find a new language, construct new worlds and somehow find life by doing that. AC: You’ve observed that Irish playwriting remains so potent because you’re “looking at a country trying to find out who we are, trying to find its identity on the stage.” Is Penelope an Irish play? EW: I don’t know what it is. I feel like an Irish playwright. I have huge respect for our playwriting tradition and I feel like I’m having conversations with the great ghosts of Irish

theatre. But a lot of my growing up and influences are actually German. But I don’t like to think about what I am too much. The characters are the thing—I just get out of the way and trust that I’m somehow speaking through them all. I am a man before being an Irishman...I’m pretty sure of that. AC: The suitors are loquacious wordsmiths. Do you possess the gift of gab in person? EW: As a boy I didn’t talk much apparently. I hated the sound of my own voice. I remember that. If I had to stand up and read in school my voice would cave in on itself. Although I don’t hate the sound of my voice anymore, I often find myself talking appalling shit when I do talk. People read my silence as shyness, but you see really it’s vanity. AC: It’s said that politics is war by other means. In your play, seduction of Penelope is war by other means. What does victory look like? EW: Like a very long, restful sleep.

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The Many Riffs on The Odyssey

In The Poetics, Aristotle wrote of the pleasure generated when the audience recognizes the connection between a representation and the object it represents. “Aha!” we say, “This equals that.” That delicious tension between the original and the riff is part of what makes retellings of The Odyssey so popular. Please enjoy this glimpse of the company Enda Walsh’s Penelope keeps.

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Ulysses

Written and directed by the Coen brothers, 2000

Written by James Joyce, 1922

This film reimagines Odysseus as a bumbling but charming escapee from a 1937 chain gang. In one scene, a nod to the original in which the witch Circe turns Odysseus’ men into pigs, it appears that George Clooney ’s character has been transformed into an animal. This later generates one of the best lines in all of cinematic history: (said through clenched teeth) “Do not. Seek. The treasure... We t h o u g h t . Yo u w a s . A t o a d .”

Portions were first published as a serial from 1918 to 1920. Ulysses turns the ten year journey of Odysseus into one day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Well, one day, plus enough streamof-consciousness, puns, digressions and leaps to fill a lifetime. Joyce apparently claimed that he “put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,” and that would earn the book “immortality.” So far, so good.

Cold Mountain

Book written by Charles Frazier, 1997 Film directed by Anthony Minghella, 2003

Cold Mountain tells the story of a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts and walks home to reunite with the love of his life. There are a number of echoes of The Odyssey, including blind men who give advice and women who nurse strangers back to health. Spoiler alert: it does not end happily.

The Simpsons: Tales from the Public Domain

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus

In the segment “D’oh Brother, Where Art Thou,” Homer Simpson delivers t h e Tro j a n h o rse , e at s h i s m e n when they are turned into pigs, and slaughters the suitors before retiring to Moe’s bar. The episode also includes riffs on Joan of Arc and Hamlet. The next time you hear someone complain about pop culture destroying society, refute him with this episode. On second thought, don’t mention it at all: it might prove the point.

Finally getting her say after nearly 3,000 years, Penelope shares her perspective on the events of The Odyssey. She’s assisted in the effort by a chorus of twelve maids who use various poetic forms from kiddie rhymes to ballads to express their views. In the original, these maids were hanged by Telemachus for their disloyal act of sleeping with the suitors. This horrific killing is the major event of Atwood’s version, and includes the suggestion that the maids were raped by the suitors. A stage version was presented at Stratford-upon-Avon in 2007.

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If you had to spend 20 years in an empty swimming pool with any historical figure— living or dead—who would it be and why?

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A) Ursula Andress or Raquel Welch, circa Dr. No/One Million Years B.C. No explanation necessary.

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Charlie Chaplin. I grew up watching his movies, so I have about 20 years of questions in me.

B) Homer. To see what kind of kick-ass epic poem we could come up with. C) My wife, she’d be pissed if I went on a 20 year vacation to the Mediterranean without her. Actually, she’d be pissed about Ursula and Raquel, too, so maybe I’d just send postcards.

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Frida Kahlo [with the blessed sounds of the great forces known as Nina, Etta and Miles keeping us company]. In addition to being a revolutionary artist, she fearlessly claimed her voice and unapologetically defined her sexuality, at a time when all odds were against her. It would be an honor just to be in her presence.

Tracy Letts fitz

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‘Historical figure’ hmmm...one is challenged to think of who best to help maintain sanity...Brigitte Bardot? That’d be swell for awhile, but 20 years? I would have to say my father, Robert Barford: my friend, professor of philosophy, lover of history, literature, music, art, life... and a great sense of HUMOR!

Hedy Lamarr in Dishonored Lady, 1947

Hedy Lamarr

What excites you most about working on Penelope?

Wearing a Speedo® and having a spray-on tan. OR, having the opportunity to work with Amy, Yasen, Ian and John, the designers and everyone at Steppenwolf, to bring this insanity to life.

Just about everything—the part, the script, the actors, the director and the fact I am wearing a Speedo®. Last time that happened it was the 80s of the last century.

What excites me the most about working on Penelope is the challenge of understanding the imposing humanity of the play’s characters and allowing them to transcend beyond the space and time in which we’re attempting to portray them.

Aside from continuing to avoid getting a real job? I think the play is funny.

Enda’s juxtaposition of wild physical humor with language full of poetry and elegance is very exciting. It’s also my first time working with Amy as a director—also very exciting.

Any worries about the show? What do you think the biggest challenge will be?

Wearing a Speedo® and having a spray-on tan. OR, the biggest challenge to me in any play is filling in what the text doesn’t give you; the wants, whys and wherefores. I always hope I can answer (for at least myself ) all the questions the play raises.

I am definitely challenged by the physical demands of the show and the biggest one of course would be the show I put on for Penelope.

I think one of my biggest challenges when approaching the piece and the character of Penelope is going to be creating a complex being that despite absence of words is constantly present in spirit.

I don’t know any of the lines.

How will I look in a Speedo®?

Four men are locked in combat for resources and a mate. From the perspective of evolution, this is the most fundamental of competitions: surviving long enough to pass your genes to the next generation. As the suitors Dunne and Quinn observe:

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Dunne Even after all this time the competition. Quinn What else is there? Dunne You’re right. Quinn There’s nothing else!

Survival of the fittest

The remaining four suitors have outlasted one hundred men, surviving for years on their ferocity and cunning, sustained only by the thought of winning Penelope’s hand. It comes as something of a surprise then, when Quinn suggests that they work together.

Competition and Cooperation in Penelope

One suspects that Quinn has ulterior motives in his proposal. The evolutionary scientist, however, would not see Quinn’s self-interest as necessarily opposed to the interests of the group. Cooperation, s/he might argue, is the twin of competition.

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Humans are social creatures. Our ability to cooperate for mutual survival increases the likelihood of fulfilling our biological imperative—and as a result our capacity for social behavior is reinforced by evolution as surely as the protective

Costume renderings by Ana Kuzmanic

By Steppenwolf Literary Manager Aaron Carter

armor of the armadillo or the camouflage ability of the chameleon. Scientists have constructed experiments demonstrating that cooperating in social groups is a deep-seated instinct. In the famous Robbers Cave experiment, scientists took two groups of boys aged 11 and 12 to a state park. Posing as camp counselors, the scientists kept the two groups separate and unaware of each other while each individual “tribe” developed its own internal order. Leaders emerged, and accepted practices were established. After one child hurt his foot but didn’t complain, for example, it was expected that no one should complain about being injured. With the social groups firmly established, the scientists allowed the boys to become

These ideas suggest that larger social structures such as colonies and tribes aren’t built from the family unit out. Instead, close family ties might be a consequence, rather than a cause, of the development of social structures. First a more general cooperative trait emerges, and then smaller family units develop as a result of those traits.

Photo from site of The Robbers Cave Experiment

Eusocial bees are commonly cited as providing classic examples of altruistic animal behavior. However, this is debatable because the bees’ behavior still appears to favor genetic kin selection. 1

aware of the existence of the other group. Predictably, the presence of “outsiders” strengthened the social order of the group. More disturbing—though perhaps equally predictable—sports competition between the groups quickly escalated into violence. When one group stole the flag of the other, for example, a counter raid was planned. In preparation, the boys armed themselves with rocks. Fearing a Lord of the Flies outcome, the scientists intervened. The experiment illustrates how cooperation can be an extension of competition: in this case, defending against an outside threat. In Penelope, when the suitors band together in the face of Odysseus’ return, they express the same instinct. And yet, people have been known to do more than merely cooperate. We sometimes give to others expecting nothing in return. Occasionally, people go so far as to sacrifice their own lives.

to reproduction, an organism could also pass on some of its genes by helping a relative. Kin selection suggests that the indirect benefit of helping relatives survive accounts for the persistence of altruism. Kin selection, however, doesn’t appear to explain why people like Arland Williams, Jr. help those they aren’t related to.

After a small plane crashed in the freezing Potomac River in January 1982, six survivors of the crash clung to the slowly sinking wreckage while rescue workers attempted to pull them from the deadly waters. When a rescue helicopter was finally able to approach the craft, the first person to receive the life ring passed it to the nearest person who was then lifted to safety. The same man refused the life ring three times before slipping into the water to his own death. It was later discovered that the man was Arland Williams, Jr., a perfectly ordinary banker whose heroism saved the lives of three strangers, even as he left behind his own family.

In a 2010 paper, scientists E.O. Wilson, Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita described how social order might develop without a preference for helping relatives. If, for example, organisms gather at a feeding site, evolution might favor those who have traits that allow them to work as a group to build nests that can be defended. This observation is also reflected in a 2006 paper in which economist Samuel Bowles demonstrated that altruism protected early hunter-gatherer groups from the costs of war. A group that exhibited altruism, in other words, waged better war.

If cooperation is based on mutual selfinterest, how does evolution explain such acts of altruism? Wouldn’t the propensity for self-sacrifice be a trait that would fade away over successive generations? One argument for the evolutionary basis of altruism is the concept of “kin selection.” In the 1960s, biologist W.D. Hamilton argued that in addition

Consider then that altruism might also be a result of more general social behaviors. Instead of being a trait that evolution has specifically reinforced, self-sacrifice might be an unintended consequence of a set of traits that otherwise ensure the survival of the species: a kind of noise in the genetic code. While the idea that some of our most valued traits are accidents of evolution could be seen as bleak, there’s also the possibility for a kind of poetry in disconnecting altruism from genetic determinism. If science is an act of discovering meaning, then art is an act of making meaning. Where science falters in finding cause and effect, art steps in to help us create meaning and context. In this light, Penelope can be seen as an investigation into the deep contradictions of human nature, journeying where science cannot follow. And perhaps it is an invitation to reconsider what “survival of the fittest” truly means.

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The Joyce Foundation has a longstanding commitment to ensuring broad access to a diverse and thriving culture for the citizens of this region. Steppenwolf is proud to share in advancing these goals in two ways: through its training programs for early-career arts administrators of color; and through the commissioning of a major new play for the American theater by ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Sponsors ($2,500-4,999) Amsted Industries Foundation AON Corporation Arts Federation City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events FROST Saks Fifth Avenue Suite Home Chicago Turner Construction Company Foundation

Steppenwolf is honored to have the partnership of the Polk Bros. Foundation in producing our Steppenwolf for Young Adults educational programming. The Polk Bros.’ leading support over the years has advanced our work for young adults both on our stages and in classrooms around Chicago.

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

Individual Contributors Visionary Circle

Individual Contributors Directors Circle

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

Janet Melk Negaunee Foundation James F. Oates David C. Pisor George and Kimberly Ruhana Sage Foundation Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Manuel Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez The George H. Scanlon Foundation Gary Sinise Tom Smithburg and Colette Cachey Smithburg Bill and Orli Staley Marcie and Avy Stein John and Carol Walter Terry and Mary Winkler Kerry and Sarah Wood

Anonymous Valerie and Joseph Abel Robert C. Anderson Dr. Marvin and Joyce Berman Douglas R. Brown

Robert H. Glaze Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Dr. Paul Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Sylvia J. Pozarnsky

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 Steppenwolf’s Directors Circle members annually provides vital support for Steppenwolf’s many streams of artistic and community programming. In recognition of their contributions, members receive complimentary subscriptions with VIP ticketing services and are invited to private events with the artists of Steppenwolf. To join this distinguished group, call Jessica Gretch at 312-654-5672 or email directorscircle@steppenwolf.org. GRAND PATRONS ($25,000+) Anonymous Carole L. Brown Douglas R. Brown Terri L. Cable Joyce Chelberg Elizabeth H. Connelly Nora Daley and Sean Conroy Rich and Margery Feitler Christine Albright and Lawrence Gill Bob and Amy Greenebaum Mrs. John M. Hartigan David Herro and Jay Franke David and Susan Kalt

Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Ronald J. Mallicoat Jr. Geoff Nyheim Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall Deborah and Stephen Quazzo Merle Reskin Randy and Susi Rowe Michael R. Salem Saliba Family Charitable Foundation John R. Samolis Robert and Louise Sanborn Harry and Susan Seigle

Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Edward A. Studzinski Helen Zell DISTINGUISHED PATRONS ($10,000-24,999) Julie and Roger Baskes Sarah Beardsley and Theodore R. Tetzlaff Philip and Janice Beck Ms. Sheridan Prior and Mr. Michael Bender Henry and Leigh Bienen Betty Bradshaw Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly

Fred Eychaner Rajiv Fernando Stephen C. George 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 Susan and Richard Kiphart Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal Martha Lavey Lynn Lockwood Murphy and Barrett B. Murphy Steven D. Loucks Jim and Kay Mabie

PATRONS ($5,000-9,999) Loren Almaguer William and Sharon Baker Dr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Berman Larry and Debbie Brady Michael and Merle Cahan Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Keith and Kathleen H. Cardoza Ann and Richard Carr Dennis Cary Fred J. Costello Ms. Kim Davis and Mr. Brian Eble Diane Dawson Donald Deutsch Scott Etzler Sharon Fairley John and Katherine Fox Scott and Rita George Richard and Mary L. Gray M. Julie and Michael Gustafson Ms. Joan W. Harris Ms. Joan Harris David Hiller Mellody Hobson Betsy and Arthur Holden Willard and Lori Hunter, The Hunter Family Foundation George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman Dr. Mary Dochios Kamberos Kathryn G. and Michael J. Kennedy Robert M. and Diane VS. Levy Amos and Anat Madanes Susan Noel Irma Parker M.K. and J.B. Pritzker Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Neil Ross MD and Lynn Hauser MD Robin and Mark Seigle

Rose L. Shure Jeffrey Singer Bonnie and James Spurlock Scott Stacke Jacqueline Tilton Richard and Elaine Tinberg Frances E. Tuite Michael and January Ward Frances Wilkinson Nina B. Winston Robert and Leslie Zimmerman SUSTAINERS ($2,500-4,999) Anonymous Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Andrew and Susan Arnold Paula Ausick John and Caroline Ballantine Zoe and Ken Barley Bob and Trish Barr Larry and Margaret Benjamin Henry R. Berghoef Susan O. Berghoef Dr. Mary E. Belford MD and Mr. Ric Berta Carol Lavin Bernick Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein George W. Blossom III Doug Bobenhouse Debbie Bricker Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson 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 Joan Hall Patricia Cox, Katie and Will Hunckler Ana Rita Cristiano Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Beth Boosalis Davis and Maxwell S. Davis Robert Delaney Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Philip and Marsha Dowd Bernard J. Dowling Drs. Thomas E. Durica and Susan Jacob Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Laura and Scott Eisen Richard and Gail Elden

Mary M. Emerson George Engeln Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal David and Mimi Fiske Mr. and Mrs. Erik Fyrwald Gary L. Gephart Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Ethel and Bill Gofen Bob and Carol Goldberg Sue and Melvin Gray William and Nanci Greene James and Brenda Grusecki Pam and David Harrington John Hass and Mary Frances Budig David R. Hawkanson 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 Pamela Kendall-Rijos and John Rijos Brad and Kim Keywell Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Korbet Suzy Krueckeberg Christine and Michael LaTona Steven and Jody LaVoie Don and Margie Leventhal Bernard and Averill Leviton Robert Bud Lifton and Carol Rosofsky Timothy and Christine Loyer Mark and Frances Mann Becky and Bob McLennan Kevin and Beth McMeen Mike and Adele Murphy Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Dale and Loretta Pierson Jennifer and Perry Pinto Christine and Michael Pompizzi Bradley and Patricia Reid Bob and Mary Reusché Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Ellen Sandor Ms. Kate Cornelius-Schecter David and Susan Schmid Matthew and Tina Schubert Gloria and Michael Scoby Smita N. Shah Matthew Shapiro Toni Sandor Smith

Gail and Eugene Steingold Matthew Steinmetz Kristin and Stan Stevens Steven L. and Stephanie A. Victor Robert and Susan Warrington Dr. David Wasserman, In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Steven Wayland Lorrayne and Steve Weiss Jane and Greg Wintroub Elizabeth Ziegler Neal Zucker BENEFACTORS ($1,500-2,499) Anonymous (5) Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Jack J. Adrian Nicholas and Kathleen Amatangelo Kimball Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson Carolyn H. Andress Stephanie and Dana Arnett Jeffrey S. Arnold and Ellen J. Neely 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 Dennis and Joan Berger Ron and Colleen Bess Nicholas Biederman Leslie Bond, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boychuck Dawn and Harmon Brown Lois Browning Kevin and Linda Buggy Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith Stephen Byrne and Kerry Shannon 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 Carl and Cynthia Curry Liese Dallbauman Alecia Dantico Emilie De Angelis and Bert Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher Kevork and Rolanda Derderian Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Anne M. Donahoe

Individual Contributors Directors Circle Stephen and Dorne Eastwood Mark and Sandy Ehlert Greg Elliott Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Tom and Pat Erickson Marc Falleroni David and Mary Farkas Randall Fearnow and Beth Compton Carol and Steven Felsenthal Dr. W. Clinton and Lois Farrell Fisher Elaine Fishman Stacy and Ian Fleming Steven Florsheim and Jennifer Friedes Lisa and John Folkers Al Franklin Kate and Michael Fridholm Kate Friedlob Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Noreen Ann Gallagher Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Terri and Stephen Geifman Dr. Michael Gelbort and Ms. Sherryl Steinberg Gelbort Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Sheila and Tom Gorey Schiff Gorman and Krkljes Peter and Joellen Granson The Green Family 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 Jean Heller Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hodges Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig Kenneth Hoffman Kimberly and Matthew Horowitz In Memory of Jerry Horton Katie and Nehl Horton Dr. Candice J. Hunter Mr. Michael Hyter Melinda Kempton and Jane Fleming Nancy and John Ide

Terrell J. Isselhard Mary Ittelson Marian, Fruman and Lisa Jacobson Tom and Jan Jakobsen Patricia Jeffers Hal and Dona B. Jensen Timothy B Johnson and Valerie B. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Jozwiak Adam and Renee Keats Jen and Brad Keck Gerould and Jewell Kern Jonathan Klein and Susan Cohn Stephanie and Peter Klein David and Kathleen Kovarik Ann M. Krilcich Raminder and Vinay Kumar Mr. Matthew Kutcher and Ms. Rebecca Richards Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad Carol and Jerome Lamet Gerald R. Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Foundation Victoria S. Lautman Eileen and Paul LeFort Tanya Levshina and Ilya Volvovski Benita T. Levy Lawrence and Susan Lieber Stephanie F. Linn and Seth B. Krantz Dr. Paul M. Lisnek and Brian F. Lozell Beth Loeb Abby and George Lombardi Fran Lambros and John Lowry Sandy and Jerry Manne Barbara and Larry Margolis Debra Mazloff 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 William and Kate Morrison Bill and Lorna Fillipini-Mulliken Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Cathy and Robert Nathan Judy Neafsey and Terry Conway Susan and George Obermaier Joe O’Leary Bob and Joyce O’Malley

Bridget R. O’Neill Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Phyllis Parish Joan and David Parsons Amy and Brent Peebles Simon and Kim Perutz Anne and Donald Phillips Sherri and Ted Pincus Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Carl and Barbara Plochman Andrew and Judy L. Porte Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley Elliott Quigley Linda Reid Lynne Remington and Geoff Goldberg 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 Pamela and Fred Sasser Paul Scavone and Donna Pawlus Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Michelle Maton and Mike Schaeffer Richard and Betty Seid Diana and Richard Senior Judy and Jeffrey Silverman Robert and Nancy Singleton James and Mary Jo Slykas Neil Smith Family Paul and Elizabeth Sobotka Ellen Stone Belic Gail and John Straus Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Judy Sugarman Lisa Swanson Corrine P. Taylor James and Sara TenBroek Laura A. Tomasovic and Jim A. Hargis John and Maribeth Totten Frank Trocchio Reed and Rosemary Tupper Tali and Liat Tzur Shawn VanDerziel and Jay Clarke Susan and Victor Venturi

Donna and Dirk Vos Tom and Michelle Wake Albert Wald, In Memory of Nancy Wald Dr. Carey Weiss and Dr. Karen Pierce Jeanne Marienthal Westcott Charles and Leah Wheelan Bobbi Zabel

Be a Visionary.

The Steppenwolf Visionary Circle Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, 2010/11

Consider making a gift to Steppenwolf in your will or estate plans and ensure future generations experience extraordinary performances from America’s premiere theater ensemble.

Planned gift donors are recognized for their generosity through Steppenwolf’s Visionary Circle, and receive annual benefits in appreciation for their future gift. Contact Sandy Karuschak, Director of Development, at 312-654-5615 or sandyk@steppenwolf.org for information on giving.

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 9/16/2011.

Patricia Levy Richard and Joanne Levy Catherine Leyser‡ Barbara and Edward Linn Jean Linsner Darlene Little Mary Christine Lovejoy‡ Arlene Manelli Christine and David Markovitz Kimberly Masius Kevin and Linda Matheny Mr. and Mrs. George J. Matkov Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister Michael McCaslin Tarell McCraney Margaret S. McGee Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward McGreevy‡ Susan Messing Robert and Lois Moeller Blake and Debra Moritz‡ Mr. John Mulhall Zina and Nicholas S. Murray Joseph Mwachullah Joan Neil Emily and Hank Neuberger Tamar Newberger and Andrew Shapiro Howard and Cathy Niden Kris Nielsen‡ Rebecca Noble Mary Nolen Margaret O’Connor and Michael O’Meara Paul and Nancie Oetter Brad Oltmanns Jamie and Rachel Orlikoff Richard Ostrow‡ Mr. Jason Palmquist Grayce Papp Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman‡ John and Roberta Paskvalich Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Claudia Perez Sandra and Michael Perlow Clarisse Perrette and Larry Freed Barb and Ned Piehler William and Suzan Pinsof Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Brett Plyer Nathan Popkins Avner and Joan Porat V. Pristera, Jr. Hedy Pua Marsha Raanan‡ Jeff and Susan Rashid P. Kevin Reidy‡

PRODUCERS ($1,000-1,499) Anonymous Robert C. Anderson Bill Bartholomay Marc D. Blakeman Shaun and Andy Block Stephen and Lynn Bolanowski‡ Janyce D Brengel Michael and Cathy Brennan Keil Bryant John Buckley John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Mr. Ted Cappas Mr. and Mrs. Justin Casciola Sheila J. Chapman and David D. Soo Stephanie and Jason Child Steven Collens Kevann M. Cooke Mr. Bryce Cooper Kent and Liz Dauten Leticia Davis Mr. and Mrs. Michael Doyen Juliet and Marc Fallah Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Marilyn and Larry Fields Mr. and Mrs. Peter Foreman Jim and Sandy Freeburg‡ Rebecca and Barry Friedland Joanne B. Friedland Tom and Beth Garrow‡ Margo and Pete Georgiadis Gordon and Wendy Gill Richard and Catherine Gottfred Mary Winton Green Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg‡ Victoria and Charles Harris‡ Lois and Marty Hauselman Laura Hazelwood Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Melinda Jakovich Daniel and Mary Ann Jordan Mr. and Mrs. David Joseph David Kathman‡ Jean Ann Klingenstein Pat and Mike Koldyke Jonathan and Sally Kovler Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krantz Karen Kuenster and Jim Osick

Mark and Carol Lorenz Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve‡ Mrs. Winifred A. Martin Michele C. Mayes Dr. Janis Mendelsohn‡ Barry and Beth Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Steve Monieson Mr. Peter G. Myers Jo and Wally Nard‡ Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Paszczyk Sharon and Jerry Rhoads‡ Francis C. Sadac David and Judith Sensibar Ralph Senst and Karen Zelden Joan and Thomas Skiba‡ Heather and Adam Smedstad‡ Betsy and Jeff Steele Nikki and Fredric Stein Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas Stacey Turner Scott Turow Mr. and Mrs. R. Todd Vieregg Shannon and John Waterfield Chuck Wehland Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman‡ Donna Wilkinson‡ Matthew Wilson and Anne Posner Ms. Andrea Worth Ronald and Geri Yonover ENSEMBLE ($500-999) Anonymous (14) Karen and Scott Alexander Joan Allen Brian and Jennifer Alves Kristopher J. Anderson Jean Arrington Ms. Shonta Arrington Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker‡ Robert and Sharon Barton Stephanie and Barry Batson Ms. Natalie M. Baumann Ted and Robbie Beaty Brandon Benson‡ Julian and Joan Berman Nikki Bhargava Mary Rose & Laurence Birch

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III David C. Blowers George and Joyce Brown‡ Janet Burch Anna and Andy Burish Karen A. Callaway Joseph and Cory Cancila John P. Casey James and Julie Coffman Michael and Edie Cohen Mrs. Marge Collens Chanel Coney Everett and Susan Conner‡ Ed and Melissa Cook Maureen Crowley‡ Melissa Dalrymple Mr. James Daly Rathin Datta Richard and Lisette Davison Inge de la Camp Tim and Liz Devine Mr. and Mrs. Habeeb Dihu‡ Roberta S. Dillon‡ Tegan Donnelley Paula Douglass Will Dunne John F. Dziedziak‡ Jennifer M. Ellin Susan Emmerson Deborah and S. Cody Engle Travis D. Epperson Lynette and Kent Fair‡ Stephanie Fields and Geoff Cooke Catherine S. Flanagan Foley Family Foundation Cyndi and Cory Fosco‡ June Freidlich David Gamperl Timothy A. Gant and Scott Perry Ralph and Elayne Gebert Jami Gekas Matthew A. Gelbin William J. Gibbons Erin Koeblitz and Noah Ginsburg Stan and Gerry Glass‡ Eileen M. Golan Alan Gold Florence Bonnick and Jay M. Goldberg Mrs. Jane Goodrich Kerry and Kim Grady Susan Graff

John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Liza and Eric Gravengaard Dedrea Gray Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker‡ Faith Dansereau and Larry Haefner Janice Halpern Ednalyn and Barbara Hansen Robert and Linda Hauser Mr. Randall Herbstman Leslie Herzog‡ Frank and Midge Heurich Fred Hill Melinda and Craig Hilsenbeck James and Margot Hinchliff Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Conery and Gail Hoffman Kilton Hopkins‡ Kathleen and Jack Horn Arnold and Judith Horwich‡ Richard and Janet Horwood Robin and Harry Hunter Ryan Huntson‡ Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink‡ William E. Ibe Tim Jaster Stephen Johnson James A. Jolley, Jr. and R. Kyle Lammlein Drs. Michael and Abby Jones Ernest and Harriett Karmin Dennis and Kathryn Karsh Ricardo Kawamura Sharon Keehn Sheryl and Tom Keith‡ Brian Feiges and Tamar Kelber Michelle Keller Bunny and George Kennedy Jeffrey Kerr Anne and Ken Kinney Maureen and Kim Klatt Jim and Sue Klein Janet Knauff‡ Rachel Kohler and Mark Hoplamazian Stephen Kriegel‡ George M. Langlois, Ph.D. Anne Lanser Roberta L. and Richard G. Larson Bob and Pat Lavey‡ Peter and Judith Lederer Marc-Paul Lee‡

Mr. and Mrs Edwin Rivera Thomas Kapacinskas and Judith Robert Liz Roberts Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone‡ Lynn A. Hellwig and Dr. Dan Roller Mr. Richard Rosenthal Peter Russell Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Henry J. Sampson‡ Julia Nowicki and Timothy A. Sanborn MD Richard H. Sanders Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Brett Saternus Bill Savage Curt Schade Stephanie Scharf and David Taber‡ Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Schewe Jeanne and Daryl Schimeck Carrie Schloss Jonathan Schmugge Alan Schriesheim Mr. Matt Schumacher Susan and Gary Schuman Carla Scott Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk‡ Michael Shannon Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Ms. Hope Sheffield Jeff Shellenberger Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Jodi Silberman‡ Julia Simpson Kathryn Simpson Ron and Maureen Sippel Ron Smith and Leslie Simonton-Smith Lawrence and Shirley Solomon Colin Stalnecker Mr. and Mr. Michael Stashwick Seena and Carey Stein Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Dorie Sternberg Patty Sternberg Kelly Stonebraker and Deborah Stonebraker Matthew Summy Alex Tenorio and Anne Marie Hendrickson Richard and Alice Teutsch Barbara and Randolph Thomas Carrie Thoms Patty Morrison and Gary Tiensenga Fred Tokowitz Dana Turban Fern Turner

Brady I. Twiggs‡ Marilee Unruh‡ Nikki Zollar and William Von Hoene Michael and Gere Warnecke‡ Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Tom and Blaine Wells John W. Wheeler Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Anne and Jay Whipple Leslie Whittet Michele and Ray Whittington Jan Williams Amanda Williamson and Matthew Johnson Eugene H. Winkler Cynthia Wirth‡ Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski‡ Iris S. Witkowsky Stanley Wojcicki‡ Charlotte Wojnowski‡ Carol N. Yamamoto Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Zessar Mark and Margie Zivin DESIGNERS ($250-499) Anonomous (28) Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin Thomas B. Aldrich III Keith E. Alessi Helen and Mark Alison Jim and Sheila Amend‡ Ken and Donna Amos‡ Phil and Denise Amsrud Mary and Paul F. Anderson Michael Andrews and Ryan Ruskin Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Marie Asbury John Asplin and Christine Orders Kaye B. Aurigemma‡ Damaris Bairstow Bill and Ann Baker Elizabeth Bakwin John and Sharon Baldwin Cindy Barbera-Brelle Leslie and Bill Barker Mr. Matt Bartel Warren and Beverly Bartel Mia A. and Scott Bass Laura M. Batzer‡ Judy and Chris Beardsley Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Lawrence Bell Julie and Howard Benario Caroline and Tom Benediktson Susan R. Benner

Dr. David Bentrem and Dr. Heather Haukness John and Taru Berg John and Elizabeth Berge‡ Harvey and Helene Berlin Raeann and Sidney Berman Mandy Berry‡ Jane E. Berry Ms. Leslie Bertagnolli Adrian and Arta Beverly Lois J. Bider Jerry Biederman Beryl and David Bills‡ Lois and Stanley Birer Maggie Bobbitt R. Darrell Bock Anthony Boggiano Laura Bolch Catherine Borowski Nina Boryszczuk James and Alma Botana Albert Boumenot‡ Donald F. Bouseman Philip Boyd‡ Michael and Kate Bradie‡ Myriam Bransfield, In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Abdon and Eileen Bray Susan M Brazas Michael Bremer and Lynn Sieben‡ Amberly and Craig Brewer David Briggs‡ Robert and Joell Brightfelt Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Jean Broom Karen Bryant Leslie Buchbinder Ed Bucher‡ Michelle and David Buck Rony and Tom Buckley Rita Buczynska Richard and Barbara Bull Suzette Bulley Javier and Laura Burgos Becky and Chris Burns Tripp Burton Jamila Bynum John Byrd Robert and Cheryl Byron David Cabrera John and Libby Cady Haydee Caldero Noah Cooper and Nick Campanario Andrew Campbell and Dana Campbell‡ Tracy Campbell Randy Cano Ray Capitanini

‡Step-by-Step We 53salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

Individual Contributors Annual Fund

Individual Contributors Annual Fund Literary Apprentice Adelina Treviño Bradshaw discusses Steppenwolf’s First Look Repertory with guests at the 2011/12 Season Kick Off

Norma Carey‡ Ms. Alexandra Carlson Barry Carlson Barbara and Mark Carlson Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Bill Castle Gabrielle Cauchon Steve Chamberlin and Cathy Colton Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler J. Morgan Chism-Diebold Gerry and Carol Chrisman Sam and Kathleen Ciulla‡ Drs. William and Elizabeth Clark Carol and Michael Clarke‡ Bente Clausen‡ Marvin R. Cohen Martina A. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman Carol Coletta Beth Collier Constance Coning Cheryl and Gary Conley Sigrid Connor Robert Crawford Phyllis Cretors Colin and Teri Cross Mr. Bruce Crown James Culp‡ David and Jean Curtis Jason Dantico Stephen F. Danziger Richard and Nancy Davidson Michelle and Ronald De Vlam‡ Jessica and Robert Dean Bernard and Cynthia Deir Brian Dennen

Dick Deranian and Terri Mertz Pierre Desy and Michel Desjardins Matthew J. Devereux Bob & Sharon DeWitt Dianna L. Di Iorio Harriet and Lou Dicerbo Ms. Amina Dickerson Dorothy L. Domuray Ms. Angela Donaldson Michele and George Dragisity Raymond and Marybeth Drake Ms. Leah Durst Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dutcher Joan and John Dysart Judy and Howard Edison Wiley and Merry Edmondson Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten Brent Eldridge Dale and Jo Ann Engquist Kelly Epstein Erika Erich Ms. Heather Erickson Juanita S. Evans and Family Malcolm D. Ewen Lori Eyre‡ Brian R. Falb Edith and Gerald Falk Tom and Terry Fallon Bill Farrand Mary Jo and Robert Fasan Toni and Joel Fenchel Judd Ferrin Mr. Mark Ferry Ms. Elaine Filus Michael Fine and Terri Keeley Sean Finn Terry Doyle Finnerty

Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fisch Paul and Christy Fisher‡ Eric and Tina Fishhaut 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 Mark and Susanne Frey Susan Fuchs, M.D. Bill and Pat Fuller‡ Alexis Funches‡ Aileen Furlong Edwin Garcia Dr. and Mrs. Mark Gendleman Hank and Sandy Gentry Philis and Alex George‡ Thomas and Patricia Germino‡ Sandra Gidley Betty R. Gilbert Van H. and Sandra Vitt Gilbert Mr. and Ms. Stuart Gilchrist Ms. Tara Gillespie Marina and Sander Gilman‡ Clark and Nancy Gilpin Lydia Glowaty Sarah E. Goalstone Jaye and John Golanty Paul Goldstein and Nasrin Mahani Sue-Gray Goller Jessica L. Gonzalez Samuel J. Goodman Darla Goudeau Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Laurence and Carrie Grant Susan Grant Paula Turner Grasso Dr. Kitty Green Natalie Green Dr. and Mrs. Robert Greendale Katherine and Adam Greetis The Greffin Family James and Lynn Grogan Marie Gunn‡ Mr. Rich Gunter Grace and John Gunthorp Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis Catherine and Warren Guthrie Roberta and Steven Haas William C. Haddad Sarah Hadley Sean-Edward Hall Donald and Susan Hallberg Bob and Melanie Halvorson‡ Elise Hamilton Bill Hamilton Chester and Phyllis Handelman Dr. Raymond and Arlene Handler Dan Hardt Vincent Harrell Rosalind Henderson Harris Eric Harrison Kirk T. Hartley Liz Hartong Suraya Hasan Ali Hassan and Amber Fritz‡ Lee Haupt, Yvonne Lange and Ted Steck Neil and AnnMarie Hawkins Jean Hawkinson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hayman

Susan and Andre Heglin Stephen and Jaqueline Helm‡ Pat and Ron Henning Timothy Herboth Joyce K. Herdliska Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hession‡ Linda and John Hillman The Hirschfields Gail and Tom Hodges Susan M Hohenhaus Sharon Holland‡ Jack and Bonnie Horbovetz Michael and Kara Hotz Brady Houseknecht Thomas and Karen Howell Brian W. Huebner Michael and Madeline Hughes Holly E. Humphreys Karen Hunken‡ Craig Hurwitz Richard Hutner and Lena Motev Jim and Joyce Ibers Janet and John W. Irving Jim and Peggy Isherwood Ken Jacobsen Ron and Lizette Jacobson Evan Jacover Ms. Latoya James Christina Jarmolowski John David Jawor‡ Douglas and Margaret Jayes Dilecta Jenkins Sue Jenkins Sheila and Jim Jesionowski Bob and MaryBeth Jirgal Shirley and Clarence Johnson Laura R. Johnson Sharon Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Jordan Beth and John Jostrand Bob and Sheila Joynt Melvin and Annie Kahn Janet and Carl Kalbhen Tom and Esta Kallen Joseph J. Kane Olwyn J. Kane Arnold Kanter Norma and Nolan Kaplan Jerry and Nancy Karson Leslie Kates Claudia A. Katz Richard and Kathleen Katz Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer‡ Polly Kawalek Dr. Susan A. Kecskes‡ Bryant Keil Chris Kendrick and Kasturi Haldar

Diane Kerr Helen Kessler Andrew Keyt Seema Khan‡ Mike and Leslie King Sylvia and John Kinney Terry Kinney Dr. M. Barry and Diane Kirschenbaum Ms. Martijn Kist Carol Chor and Stephen Klafter Matt and Karen Klickman Dawn Klingensmith and Jeff Pinkerton Maria and Karl Knecht Douglas and Catherine Knuth Don and Cheryl Kobetsky James Kochalka Den and Jinny Koide Annette Baldwin and Paul Kolansinski Ms. Sheila Komarek Electra D. Kontalonis Amy R. Korin Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Jeffrey Kriv Bob Kunio and Libby Roth Elaine Kurczewski Carly Kuzma Ms. Christina Labate Terri Lacy Chuck and Diane Laff

Arlene Lieb Fred Lieber Alan Lipsitz Lee Litas Burton and Nancy Litwin Margit “Maggie” Livingston‡ Renee Logan Ingrid LoGiudice Christopher and Marcia Long‡ Dr. and Mrs. Dale Loomis Katherine M. Lorenz Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal‡ Jim Lupo and Joy Wykowski James and Janet Lusk Denise and Eric Macey Jen Maceyko and Richard Stazinski Mary MacLaren Mr. Joe Madden Fred and Tracy Madison Robin Mahler Mr. and Ms. Michael P. Malone Brooke and Mike Mandrea Sandra Mangurian Maria Manhart Samantha & David Mann Ruthann Marcelle‡ Gloria and Joseph R. Marcus Joan Marks Jennifer Marling Steve and Melissa Marovich Kevin Mars Mr. and Ms. Peter Mars

Carol McKeone‡ Kathy and Alan McLaughlin‡ Hugh and Marybeth McLean Harvey and Sheila Medvin Anne and Richard Raup Claretta Meier Rita and Mike Melius John and Lisa Merlock Ms. Rachel Davis Mersey Eric and Jess Mersmann Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison Mia and Jonathan Miller‡ Karen Miller and Sheba Miller-Morris Kerry A. Miller Keith R. Miller Alison Millerick Leslie Milton Ralph Miner Marcus Mintz Mr. Mark Mitten Dino and Heathre Moler Mort and Joan Mollner Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague‡ Laura and Brian Montgomery Jack Montgomery‡ Janet and Robert Montgomery‡ William Mooney Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Moran Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Joyce Morimoto‡ Sheba Miller-Morris

“Steppenwolf embodies two things I have loved all my life: Chicago and theatre. Productions have maturity, class and personality; I can feel and become the story on stage.” Rosalind Henderson Harris, Steppenwolf supporter since 2005

Mr. Kurt Lagerloef‡ Karen Lalor Katherine Lampert Robert Larrimore‡ Nancy and Alan Lasser Jonathan Lebedoff and Karla Yeh 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 Fran and Chuck Licht

Patty Martin Susan and Bob Mase Dr. Norman E. Masters, jr. Erica and Frank Matagrano Ms. Kahindo Mateene and Mr. Kisa Mate David and Karen Mattenson Jerry and Joan Mattson Mike and Cindy McCabe Mr. Brian McCarthy Drs. Linda Skitka and William McCready Suzanne McDermott Paul and Lana McHenry Elisabeth and Michael McHugh

Corinne S. Morrissey Gerald and Maia Mullin Holly and Edward Murawski Tom Myers‡ Mike and Nance Nalepa‡ Randy Nease Roberta and Herb Nechin Denise E. Nedza‡ Wendy Norris Jeremy F. Nepomuceno Frank Neumann Liz Newell and Jack Kragie‡ Dana and Brian Newman Elizabeth and John Newman‡ Lynne Nieman

‡Step-by-Step We 55salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

Individual Contributors Annual Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jamin Nixon Barbara Rawley and Daniel Nordby Jeff and Pam Kinney Ms. Susan Noyes Mariano Nunez Ortiz‡ The Nuzzos Ann and Dan O’Brien Mary Pat O’Brien John and Megan O’Connor‡ Peg 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 Bruce Oltman Nancy and Myles O’Reilly‡ Pilar Ossorio Mayor John and Jacqueline Ostenburg Sandra and Mark Ostler Janet Ozarchuk Frances and William Paden Deborah Page Peggy Panosh

Tracey L. Power John R Poynter Seamus Prendergast Jean and Preston Price David and Valeria Pruett Mr. and Mrs. William B. Prugh David Pruitt and Marjorie Baltazar Jane Purdy‡ Dave and Darby Putman Jonathon Pyburn Richard W. Quinn and Karen Kruza Richard Ralph Ms. Barbara Rapp Gabriel and Dorit Raviv Clisson and Patricia Rexford William N. Reynolds Fred and Karen Rhynders Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Richter, Jr.‡ Alex Righi Bill and Deborah Roberts Carol and Riney Robertson Nicole Robinson Catherine and Bart Rocca Cil and Deever Rockwell Mary Lu and Kenneth Roffe Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rogoz

Christopher and Ann Marie Saternus John and Mary Satter Rich Scarle Edna Schade Laura Schalekamp Allison and Charles Scherer Rosa Schloss Mr. Edward H. Schmitt, Jr. Frank and Karen Schneider Charles Schramer John Schuchert and Alan Kozlowski Nancy and Mark Schumacher Tony and Celeste Scolaro‡ Nedinia Searle Carrie and Victoria Seliger Michelle Semisch Lara Shackelford David Shanahan Michael Shapiro and Deb Gohr Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Linda and Steve Sharp Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade Dr. Mitchell andSharon Sheinkop

“I’ve attended performances at theatres from coast to coast. Nothing matches the feeling of a Steppenwolf production. That’s theatre worth supporting. I get a great return on my ‘investment’.” Jack J. Adrian, Steppenwolf supporter since 1997 Lynne Pantalena Ms. Sally Papedis Bob and Nora Pardo Catherine and Robert Parks Jana O’Brien and Wayne Parman Kristen Parsons Elizabeth Pattara Peggy Paulsen Charles and Melanie Payne Elyse Pearlman and Brad Teckenbrock Margaret Pendry Mr. and Mrs. William Pesetski Anne Peterson Andy Phelps Mary Hakken-Phillips and Joseph Phillips Paulette G. Pierre Charles and Bettina Pietri Chuck and Judy Piper Florence Pittman Dan Polsby‡ Frank C. Pond Pam and Dean Pontikes Andy and Brynne Poole

Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Bernhard and Judith Rosenstein Hilary Rosenthal Ms. H. Cary Ross Joseph Ross Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Mrs. Donald S. Roth Ann M. Rothschild T. Marshall Rousseau Kimberly and Ari Rubenfeld Ms. and Mr. Julie Rubin Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Manfred Ruddat Monique Y. Ruiz Aaron M. Rumack Ray Rusnak Gregory and Sheila Russell Diana and Ed Ruthman Brad S. Rutledge Joanne and Paul Ruxin John Saliba Brad and Emily Salmon‡ Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sandoval Ursula Sanne

Michael Shelton Timothy Sherck‡ Karen Shields Brent Siegel‡ Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott‡ Eric and Sabrina Sigg Margaret and Alan Silberman Heather and Steve Silver Ellen Mrazek and Daniel Slattery Christine A. Slivon Jeffrey and Patrica C. Slovak Charles Smith Jay Smith Jackie Snuttjer‡ Henry So and Joe Senese Raymond Socki Steven and Judith Soria‡ Erin and Michael Soroosh Leslie and Matty Spagat Camillo Speromi Dr. and Mrs. Scott Springer Shantha Sreekanth Diana and Thomas Stamborski Thomas Starshak

Individual Contributors Annual Fund Peggy Steffy‡ Susan Stein The Steinbachs‡ Susan and Steven Steinmeyer Wallace Stenhouse Kay Stephens Jason Stipp and Tate Geborkoff Mr. Nick Stocking Kurt Strand Mr. Gary Strandlund Eric Strickland Mr. Jeffrey Stroebel Yvonne Sutor‡ Michael A. Swafford Linda K. Swift‡ Ms. Patti Szabo Peter and Obie Szidon Richard and Anne Taft Bonnie K. Tarry Ms. Elaine R. Taylor John R. and Catherine Taylor Juanita S. Temple Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra Cheryl Thaxton Christopher Thiersch Ms. Sue Thompson Tommy Thornton Mr. and Mrs. Michael Timmers Richard Tobiason Jeanne Towns John and Madalyn Traff Michael Trenkmann Barbara Trentham Carlos Trevino Karen Trzcinski Edward and Edith Turkington Susan D. Tuteur David and Mickey Unger Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Mr. Stephen Vaughn Kathryn Vehe‡ Dr. Michael Viglione Dr. Susan Vineyard‡ Paul D. Waas Jonathan Wagner‡ Robert and Rose Wagner William and Sharon Wallin William and Patricia Walsh Karen and Herb Wander Laura and Bob Watson‡ Reeve and Waud Elissa B. Weaver Michael Weiland and Shelley MacGregor Sherrie and Albert Weiss Matthew White Rebecca White Larry and Susan Wikman Barbara Wilder‡ Jon Will and Ada Gugenheim Deborah B. Williams, Ph.D.‡

Margaret and Bob Williams Gary and Modena Wilson Nick and Nancy Wilson Susan and Bob Wislow Ms. Ann Witting Gladys L. Wolff Ms. Sarah Wolff and Mr. Joel Handelman Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Stephanie Yancey Dr. Rodney and Susan Yergler‡ Julia and Tom Young‡ Clifford Yuknis Carolyn Ziebarth Barbe and Bill Zillman David Zoltan PLAYERS ($150-249) Anonymous (34) Linda Loving and Richard Aaronson Steven and Nancy Abraham Richard and Louise Abrahams Dana Adams Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Adler Mr. Ezequiel Agosto Philip and June Aimen Stephanie Aldort‡ Barbara and Oscar Alonso‡ Ron Amdur Mr. Greg Amoroso Douglas Anderson Linda Anderson Melissa Andrews Mr. Jim Appel Richard and Beverly Armstrong Ms. Audrey Avila Jennifer Baker John and Carol Balkcom Sanford and Renee Bank Margaret and Kenneth Barnes Sandra Bass Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer‡ Bill Beach George and Karen Beck Mitch Becker and Anne Mulichak Nanette Benbow Charleen A. Benge Jacqueline Bergen Anne C. Berkeley Laura Berkley Ruth Berns Barbara E. Bevan‡ James and Dorothy Bishop LaDonna and Ed Black John Blackburn and Bill Gilmer James Blackman‡

Anne Blazejak Dan Bleil Mr. Mark Bloom Frances and Robert Boardman Fred Boelter Nancy Borders Steven Borkan and Lauren Brown Larry and Margo Bostrom Mr. Kurt Bowden Leisa and Steve Braband Andrea Brands Lisa and Steven Bosco Judith and Harold Bregman Carson Brennan Sarah Brittin‡ Keith and Arlene Bronstein Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks‡ Larry and Susan Broutman Beth Brown John Brown Nicole Brown Robert and Ilene Brown Mrs. Shirley Brown-Berchou Edith Brownman Susan Buchanan and Steve Brown Wade and Kate Buckles David A. Buls John Burcher C. Burke The Burman Family Ben Burnett Crystal and Thomas F. Bush Richard Butler Toni and Mike Cainkar David and Janna Caldarelli Janet Caldwell Ms. Amy Callahan Marilyn Cantisano and Donald Southworth Nicholas Carriere Michael Case‡ Stephen and Jane Chernof Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Margaret and John Clarkin Kimberly Clawson‡ Betty Cleeland Neil Clipstone Thomas and Bette Cogan Clarice Cogen Holly and Bert Cohn Amy and Neil Coleman Thomas & Kathleen Coleman Robert and Tammy Colladay Mr. Michael Colucci Peter and Judith Connolly‡ Kevin Connon Diane R. Cooper

Suzanne M. Coutheoux Harvey and Arlene Coustan Bob Creevy and Sarah Hughes Max Freedman and Family Paul and Deanna Danao‡ Mrs. Edith F. De Mar Ms. Geralyn L. Delaney Michelle and Christopher DeMent Karen Deschere Katie Devine Mrs. Jane E. Dewey Mr. and Mrs. Adam DeWitt Elena Dewolfe Michael and Melinda Dickler Lisa Dickson John and Martha Diener Peter and Elizabeth Dietz Lisa Disch William Dolan Pawel Doloto Patricia and Richard Doonan Susan V. Downing Tom Drebenstedt Judy and Jerry Drommerhausen Renee Friedman and Robert Druzinsky John and Pat Dyble Wendy Eager Jeanene Ebert Natasha and Zach Egan Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Ms. Julie Ellafrits David Ellis and Robert Coad John and Mary Empfield Mark and Virginia Erlanson Maurice and Ruth Ettleson Ed Everett Paul Fahy Demitri and Pamela Fardelos Sue Fearing Edward Feldman Jim & Michael Ferstle and Anne Kelly Zach Finley Peter Fischer Sara Stern and Ted Fishman Marilyn E. Fites Peter and Catherine McCafferty‡ Roberto Flores‡ David Forrester Pam and Tom Frech Donna Fredricksen Joy Frey Mr. and Mrs. Gary Fridley Maya Friedler Bruce and Barbara Friedman Mr. Danny Friedman

Lance Friedman and Sari Gluckin Herbert C. Friedmann Richard and Lois Fuhrer Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Galinsky Lise Lotte Gammeltoft Raymond and Patricia Gass Therese Geissler Julia and Mark Gerstein Julianne Getty Norman and Katherine Gharrity Hugh and Doris Gilbert The Giles Family Ari and Melissa Glass Francis Gleason Anneliese Glick Sue Golan Sue Goldenberg Karen Goldstein‡ Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Golub Pratima Gondipalli Bruce Gorchow and Marie Fioramonti Jason T. Gorczyca Robert Gordon Bobby Grant William and Diane Grant Judy Grasmick Robert M. Green Tara Nussbaum and Alan Greene Michael and Lisa Greenfield Ms. Nicole Griffith Barbara Johanson Grigola Rochelle Grill Merle and Barry Gross Mrs. Katharine C. Gross John Gruber Ms. Jasmine Guy Beth and Matthew Hafter Kevin Haight JIm and Dee Haklin Joan Hall‡ Ms. Katy E. Hall Terry and Holly Halliday Richard Halvorsen‡ Tom and Virginia Hartley‡ Richard and Dorothy Harza Amy Hauke Ruth Hawkins Cara and Derrick Hawthorne Steve Hayesand Patricia Olcenica Dave Hayes and Mary Stelmach-Hayes Ms. Katie Henderson Carrie and Marc Henny Bluma and Donald Herman Olimpia Hernandez

‡Step-by-Step We 57salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

Individual Contributors Annual Fund Russell Herron and Lauren Raphael Lina and Dave Hilko‡ Allen Hill Mr. John Hill Mr. Stanley Hill Ms. Tyhani Hill and Ms. Tyharrie Hill Nancy and Allen Hirschfield Bill and Pat Hitt Thomas Hogan Donald and Karen Holmberg David and Suzanne Holmes‡ Mary and Dermot Horgan Susan K. Horn Ina and John Houck Arthur Howe Christopher and Susan Hultquist Mr. Dave Dimmlich and Ms. Beth Hummelberg Patricia Hurley Ms. Jill Hutchison Gordon K. Ingwersen Beartriz Iorgulescu Ms. Courtney Irvin Joan Istrate Bernadette Ivers David Iverson Jerry Jackson Linda James William James John Janda Patricia A. Jiganti Patricia Jiganti Craig and Heidi Johnson Dixie Johnson Sarah A. Jolie‡ Mike and Kitty Kalasunas Karen Kane Mrs. Vivian Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James Kargman Jerry Karlin Geraldine and Leonidas Karras Amy Kasper Rich and Heidi Katz Martin and Barbara Keeley Francis Kelch Matthew Keller, Jr. Harry Kenny Rita Kerns Katherine and Frank Kinney Maureen Kirby Livia and Michael Kiser Michael Klearman and Saralyn Sacks Carol and James Klenk John Kobza Chuck and Wanda Korcz Jay and Patti Kouba The Kramer Family Randolph Lam and Britni Tozzi

Ed and Bettine Landon Thomas Lariviere‡ Edward and Laverne Larsen Burt Lasko Dr. and Mrs. Jules H. Last Mr. Mark Lavin and Mr. Eddie Herbeck William Laytin Bart Lazar Dayna Lee‡ Harold Leedy Peggy and Greg Legan‡ Linda Legner Ms. Laurie Leli Neil Lenhoff Marc and Cynthia Levin Susan Levitt Michael N. Levy Gregory Lewis and Mary Strek‡ Robert and Martha Lichter Paul Liebenson Robert and Judith Lievense Dr. Jeffrey M. Lisowski Patrick Littlejohn and Lynn Liston Ms. Christine M. Long Deborah Lovely Kelly Luchtman Ms. Tamika Lynch Thomas and Elizabeth Lyons Sandy and Judy Macnab Alice R. Macy Claude Maechling and Carrie McNally‡ Martin and Allison Malecki Mr. John Victor Malkovich George and Stephanie Mantis Randi Ragins and Bob Markowski Nancy and Kenneth Marks Mr. Glenn Martin Douglas Masters and Jane Pence Mark Materna Henry and Peggy Matson Dr. and Mrs. Conrad May Margaret F. May Richard McCaoe Colin McCarthy Stacey and Patrick McCusker Tim and Karen McDonald Terrance and Jane McElroy Susan and Dennis McGoldrick Anastasia McGuire The McGuire Sisters Joseph and Agnes McHugh Erin E. McInerney Susan McKeever Tom and Adrienne McMullen Charles Michael Melazzo Robert Merrilees David and Linda Metschke‡ Ms. Linda S. Metz

Chuck and Sylvia Meyers‡ Mr. Chris Micklos Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Ron and Pat Miller Stephen and Kimberley Miller Sandy and Scott Miller‡ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minehart Heath Missner Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt‡ Brian Weatherford and Steven Montgomery Mr. Louis C. Moore Jr. Robert J. Moretti Bob and Ileen Morris Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison Karen Mouscher Dr. Martin Mozes and Mrs. Chava Mozes John and Jo Muchmore James and Jean Murphy Mary Ellen Murphy Elke Aippersbach and Piers Nash Carrie Nelson Charlotte Newfeld Dani Nichols Mark and Maggie Nichter‡ Scott Nickell and Brenda Crank Bonnie Niemann David Ellis and Hope Nightingale Pamela Nosse Mr. and Mrs. Julian Oettinger Junior Walker O’Hearn Mr. Erik Olson and Ms. Tamara Wolski Daniel and Laura O’Neill Paul Oostenbrug and Dr. Jeremiah Kelly Peter and Alanne Ori Alberta O’Shaughnessy Noelle Osterbur Patrick and Eileen O’Sullivan Christine Ott-Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Pajakowski Jane Panther Megan Parker Mark and Mary Partridge Sabrina Patch-Teague Audrey and John Paton Mr. Mike Pauletti Dr. Steven and Mimi Binette James and Caroline Pawlak Susan A. Payne Denny and Kay Pearson Caroline Pearson Raymond and Alice Perry David and Lindsey Peters Tim Peterson Mark Pfeifer Linda S. Piccolo

Individual Contributors Annual Fund David M. Pierce Christine Pilat Barry Pitler Chrystin and Lonnie Pleasants Hannah and Grace Sussman Podolsky Family Foundation Stephen Porvin Mrs. Chad Potter Jody Powell Carrie and Michael Powers Dr. Jean E. Prebis Karen Price‡ Ronald Primeau Judy Prince Lynn and Clayton Pruitt Mr. John Puma Gail Purkey and Dave Konkol Laura Quayle Bill and Rita Quinn Dr. John Quinn and DDS Judy Quinn Bernard and Joan Rabinowitz Walter Radloff Adele Rapport Mr. and Mrs. Josh Rauh Nancy and William Raymond Irene and Alan Redman Jane Rees‡ Diane Reilly Mr. Warren Reiss Lisa Remby Deborah Rethemeyer and Patricia Locke Janet L. Reuter John Rice Ed and Suzette Rickert Sandi Riggs Dr. Edward O. Riley Joanna Riopelle The Ripley Family Mr. Michael Risinger Stacey Robbins Stephen and Caryn Robin Marjorie Robinson Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman Mr. Bruce Rodman Susan W. Rogaliner Deborah Rogers Peter Rogers Sherman and Sarene Rosen Mrs. Linda Rosenblum and Mr. Steven Swiryn Michael and Erin Lavelle Robert and Sue Ross Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rubin Peter and Edye Rubnitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruff Brian Ruggiero Van and Sue Salmans Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter

2011/12 Season Kick Off guests are introduced to Wardrobe Supervisor Jessica Stratton and the wardrobe room on a tour of the theatre Donna Salvatore Barbara Sanford Robert and Mary Ann Savard‡ Jane Schaafsma Ms. Gail Schaffner Susan Schaffrath & Jim Lindholm Susan Tobias and Alan Shapiro Marie-Claude Schauer Bernice Elbin and Seymour Schiff The Schirato Family Edward, Emily and David Schlag Rose Schmidt‡ Chris Schroeder Robert I. Schwartz Thomas and Marry Ellen Scott Elizabeth G. Selmier Leslie Shad Justin A. Shaltz Michael and Marci Shames-Yeakel Ms. Shelly N. Shannon Jeffrey S. Sharp and Elizabeth D. Sharp Elizabeth and William Sharpe‡ Kathryn Shenk Cheryl and Philip Sheridan‡ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheridan Mr. Thomas Sherman Dr. Ted Shlechter Stephen Shoemaker David S. Shook Mr. and Mrs. William Shorey‡ Bradley and Ellen Shorser Carol and Norman Shubert Ms. Joan Siavelis Judy Silverman‡

Ilene Simmons Elbert Singleton Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinise Jonathan and Elizabeth Sion Alex Skalecki Suzanna and Kraig Smiegowski Drs. Robert L. and Carol Payne Smith Deborah Smyth John Sowinski Gary Spangler and Julie B. Aimen-Spangler Mr. James C. Sparks Curtis Spears Sharon Specht Malcolm Spector Nicholas and Elizabeth Speziale Stephen Spigel and Diana Williams Brandon and Holly Spurlock Julie Kellner Bryon C. Stanislaw Margaret Stapleton Ms. Sarah Stec Donald F. Steiner Mr. Troy Stewart Katherine Gould Straight Terri Strauss Tom Strehle Robert and Mary Strezewski Ms. Jennifer Stuart Mr. Larry Stuckey Mr. Tom Sullivan Robin Kline and William Summers Delyonia Sutton Mr. Mike Swafford

Sara Swift Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Gail and Patrick Tagney Mark Taylor Lois Teesdale Arthur and Judith Tepfer Alex Theo Jim and Barbara Jacare Thomas Mr. Karleton Thomas Floyd Thompson Kenneth Thompson John Tilford Laura Truax Virginia Vale Peter and Lilian Vardy Dominick Vetrano Mr. Jon Volkert Susan Vonderheid Eugene and Sandra Wagner Jeffrey Ware Deborah and Neil Warner‡ Gwenyth B. Warton James and Kim Watson James and Christine Webb Charles and Lynn Werner Kathleen and John Westberg Adam and Jamie Weyeneth Dot and Dan Whittenberger Meghan Whitworth Greta Wiley Flory Fredlyn Wilson Ward Wilson Coleman Wolf and Ellen Chapelle

Richard Woodbury Joyce Woods Patrick Woods Richard and Mary Woods Nicala Carter-Woolfolk Sandra and Mark Wyss Dick Yankow Ray and Bobbie Yozwiak Beverly and Arnold Yusim David A. Zarembka and Bradley D. Burke Ed and Lisa Zeitler Marc and Colette Zeman David and Teresa Zembower Dan Zenisek Daniel Ziembo and Nancy Cook Tighe Zimmers Bob and Janice Tonoko Zurawski

‡Step-by-Step We 59salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

Individual Contributors Auxiliary Council

Individual Contributors Honor and Memorial Gifts

Comprised of over 100 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.

By making an honorary or memorial gift to Steppenwolf Theatre Company over the past year, the following individuals celebrated a special occasion or paid tribute to a loved one. Make an honorary gift by contacting Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615 or eevenskaas@steppenwolf.org.

Executive Committee 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 Founding Officer

Nora Daley Founding Officer

Kristopher J. Anderson Bryce Cooper Joel Cornfeld Danny Cox Kim Davis Stephen George Conery Hoffmann Dina Searle Colin Stalnecker Alex Tenorio Frank Trocchio Steven N. Wayland David Zoltan

Governors Kristopher Anderson Natalie M. Baumann Haydee Caldero Alexandra Carlson Justin Casciola Philip Chang Steve Collens Chanel Coney Bryce Cooper Joel Cornfeld Danny Cox Melissa Dalrymple Kim Davis Dianna L. Di Iorio Heather Erickson Aileen Furlong Jami Gekas Stephen George Lydia Glowaty Stacie Hartman Conery Hoffman Kenneth Hoffman Adam Keats Renee Keats Andrew Keyt Amy Korin Seth Krantz Stephanie Linn Lee Litas Maria Manhart Kimberly Masius Marcus Mintz Carrie Neill

Jeremy Nepomuceno Brett Plyler Nathan Popkins Francis Sadac Laura Schalekamp Nancy Schumacher Dina Searle Lara Shackelford Colin Stalnecker Katie Summy Mike Swafford Alex Tenorio Frank Trocchio Steven Wayland David Zoltan Associates Melissa Andrews Courtney Bass Jonathan Blanc Nina Boryszczuk Kate Brown Nicole Brown Sharyn Castle Scott Clodfelter Angela Donaldson Nina Esshaki Sean Finn Benjamin Forgan Amy George Tara Gillespie Liza Gravengaard Jasmine Guy Reginald Guy

Mary Hakken-Phillips Olayinka Hassan Stanley Hill Gail Hoffman Kathleen Hogan Lisa Iverson Latoya James Diane Kerr Travis Leiser Alex Levine James Miles-Polka Noelle Osterbur Joseph Phillips Ashley Pletz Rissa Reddan Sarah Ruby Teri Rys-Maki Emily Semmelman Joe Senese Henry So Lisa Stevak Jennifer Strople Jennifer Stuart Marissa Thompson Shana Vitek Matthew White Johner “J.T.” Wilson

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

In Honor of Paul Goodrich Lynne Pantalena

In Honor of Greg Desmond John Burcher In Honor of Pat Erickson Susan A. Payne In Honor of Kelly Ford Scott Whiteley Carter

In Honor of Steve and Jody LaVoie Eva Lichtenberg

In Honor of Merle Reskin Geoffrey and Susan Grossman In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Myriam L. Bransfield

In Honor of David and Suzan Kalt and Eric and Liz Lefkofsky Laura and Scott Eisen

In Memory of James Deuter Richard W. Quinn and Karen Kruza

In Honor of Jan Melk Richard and Katie Gottfred

In Memory of Jerry Horton Katie and Nehl Horton

In Memory of Diana Kates Leslie Kates In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Dr. David Wasserman In Memory of Michael Maggio Sandra Gidley In Memory of Esther Zadeik Mr. Peter A. Zadeik

Individual Contributors In-Kind Contributors Steppenwolf salutes the following individuals and organizations who donated significant goods and/or services. 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

Crain Communications Inc. 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 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 Shure Incorporated Gary Sinise Sono Wood-Fired Jon Stirratt

Structured Development The Talbott Hotel Tamari Wines Tasty Catering Time Out Chicago Tipsycake Topiarius David Turner Photography United Airlines Vinci Whole Foods

Please note that gifts listed above reflect contributions made as of 9/16/2011. 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

Accessibility at Steppenwolf Committed to providing services and programming that enhance the experience of guests with disabilities, Steppenwolf is proud to feature:

FEATURING:

• Audio-described performances, artistic conversations and touch tours of the stage for guests who are blind or visually-impaired. • Guides dedicated to assisting patrons during audio-described performances. • Complimentary playbills in Braille, large print and audio formats.

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• Sign language-interpreted and open-captioned performances for guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

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• Volunteers who use sign language to greet the audience at sign-interpreted performances. • Assistive listening devices in our Downstairs and Upstairs Theatres. • Wheelchair accessible seats and restrooms in all of our theatres. BY EUGENE O’NEILL DIRECTED BY ROBERT FALLS

Would you like to utilize or learn more about these services? Audience Services 312-335-1650 TTY 312-335-3830 E-mail access@steppenwolf.org

Stage Manager Malcolm Ewen assists Alberta O’Shaughnessy and George Hedges, subscribers who are visually-impaired, during the touch tour for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Steppenwolf Customer Service Tips Driving 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 from the theatre—we’ll tell you if there’s still space available in our 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 restaurant information or the score of the ballgame? Please visit our book shop and information desk at the south end of the main floor lobby.

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.

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