MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT

MS. BLAKK

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WELCOME TO MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT “There is magic happening in that room.”

This was the email I received from Leelai Demoz, our new associate artistic director, after the first day of rehearsal for Ms. Blakk For President, the new play written by ensemble members Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney. I was not surprised to hear it. Tina and Tarell have always been artists whose work strives to make our hearts and minds bigger. But I was certainly grateful.

Grateful to both of them for being brave enough to embark on a new adventure together here at Steppenwolf and grateful that the impulses behind the work—to celebrate queerness and the people who have championed the lives of queer people for decades—had found its way even into this project’s first breath.

Originally scheduled to do a remount of their very successful production of Tarell’s Wig Out, both Tina and Tarell came to me last year and asked if they could do something different, engage a new story with a new structure and a new goal. A Chicago story, a queer story, an AIDS story—one whose time had come and whose time was now. They had no script, no outline, no cast size. All they knew was that they had to tell it and they had to tell it together and they had to tell it here.

There are a lot of complicated things about Steppenwolf Theatre Company. We are a family of over fifty artists, spanning three (maybe even four!) generations and we have a staff of over 100 people, all working tirelessly to produce and present work that speaks to an ever changing and evolving community here in Chicago and beyond.

It can be paralyzing, trying to figure out how best to use the resources we have—how best to speak to the most important ideas and issues of the day while also offering work whose hallmark is acting excellence. Which way to go? What chance to take?

But we do—at the end of the day—have a True North. Steppenwolf is the place where what we need to do, as artists, gets done. And where what we need to say, as citizens, gets said. So of course, we said yes.

And then we all met Joan Jett Blakk—who at the 1992 Democratic convention stood among the delegates, wearing a dress made out of the American flag and declared her campaign for President of these United States. When most people in America wanted to look the other way, after ignoring the AIDS crisis and the rights of the queer community, Ms. Blakk insisted that attention must be paid. And the doors to our theatre blew open. Wide open. And we were changed by the magic.

And so tonight, we welcome you into this journey of celebration, exaltation and memoriam. When individuals’ rights to their authentic identity are being questioned in the courts and in our politics, we invite you to look back to our past as we see our way to the future. We invite you to be re-energized by the bold and brave individuals who fiercely and unequivocally declared their rights to be who they are, to love who they love, to insist, above all else, on being seen.

You are in the hands of great artists, in a theater that is always risking, for a city that was the birthplace of this very story. Thank you for joining us.

Welcome.

Anna D. Shapiro, Artistic Director

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By Juli Del Prete

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16 A N INTERVIEW WITH ENSEMBLE MEMBERS TINA LANDAU AND TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY Edited by Greta Honold

EDITOR Juli Del Prete

CONTRIBUTORS Juli Del Prete Natasha Freeman Hallie Gordon Greta Honold Brianna Parry A.J. Roy Anna D. Shapiro

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Anna D. Shapiro† Artistic Director

David Schmitz Executive Director

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT

By Tina

Landau† and Tarell Alvin McCraney*† Conceived and directed by Tina Landau† Featuring Tarell Alvin McCraney*† FEATURING

Patrick Andrews*, Molly Brennan*, Daniel Kyri*, Tarell Alvin McCraney*†, Jon Hudson Odom* and Sawyer Smith*

PRODUCTION David Zinn+ Scenic Design Toni-Leslie James+ Costume Design Heather Gilbert+ Lighting Design Lindsay Jones+ Sound Design and Additional Music Rasean Davonte Johnson+ Projection Design Gigi Buffington Company Voice and Text Coach Penny Lane Studios Wig Design Polly Hubbard Dramaturg Hallie Gordon Artistic Producer Brianna Parry Production Manager JC Clementz, CSA Casting Director Christine D. Freeburg* Production Stage Manager Kathleen Barrett* Assistant Stage Manager

THANK YOU to Terence Alan Smith, the Joan Jett Blakk, and “in Honor of those who walked before…”

The world premiere of MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT was produced and presented at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL; Anna D. Shapiro, Artistic Director and David Schmitz, Executive Director.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater. † member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. + member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of the IATSE. ‡ member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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CAST AND CONTRIBUTORS CAST (in alphabetical order)

ADDITIONAL STAFF

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Mark H. Assistant Director May Treuhaft-Ali Associate Dramaturg Joe E. Jeffreys Research Consultant Tim McMath Assistant Scenic Designer Alexander Ridgers Assistant Lighting Designer Michael Commendatore Projections Programmer Mario Wolfe Script Supervisor Sasha Smith Intimacy Consultant Kyle Cunningham Assistant Projection Design Emily Fergus Run Crew Aaron Stephenson Sound Engineer Armand Fields Makeup Consultant Brittany Powers and Hanna Wisner Dressers Brittany Powers Makeup Consultant Eli Hunstad, Hailey Rakowiecki and Megan Turner Stitchers Dana Nestrick Craft Artisan Elise Petrucci First Hand Isaiah Williams Design Assistant Amy Couey and Lydia Hanchett Additional Properties Sarah Wallace Stage Management Apprentice Jared Bellot, Greg Geffrard, Lavina Jadhwani, Lauren Katz, Derek Matson, Neel McNeill and Leean Kim Torske Post Show Discussion Moderators

There will be a post-show discussion following the performance.

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† 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.

Movement by Tina Landau in collaboration with the Cast.

Patrick Andrews* Mark and others Molly Brennan* Lenny and others Daniel Kyri* JJ and others Tarell Alvin McCraney*† Joan Jett Blakk/Terence Alan Smith Jon Hudson Odom* Glennda and others Sawyer Smith* Q UNDERSTUDIES (in alphabetical order)

Jos N. Banks Ms. Joan Jett Blakk Adam Fane Q/JJ Armand Fields Glennda Paul Michael Thompson Mark Justine C. Turner Lenny SETTING An election year.

This play will be presented with no intermission.

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Patrick Andrews

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Molly Brennan, Sawyer Smith, Patrick Andrews and Tarell Alvin McCraney

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MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT BIOS Patrick Andrews (Mark and others) loves being queer.

Select stage credits include: Angels in America (Broadway); American Buffalo (McCarter Theatre Center/Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Book Thief (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Iceman Cometh (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Goodman Theatre); RED (Arena Stage Theatre/ Goodman Theatre); God’s Fool (developing with Martha Clarke); The Normal Heart (TimeLine Theatre); Parade, Do The Hustle (Writers Theatre); Metamorphoses (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Homosexuals, The Pride, Stupid Kids (About Face Theatre); Speech and Debate, The People’s Temple (American Theatre Company); Cabaret (Drury Lane Theatre); and Fosse (National Tour). Select Film credits include: Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Netflix). Former member of electropop band BAATHHAUS, with an upcoming residency at Judson Church in NYC and associated with About Face Theatre and multi-city artist collective GOLDMINE. Molly Brennan (Lenny and others) is glad to be back at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Recent Chicago credits include Pinocchio (House Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Animal Crackers (Goodman Theatre); 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal, 500 Clown Macbeth, 500 Clown Frankenstein, Theatrical Essays (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Lookingglass Alice, Thadeus and Slocum, Peter Pan, A Play (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Picnic (American Theatre Company); PopWaits (The Neofuturists); Guide to the Opera (Second City at Lyric Opera) and Pinocchio (House Theatre of Chicago). Film credits include: Signature 8 Bios

Move, Low Key and Restoration. TV Credits include: The Right Swipe. This summer she will return to co-host the Fly Honey Show Ten Year Anniversary. Molly is represented

by Paonessa Talent.

Daniel Kyri (JJ and others) is ecstatic to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where he was last seen in Monster. Other Chicago credits include: Hamlet (The Gift Theatre); the world premiere of Charles Smith’s Objects in the Mirror (Goodman Theatre); Tug of War pt. I & II (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and Moby Dick (Lookingglass Theatre Company). TV credits: Chicago Med, the T, and Chicago Fire. Film credits: Perfect Day, Unexpected, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party and the upcoming Killing Eleanor.

Tarell Alvin McCraney (Joan Jett Blakk/Co-Author) is an acclaimed playwright & screenwriter and since 2010, ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also wrote the film High Flying Bird which recently premiered on Netflix directed by Steven Soderbergh. McCraney’s plays include The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy, Head of Passes, Wig Out! and Choir Boy which is nominated for 2019 Tony Award. McCraney is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, the Whiting Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, the Windham Campbell Award, and a Doris Duke Artist Award. He is currently Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama; and a member of Teo Castellanos/

D-Projects. McCraney is currently working on an original scripted TV series, David Makes Man, for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, produced by Michael B. Jordan and Page Fright Productions.

Jon Hudson Odom (Glennda and others) Chicago credits include: On Clover Road (American Blues Theatre); Witch (Writers Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre).

Recent regional credits include and An Octoroon, Botticelli in the Fire (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Angels in America parts 1 & 2, Father Comes Home From the Wars parts 1, 2, & 3 (Round House Theatre and Olney Theater Center); and The Magic Play (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV/Film Credits include: Chicago PD and A Savage Nature. Jon is a three-time nominee and a recipient of the Helen Hayes Awards. He is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, an Artistic Associate at Olney Theatre Center, and represented by Paonessa Talent.

Sawyer Smith (Q) Is thrilled to make their Steppenwolf debut! Chicago credits include: The Producers, Cats, Rent, A Chorus Line (Paramount Theatre); Pippin, The Bardy Bunch, The Producers, The Addams Family (Mercury Theater); Rock Of Ages, Hairspray (Drury Lane Theatre); First Date (Royal George Theatre); The Emperor’s New Clothes, Madagascar (Marriott Theatre).

Choreography Credits: The Fly Honey Show (The Inconvenience); Heathers: The Muscial (Kokandy Productions); Altar Boyz, The Full Monty (Theo Ubique); Titanic, Spelling Bee (Griffin Theatre). Sawyer is a Graduate of The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Thanks to my family and friends for their support!

Tina Landau (Co-Author, Director) an acclaimed writer and director, has been an ensemble member at Steppenwolf since 1997. Her work at the theater includes collaborations with Tarell Alvin McCraney on Head of Passes, The Brother/Sister Plays and Theatrical Essays, as well as productions of The Doppelgänger (an international farce), The Wheel, The Tempest, Time of Your Life, The Cherry Orchard, Diary of Anne Frank, Berlin Circle, her own play Space and more.

On Broadway, Tina conceived and directed SpongeBob Squarepants (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Direction and Best Musical, 12 Tony nominations), as well as productions of Superior Donuts (also at Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Bells Are Ringing. Other work in NYC includes McCraney’s WIG OUT! (Vineyard Theatre) and In the Red and Brown Water (Public Theatre); Old Hats and Big Love (Signature Theatre); A Civil War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop) and her original musicals Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons) and Dream True (Vineyard Theatre) both of which include book and lyrics by Tina. She teaches regularly and is the co-author, with Anne Bogart, of The Viewpoints Book.

David Zinn (Scenic Design) is honored to be back at Steppenwolf Theatre Company to help tell this story. Previously, here, he has designed sets for The Minutes and Visiting Edna, and costumes for Airline Highway.

He collaborated with Tina Landau on The Spongebob Squarepants Musical (Chicago and Broadway) and with Tarell on his play Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club). Other recent Broadway credits include the revivals of Torch Song and The Boys in the Band, as well as The Humans, Fun Home, and A Doll’s House, Part 2. He has received Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie awards for his work.

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Toni-Leslie James (Costume Design) Ms. Blakk for President is Ms. James’ second production for Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Broadway Credits Include: Come From Away, Jitney, Amazing Grace, Lucky Guy, The Scottsboro Boys, Finian’s Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, King Hedley II, One Mo’ Time, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest, Twilight Los Angeles 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Jelly’s Last Jam. Awards: Two Tony nominations, five Drama Desk nominations, six Lucille Lortel nominations, two Hewes Design Awards, OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement in Costume Design.

Costumes underwritten by Verett Mims, L. Heather Mitchell and Michele Semin.

Lindsay Jones (Sound Design and Additional Music) has worked on Broadway: The Nap, Bronx Bombers, A Time To Kill.

Off-Broadway: Slave Play (New York Theatre Workshop), Privacy (Public Theater); Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons); and many others. International: Royal Shakespeare Company (England), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada). Regional: South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and many others. Film scoring: The Brass Teapot for Magnolia Pictures, A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award Winner) for HBO Films. Awards: seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; LA and SD Drama Critics Circle Awards; many others. lindsayjones.‌com

Heather Gilbert (Lighting Design) is a Chicago based lighting designer whose Rasean Davonte Johnson (Projection work has been seen on many stages Design) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Company where he previously worked Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Steep on La Ruta, You Got Older and BLKS, as Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Drury well as Steppenwolf for Young Adults’ The Lane Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Burn. A Chicago-based video artist and Writers Theatre, A Red Orchid Theatre, theatrical designer, he has worked locally and countless storefronts all over the city. with institutions such as Writers Theatre, Regional theatres include Studio Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Court Theatre, Timeline Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre, Teatro Vista, The Hypocrites, Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Collaboraction, and Manual Cinema.

Theater, Magic Theatre, Pasadena Other credits include projects with The Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Kansas Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee ArtsEmerson, Dallas Theatre Center, Long Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre, Wharf Theatre, The Sheen Center, McCarter Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alley Theatre Center, Olney Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Theatre Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, Olney Theatre Company. International Alliance Theatre, and the Ningbo Song designs include the Almeida Theatre in and Dance Company. MFA: Yale School of London and Singapore Repertory. Gilbert Drama. raseandavontejohnson.com. was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Gigi Buffington (Company Voice and Text Development Grant and the 3Arts Award.

Coach) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre She serves as the head of lighting design at Company as Vocal Coach on The Children, Columbia College Chicago and received her A Doll’s House, Part 2, Familiar, Downstate, M.F.A. at the Theatre School at DePaul.

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Guards at the Taj, The Minutes, Hir, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

Other credits include Noura (Playwrights Horizons); King Kong Live On Broadway, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe, Straight White Men (Second Stage); Pass Over (LCT3); Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (Bedlam); Coriolanus (Red Bull Theater); The Tempest (La MaMa); The Merchant Of Venice (Venice, Italy); Elizabeth R: texts & beheadings (BAM and The Folger Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart), Love’s Labour’s Lost, (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Maids (director); Pericles, Othello, An Iliad, The Seagull, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (American Players Theatre). Associate Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. AEA, SAG/AFTRA and VASTA.

Hat, American Buffalo (also at McCarter Theatre), The Tempest, The Seafarer, The Diary of Anne Frank, after the quake and Cherry Orchard. Other Chicago credits include productions at Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and Apple Tree Theatre. Ms. Freeburg is an adjunct faculty member at The Theatre School at DePaul University and spent nine summers stage managing at Weston Playhouse. She is happily married to Thom Cox and the proud mother of Joan Marie.

Christine D. Freeburg (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include La Ruta, Downstate, The Roommate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), The Minutes, Linda Vista, Visiting Edna, Constellations, The Flick, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, The Herd, Airline Highway, Tribes, The Motherf**ker with the

Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London).

She was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Public Theater, Labyrinth Theater). Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include The Minutes, Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, A Parallelogram, Up,

Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where previous credits include work on The Crucible, Pass Over, The Fundamentals, Constellations, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, The Herd, and Airline Highway. Other regional work includes The Steadfast Tin Soldier, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (Lookingglass Penny Lane Studios (Wig Design) consists Theatre Company); Cambodian Rock of Samantha Umstead, Emily Young, Band, A Doll’s House Part 2, Flora & Ulysses, Coral Gable, and Christine Conley. They Office Hour (South Coast Repertory); are honored to have been working with Million Dollar Quartet (Florida Repertory Steppenwolf Theatre Company since Good Theatre); The Magician’s Daughter (Geva People in 2012. Other notable Steppenwolf credits include John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Theatre Center); King Charles III (Pasadena Playhouse). Additional credits include work Mary Page Marlowe and Head of Passes. for The Hypocrites, Victory Gardens Theater, Most recently they have designed wigs and hair for Act(s) of God (Lookingglass Theatre), Porchlight Music Theatre, Broadway in Chicago and Mason Street Warehouse.

Into the Breeches! (Northlight Theatre), and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Writers Theatre). Kat is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan and is a proud member of Actors’ In addition to being a wig studio, Penny Equity Association.

Lane is a full service hair salon in Logan Square. Visit pennylanechicago.com and Anna D. Shapiro (Artistic Director) joined follow us on Instagram @pennylanewigs the Steppenwolf ensemble in 2005 and and @pennylanestudios. was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for

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The Crucible, The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), I Never Sang for My Father, Man from Nebraska, Purple Heart (also in Galway, Ireland), The Drawer Boy, Side Man (also in Ireland, Australia and Vail, Colorado), Three Days of Rain, The Infidel and This Is Our Youth (which transferred to Broadway). Other Broadway credits include Of Mice and Men (with James Franco) and Fish in the Dark (with Larry David). OffBroadway credits include Domesticated (Lincoln Center Theater). She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Columbia.

She is a full professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Theatre.

David Schmitz (Executive Director) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for 14 years, serving in the roles of Director of Finance and Administration, General Manager and currently as Executive Director. Prior to working at

Steppenwolf, David was the General Manager at Lookingglass Theatre Company, Associate Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre and Business Manager at the entertainment agency Adair Performance. Currently, he serves as Vice President of the Board for The House Theatre of Chicago as well as on the boards of the League of Chicago Theatres and Arts Alliance Illinois. David is a former board member for the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce and has worked as a strategic planning, business practices, finance and hiring consultant for numerous Chicago organizations, including The House Theatre of Chicago, The Hypocrites and Stage Left Theatre, among others. He holds a BA in theatre from the University of Northern Colorado, an MFA from the Theatre Conservatory at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University and a Certificate in Non Profit Management from Roosevelt University.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH ENSEMBLE MEMBERS

TINA LANDAU AND TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY

Edited by Greta Honold Illustrations by Donovan Foote

Greta Honold: The story of how this project came to be begins with your, Tina and Tarell’s, desire to work together again, and with Tarell on stage. Can you speak a bit about your artistic relationship, and what it’s like to be collaborating again?

Tina Landau: I first worked with Tarell in 2004 when he was in the cast of a piece I did at Steppenwolf called Theatrical Essays. I met him and got to know him, first, as a performer. At the end of the project, he told me he was going to Yale

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to study playwriting—and three years later, as he was graduating, I got a call asking if I’d be interested in directing a play of his. So we began working together as director and playwright, but I never forgot Tarell’s special magic as a performer and I’ve been trying for 15 years to get him back on stage! So, “collaborating again” feels like a normal part of my on-going artistic life, as we’ve worked together so many times—it’s like family—but collaborating with Tarell on stage too this time is a special joy.

Tarell Alvin McCraney: From my point of view it’s always easy to work with Tina even when we’re working on something that is difficult. This is difficult in the sense that, during the writing process, we were both working on different things at the same time, so we would have to baton the work between us and sometimes I would, out of exhaustion and dyslexia, write back to Tina in a secret language I would later have to decode. Tina was and is patient and would say, hey I don’t understand this, how do we make this clearer and then we would. And that’s what it’s like working with Tina.

TL: Because we know each other so well, and have developed a kind of “single voice” as our aesthetic in the works we’ve already made, all the writing kind of came out that way too. It never felt like two different voices trying to match up. Just “our” voice, which we already know and trust and don’t need to talk about or define. I never would have attempted this kind of co-writing with someone without the history and trust Tarell and I already have.

GH: Why this story? When did each of you first become aware of Joan Jett Black?

TM: The true question is why is this so late? We are in the middle of historic elections that are leaning into identity politics. Here is a story of how these very narratives, activists, have been around and almost forgotten by many. I never knew about this incredible activist/ performer Joan Jett Black until Tina

brought them to my attention.

TL: I was flipping through a book called Out and Proud In Chicago, edited by the amazing Tracy Baim—and I came across the entry on Joan Jett Blakk. And I was alone in my office but I stood up and started screaming, “That’s it! That’s it!” I knew immediately that this was a story to be shared now. It’s a Chicago story, it’s a true story, it’s an untold story.

It’s a queer story—it asks what is a man?

What is a woman? What is gender?

It’s a political story—it asks what is a President? And is our government, are our elections, truly for and open to all?

Also, as someone who was alive and full grown at the height of the AIDS epidemic, I wanted to do this piece both to honor Terence and the “army of lovers” at ACT UP and QUEER NATION as well as in memory of some dear friends I lost at the time. It’s for them.

GH: Can you tell us about how Terence Smith, AKA Joan Jett Blakk, has been involved in the creation of the play?

TL: I didn’t want to start in on the piece at all until I had contacted Terence and had his blessing and support. Once we made contact and I knew he was open to discussing the idea, I flew to San Francisco where he lives and we spent some incredible time together.

We connected and felt comfortable immediately. He told me his story, in his words, through his own experience, over hours and hours, and that formed the basis for our starting in on the piece.

After that we stayed in touch, mostly because we adored each other and

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had tidbits to share. But we didn’t talk about anything show related again until we sent him the rehearsal draft of the script. He was blown away, and I was like “Phew.” I love that man. I also want to give a shout out to Steve Mounce who made the connection with Terence possible in the first place, and Joe Jeffreys, who shared his apartment with Terence during the days of the DNC, and kept a detailed diary which he’s shared with us—Joe has been our research consultant and has been invaluable.

GH: Tina, I’ve heard you talk about the piece as part play, part party, part political convention. Why did you decide to tell this story using this particular, experiential, theatrical mode?

TL: I never really “decided” it, it was just the natural way it was born and breathes—which I can best describe as Queer. Queer to me is more than about sexuality or gender—it’s also a mode of existence, a philosophy, an aesthetic, a way of life, a political statement. That which is Queer resists categorization—it can be fluid, slippery, contradictory. Its form is not a binary This-Or-That, but a non-binary This-AND-That (-andMaybe-Everything-Else-Too). So, just as a person might identify as Queer, so might a show. It’s not just a play—it’s also a party, a rally, a remembrance, a song. If I might read you a quote from Jordan Schildcrout?: that which is queer “celebrates transgression, categorical slippage, intersectionality, and the inability to follow a single ‘straight and narrow’ path.” Also, I’m interested in theater that wakes us up rather than puts

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us to sleep, creating a space in which the audience and the performance are together rather than separate, where the audience is invited to experience rather than look at the performance.

GH: This run overlaps with Pride month, and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Chicago has just had a landmark election. What does it mean to be doing this play now, in Chicago?

TL: It’s all part of the celebration. We must continue to celebrate—especially in the face of so much continued elitism, bigotry, and corruption, especially in our government. Gabriel Gomez, who made the film LICK BUSH IN ’92, captured it beautifully when he said, “In the shadow of AIDS, being Joyous was how we were going to survive.” Let’s keep the Joy—and celebrate Pride and Stonewall and Chicago’s election and how much has changed even as we know it’s not enough.

TM: Chicago is the American city. This story happened in Chicago. Activists living in Chicago did this. They got involved. They spoke out. Two years ago, writers and artists in this company took to the streets of Chicago in protest.

Students from the School at Steppenwolf have started art activist movements all over the city. And sitting mayors and alderpersons come to our theatre to engage. Our audience is a patchwork of the political life of Chicago and if we do nothing else we have to make sure that the TheyStory, History of They or Queer or Other, stays a part of that fabric that makes up this great city.

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AUGUST 9 – 11, 2019 Join Steppenwolf’s Ensemble of professional actors, playwrights, directors and stage managers for a weekend of artistic workshops and creation together.

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EMAIL Education Associate Abhi Shrestha at ashrestha@steppenwolf.org or visit steppenwolf.org/teens to learn more.

THE STEPPENWOLF ENSEMBLE Steppenwolf Theatre Company is the nation’s premier ensemble theater. Formed by a collective of actors in 1976, the ensemble members represents a remarkable cross-section of actors, directors and playwrights. Thrilling and powerful productions from Balm in Gilead and August: Osage County to Pass Over and Downstate—and accolades that include the National Medal of Arts and 12 Tony Awards—have made the theater legendary. Steppenwolf produces hundreds of performances and events annually in its three spaces: the 515-seat Downstairs Theatre, the 299-seat Upstairs Theatre and the 80-seat 1700 Theatre. Artistic programing includes a seven-play season; a two-play Steppenwolf for Young Adults season; Visiting Company engagements; and LookOut, a multi-genre performances series. Education initiatives include the nationally recognized work of Steppenwolf for Young Adults, which engages 15,000 participants annually from Chicago’s diverse communities; the esteemed School at Steppenwolf; and Professional Leadership Programs for arts administration training. While firmly grounded in the Chicago community, nearly 40 original Steppenwolf productions have enjoyed success both nationally and internationally, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, London, Sydney, Galway and Dublin. Anna D. Shapiro is the Artistic Director and David Schmitz is the Executive Director. Eric Lefkofsky is Chair of Steppenwolf’s Board of Trustees.

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Joel Moorman Creative Director Donovan Foote Design Director Lowell Thomas Video Content Producer Kerstin Adams Digital Marketing Manager Javier Dubon Marketing Manager Maya Fazio-Siu Marketing Assistant Leean Kim Torske PR Associate Juli Del Prete Social Media Coordinator Corinne Neal Audience Services Director Stephanie Heller Audience Services Membership Manager William Benjamin Audience Services Manager Jimmy Freund VIP Liaison to Audience Services Mike Brunlieb Audience Services Membership Supervisor Rukmini Girsh Audience Services Supervisor Molly Layton Group Sales Coordinator Roseann Bishop Membership Coordinator Craig Barnes Itzel Blancas Emily Borges Kat Davis Corinne Florentino Sam Garrott Kenya Hall Hanna Kime Kaileigh Robinson Julia Waits Audience Services Associates

Leelai Demoz Associate Artistic Director Jonathan Berry Artistic Producer Hallie Gordon Artistic Producer and Artistic Director, Steppenwolf for Young Adults JC Clementz Casting Director Polly Hubbard Director of New Play Development Greta Honold LookOut Director Patrick Zakem LookOut Producer Bindu Poroori Interim LookOut Producer Kenya Hall Artistic and Literary Coordinator Glenn Davis Audrey Francis Tracy Letts Sandra Marquez Amy Morton Caroline Neff Yasen Peyankov Artistic Associates

Education Megan Shuchman Director of Education Jared Bellot Education Manager John Rooney Education and Leadership Programs Coordinator Abhi Shrestha Education Associate Sheila Chapman Education Volunteer Peter Andersen Jazmín Corona Cara Greene Epstein Monét Felton Tiffany Fulson Tina El Gamal Charles Andrew Gardner Greg Geffrard Larry Grimm Airos Sung-En Medill Mara Stern Wilfredo Ramos, Jr. Fatima Sowe Teaching Artists

Patty Malaney Pat Mangan Jay Mast Karena Fiorenza Greg Mehl General Manager Bran Moorhead LaDonna Lane Meaghan Morris Human Resources Chrystle Rivers Director Lindsay Stock Maria Nondorf Jen Van Dyck Finance Director Shannon Vogt Danielle Shindler Toby Walters Food & Beverage Bartenders Director Barbara Casey Cory Jeanes Administrative Director of Operations Volunteer Jovito Alvarez Development Finance Manager Leslie Bradberry Brian Hurst Director of Finance Coordinator Development Paul Miller Kristy Conway Office Manager Senior Development Nic Andrews Director IT Administrator Eric Evenskaas Kate Lerner Senior Development Bar Manager Director Ashley Schilling Mercedes Rohlfs Café Manager Campaign Director Peter Van Kempen Courtney Anderson Facilities Manager Senior Events Director Adrian Castro Lupe Garcia Quiles Operations Events Director Coordinator Suzanne Miller James Heppler Individual Giving Harold Jaffe Director Facilities Staff Jessica Gretch Irukia Ahmed Ali Individual Giving Victor David Manager Tul Ghaley Max Lando Madan Gurung Institutional Giving Rina Gurung Manager Ababe Mekonen A.J. Roy Shamshuddin Board Relations Mohamed Shofi Manager Aminata Talawally Custodial Staff Chelsea Smith Campaign Manager Emma Casey Annie Cleveland Gabriel Alaniz Omar Dyette Events Coordinator Cameron Harrie Natasha Freeman Dani James Donor Services Jack Newton Assistant Ian Palmer Madison Serrett Marketing, Kyla Spencer Communications & Shayla Tharp Audience Services Baristas Kara Henry Morgan Burkey Director of Marketing Nick Burt and Communications Sydney Charles Madeline Long Brian Keys Senior Communications Marshall Kious Director Georgette Kirkendall Erika Nelson Walker Lee Senior Marketing Director

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Audience Outreach Brian Hyunsuk Lee Audience Outreach Sales Manager

Brandi Jones Audience Outreach Supervisor Stephanie Aguilar Alena Cook Greg Glomb Marilyn Hillary Jeffrey Jauch Seph Mozes RJ Numez Audience Outreach Associates

Audience Experience Aaron Aptaker Audience Experience Director Megan Kaminsky Audience Experience Manager Donald Coulson Parking Manager David Clauson Matthew Glenn Havalah Grace Jake Green Taylor Hobart Caitlyn Johnson Laura LoChirco Nora Manz Claudia Price Rio Ragazzone Hoot Sanders Jessica Smith Kyla Spencer Paige Ward Marie Wolfe Audience Experience Associates Angel Aguilar Mustafa Chaudry Sam Morales Gabriel Sanchez Parking Associates Jack Meyer and Lauren Louer, The Saints Volunteer Usher Coordination

Production Tom Pearl Director of Production Brianna Parry Associate Production Manager Erin Cook Company Manager and Assistant to the Artistic Director Claire Haupt Production Office Coordinator

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mike Donohue Technical Director Chad Hain Associate Technical Director Tom Egan Scene Shop Supervisor Lydia Strini Draftsperson Kyle Land Shannon Perry Russell Scott Dallas Tolbert Scenic Carpenters Zoe Shiffrin Scenic Charge Artist Jenny DiLuciano Properties Director Erin Ohland Associate Properties Director Jay Tollefsen Associate Properties Directors Charles Moser Master Properties Artisan Shannon Higgins Wardrobe, Hair and Make Up Supervisor Melissa Motz Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Caryn Weglarz Klein Costume Director Daisy Lindas Assistant Costume Director Mae Haskins Assistant Costume Designer Laurel Clayson Head Draper Lynae Vandermeulen Work Room Supervisor and Draper Melissa Humbert First Hand J. R. Lederle Lighting Supervisor Ernesto Gomez Master Electrician Karen Thompson Light Board Operator Rick Haefele Stage Operations Supervisor Vanessa Gomez Assistant Stage Supervisor

Martha Wegener Sound Supervisor Gregor Mortis Associate Sound Supervisor Matthew Chapman 1700 Tech Coordinator Malcolm Ewen Christine D. Freeburg Laura D. Glenn Production Stage Managers Kathleen Barrett Elise Hausken Mary Hungerford Amanda Landis Michelle Medvin Stage Managers

Professional Leadership Program Carlos Enrique Arellano Nakia Shalice Avila Becca Brown Jacqueline Corte Amy Couey Tina El Gamal Allison Granat Brittney Symone Grant Mark H. Anthony Harden Rachel Kennedy JuJu Laurie Mihika Miranda Caleb Naugle Reagan O’Malley May Treuhaft-Ali Eva Trunzo Abigail Vass Sarah Wallace

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Executive Committee Eric Lefkofsky, Chair Keating Crown, Vice Chair Deborah H. Quazzo, Secretary L. Heather Mitchell, Treasurer Henry S. Bienen Douglas R. Brown Elizabeth H. Connelly Nora Daley Rich Feitler Paul W. Goodrich Lynn Lockwood Murphy Bruce Sagan Stephanie B. Smith Matthew Shapiro John R. Walter Helen Zell Trustees Sarah Beardsley Michael W. Bender Susan O. Berghoef Jonathan Blanc Amy Bluhm Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Marlene Breslow-Blitstein Carole L. Brown Ebs Burnough Beth Boosalis Davis Amy Eshleman D. Cameron Findlay Matthew Gray Robert J. Greenebaum, Jr. Caryn Harris John Hart Jon Michael Hill Dennis D. Howarter Tina Landau Tracy Letts Mary Ludford Ronald J. Mallicoat, Jr.

Holly Maloney Tarell Alvin McCraney David E. Mendelsohn Verett Mims Christopher M. Murphy Pam Netzky Yasen Peyankov Anne M. Phillips Cari B. Sacks Robert Sanborn Manuel “Manny” Sanchez Anna D. Shapiro Matthew Shapiro Colette Cachey Smithburg Elliot A. Stultz Bryan Traubert Emeritus Trustees J. Robert Barr Lawrence Block Michael Cahan John N. Fox, Jr. Lawrence M. Gill Donna La Pietra Kenneth J. Porrello Merle Reskin Randall K. Rowe Gloria Scoby Past Chairpersons William L. Atwell Larry D. Brady Douglas R. Brown Nora Daley Laurence Edwards John N. Fox, Jr. Elliott Lyon Gordon Murphy William H. Plummer Bruce Sagan Gloria Scoby Donna Vos

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2018/19 SEASON SPONSORS LEAD SPONSORS

Paul M. Angell Foundation‡

Lefkofsky Family Foundation‡

Shubert Foundation, Inc.

The Crown Family

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation‡

The Wallace Foundation‡

Anonymous

Julie and Roger Baskes

Douglas R. Brown

The Harris Family Foundation

Smart Family Foundation of Illinois

Andrew and Amy Bluhm

National Endowment for the Arts

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The Davee Foundation‡

Zell Family Foundation

PREMIER SPONSORS

Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Ann and Richard Carr Joyce Chelberg Rich and Margery Feitler Julius Frankel Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins

Pam and Ashley Netzky The Orlebeke Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation

Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust‡ Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker John and Carol Walter

Cari and Michael J. Sacks‡ Robert and Louise Sanborn

New Plays, New Artists, New Audiences The Davee Foundation Zell Family Foundation

Veterans’ Night Sponsors Gary Sinise Foundation Caroline and Keating Crown Grainger Foundation

Lead Accessibility Sponsor John Hart and Carol Prins

Lead Underwriter of fundraising for The Campaign for Steppenwolf The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust

Official Exclusive Airline United Airlines Official Lighting Sponsor ComEd

‡ Steppenwolf Ensemble Fund Individuals recognized above with a “‡” have made multi-year commitments to help develop special ensemble-driven projects.

COMMUNITY ADVOCATES New Play Development Fund Committee supports Steppenwolf’s mission to be a preeminent producer of new American plays.

Caryn Harris*, Co-Chair Anna D. Shapiro*, Co-Chair Julie Baskes Amy Bluhm* Susan O. Berghoef* Meredith Bluhm-Wolf* Douglas R. Brown* Joyce Chelberg Nora Daley* Anne Edwards Bill Gofen Ethel Gofen Joan M. Hall Liz Lefkofsky Jim Mabie Deborah Quazzo* Robert Sanborn* Matthew Shapiro* Colette Cachey Smithburg* Helen Zell*

*Steppenwolf Trustee

Education Committee advocates for the programming of Steppenwolf for Young Adults and for access to quality arts experiences for teens and teachers.

Amy Eshleman*, Chair Michael Bolton Amy Bluhm* Sheila Chapman Beth Boosalis Davis* Jeremy Dunn Jane Fleming Paul Gaynor David Germaine Larry Grimm John Hart* Robert LoPrete Sybil Madison-Boyd Susan Noel Ashley Pettit Anne M. Phillips* Donald J. Phillips II Deborah Quazzo* Cari B. Sacks* Robert Sanborn* Michelle Schlack Sydney Sidwell Jennifer Stuart Elliot A. Stultz* Annie Tully David Wagener Nina B. Winston

Directors Circle Committee helps steward and grow the theater’s largest donor program.

Gail Steingold, Chair Janyce D. Brengel Bryce Cooper Beth Boosalis Davis* Greg Desmond Ritu Dhingra Stacy Fleming Aimee Graham Rebecca Johnston Sherri Kayser Karen Levine Susan Lichtenstein Stephanie Linn Beth Loeb Toni Sandor Smith Gail Straus Frances E. Tuite

Women in the Arts Luncheon Committee spearheads our annual fundraising event, honoring leading artists in theater, film and television.

Stephanie B. Smith*, Co-Chair Helen Zell*, Co-Chair Amy Bluhm* Meredith Bluhm-Wolf* Elizabeth H. Connelly* Caroline and Keating Crown* Donna La Pietra* Deborah Quazzo* Cari B. Sacks*

Young Adult Council, a unique after-school program for high school students, immerses them in Steppenwolf’s operations and organizes events for their peers around Steppenwolf productions.

Courtland Anderson Jocelyn Arrieta Amy Deng Dream Drummer Ayla Ellenbogen Ines Garcia–Valdivia Grace Hanson Audrey Jacobs Eileen Keller Morgan Kingsley Gwyneth Lemaster Jacqueline Moreno Spencer O’Brien Amber O’Sullivan Nikhil Patel Izareza Rodriguez Jairo Saucedo Tia Smith Tyra Smith Maiya Swedberg Ramman Taksh Kelsey Vital Natalie Wexler Liam Young

2019 Gala Steppenwolf’s Gala Co-Chairs plan the signature fundraising event led by the theater’s Board of Trustees.

Kate Arrington and Michael Shannon Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers Pam and Dennis D.* Howarter Mary* and Bill Ludford Sandra Marquez Tarell Alvin McCraney

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COMMUNITY ADVOCATES

Corporate Arts Council Steppenwolf’s Corporate Arts Council unites a community of smart, innovative companies to connect in a dynamic and unique environment here at the theater. Supporting Steppenwolf’s mission to champion new talent within the theater, the Corporate Arts Council engages members throughout the year to network, entertain, and give back. For more information on corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact Max Lando at 312-654-5697 or mlando@steppenwolf.‌org.

Leading Members Allstate Insurance Company, Meghan Sporleder* Ameriprise Financial, Patricia Moll* Archer Daniels Midland Company, Ben Bard DLA Piper LLP (US), Katrina Hausfeld* Exelon Corporation, Jason Decker* J.P. Morgan, Kelly Epstein*

Northern Trust, Mark Taylor* PwC, Vilma Chan* Premier Members Faegre Baker Daniels, Patrick M. Miller* Sidley Austin ston & Strawn LLP, Elizabeth M. Schubuert*

Members Baker McKenzie, Michael A. Duffy Newcastle Limited, Michael Haney Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brian Duwe Winston & Strawn LLP, Matthew R. Carter *Denoted Corporate Arts Council Steering Committee Member

Steppenwolf Associates Comprised of more than 70 young professionals, the Steppenwolf Associates work each season to raise funds for Steppenwolf Education. We salute the Associates for giving generously of their time and resources. Contact A.J. Roy at associates@steppenwolf.org to become a Steppenwolf Associates member today.

Associates Board Members Jonathan Blanc Isaac Colunga Clyde C. Compton Kevin Goldstein Aimee Graham Rachel Henry Elizabeth Ingram Jeffrey Koh Julia Luscombe

Eléonore Moncheur de Rieudotte Katherine Nardin Melissa Peralta Adrienne Pope Marilynn Rubio Shilpa Rupani Michelle Schlack Jennifer Stuart Allan Waite

David Wagener Harriet White Andre Williams Founding Officers Marissa Bryce Nora Daley* ‡

ENDOWMENT SPONSORS Hope Abelson Fund for New Play Development Artistic Endowment established through the Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ruth D. and Ken M. Davee New Works Fund Douglas R. Brown Playwright/ Director Endowment Fund Ford Foundation Artistic and General Operating Endowment Funds

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Richard and Mary L. Gray Production Endowment Fund John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fund for the Development of New Work The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Daniel E. McLean National and International Production Fund Avy and Marcie Stein Sustaining Fund for the Ensemble Steppenwolf Board Designated Endowment Fund

Steppenwolf Theatre Company Endowment Fund created with Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust Nancy L. Wald Production Endowment Fund John and Carol Walter Production Endowment Fund

VISIONARY CIRCLE We are honored to recognize the following individuals who have included Steppenwolf in their will or estate plans. To learn more about estate gift options or to be recognized for a gift you have already provided for, contact Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615 or eevenskaas@steppenwolf.org.

Anonymous Valerie and Joseph Abel Robert C. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Marvin and Joyce Berman Norma Borcherding Douglas R. Brown Barbara L. Dean Janice and Rob Esser Robert H. Glaze

Michael Goldberger Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa John Hart Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Tom Irwin Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck Michele Kenner Melanie G. Larch

Dr. Paul Lisnek Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall Sylvia J. Pozarnsky Merle Reskin Dr. Edward O. Riley T. Marshall Rousseau Patrick J. Schauer Sue and Harry Seigle 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 Nelson D. Cornelius

Jo Hopkins Deutsch Marjorie Douglas James F. Oates

Andrea Romain and Cleo V. Orthel Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure Nancy L. Wald

HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS Honor Gifts For Kate Arrington, Jean Arrington For Rose Baker, Sue Rundle For Henry Bienen, Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan For Leslie Bradberry, Jennifer Baryl For Nora Daley, J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation For Beth Boosalis Davis, Roberta Zabel For Josephine Eva Desir, Charlotte and Marcel Durot For Jessie Fisher and Erik Hellman, Lisa M. Fisher For Bill and Ethel Gofen, Deborah Horwitz and Paul Nierman For Evan Hatfield, Alan Lepp Leslie Bradberry For Evan Hatfield and Jack Miggins, Paul Rink For Stephanie Heller, Terrence Walsh Roselyn Friedman For the Lefkofskys and Kalts, Laura and Scott Eisen For the marriage of Shayna Rashkow and Max Lesser, Los Angeles 11/4/18, Dick

For Cari Sacks, Madeline Grynsztejn For Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill, Anita and Jamie Orlikoff For David Schmitz, Roberta Zabel For Lauren Speigel, Donna Speigel For Sai Vavricek, Eileen Vavricek For Meredith Bluhm Wolf and Bill Wolf, Andrew Block and Julie Nerenberg For Helen Zell, Anne Kaplan Memorial Gifts For George S. Brengel, Janyce D. Brengel For Betty Carlson, Tracy Goepel In Memory of Curt Crotty Lynn, John and Katy Benson Roger and Charlotte Evans Mark and Jenny Fennell David and Beth Hart Mark and Paula Hays Naomi Hodgman Lynne Inman and Margo Hill Jon and Robbie Klein Josephine Kujawinski Kathy Miehls

Peter and Margaret Morris John and Lisa Nicolson Dan and Lisa Roback Peg and Bob Sabath Julie Strauss and Joel Brown Rob and Melissa Thompson Legia and Andy Uhm Laurie Werner The Wilcox-Sherman Family Edward and Jania Zulkey For Norma M. Farina, Kara T. Huberman For Norton H. Kay, Sandra Blau For Abby S. MagdovitzWasserman, Dr. David Wasserman For James W. Ray and James W. Ray, Jr, Nancy Ray For Kari Timm, Jill O’Donovan For Nancy Wald, Albert Wald For Irwin L. Walzer, Bobbie Meyers For Diane Zientek, The Schirato Family

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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTORS Grand Benefactors ($100,000+) Allstate Insurance Company* Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust‡ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation‡* Lefkofsky Family Foundation‡ Polk Bros. Foundation* Prince Charitable Trusts Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Crown Family ‡ The Davee Foundation‡ The Roy Cockrum Foundation The Wallace Foundation‡ United Airlines Zell Family Foundation‡ Benefactors ($50,000 – $99,999) Paul M. Angell Foundation CA Ventures ComEd Conagra Brands Foundation Julius Frankel Foundation The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. King Harris Kathy Harris Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Szokol Mr. and Mrs. William Friend Mr. and Mrs. John Harris Illinois Arts Council, a state agency JPMorgan Chase & Co.* Laurents/Hatcher Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Northern Trust* The Orlebeke Foundation The Poetry Foundation PwC Smart Family Foundation of Illinois Vinci

Producers ($25,000 – $49,999) Anonymous Alphawood Foundation American Express Ameriprise Financial Archer Daniels Midland Company The Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Chicago Community Trust DLA Piper LLP (US) Greenberg Traurig LLP Grosvenor Capital Management The Joyce Foundation‡ J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Sage Foundation Schiff Hardin LLP Searle Family Trust Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation‡ Sidley Austin LLP Gary Sinise Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust Walter E. Heller Foundation Patrons ($10,000 – $24,999) Anonymous (3) Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Baker McKenzie BNY Mellon Wealth Management Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. The Boeing Company Helen Brach Foundation Buchanan Family Foundation City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events CRC Swett Frank G. and Gertrude Dunlap Fund

* Corporations and foundations that have made employee matching gifts

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Eversheds Sutherland Faegre Baker Daniels Green Courte Partners, LLC GrubHub Irving Harris Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation Make It Better Media Marsh Private Client Services Mayer Brown LLP McKinsey & Company, Inc. Melcher Charitable Foundation Newcastle Limited Norcon, Inc Precision Control Systems Rhoades Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Seigle Family Foundation Siragusa Family Foundation The Smithburg Family Foundation The Williams Capital Group, L.P. Vogue John and Carol Walter Family Foundation Winston & Strawn, LLP Sustainers ($5,000 – $9,999) Modestus Bauer Foundation Bayless Family Foundation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Mary Dempsey, Philip H. Corboy Foundation Grainger Foundation Ice Miller LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Loop Capital Markets Mesirow Financial Nordstrom Reynolds Family Foundation Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Louis & Nellie Sieg Fund The Talbott Hotel

‡ Multi-year pledge

LEAD INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS These individuals provide inspirational annual support for productions, education programs and general operations and help safeguard Steppenwolf’s international reputation for artistic excellence and innovation. Donors with ‡ have made a generous multi-year pledge. To join this distinguished group, call Jessica Gretch at 312-654-5672 Premier Patrons ($50,000+) Anonymous (2) Julie and Roger Baskes‡ Leigh and Henry Bienen Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Andrew and Amy Bluhm Meredith Bluhm-Wolf and Bill Wolf Douglas R. Brown Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Ann and Richard Carr Joyce Chelberg Elizabeth H. Connelly Caroline and Keating Crown Nora Daley and Sean Conroy Rich and Margery Feitler Amy and Cameron Findlay ‡ King and Caryn Harris John Hart and Carol Prins‡ Pam and Dennis D. Howarter Liz and Eric Lefkofsky ‡ Lynn Lockwood Murphy and Barrett B. Murphy ‡ Mary and Bill Ludford Ronald J. Mallicoat, Jr. Pam and Ashley Netzky Anne and Don Phillips‡ Cari and Michael J. Sacks‡ Robert and Louise Sanborn Elliot A. Stultz Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker John and Carol Walter Helen Zell

Grand Patrons ($25,000 – $49,999) Anonymous Michael Bender and Sheridan Prior Kent and Liz Dauten Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly ‡ Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Ethel and Bill Gofen Richard and Mary L. Gray ‡ Bob and Amy Greenebaum‡ Mrs. John M. Hartigan Marian, Fruman and Lisa Jacobson Steven D. Loucks‡ Andrew Keyt Jim and Kay Mabie‡ Holly and Matt Maloney Mr. and Ms. David E. Mendelsohn Verett Mims Christopher and Eileen Murphy Deborah and Stephen Quazzo Randy and Susi Rowe Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Manny Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez Sue and Harry Seigle Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shapiro‡ Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Bill and Orli Staley

Distinguished Patrons ($15,000 – $24,999) Andy and Sue Arnold Sarah Beardsley and Dr. Christopher Randolph Carole L. Brown Beth Boosalis Davis and Maxwell S. Davis Donald and Anne Edwards Juliette Feld and Andrew Grossman Christine Albright and Lawrence Gill Valerie and Paul Goodrich Joan Hall Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck The Krammer Family L. Heather Mitchell and Kenny Mitchell Benjamin Rosenthal Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Sue and Harry Seigle Colette Cachey Smithburg and Tom Smithburg

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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.

Patrons ($10,000 – $14,999) Anonymous Betty Bradshaw Michael and Cathy Brennan Carol and Douglas Cohen Mary A. Dempsey, Philip H. Corboy Foundation Mary and Paul Finnegan Leslie and Matthew Gray Perry and Cathy Iverson Jeffrey Maling and Rebecca Johnston Brad and Kim Keywell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad Kate and William Macdonald Merle Reskin Ms. Elizabeth Schubert Mr. John M. Schwolsky Amrit and Gurpreet Singh Toni Sandor Smith Nina B. Winston Susan and Robert A. Wislow Ronald and Geri Yonover Sustainers ($5,000 – $9,999) Anonymous David and Suzanne Arch Gustavo Bamberger and Martha Van Haitsma Gerry Barad and Tamara Holder Mr. Larry Barden Dr. and Mrs. Marvin and Joyce Berman Louis and Jacqueline Bernstein Lois Browning Cheryl Lynn Bruce and Kerry Marshall Phil Burgess and Jim Nutter Gia and Isaac Colunga Jerry and Josephine Conlon Liam and Francesca Connell Mr. Brian Duwe Mary M. Emerson Becki and Scott Etzler John and Katherine Fox David and Noreen Ann Gallagher Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Aimee Graham and Nigel Caine Marcy and Harry Harczak Mrs. Louise Hart Judy and Jay Heyman David Hiller

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Ms. Anne Kaplan Jen and Brad Keck Laurie Anne Kladis Stephen Kriegel and Family Christine and Michael LaTona Susan Lichtenstein and John Rokacz Amos and Anat Madanes Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Ashley and Noah Pettit Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Ms. Doris D. Roskin Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. David and Susan Schmid Jeffrey Singer and Patricia Carman Marcie and Avy Stein Matthew Steinmetz Judy Sugarman Jacqueline Tilton Richard and Elaine Tinberg Frances E. Tuite Donna and Dirk Vos Michael and January Ward Robert and Susan Warrington Dr. David Wasserman Lorrayne and Steve Weiss Benefactors ($2,000 – $4,999) Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Kathi and Roger Adams Kim and David Adler Jack J. Adrian Karen and Scott Alexander Polly Allen Nicholas and Kathleen Amatangelo Kimball Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson Robert C. Anderson Robert and Marilyn Arensman Stephanie and Dana Arnett Jeffrey S. Arnold and Ellen J. Neely Edgar Bachrach Richard and Janice Bail Andy and Stephanie Baker ‡ Yuri and Elena Balasanov Catherine Bannister Merrill and Alice Barden Cynthia Barginere Laura Barnett Solomon and Camila Barnett

Bob and Trish Barr Mr. Sebastian Barrack Jennifer Baryl Dee Beaubien Martha and Al Belmonte Bruce and Debbie Bentcover Shirley and Tom Berchou‡ Dr. Mary E. Belford MD and Mr. Ric Berta Ron and Colleen Bess Nicholas Biederman Ms. Faye Blake Jon Blanc Shaun and Andy Block Patricia C. Bobb Stephen and Lynn Bolanowski‡ Benjamin Bove Stanley and Anne Boychuck Doug Bradbury Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Braun Janyce D. Brengel Robert and Joell Brightfelt ‡ Marissa and Tim Brinkley Robert and Mary Briscoe Reid Brody and Sally Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Dawn and Harmon Brown George and Joyce Brown‡ Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith Michael and Merle Cahan David Callahan and Terri Abruzzo Joseph and Cory Cancila‡ Ray Capitanini Shamequa Carlton Helen and Paul Chang Sheila J. Chapman William and Nicole Cheeseman Drs. Rex Chisholm and Kathleen Green Michael and Stephanie Chu Nancy Ciezki and Diane Kostecke Dana Green and Thomas Clancy Lesley and Zac Cochran Michael and Edie Cohen Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Thomas and Katherine Coleman Steven and Caralynn Collens Clyde C. Compton Ed Cook and Melissa Perrett Cook‡ J. Gorman Cook and Carole Kohout

Bryce Cooper Merle R. Cooper Lisa and Brian Cornell Deb and Denny Cowhey Patricia Cox, Katie and Will Hunckler Winnie and Bob Crawford Alayna Washington Crenshaw Phyllis Cretors Carl and Cynthia Curry Daniel R. Cyganowski Dean and Lori Czuma Stephen F. Danziger Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Marlowe Davis Diane Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Donald Deutsch Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Bill and Cindee Dietz Roberta S. Dillon Ms. Cari Dinneen Carmelita Dockery, PhD Patricia and Richard Doonan Philip and Marsha Dowd Raymond and Marybeth Drake Erin and Ian Drury Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Laura and Scott Eisen John and Jennifer Elliot George Engeln Tom and Pat Erickson Ms. Rebekah Eubanks Malcolm D. Ewen Juliet and Marc Fallah Maurice Fantus and Judith Aiello Demitri and Pamela Fardelos David and Mary Farkas Mr. and Ms. Michael Fassnacht Randall Fearnow and Beth Compton Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal Carol and Steven Felsenthal Richard and Linda Filler Sara Stern and Ted J. Fishman‡ Stacy and Ian Fleming Jane Fleming and Melinda Kempton Steven Florsheim and Jennifer Friedes Jim and Yvonne Fogerty ‡ Lisa and John Folkers Kim M. Folta Cory and Cyndi Fosco Daniel J. Rubin and Karen Frederick

Jim and Sandy Freeburg Kate and Michael Fridholm Ms. Sara Friedle and Mr. Michael Towler Kate Friedlob Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Susan Fuchs, M.D.‡ Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Denise Michelle Gamble Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Lisa Garling and Jeff Miller Gigi Gamauf Gavron and Dr. Joseph Gavron Gary L. Gephart Steven M. Gerschoffer Susan and John Gibbons Scott Gidwitz Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Elizabeth Glassman Mr. Asheesh Goel Charlie and Mary Gofen Deidra D. Gold Bob and Carol Goldberg Jennifer and Isaac Goldman Kevin Goldstein and Sarah Fox Dr. Paul Goldstein and Ms. Nasrin Mahani Sue-Gray Goller John Gorey and Catherine DeOrio Laurence and Carrie Grant Sue and Melvin Gray Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg‡ Mary and Jim Greene William and Nanci Greene Michael and Lisa Greenfield Karen and Jamie Gunsior Jack and Sandra Guthman Suzanne Gylfe Ginger and Del Hall Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Pam and David Harrington Victoria and Charles Harris Stacie R. Hartman Dorothy Harza Lois and Marty Hauselman Mark and Joelle Hayes Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson James LaForce and Stephen Henderson Rachel Henry Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger David Kistenbroker and Cynthia Heusing Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hibel Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Hill Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig

Grayson Holmbeck Dr. Matthew and Kimberly Horowitz Arnold and Judith Horwich‡ Ms. Rosa M. Hugener Bill and Monica Hughson Holly E. Humphreys William Ibe Dr. and Mrs. David Ingall John Ittner and Jennifer Van Dyke Patricia Jeffers Craig “CJ” Jensen and Craig Dannenbrink Ed Jeske and John Hern Craig and Heidi Johnson Timothy B. Johnson and Valerie B. Wiley Holly Johnston Laura and Eric Jordahl George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman‡ Jeff and Lisa Jozwiak Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kaplan Dr. Claudia Anne Katz Aviva Katzman and Morris Mauer Judith and Jerry Kaufman Mary Ann and Mark Kaufman Reis and Sherri Kayser Adam and Renee Keats Ms. Jennifer Keegan Thomas E Keim Sheryl and Tom Keith‡ Peter and Susan Kelly Chris Kendrick and Kasturi Haldar Helen J. Kessler Patricia and Wayne Kik‡ Mike and Leslie King Harry Kinzie Tom Klarquist and Steve Somora Jonathan Klein and Susan Cohn Stephanie and Peter Klein Jean Klingenstein Mr. and Mrs. Tom Knauff Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Korbet MD Suzy Krueckeberg Raminder and Vinay Kumar Mr. Matthew Kutcher and Ms. Rebecca Richards Gerald R. Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Tom and Renee Lavallee Mr. Marvin J. Leavitt and Ms. Susan Karkomi Ron and Kim Lemar Travis Lenkner and Erin Delaney Karen Levine Bernard and Averill Leviton Tanya Levshina and Ilya Volvovski

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…cont’d Directors Circle Arthur and Catherine Lewis Wil Lewis Ms. Stephanie F. Linn and Dr. Seth B. Krantz Dr. Paul M. Lisnek Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd Beth Loeb Abby and George Lombardi Diane and Alejandro Longoria Fran Lambros and John Lowry ‡ Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve‡ Brian Lukanic and Kelly Dixon Michael Maloney and Christine Zyzda Naja Maltezos Arlene Manelli Mark and Frances Mann Sandy and Jerry Manne Barbara and Larry Margolis Christine and David Markovitz Don and Melinda Marshall The Masnato Family Michael J. McCahey Michael E. McCaslin‡ Jim and Lynn McClure Tarell Alvin McCraney Lee and Joyce McCullough Bob and Barb McCullough Mr. and Ms. Paul McGrady Becky and Bob McLennan Kevin and Beth McMeen Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Randi Merel and Allen LeHew Ellie and Bob Meyers Amy Laiken and Tim Michel Jim Milbery and Anna Deaugustine Michael and Susan Miller Jamey Eklund and Evgueni Minev Dr. George and Maureen Miz Ms. Stephanie Morimoto and Mr. Matt King Blake and Debra Moritz‡ Marisa Murillo Ms. Patricia Myles Ms. Katherine Nardin Elke Aippersbach and Piers Nash‡ Alyson and Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Cathy and Robert Nathan Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Jon and Molly Neuleib Lynne Considine Nieman and Jim Parsons David Ellis and Hope Nightingale Mary Nolen Susan and George Obermaier Gary and Marcie Ochs Peg O’Connor

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Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Joe O’Leary Mr. and Ms. Tony Olson Bob and Joyce O’Malley Bridget R. O’Neill Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Sandra and Mark Ostler Brian A. Paetow and Gretchen K. Beetner Jim and Sue Pajakowski Vicki L. Parker Mr. Deep Patel and Ms. Nisha Begwani Pradip Patiath and Shalini Sharma Ms. Sarah Paulson Amy and Brent Peebles Sandra and Michael Perlow Simon and Kim Perutz John and Christine Pfeiffer Dale and Loretta Pierson Ms. Sherri Pincus Jennifer and Perry Pinto Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Mr. Guy Ponticiello Avi and Joan Porat Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall‡ Andrew and Judy L. Porte Elliott Quigley Paul Rauch and Frank Cozzi Bradley and Patricia Reid Linda Reid Lynne Remington and Geoff Goldberg Nina Riccardi Ms. Lauri Riggen Dana and Jacob Ringer Susan and Edwin Ritts John C. Roberts and Lynn D. Fleisher Randy and Betsy Rochman James and Trude Roselle Hilary Rosenthal Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Holly and David Rothschild Alan Gordon Rottman Bob and Mary Rowe The Ryerson Family Mr. and Mrs. John Sabl Francis C. Sadac Ms. Carol S. Sadow A. Sue Samuels Richard and Susan Sanders Paola Sapienza

Pamela and Fred Sasser Paul Scavone and Donna Pawlus Michelle Maton and Mike Schaeffer Howard and Gail Schaffner David Taber Mr. Greg Schementi and Ms. Kim Kamin Joseph Scheper and Kevin Ray Michelle Schlack Mrs. Elizabeth Schneider Mr. Gary Schreiber Matthew and Tina Schubert Alan Kozlowski and John Schuchert Diana and Richard Senior David and Judith L. Sensibar Mark and Kimberly Shadle Surendra and Dorothie Shah Michael Shapiro and Deb Gohr Shapiro Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Hope and Jeffrey Sheffield Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Ms. Julia Simpson Nancy and Bob Singleton James and Mary Jo Slykas Chuck Smith Neil Smith Family Ron and Leslie Smith Steven Smith Sharon Specht Dariel J. Stack Gail and Eugene Steingold Kristin and Stan Stevens Jeff and Tondra Stoller ‡ Kelly and Jami Stone Lawrence Stone and Margaret Jongleux Gail and John Straus Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Pam and Russ Strobel Ms. Jennifer Stuart Edward A. Studzinski Ms. Sarah Swain and Mr. John Hart Dr. and Mrs. James V. Talano Mark and Leah Taylor Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra James E. Thompson The Tipton Family John and Maribeth Totten Mr. Brian Townsend Nick Trakas and Marc Cerone Mario and Traci Tricoci Greg and Mary Tuite Reed and Rosemary Tupper Scott and AdrianeTurow Howard and Jane Tyner

Tali and Liat Tzur Marilee Unruh Ramona and Daniel Ustian Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Betty Vandenbosch Shawn VanDerziel and Jay Clarke John and Julie Varga Erika Nelson and David Wagener

Allan Waite and Gregory Ostfeld Tom Wake Ken Wanlass & Sara Sherrie and Albert Weiss Carey Weiss and Karen Pierce Tom and Blaine Wells Anne and Jay Whipple Sanford and Vicki White Jack and Keli Wildermuth

Jane and Greg Wintroub Jeff and Jessica Wisniewski‡ Sherry Wolfe Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Bobbi Zabel Eileen and David Zampa Karen Zelden and Ralph Senst Elizabeth A. Ziegler

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 steppenwolf.org/support or calling Suzanne Miller at 312-654-5617. Gifts are as of February 1, 2019.

Producers ($1,000 – $1,999) Anonymous Clemeth Abercrombie Mr. Philip Auerbach and Ms. S. Ross Ms. Sarah Banasiak Sandra Bass Ted and Robbie Beaty‡ Adrian and Arta Beverly Jim and Sherry Bicak Lois J. Bider Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III Mr. and Mrs. David C. Blowers Kevin Boehm and Courtney Moon Lin Brehmer and Sara Farr Kristen Brown David and Michelle Buck Bruce and Kate Burgun Mr. Ed Calkins Pam and Howard Conant Margo Cook Mr. Andrew Cores Rathin Datta Bonnie Dauer Tony And Laura Davis Susan Duman Mr. Craig Elkins Brian Harding and Marshall Ellis ‡ Ed Everett and Kitty Rose Carla Feinkind Mr. Igor Felder Michael and Jacky Ferro Joanne Finger Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Peter and Joanne Fischer Michael Flowers and Daryl Wells Lori Mae Frith

Matt and Lindsay Garrison Ms. Megan Goldish Dr. Kitty Green The Greffin Family Madeline Grynsztejn and Tom Shapiro Jean Hawkinson Michael and Mona Heath Fund James and Anne Heger Jon Michael Hill James and Margot Hinchliff Mr. Tom Hinkes Kym Hubbard Sandy Ihm and Ken Belcher Mr. Bradley Jarol Daniel and Mary Ann Jordan Mr. and Mrs. David Katz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Mr. David Kelly Stacy M. Kemp ‡ James Kochalka Jeffrey Koh Ms. Marilee Kovacs Neal and Kathleen Kulick Melanie and Rudy Larch ‡ Shana Lewis and Rob Magasano Ms. Julia Luscombe Karyn Lutz Joan and Jerry Matson Russell Mayerfeld Chris Mollet and Lynne LaJone Mindy Munson Howard and Cathy Niden Melissa Peralta Mr. Marc A. Pittas Adrienne Pope Mr. Richard Porter Ms. Jessica Rappe

Susie and Rick Rieser Riney and Carol Robertson Marilynn Rubio Joanne C. Ruxin Shirley and Patrick G. Ryan Sr. Adesh and Sonia Ramchandran Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Schewe William B. Schildgen Ms. E. Jane Schmitz Richard and Robin Schmitzer Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg ‡ Christine Stepp Patty Sternberg Sylvia and Joe Stone Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Vedder Price Devanee and Alex Washington Laura and Bob Watson ‡ Ben and Heather Webster Kevin Wender John W. Wheeler Ms. Harriet White Mark and Christie Wilson ‡ Elizabeth Wohlleb Esther and Stanley Wojcicki Ensemble ($500 – $999) Anonymous (4) Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin David Abrams and Cynthia Bemis Abrams Jeannie L. Adams Ms. Deborah Ader Ms. Evvie Alter

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…cont’d Annual Fund John and Mindy Amberg Jim and Sheila Amend‡ Ms. Stacie Amorose Harold and Judith Anderson ‡ Ms. Leslie J. Anderson Lorilyn Aquino‡ John Asplin and Christine Orders Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Leslie and Bill Barker David Barnes Teri and Steve Barnett Priscilla Ryan and Frank Battle Deborah and James Baughman Jennifer Bell Lawrence Bell Gene and Natalie Bernadoni‡ Harriet and Howard N. Bernstein Ms. Stacia Beyl John Blair and Liz Buchanan ‡ Gene and Lynne Blanc Andrew Block and Julie Nerenberg Mark Bloom R. Darrell Bock Nicole Boler Ms. Selma Bouhl Donald F. Bouseman Aldridge and Marie Bousfield William Brown Ed Bucher‡ John Byrd John Caraher William Carpenter Jack and Laura Carriglio Cati and AJ Cederoth Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler Deborah and John Chipman Maria and Sunil Chopra Betty Cleeland‡ Jean Costigan Mr. Roy Cowell Susan Craft Mr. and Ms. Robert Creamer Maureen Crowley Kareem and Natasha Dale Liese Dallbauman Larry and Charlotte Damron Alecia C. Dantico Champ and Lisa Davis Michelle de Vlam ‡ Phil DeBoer Dr. Mark and Rose DeMeo‡ Mary and Daniel Deziel Adrienne Doppelt Bruce Van Dotten David Dranoff and Wendy Epstein Natalie Dudek ‡ Arthur and Elizabeth Duquette Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten

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Audrey Eisenmann and David Pepperberg Jennifer M. Ellin Erika Erich Ms. Sharon Eubanks-Pope Michael Evenskaas‡ The Felder Family Karena Fiorenza and Emrys Ingersoll Jim and Shellie Fisch Brad and Lisa Fisher and Family Marya and Peter Frankel Bernadette Foley and Richard Landgraff‡ Mike and Karen Folk John and Adrian Foster Lucinda Fox Timothy and Janet Fox Joanne Benazzi Friedland Elliott Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Friedman Ms. Dawn Gard Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gardner Scott George Edward and Dawn Gershman William J. Gibbons Joseph Glaser and Jessica Schneider Glaser Jaye and John Golanty‡ Karen M. Goldstein ‡ Leo and Linda Gordon Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. and Ms. Garrett Graber Heidi Graham John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Ms. Margaret Grant Dedrea Gray Debbi and Craig Griffith James and Lynn Grogan ‡ Marie Gunn‡ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker‡ Peter Hagel Bill Hamilton Chester and Phyllis Handelman Midge and Frank Heurich Mr. and Mrs. David W. Hines Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Mr. Andrew Holden Deborah Horwitz and Paul Nierman Karen Hunken ‡ Patricia Hurley Paul and Mariana Ingersoll Elizabeth Ingram Tim Jackson & Dana McKenna‡ Dr. Angela James Paul Jeffries

Sharon Jenkins Amon Johnson Ora Jones Natalia and Jeff Kabbe Melvin and Annie Kahn Dr. Susan A. Kecskes ‡ Mr. Tom Kehoe Mr. Mark Kelly Linda Kenney Rita Kerns Jeffrey Kerr David and Sharon Kessler Linda Belan and Vincent Kinehan ‡ Frank and Katherine Kinney‡ Matt and Karen Klickman Ms. Monica Kline Thomas Koelbl and Peggy Forbes Ms. Leslie Kondziela Electra D. Kontalonis Rachel Kraft Ruth Krugly Libby Roth & Bob Kunio‡ Ms. Carolyn Kurtz and Mr. Gary Steinberg ‡ Terri Lacy Mr. Mark Lavin and Mr. Eddie Herbeck Bill Lee and Malinda Hamann Linda Legner Sheila Fields Leiter Mr. Randall M. Lending Wallace and Carol Lennox Leslie and Justin Lenzo Craig Lepkowski Mr. Robert Levinson Laura Lewandowski Leonel P. Limonte Jessica Litman and Jonathan Weinberg Peter Littlewood Mark and Carol Lorenz Stacy Lubs David Marker and Georgann Joseph Ms. Sandra L. Marquez Ms. Harlene Matyas John M. McCabe Mike and Cindy McCabe Dr. and Mrs. McCormick ‡ Lilian McGrady Hugh and Marybeth McLean Sheila and Harvey Medvin Susan Messing Scott & Penny Anixter Family Foundation Eleonore Moncheur de Rieudotte Jolanta Moore ‡ Rick and Joyce Morimoto‡ Lisa Moss Ms. Jennifer Mullin

Joan Neil Mary Pat O’Brien John and Joy O’Malley Nancy and Myles O’Reilly‡ John and Roberta Paskvalich Lynn and Mel Pearl Mr. Tom Pearl Doc Pearson James Mark Pellegrino Robert C. Peterson Suzan and William Pinsof Frank C. Pond ‡ Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley Elaine and Ronald Prebish V. Pristera, Jr.‡ Mr. John Prusnick and Mr. Donald Nelson Jeff and Susan Rashid Gabriel and Dorit Raviv Bridget and Louis Ray Mr. Michael E. Reed Darren Reisberg Dave & Ellen Rice Bill and Deborah Roberts Stephen and Caryn Robin Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone ‡ Susan W. Rogaliner Anthony Rojas and Patricia Freda ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Alan Rosenberg Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Chaya and Walter Roth Susan B. Rubnitz Sue Rundle Ms. Shilpa Rupani Diana and Ed Ruthman Dan Sackett‡ John R. Samolis Bill Savage Curt Schade Allison and Charles Scherer Cynthia Schilsky Susan J. Schwartz Harriet Seitler Michele Semin Jill Severino Leslie Shad and Joe Brennan Mr. and Ms. Marc Shiffman Geoff Smith and Catherine Stewart Ms. Melissa Smith Mr. and Ms. Vik Sohoni Gilda Spencer Stephen Spigel and Diana Williams Jo and George Spindler Seena and Carey Stein Kelly Stonebraker and Deborah Stonebraker

Mr. and Ms. Daniel Swenson Darius Tandon Ms. Audrey Taylor Dick and Alice Teutsch Jeff Thomas and Rebecca Coleman Richard Tobiason Mr. and Mrs. Tony Toulouse Sharing of Blessings Foundation-Trannels Edward and Edith Turkington Manika M. Turnbull Mr. Greg Veza Sue Vondran Mark D. Wachholz‡ Mr. Andre Walker Angela Washelesky Ms. Patty Weaver Mr. and Ms. Don Wilbon Andre Williams Gary and Modena Wilson‡ Jodie Winnett‡ Lawrence Wojcik Ms. Sarah R. Wolff and Mr. Joel L. Handelman Ms. Suzanne Yoon Designers ($250 – $499) Anonymous (8) Linda Loving and Richard Aaronson Nancy Abshire Doris and Harvey Adelstein Philip and June Aimen Gavin Campbell and Diana Aixala John B. Albright Ken and Mary Ellen Alexander Jenny Allen Ms. Sandra Allen Richard and Jill Almeida Adam Alonso Greg and Janine Amoroso Arthur and Rebecca Anderson Gary Anderson and Diane Graziano Mary and Paul F. Anderson Suzanne Andriukaitis‡ Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Mr. and Ms. Clark Ardern Ann and Gene Armstrong Jean Arrington Jessica Ashley and Ethan Ashley-Ferguson‡ Mike and Karen Atwood Dr. Edie Babbitt and Larry Levy Rex Babiera and Geoffrey Mayer Linda A. Bacci‡

David Bailey & DJ Trela‡ Ann Baker Spencer and Daniel Baker Michael and Julie Baker ‡ Ann & William Baker John and Sharon Baldwin Mr. Greg Bales Cindy Barbera-Brelle Janice Barnes-Davis Joan Barnhart Mia A. and Scott Bass Stephanie and Barry Batson‡ Jeffrey Battersby Ms. Laura Battigelli Laura M. Batzer ‡ Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer ‡ Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Kay Beaty Ms. Gail Bedessem The Bellmar Family Julie and Howard Benario Susan R. Benner Roger G. Bensinger R.L. Benton Anne H. Berenberg John and Taru Berg Judith Bergen Ms. Emily Berk Susan Berkowitz James & Allison Bernard Mr. Jonathan Berry Dorian Bezanis Mary Anne and Joe Bigane Lois and Stanley Birer Nathan Birnberg Andrew and Kristine Bishop Dee and Dick Bittman John Blackburn and Bill Gilmer Bernard and Nancy Blayer Laura and Richard Blessen‡ Mr. Alex Block Claudia and John Boatright Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bolas Don and Linda Bolte Ms. Phyllis Booth Sharalyn Borchers Roula Alakiotou Jared Born The Bots Family ‡ Bob and Sue Bowker Kathryn and Carl Boyens Andrew Boyle Nakeya Boyles David and Cheryl Bradford Michael and Kate Bradie‡ Ms. Miriam Braganza Dr. Michael C. Branch M.D.‡ Andrea Brands Mrs. John J. Bransfield, Jr.

‡ Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission ofsteppenwolf superior acting 37 and risk-taking work.

…cont’d Annual Fund Karen Breen Elia and Louis M. Elia‡ Judith and Harold Bregman Thomas and Deborah Brejcha Josh Bresette Jill Broersma Tim Brogla and Laura Demoor Beth Sprecher Brooks Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks‡ Paul Brown Tom and Mary-Doug Brown Erika Bruhn Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Bryant Rony and Tom Buckley Rita Buczynska Bernie Bulger Mr. Jeffry Burba Rebecca Burke Robert Burke Mr. Kelsey Burr and Ms. Stacy R. Scapino Edson N Burton Jr Dr. Steven R. Bussolari Bridget Byrne Stephen Byrne and Kerry Shannon Milli Cady John and Libby Cady Toni and Mike Cainkar Amy Kruzan Callahan Jack and Meredith Callison‡ Judy Cape Mr. Frank Caputo Richard Carlin Barry Joseph Carlson Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Joe Castellano Courtney Cherry Anthony Churchill‡ Bill and Kathy Cissna Richard Clarey James Clark and Christina Labate Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Kimberly Clawson‡ Dr. and Mrs. Clipstone Thomas and Bette Cogan Ms. Gwen G. Cohen Ms. Toba Cohen James Cohn James & Jeanine Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman Lacey Conley ‡ Peter and Judith Connolly ‡ Eduardo & Caroline Conrado‡ Jennifer Cook Karen Cooper Mr. Phillip H. Corboy Jr.and Mrs. Margaret Corboy

Ms. Susan Cox and Mr. Mike Bolton Julie Cozette and Family ‡ Norma I. Crane Tim Crawford Colin and Teri Cross Deborah and Bruce Crown Ms. Linda Cunningham David Curry and George Kohler Judy and Arthur Curtis‡ Margaret and John Dantico Kristen Danyluk Robin K. Dasilva‡ Dave & Mary Jo Orkowski‡ Laura Davies Anne Megan Davis Alexandra Davis Laura M. Davis Barbara L. Dean Heather Debby and Scott Legan Roxanne Decyk & Lew Watts‡ Maureen and Mel De Matoff Michelle and Christopher DeMent Ms. Colleen Connell and Mr. Darryl DePriest Debbie DeSalvo Michel P Desjardins and Pierre Desy Matthew J. Devereux In Memory of Annelle Devlin‡ Mr. Wesley Diener Karl and Gloria Dillenkoffer Bud Dobbins‡ Dr. William & Phyllis Dobrin Jennifer and John Doran Dan Drake Joshua and Natalie Dranoff Julie and Scott Drummond Robert Druzinsky and Renee Friedman‡ Eileen and Howard Dubner Paul J. Dufallo Mimi Duginger Barbara Dunn‡ Suzanne Dupre Alex and Karen Durdevic Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Durot Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dutcher Joan Fee Dutton John and Pat Dyble Wendy Eager David and Alexandra Earle Cole Eastman Jeanene Ebert Elizabeth Eccher and Sam Goodman Mr. Tim Edwards Natasha and Zach Egan Sharon Eiseman and Noel Hertz

Eric Eisenberg‡ Marci Eisenstein Deane Ellis Mrs. Kim Ellis Mark & Mary Anne Emmons‡ Helmut and Susanna Epp Jackie Epstein Ethan and Peggi Erenberg Arlene and Herbert Erlbach Ruben & Kristen Escobar ‡ Eric Evenskaas Edith and Gerald Falk Anna Faulkner Mary and Paul Favaro Stephen Fedo Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fegan Gordon and Patricia Feingold Deb Feldman Drs. Richard and Roberta Feldman Mr. Rodrigo Fernandez Mr. Chuck Finn Fred Fischer and Heather D. Will Lois Farrell Fisher ‡ Ms. Marcia Fishman Debbie Fitzgerald Thomas FitzGibbon John and Patti Flanagan Jan and Bill Flapan Ms. Thea Flaum Angela Floessel‡ David Flynn‡ Adrienne and Peter Foley ‡ Paul Fong Tali Forest-Smith‡ Jeff and Julie Forgash J.P. Fowler Kevin & Stephanie Frailey Frederick Frankel‡ Kim and Alan Frankel‡ Dr. and Mrs. James Franklin Dr. Wayne Franklin Miss Patricia Fraser Priya Fremerman Karen and Bill French Rachel and Jimmy Freund Roselyn L. Friedman Tom and Pat Fronczek Alexis Funches Ms. Amy J. Fyfe‡ Patrick and Alexandra Gaddie‡ Joseph and Christina Galvin‡ Barb Gam Tagge Ms. Sally Garon Paul and Audrey Gaynor Michael Gebel‡ Dorothea and Philip Genetos Hank and Sandy Gentry Jacob Gerber Thomas and Patricia Germino‡

† Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or

quarterly gift toFOR Steppenwolf.

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Michael and Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz‡ Cybele Ghossein & Rod Passman Nancy Gidwitz Geoffrey L. Gifford Hugh and Doris Gilbert Daniel Gilmour Clark and Nancy Gilpin Patricia and James Gladden Gerry and Stan Glass Howard and Anneliese Glick Diane Glickman Sheri Godda Tracy Goepel Sue Golan Robert Goldberg and Dodie Weinstein Marvin and Phyllis Goldblatt Mr. and Mrs. David Golder Ms. Catherine Goldhaber Lauri and David Goldstein Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Golub Jessica L. Gonzalez Sandra and James Goodman Mary Lee Gosz Mr. Duane Goucher Joanne Graham Kenneth E Grant III‡ Paula Grasso Marissa Greco Herbstman‡ Michele and Joseph Greskoviak‡ Frederick Grier and William Bouvel Pamela Griffin‡ Susan Griffin‡ Paul Gruber Ms. Alexandra Gulliver Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis John and Donna Guydan Kim and Randy Hack Sarah Hadley Kathleen Hagerty Robert and Patricia Hahn Andrew Halbur Ben Hall‡ Donald and Susan Hallberg Bob and Melanie Halvorson‡ Larry Hamilton and Ann Hicks‡ Craig A. Hanenburg Amy Hanley ‡ Dr. Bruce Harmon Ken and Holly Harris .

Marlon Harris and Njeri Parker ‡ Carol and William Harrison‡ Tom and Virginia Hartley ‡ Mr. Joe Hasman Richard Hatton Daniel Heald Diana J Healy ‡ Albert and Amy Heber ‡ Ms. Mary Ellen Hennessy

Pat and Ron Henning Jeffrey and Bonnie Herden Nancy and Dale Hershfield Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hession‡ Fred Hill Linda and John Hillman Sebastian Hincapie‡ Dennis Hjelm Drs. Stevan and Ivonne Hobfall Mrs. Vivian Hock Elizabeth and Dan Hodos‡ Donald & Janet Hoeg Kathryn and Bruce Hoffman‡ Robert and Micky Holdsworth‡ Donald and Karen Holmberg James and Eileen Holzhauer Mr. and Mrs. Honesty Cynthia Hood Jack and Bonnie Horbovetz Mary Horgan‡ Bruce and Judy Hoskins Melvin Houston Kenny and Elyse Howanski Edward Howe and Saundra Van Dyke‡ Thomas and Karen Howell William & Dana Hub‡ William Hubbard Robin and Harry Hunter Jorge and Beatriz Iorgulescu Ms. Karen Irvine Mr. George Irwin Marina Jacks Terry Jackson‡ Chuck Jacobson and Mary Lou Vainisi John David Jawor Douglas and Margaret Jayes‡ Gennell Jefferson Kathleen and Hal Jenkins Sheila and Jim Jesionowski Judith Johns Amy Johnson‡ Ruth Johnston‡ Ericka Jones Andra Heller and Andy Jonusaitis Heather Joys‡ Mary Jo Kanady Olwyn J. Kane Norma and Nolan Kaplan Jackie Kappus‡ Mr. and Mrs. James Kargman Jerry Karlin Ernest and Harriett Karmin Kathleen Kastenholz Loreta Kavaliunas‡ Tyler Keating & Andrea Velasco Echeverri‡ Claire Kedjidjian Martin and Barbara Keeley Eric Keen

Francis and Sherri Kelch‡ Erin E. Kelly Jeffrey S Kennedy ‡ Steve Kerch‡ Lucy Kereta-Block Mrs. Kathryn Kerr Vriginia Killian Lund Joseph and Catherine King Valerie King Sylvia and John Kinney Jill Kirby John Kirk Donald and Joan Kittler Mrs. Theresa Klecka Micah Klussmann‡ Mr. and Mrs. David Knapp Mr. and Ms. T.J. Knaus Dr. Eileen Knight ‡ Mr. Justen Knight Douglas and Catherine Knuth John Kobza Anne Kohn Betty H. Kolb Jeff and Katie Kowalsky Marianne Karjacic Kris and Ed Gallagher Patricia Kronberg Ken and Janet Kubis Diane and Bill Kuhlmann Kevin and Anne Kurth Charles and Diane Laff Ms. Leah Lagen Mr. Kurt Lagerloef ‡ Steve LaHaie Karen E. Laine Ed and Bettine Landon‡ Ghita Lapidus Mr. Jeff Larche Nils & Stacey Larsen‡ Patricia Lauber Peter and Shirley Dugdale Laundy Mr. & Mrs. John Law ‡ Catherine and Peter Lawler Janet Lawrence Amanda Lawson John Leanse‡ Julia and Daniel Lee Ms. Roberta Lee Yohannan Lee‡ Elizabeth Leeth Laurie Leli Ms. Pamela Lenane Jeffrey and Elise Lennard Steven and Roberta J Leon Bob and Julie Lepri Brienne Letourneau and Richard Bailey David Levin Dr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Levin Marc and Cynthia Levin Gabriel Levine

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…cont’d Annual Fund Michael and Cara Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levitin Gregory Lewis and Mary Strek‡ Ray and Norene Lewis‡ Fran and Chuck Licht ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lichter Mr. and Mrs. Burton Litwin Louise and Gershon Locker Renee Logan David and Jean Long Katherine M. Lorenz Maggie and Tom Lovaas Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal‡ Judy and George Lowman Thomas P. Luning Thomas and Elizabeth Lyons Mr. Eric Macey Jennifer Mack Carrie McNally & Rick Maechling‡ Frank and Chris Maggio Anthony and Julianne Maggiore Mr. John Mahoney Drs. Harris and Phoebe Mainster Karen and Daniel Maki J. V. Malkovich Sandra Mangurian Samantha & David Mann Wendy Manto‡ Steve and Melissa Marovich Ed and Linnea Martin‡ Tom and Robin Martin‡ Millionaire Mason Henry and Peggy Matson Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister Mary McArthur and John Hawes Charles McCaa‡ John McCambridge Nancy McCartan Tanner McCleerey ‡ Alyssa Mcculloch Anne McDevitt Maureen O’Leary & Sean McDonaugh‡ Betty McGhee Paul and Lisa McGrady ‡ Mary and Dan McGuire Michael & Liz McHugh‡ Sara McIntosh Maureen McIntyre‡ Ryan and Claire McKenzie Denise and Barry McKeown Robert and Lorel McMillan Claretta Meier Jack and Jane Mentzer Terri Mertz and Richard P. Deranian David and Linda Metschke‡ Ms. Karlyn R. Meyer Ms. Barbara Meyers Charles and Sylvia Meyers‡

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Kenneth Meyer Lynn Meyers Tom Mikrut Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Mr. Greg Miller Mia and Jonathan Miller ‡ Sheba Miller-Morris Ron and Pat Miller Stephen and Kimberley Miller Suzanne H. Milton Ron and Barbara Moline‡ Timothy Moon‡ Ms. W. Moore Skinner and Mr. J. Skinner Melinda Moore Mr. Carlos Morales Mr. William More Tracy Morgenroth Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morris Sheba Miller-Morris Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison Beverly and Dale Mortensen Amy Morton and Rob Milburn Jodi A. Morton‡ David and Linda Moscow Margaret Moses and Mike Zimmer Carly-Rae Moss‡ Sarah Mowaswes Ms. Melissa Moyer Dr. and Mrs. Martin Mozes John and Colleen Mueller Paul and Joyce Muller Mary Ellen Murphy William and Frances Myers Jenny Nagaoka and Bart Longacre Ajay and Preeti Nagarkatte Vincent and Amy Narea Ms. Kathleen Nass Mr. Michael Nauman and Ms. Emily Brannon Randy Nease Gavin Nelson‡ William and Leslie Nelson Mr. Tony Neuhoff Michael Neupert and Erin Bodendorfer Tom and Julia Nicholas Aaron Nichols‡ Mark and Maggie Nichter ‡ Dave and Chris Niday Craig and Jenny Niemann‡ Jeffrey and Stefanie Nimick Susan and Larry Nutson Dr. Amaka Nweke Ann and Dan O’Brien John M. O’Donnell and Bonnie L. Humphrey Jill and Ronan O’Donovan‡ Dennis J. O’Keefe and Mary Jo Barrett Larry and Barbara Olin

Jeffrey Olsen Sky & Lauren Opila‡ Jamie and Anita Orlikoff ‡ Ms. Shirley O’Rourke Jerome and Kathryn Osen‡ Alberta O’Shaughnessy Mr. Tom O’Sullivan Ozyurt Family ‡ Frances and William Paden Deborah Page Debra Parker Mark and Mary Partridge Vanessa Passini Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Zack Payne‡ Ron Pegram‡ Hershel Perlmutter Ross and Jackie Peterson Ross and Carla Peterson Alex and Julie Philbrick‡ John Phillips‡ Rheva Phillips Barb and Ned Piehler Mr. Pete Pieruccini Mr. and Mrs. Steve Pillsbury Mike and Shannon Piotrowski‡ Manya Jo Pleva Martha Plimpton Brian Plonka Donald and Diane Pochyly Daniel J. Pooley ‡ Andrew Sullender ‡ Kristina Postrero Michael Powell and Debora Boyda‡ Mr. Miles Simmons and Mr. Richard Powell Glenn A. Preibis Seamus Prendergast ‡ Jennifer and Peter Preston Jean and Preston Price Lynn and Clayton Pruitt Dave and Darby Putman Peter Quagliana and Susan Dennison Pamela and Edwin Qualls Karen and Mark Quinn Bernard and Joan Rabinowitz Aubree Radocchio Heidi Ralli Diego Ramirez Harold And Erica Ramis Len and Barbara Rand Heather N. Ransom‡ Dean Rapp Jason & Sarah Rasmusen John Rawls Daniel W. Ray and Lynne S. Kaminer Ms. Nancy Ray

Elizabeth Raymond and Paul Hybel Dr. and Mrs. Loris Rayner Mr. Chuck Rebesco Octavia Reese‡ Fred and Karen Rhynders‡ Ed and Suzette Rickert Sandi Riggs Ms. Stefanie Riles Ms. Alexandria Rinaldi Paul Rink Lisa Roberts‡ Stanley Roberts Gina Robertson Chloe Robinson‡ Ms. Dorothy Robinson Louis and Barbara Rocah Mr. Joseph Rochetto and Mr. A. Anderson Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman David Rodriguez and Jennifer Torchia Dr. Daniel A. Roller and Ms. Lynn A. Hellwig Alexander Roman Mr. Jimmy Ronan Mrs. Sarene L. Rosen Bernie and Judy Rosenstein Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rosenthal Linda and Ronald Rosenthal‡ Julie Rosner & David Fishman Mr. Robert Rosner Joseph Ross‡ Tony Rossi Michael and Bonnie Rothman Mr. Joseph Rudas Joseph D. Ruggirello Ray and Ann Rusnak Mr. and Ms. Kenneth Sacks Dario and Theresa Sacomani‡ Jeffrey and Ellen Sadur Ms. Teresa Samala de Guzman Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sandoval Baybee Sandra‡ Laurie Sartain Christopher and Ann Marie Saternus Robert and Mary Ann Savard‡ Sue Tobias and Alan Schapiro Tim and Sue Schell Mr. and Mrs. Darryl G. Schimeck The Schirato Family Scott Schmeling Rose Schmidt ‡ Marilyn Low Schmitt ‡ David and Alexis Schmitz Frank and Karen Schneider Marcus Koepke and Becky Schoefield

Cynthia Scholl‡ Stewart & Marta Schrader Jessica and Christoph Schrey Mrs. Margaret Schuring Howard Schultz and Jan Keller Schultz Richard and Mary Beth Schumacher ‡ Nicholas Schwab‡ Linda & John Scott ‡ Thomas D. & Barbara Jo Scott Robert Connealy and Heather Seidelman‡ Ms. Merry Senchak Alden and Kristen Senior Jeremiah and Caroline Seraphine Marjorie P. Shafton Margaret Shaklee Matti and Drora Shalev David Shanahan Sandra Shane-DuBow Eve Shapiro‡ Jeffrey S. Sharp and Elizabeth D. Sharp Christine Shaver ‡ Dr. D. Shaw And Mrs. L. Gordon David and Kimberly Shaw Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade‡ Dr. Mitchell and Sharon Sheinkop Cathy Shelko‡ Kathryn Shenk Jawan M. Sheppard Brian and Melissa Sherman Elpiniki Shipp Mr. and Mrs. William Shorey ‡ Bradley and Ellen Shorser Christine Sibrava Ms. Culleen Siebert Margaret and Alan Silberman Scott Silberstein Ilene Simmons George and Lynne Simon Mr. Joyce Simon Mr. and Mrs. Skogan Ada Skyles Christine A. Slivon Patricia Costello Slovak Mr. Richard Smart and Ms. Sheila Owens Janet Carl Smith and Mel Smith Sean & Jilliann Smith‡ Kevin Smith Jackie Snuttjer ‡ Ms. Maria I. Sobrero Lawrence and Shirley Solomon Mr. Steve Solomon Dusica Korda-Sparks and James C. Sparks Bonnie Spring Patricia Staab Lenette Staudinger

Nikki and Fred Stein The Steinbachs‡ Joel and Kai Sternstein Professor Andrea Stevens Tricia and Kevin Stewart Michael Stolarski and Kim Steinke Andrew and Dr. Jessica Strang‡ Mr. Timothy Strong Larry E. Stuckey II Mark and Irene Sudac Dr. and Mrs. K. Sullivan MD Linda and Stephen Sullivan E.J. Sutton‡ Sylwia Szewczyk‡ Obie and Peter Szidon Ms. Ester Tanury Ms. Eva Taves Ms. Ann Taylor and Mr. Stephen Skardon Elaine Taylor Ellie Taylor ‡ John R. and Catherine Taylor Mr. Robert Taylor Taylor Tefft Cheryl Thaxton‡ Rhonda Thomas William & Diana Thomas‡ Doug and Anne Thompson‡ Nancie Noie Thompson‡ Sue and Jim Thompson Bruce & Ida Thurman Mary Ann Tolli Angela Toomsen Dr. Susan Torma Bruce and Jan Tranen Carol D. Trapp Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis Ms. Sue Tresselt Jane McIntyre and Joe Troccolo‡ Jim and Cora True-Frost Ms. Leslie Truelove Dana Turban Susan D. Tuteur Carissa van Ausdall‡ Mary Vanecko‡ Gabriella Vargo and Anna Vargo‡ Brenda Velandra and Deana Velandra Paule Verdier ‡ Ms. Catherine Vincent Mr. Jay Vincent Charlie and Marcia Vinopal‡ Pam Voitik‡ Ron Volanti Jr.‡ Paul D. Waas Mrs. Jimmye Wade Eugene and Sandra Wagner Lillian and Steven Walanka Marsie Wallach Ms. Colleen Walsh Patrick Walsh

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…cont’d Annual Fund William and Patricia Walsh Ms. Lee-Lin Wang Mary Warchol Crawford and Barbara Ward Mr. and Mrs. William Wardrop Joe and Nicole Warganz Deborah and Neil Warner ‡ Elissa B. Weaver James and Christine Webb Clifford Webster Michael Weiland and Shelley MacGregor

Marc Weinstein and Martha Laffey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kasper ‡ Hava and Ariel Weissberg Lisa Anne Werner ‡ Ms. Drenda Wiley Sonya Williams, M.D.‡ Ruth Winter Dr. David Wise and Dr. Dianna Niebylski‡ Iris S. Witkowsky Coleman Wolf and Ellen Chapelle‡ Stephanie Wolf ‡ Lisa Wolfe and Mark DiGanci

Alex Wolking Ms. Emily Wong Carol N. Yamamoto Maureen “Moe” Yanes Dick Yankow Rodney and Susan Yergler ‡ Ms. Denise Young Mark Zampardo Dr. Ronald Zank‡ David and Nikki Zarefsky Mary Ann Zarkin‡ Barbara & Bill Zillman Tighe Zimmers Mark and Margie Zivin

IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS Ambassador Chicago Randall Arney Rick and Deann Bayless Beyond Events Catering Kevin Boehm BLVD The BOKA Restaurant Group Ebs Burnough & Pierre Lagrange CH Distillery The Chicago Cubs Chicago Council on Planned Giving ClientFirst Consulting Group Michelle A. DeMent Evolution Interiors Exelon and Mary Ludford James Franco Frost Chicago Johnny Galecki

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Amy Morton Paramount Events Partytime-HDO Productions, Inc. Stephen Payne Peacock 9 Jeff Perry and Linda Lowy POP Pinauaga Wines Schiff Hardin LLP Namir Smallwood Scott Rudin and Joey Parnes Productions Second Stage Theatre Company Theatre Development Fund United Airlines Vinci V.I.P. Valet Services, Inc. Whole Foods Lincoln Park

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