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Ensemble members Tracy Letts & Amy Morton discuss Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Artistic Director Martha Lavey

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Welcome We continue our season exploring the public/private self with Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This is a scary play to produce. It is so well known and so respected, and the 1964 film of the play, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, is etched in our cultural memory. The play won the Tony® for Best Play in 1963, and was awarded the Pulitzer for Best New Play, a decision overruled by the award’s advisory committee which objected to the play’s profanity and sexual themes. The demand on the actors is tremendous—both because of the intrinsic challenges of the roles’ psychological depths and because of the extrinsic challenge of meeting the huge expectations of previous performances. But the challenges are irresistible. Virginia Woolf is a great American play, and as a company of actors dedicated to telling the stories of our complex cultural life, Steppenwolf is proud to bring the play to our audiences with the hope that you will experience again—or for the first time—the great thrill of the play’s depths and truths. One of the great pleasures of Virginia Woolf is how successfully it operates both on the interpersonal level as a story of the marriage of Martha and George, and as an allegory for an America in transition. The idea of transition is alive in the play as Albee draws our attention to the succession of generations. Throughout the play is a recurrent allusion to age and vitality: Martha’s father, the president of the college, the patriarch, is a hovering presence; the age difference between Martha and George is repeatedly invoked; Nick and Honey are greeted as “kids” and Nick’s physical superiority is a weapon Martha points at George; and, most significantly, the motif of having a baby underlies the relationships of both couples. In a play that seems an extended contest of survival, the question of who owns the future is critical and the relative ages of the couples signal an inevitable succession of power. What will the next generation, modeled in the image of Nick and Honey, look like? This nexus of ideas—fertility, ascendency, the future—is captured in the play’s most potent symbol: the baby. The relationship of both couples is significantly shaped by the narrative of having a baby. We learn that Nick and Honey married on the idea that they were pregnant. It was, in that sense, a forced marriage. They learn, upon marrying, that it was a false pregnancy—an “hysterical pregnancy”—and this mistake? ploy? lie? forms the basis of their union. We learn, too, that a marriage to Honey provides Nick an economic advantage, further enforcing the sense that the marriage is founded on a (mis)calculation—a dishonest contract that is proving, despite continued attempts at pregnancy, unfertile.

The narrative of a baby is similarly crucial in describing the relationship between George and Martha. The story of their child is a long-rehearsed ritual between them. It is an image of their past and future shaped to the contours of their desire, an expression of both their love and their profound frustration and shame. The great, dramatic event of the play is Martha’s revelation of the “child” to Honey and then Nick. What had been the inner-most secret between Martha and George and the ballast of any love between them is exposed to public view and disassembled. The “child” is the locus of their intimacy—a private, shared narrative that binds them together and the play opens the question of who they will be together if the narrative they have constructed is destroyed. The importance of creating a family is particularly lively in a play written in the early 1960s in America. The play is prescient in that sense: the 1950s was the model of an American Dream which was shocked into revision by the events of the late 1960s. Images of the perfect nuclear family, a staple of early ‘60s television, gave way to Vietnam, America’s first televised war and the record of the political and social movements of the late ‘60s. In Virginia Woolf, we see two couples unmasked in their performance of family, at war with each other. What will it mean for each of these couples if the story they tell of themselves is exposed as a lie? What does it mean for us, as a nation, if the American Dream, as represented in these couples, is barren? The play’s resolution is deeply ambiguous. What is the future of George and Martha without the solacing fantasy of their child? By extension, what is an America without the image of our dream? The child of Martha and George is destroyed by exposure: their private life subjected to the public witness of Nick and Honey. Likewise, it was the insular, isolationist America of the 1950s that was met by the witness of the other—youth, women, people of color—and forced to revise the narrative of its past and future. The revision continues: we continue to struggle with the story of our American identity, unsure of what we will be if we give up the story we have told ourselves. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is an extraordinary play for the way in which it tells an interpersonal story that resonates out to a larger social and political realm. The relationship of Martha and George is constituted in a slippery, elusive balance of truth and lies. The upset of that balance by the presence of Nick and Honey parallels the revisionary insistence of each new generation: what will we be now? Can we survive the scrutiny of our American Dream?

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who’s afraid of virginia woolf? Directed by Pam MacKinnon Featuring Carrie Coon*, Madison Dirks*, Tracy Letts†* and Amy Morton†*

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cast/contributors cast (in order of appearance) Amy Morton†* Martha Tracy Letts†* George Madison Dirks* Nick Carrie Coon* Honey

setting The living room of a house on the campus of a small New England college. There will be two 15-minute intermissions. There will be a post-show discussion immediately following the performance.

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Doug McDade* George Ginger Lee McDermott Martha Brendan Marshall-Rashid Nick Kathleen Romond Honey

Erica Daniels Casting Director Josh Altman Assistant Director Rebecca Stevens Assistant Dramaturg Rachel Rockwell Dance Coach Gina Patterson Lighting Assistant Joanna White Charge Scenic Artist Melissa Rutherfoord Assistant Charge Artist Emily Altman Scenic Artist Andrew Berg/Chris Grubb/Kyle Land Ryan Poethke/Emily Guthrie Properties Overhire Ashley K. Singh Stage Management Apprentice

Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be presented by Arena Stage as part of the The Edward Albee Festival in Arena’s inaugural season in its new Mead Center for American Theater. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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Carrie Coon (Honey) is thrilled to be making her Steppenwolf debut. In Chicago, she has appeared in Magnolia (Goodman Theatre) and Bronte (Remy Bumppo Theatre). Regional credits include: Blackbird and Reasons to Be Pretty (Renaissance Theaterworks); Anna Christie, Our Town, The Diary of Anne Frank (Madison Repertory Theatre); and four seasons with American Players Theatre. A native of Copley, Ohio, Coon received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison Dirks (Nick) is thrilled to be back at Steppenwolf for this production. Previous Chicago credits include: The Chosen and Gary (Steppenwolf Theatre); Girl, 20 (Serendipity Theatre-L.A. remount); A Man For All Seasons (TimeLine Theatre); The Last Supper (Infusion Theatre); Hillbilly Antigone (Lookingglass Theatre-u/s). Film and TV credits include: According to Jim, The Chicago Code, Public Enemies and the upcoming The Dilemma. Madison is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a graduate of Louisiana State University. Tracy Letts (George) joined the ensemble in 2002. Previous Steppenwolf productions include American Buffalo, Betrayal, The Pillowman, Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross (also Dublin

and Toronto), Three Days of Rain and many others. Other productions include: Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre, NY); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (A Red Orchid Theatre); Conquest of the South Pole (Famous Door); Bouncers (the Next Lab). TV and film: Guinevere, U.S. Marshals, Profiler, Prison Break, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and many others. As a playwright, he is the author of Killer Joe, Bug (also screenplay), Man from Nebraska (Pulitzer finalist), August: Osage County (Pulitzer Prize, Tony® Award for Best Play) and Superior Donuts. Amy Morton (Martha) is an actor, director and Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1997. Her Steppenwolf acting credits include: August: Osage County (also Broadway, London and Sydney), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (also on Broadway), Betrayal, Last of the Boys, The Well-Appointed Room, Berlin Circle, The Royal Family, Homebody/Kabul, Three Days of Rain, The Unmentionables, Cherry Orchard, The Time of Your Life and many others. Directing credits at Steppenwolf include American Buffalo, Our Country’s Good, The Weir, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dublin Carol, Topdog/Underdog, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Pillowman, Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Dresser as well as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alliance Theatre) and Awake and Sing (Northlight Theatre). Before joining Steppenwolf, she was a member of The Remains Theatre Ensemble in Chicago for 15 years. She can be in seen in the films Up in the Air, Rookie of the Year, 8mm, Falling Down and the soon to be released The Dilemma.

In rehearsal photos by Joel Moorman Brendan Marshall-Rashid (u/s Nick) is thrilled to be a part of his first production at Steppenwolf. Chicago credits include: Romeo and Juliet and Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Oklahoma! (American Theater Company at Theater on the Lake); Chekhov Stories: The Emerging Woman (Piven Theatre Workshop); and The Frogs (Pegasus Players). Other credits include: King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); and Julius Caesar and Royal Hunt of the Sun (Texas Shakespeare Festival).

Kathleen Romond (u/s Honey) is thrilled to be working at Steppenwolf. Chicago credits include: Blind Date and Talking Pictures as a part of The Horton Foote Festival (Goodman Theatre); The Love of the Nightingale (Red Tape Theatre); and Beer Don’t Break Your Heart (Two Birds/ Collaboraction). Regional credits include: The Cherry Orchard and The Government Inspector (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Kathleen is a proud Red Tape Theatre Company Member. She received her BFA in acting from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.

Doug McDade (u/s George) returns to Steppenwolf where he was last seen in the Arts Exchange production of Fahrenheit 451. Doug performed the role of George for the Jeff Award-winning ensemble of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Shattered Globe Theatre) several years ago. Other Chicago credits include his critically acclaimed performance in House of Blue Leaves, The Price, Judgement of Nuremberg (Shattered Globe Theatre); Omnium Gatherum (Next Theatre); and Stalag 17 (American Blues Theatre). TV credits: Unsolved Mysteries: The Final Appeal and The Archers of Omaha (Bunk Bed Brothers). Most recent film credits: The Merry Gentleman, Repetition and Black Mail.

Edward Albee (Playwright) was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony® Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony® Award), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1975), The Lady From Dubuque (1977-78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986-87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony® Award), Occupant (2001), At Home at the Zoo: (Act 1, Homelife. Act 2, The Zoo Story) (2004) and Me, Myself, & I (2007). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980. In 1996, he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a special Tony® Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Ginger Lee McDermott (u/s Martha) is excited to be working with Steppenwolf where she was last seen in The Crucible as Ann Putnam, Sarah Good and Elizabeth Proctor. Other Chicago credits include Jade Heart (Chicago Dramatists); Othello (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo Theatre).

Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks with ensemble members Amy Morton and Tracy Letts

Pam MacKinnon (Director) is an OBIE Award-winning New York-based director. Recent productions include premieres of Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE award and Lortel nominations); Rachel Axler’s Smudge (Women’s Project); and Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages); as well as Shakespeare’s Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw (South Coast Rep). She is a longtime interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage); The Goat or, Who’s Sylvia? (Alley Theatre and Vienna’s English Theatre); and The Play About the Baby (Philadelphia Theatre and Goodman Theatre); as well as premieres of At Home at the Zoo (formerly called Peter and Jerry at Hartford Stage and Second Stage); and Occupant (Signature Theatre). Additional recent work includes premieres of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf Theatre); and Itamar Moses’ The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club and Old Globe). She is a Drama League and

Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab alumna and an Affiliated Artist with the New York downtown company Clubbed Thumb. Todd Rosenthal (Scenic Design) recently designed A Parallelogram at Steppenwolf. He received a 2008 Tony® Award for August: Osage County. Designs for regional theaters and abroad: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Alley Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Centerstage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare, National Theatre, London, Sydney Theatre, Australia. Big Apple Circus set designer. Current projects include: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Theatre Royal, Ireland); The MotherF***er with the Hat (Broadway); Ghost Light (Oregon Shakespeare and Berkeley Rep); The Seagull (Goodman Theatre); and God of Carnage (Guthrie Theater). Winner: 2009 Lawrence Olivier Award, 2009 Michael Merritt Award, 2010 Los Angeles Garland Award. AssociateProfessor: Northwestern University. Graduate: Yale Drama School.

In rehearsal Nan Cibula-Jenkins (Costume Design) At Steppenwolf Theatre, she has designed costumes for American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Topdog/Underdog, The Dresser, among many others. In Chicago, her work has been seen at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre, the Goodman Theatre and Writers’ Theatre. Regional credits include costume designs at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Dallas Theater Center, Alley Theatre in Houston, American Repertory Theatre, Public Theatre, ACT Seattle, Manhattan Theatre Club and The Kennedy Center. She was the original costume designer for the American premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross at the Goodman Theatre and she also did the original Broadway and tour productions of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. Ms. CibulaJenkins is a recipient of the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration and she has also been a recipient of the Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award and the Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design. She is the head of the Costume Design program at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago. Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design) has designed on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at major theaters including the McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center, Roundabout Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New York Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center. He has been honored with three Tony®, eight Helen Hayes, Audelco and Ovation Award nominations. He is the recipient of an Outer Critics Circle Award, USITT Distinguished Achievement Award, Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and

Collaboration and two Helen Hayes Awards. He is an Affiliated Artist at Arena Stage where the Fellows program bears his name and he teaches at New York University. Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (Sound Design) Broadway credits include music composition and sound for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing of Love and sound for Superior Donuts, reasons to be pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off-Broadway credits include music and sound for Inked Baby, After Ashley, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, Marvin’s Room, sound for Jitney, Juvenilia, Brundibar, The Pain and the Itch and music direction and sound for Eyes for Consuela and Ruined. They have created music and sound at many of America’s resident theaters (often with Steppenwolf Theatre) and at several international venues. Nick Sandys (Fight Choreographer) is delighted to return to Steppenwolf where he previously coached violence on The Seafarer, Honest, Valparaiso and Homebody/Kabul. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with The Society of American Fight Directors, and his combat choreography has been seen at The Metropolitan Opera, Goodman Theatre (over 20 shows, including Ruined), Lyric Opera of Chicago (over 30 operas), Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Shattered Globe Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, First Folio, Next Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Baltimore Stage, Kansas City Rep, Dallas Theater Center and at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where he has taught since 1995.

Ensemble Member Tracy Letts with Carrie Coon

Malcolm Ewen (Stage Manager) first stage managed for Steppenwolf in 1987 with Frank Galati’s production of Born Yesterday. Since that time he has worked for Steppenwolf on four continents and has taken three Steppenwolf shows to Broadway, including the Tony® Award winning The Grapes of Wrath. In recent Steppenwolf seasons he stage managed Endgame, American Buffalo, The Tempest, Kafka on the Shore, The Diary of Anne Frank and Man From Nebraska. On Broadway, he was the PSM of Paul Simon’s musical, The Capeman. A graduate of Amherst College, he returns every summer to the Green Mountains of Vermont to direct at the Weston Playhouse. Deb Styer (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked with Steppenwolf most recently as PSM on the Sydney production of August: Osage County and The Brother/Sister Plays. Also at Steppenwolf: The House on Mango Street, Up, August: Osage County (Chicago, Broadway and London), Betrayal, The Bluest Eye (Chicago and New York), 100 Saints You

Should Know, Love Song, Lady Madeline, Last of the Boys, Men of Tortuga and The Chosen. Other Chicago credits include Take Me Out (About Face Theatre) and American Dead (American Theatre Company). Martha Lavey (Artistic Director) is an ensemble member and the Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre and has appeared at Steppenwolf in Endgame, Good Boys and True, Love-Lies-Bleeding, Lost Land, I Never Sang for My Father, The House of Lily, Valparaiso, The Memory of Water, The Designated Mourner, Supple in Combat, Time of My Life, A Clockwork Orange, Talking Heads, SLAVS!, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Ghost in the Machine, A Summer Remembered, Love Letters, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Savages. Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight and Remains theaters and in New York at the Women’s Project and Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, The Theatre Communications Group (TCG),

In rehearsal 3Arts, USA Artists and the City Arts panel of Chicago. Lavey holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is a member of the National Advisory Council for the School of Communication at Northwestern. She is a recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award and an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University. Martha is currently serving as Board President of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG). Martha received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University.

career as an arts consultant and trustee for such national organizations as the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Ford Foundation’s Working Capitol Fund, National Arts Stabilization Fund, the League of Resident Theatres, Theatre Trustees of America, Theatre Communications Group and the American Arts Alliance. He currently serves as a trustee of Door County’s Peninsula Players and the League of Chicago Theatres and is Chairman of the Illinois Arts Alliance.

David Hawkanson (Executive Director) prior to Steppenwolf was the Managing Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the artistic leadership of Joe Dowling. Before the Guthrie, he served for eight years as the Managing Director of Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut with Artistic Director Mark Lamos. Earlier in his career, he was Managing Director of the Arizona Theater Company and a Guest Administrator at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. He was a former senior staff member at the National Endowment for the Arts and subsequently chairman of its Theater Program. He has also had an active

Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks with ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton

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Director Pam MacKinnon

Ensemble member Amy Morton

Martha Lavey: First of all, will you guys tell me how you met? Tracy Letts: Yeah. I saw Amy before I met her. She was in Lie of the Mind at Steppenwolf…’86… ’87… somewhere in there. She was great in that show, and she was topless, and that made an impression. And around the same time at the Gaslight across the street, someone had written some very dirty graffiti about Amy with a phone number.

you guys was, “My golly these guys have collaborated so many times,” and it’s often you play a married couple. TL: I counted once. This will be the fifth, sixth, seventh time we’ve been married. ML: Yes. And your history with this play, Amy, you directed Tracy in a production at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. What year was that? AM: I hate years.

Amy Morton: Which by the way was not my phone number, I don’t think. ML: Tracy would know because I’m certain he called it. AM: But we didn’t meet then. We met on the set of Straight Talk. TL: No, we never met on Straight Talk.

TL: 2003. ML: And Tracy, was it considered unlikely for you to do it because you were younger than George? TL: I think I was a little younger than he’s written. I don’t think I had my hand up. I think I assumed that somebody else was going to be playing that part.

AM: Oh, I thought we did. ML: That was a movie shooting in town?

A Marriage Made

TL: It was a movie that was shooting in town in which we played husband and wife, and yet we had none of the same scenes and never worked together. We met playing husband and wife in The Day Room by Don DeLillo at the Remains Theatre. Susan Nussbaum, her wheelchair went off the stage and she was injured and had to be replaced. She had no understudy at the time, and Amy stepped in.

Ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton discuss Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Artistic Director Martha Lavey.

ML: So that was early ‘90s. I saw that show. And then was the next experience in working together in Three Days of Rain at Steppenwolf, which was ’99. Because what I was thinking about in talking to

AM: No, you said to me, “I’m your George.” TL: I did? AM: Yeah, you said, “I’m Your George.” TL: It sounds like me. And I think she auditioned a lot of other people and couldn’t get any of the people she wanted, and so she… AM: No, that’s actually not the story. I said, “Fine,” because he doesn’t really raise his hand unless he knows he can do it. It’s not like I’m dealing with an actor who feels he can play absolutely everything. I thought it was a great idea, and he looked older than he was anyway, so I thought it would work really well, but

AM: A lot of people do say that, but I don’t know that I believe it. I also believe, like that it isn’t Martha’s play, necessarily.

Three Days of Rain, 1999

TL: That from a dramaturgical standpoint George is the protagonist of the piece, and Martha is the antagonist of the piece. ML: How so?

we didn’t know if we could get him because of a scheduling conflict which was why I had to hold all those auditions.

American play. It’s a story about America, let me put it that way. ML: What aspect of it?

TL: You remember everything.

TL: Well, to hear Amy even talk about this, it’s clear to me that she has directed the play. Because the concerns for an actor do become really nuts and bolts: the marriage, the relationship, the history of these people. From my standpoint, as the guy playing George, the play has a lot to do with his need to eradicate illusion from this longstanding relationship. That if in fact this relationship is going to progress, if these people are going to stay married to one another, they’re going to have to face some painful truths.

recognizable to married people, some of that being the cruel aspect of it. At the same time, I contend (and this is a holdover from my previous attempt at the role), that they love each other very much, that there’s a lot of love in this marriage. In fact, without that love the central conceit of the play falls apart. It’s hard for me to understand why, dramaturgically speaking, they don’t walk away from each other. Why they put up with the cruelties they put up with. That’s a complicated construct. At the heart of it, I believe they love each other. So, I think an audience identifies that dichotomy, the love/hate aspect of any intimate relationship. ML: Now, Mr. Albee is going to be with us for some of this rehearsal process working with Pam MacKinnon, a director with whom he’s worked frequently. Does that inhibit you?

ML: What provokes him to do that?

TL: Amy’s freaked out by it.

TL: It was a good production.

AM: Particularly after World War II, the young Turks were coming in, scientists were coming in, in the form of Nick, and taking over the world. It’s about old guard and new guard. There’s a post-war mentality about the fading out of certain people that used to be American heroes.

AM: Because of a slip Martha makes. It’s a perfect opportunity. There is a pact made that the subject of the child will never be brought up in public and Martha slips.

ML: Amy, so now that you’ve directed the play, what do you think it’s about?

ML: Who, by the way, are in the liberal arts tradition.

TL: Slips or provokes.

AM: I’m nervous. Yeah, sure, it makes me nervous. It’s Edward Albee. He’s gonna be in the room, and what if he doesn’t like the way I say it. It certainly gives me the jitters. I mean, I’m hoping that after day one I won’t feel that way, usually that happens. Are you?

TL: Yeah, what’s it about Amy?

AM: Right. And out comes the youngsters who could give a flyer. That doesn’t mean anything to them. A new world is coming.

AM: Oh yeah. I had to sit through all the auditions, dude. ML: It was a really good production.

AM: Well, it depends on how you choose to look at it because I think it can be very simply about a marriage. It can be about an incredibly complicated relationship that has a lot to do with the time in which it is placed, but I think it’s also a very

ML: But what about that central dynamic between that man and woman? Because wouldn’t a lot of people say it’s about that marriage.

ML: So the contract is revised. Why ask people to watch it? I mean, it’s painful.

TL: No.

TL: Well, it’s really funny. One of the things that gets overlooked is that it’s very entertaining. The dialogue is very funny, and the characters are too, even though they have taken on these iconic proportions. I think there are a lot of things about this marriage that are

TL: No, sure I would. There are people who would make me nervous, I think. I mean, first of all, I’ve met him and spent a little time with him on three or four occasions. I’ve found him to be a lovely gentleman, and very smart and clearly somebody I think I could learn a lot from.

ML: Well, he would never own that.

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But also, we’re not gonna screw this up. We’re not gonna stink up the joint. ML: He’s also done it before. TL: I have done it before. ML: You know, I feel so fortunate, as I’ve been talking to you guys, to have two theater artists be able to sustain collaboration for as long as you have and will. It really is extraordinary isn’t it? AM: I think so. I mean, we don’t know many theater artists that have that opportunity, and I think one of the reasons we have that opportunity is that since 19-whatever we’ve been in the same theater company. I don’t think many artists have that chance because it’s such an itinerant profession. We actually get to pick the work. TL: That’s one of the great things about the company for me. We not only get to

mix it up with different company members that we haven’t worked with before, but we also get to revisit with the same company members. And you see collaborations like this taking place elsewhere, throughout the company. So, that’s one of the cool things about it for me and that we’re given a venue to do that, even though I drive her [Amy] a little crazy. ML: So, August: Osage County, three and a half hours long. What do you think this clocks in as? TL: Oh, I think over three. You know Albee actually chastised me for August being a bit long. I was like, “are you kidding?” AM: Seriously? ML: Kettle. Pot. Black.

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virginia woolf:

Politics, academia & war By Christopher Shea

In his review of the 1976 Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, New York Times critic Walter Kerr lauds the electric relationship at the play’s center, but dismisses Albee’s ostensible attempts at social critique. Using the names of the leads as evidence, Kerr asserts that George and Martha stand in for our first President and First Lady, while their unseen son represents the American Dream. But Kerr dismisses the apparent allegory as a trite distraction, irrelevant to the “immediate human probing” on display in George and Martha’s relentless banter. “George is a historian,” Kerr avers, but “this is not a history lesson.”

ing pursuit of Nick’s field—science. He imagines sometime in the near future “a race of scientists and mathematicians, each dedicated to and working for the greater glory of the supercivilization.”

Three decades later, the suggestion that George and Martha exist in a historical vacuum proves difficult to swallow. It takes little perspective to notice that the conditions of the early Cold War shape George and Martha’s circumstances. The world changed quickly in the 18 months leading up to Woolf ’s fictional dénouement (Albee finished the play in 1962). In April of 1961, Kennedy instigated the Bay of Pigs invasion, a plan to overthrow the Cuban government and sever Cuba’s ties to the Soviet Union.

No political circumstance shapes the evening’s proceedings as thoroughly as the structure of the small world they occupy, the unnamed college in fictional New Carthage. Many of the changes that have defined the American university in more recent years had already been wrought. In 1944, the GI Bill was passed, fully underwriting post-secondary education for nearly eight million World War II veterans. In the late 1950s, well under 40% of faculty at many American colleges had PhDs: many were simply grandfathered into tenured positions. But the GI Bill (renewed in the Korean War), had created a far more educated population and competition for professorships consequently blossomed. The now-familiar, meritocratic system of tenure based on PhDs and publishing fell into place. The transition was swift. At one New England college, the number of faculty with doctorates rose 7% between 1961 and 1962 alone.

The invasion failed. In the summer of 1961, the government of East Germany (probably under the direction of Soviet Secretary Nikita Khruschev) erected the Berlin Wall. In September 1962, the Soviet Union resolved to send arms to Cuba. And in October, Woolf opened on Broadway. Though Albee refrains from discussing these events directly, anxieties about rapidly shifting political circumstances permeate the evening’s conversation. George contrasts the dying art of his field—history—with the burgeon-

The shifting dynamics of the academy drive the most marked divisions between the younger and older couple. We know that George attended college with mostly members of the upper middle class, while Nick (educated after World War II), studied with a far broader cross-section of the population. We further know that George attended prep school, while Nick came from far humbler beginnings. George’s needling of Nick for his lessthan-Yankee beginnings (“Pan-Kansas swimming champeen,” he at one point

dubs him) becomes more pointed in the context of the early 1960s: George’s (and Martha’s) constant reminders that Nick and Honey are outsiders from the “Middle West” aim not just to alienate Nick at this get together, but to mark him and Honey as outsiders in all of New Carthage. The effects of the mid-century academy’s structure and isolation are most salient, however, in the discussions of the period, roughly 23 years prior, when George and Martha’s relationship began. George repeatedly emphasizes to his guests that “everybody was away” in the early years of his and Martha’s relationship. The U.S. military began to draft young men in 1940, before the country had officially entered the war. The number of enlisted men quickly ballooned. Faculty members at colleges across New England were drafted, or enlisted freely. By 1942, the military had drafted nearly four million. At one major university, over 250 faculty members served. It was in these tumultuous years—when the war had changed the face and diminished the population of already tiny New Carthage—that the most formative events in George and Martha’s relationship took place. George assumed the chair of the history department in the absence of anyone more qualified for the role, and, even amongst a sorely diminished faculty, failed to impress. At some point during this tenure, Martha’s father hosted a gathering in which he asked the young men to box. In a move she insists was an accident, Martha donned her father’s boxing gloves and punched George, knocking him down in front of the entire assembled gathering. Martha confirms that the literal blow to the failing department chair—at an event staged in honor of the war in which George

would or could not fight—has “colored our whole life” since. Clues strewn throughout Albee’s text help paint a thorough picture of the early years of the marriage, when the resounding theme of George’s effeminacy and inadequacy emerged. “There is no earthly reason why an ‘American’ dream should go down to failure because of this George’s, this Martha’s, attempts to flay each other as the only means of touching each other,” Walter Kerr posits in his New York Times review. “Their bitter story is both larger and deeper than facile, twodimensional political cartooning.” Kerr’s assessment undoubtedly rings true for many viewers; Woolf has survived for the hot-blooded relationship at its center, and not for any political allegory or “historical lesson.” But details that make this a specifically mid-century, specifically American tragedy nonetheless stand out to contemporary viewers. History might not account for George and Martha, but it clarifies George’s paranoid musings on rising supercivilizations; it contextualizes Martha’s frustrations with her distinctly un-heroic husband; it helps explain how, at some point, in deep private—when millions of Americans fought abroad and towns like New Carthage were even more desolate than usual—a restless George and Martha quietly conceived a son.

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Womenin the arts A Luncheon Honoring Steppenwolf Ensemble Member

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We asked Virginia Woolf playwright Edward Albee... What are some of the qualities an actor must have to play George or Martha— two of the most iconic characters in contemporary canon?

Betontanc & Umka.LV Show Your Face! Friday–Sunday, January 14–16

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[They] have compacted almost all the horror and absurdity of our time ... with incredibly emotional (live!) music and healthy irony. —Delﬁ (Latvia) Six actors, four puppeteers, and three musicians bring to life an empty snowsuit for a dark odyssey through the 20th century. Performed in English

Abbey Theatre

The National Theatre of Ireland Terminus Wednesday–Sunday, March 2–6 Presented in association with Goodman Theatre

Gripping, grotesque and deliriously good … O’Rowe is the most exciting contemporary Irish playwright. —Sunday Tribune (Ireland)

“The double ability of being able to become the character fully and completely, so we don’t see the actor there anymore, we only see the character. At the same time, the actor being able to retain full control of all of his technical and psychological stuff, so that he can control this transformation.” —Edward Albee

Three characters from Dublin’s gritty docklands are thrown into a fantastical world of singing serial killers, avenging angels, and lovesick demons. Recommended for mature audiences

Generous support for the 2010/11 season of MCA Stage is provided by Elizabeth A. Liebman, David Herro and Jay Franke, and Susan and Lew Manilow. foundation season sponsor

Read our full interview with playwright Edward Albee, Steppenwolf Artistic Director Martha Lavey and Virginia Woolf director Pam MacKinnon at steppenwolf.org/article/albee.

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For thirty years, ComEd has partnered with Steppenwolf, supporting thought-provoking theater that reflects our ever-changing world. Now in our 35th season, ComEd continues to play a key role in bringing Steppenwolf to the forefront of American theater. We are honored to acknowledge ComEd as the 2010-2011 Season Lighting Sponsor. Foley & Lardner upholds a proud tradition of giving back to the community through projects that reflect the firm’s dedication to insightful, innovative thinking. With support for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Foley invites audiences to join in Steppenwolf’s season-long exploration of our public/private selves.

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The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation is a longstanding champion of Chicago’s world-class artistic community, including ambitious projects at Steppenwolf such as the New Plays Initiative and the premiere of August: Osage County. This year, the Foundation’s support for Edward Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? reinforces our shared commitment to excellence. Steppenwolf is pleased to welcome the Elysian hotel as the theater’s Official Hotel Partner for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Located in Chicago’s Gold Coast, the Elysian hotel creates a new experience in luxury— energetic and fashion-forward, warm and welcoming, fresh and engaging—through innovations in service and technology.

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George and Kimberly Ruhana Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Robert and Louise Sanborn Manuel Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez The George H. Scanlon Foundation Gary Sinise Tom Smithburg and Colette Cachey Smithburg Bonnie and James Spurlock Bill and Orli Staley Marcie and Avy Stein Edward A. Studzinski Willard L. Woods, Jr. PATRONS ($5,000-9,999) Anonymous Loren Almaguer Bob and Trish Barr William Bartholomay Michael and Merle Cahan Phil and Mary Beth Canfield

Dennis Cary Fred J. Costello Patricia Cox, Katie and Will Hunckler Donald Deutsch Joy and Leon Dreimann Mr. and Mrs. Erik Fyrwald Mary Jo and Robert Fasan John and Katherine Fox Chris and Joe Galvin Scott and Rita George Gordon and Wendy Gill Richard and Mary L. Gray M. Julie and Michael Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Tariq Hassan Willard and Lori Hunter The Hunter Family Foundation Charles H. James III Dr. Mary Dochios Kamberos Mary Jeanne and John Kneen Robert M. and Diane VS. Levy Ms. Christine M. Long Steven D. Loucks Amos and Anat Madanes Irma Parker Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Pritzker Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Mr. Patrick G. Ryan, Sr. Robin and Mark Seigle Toni Sandor Smith Jacqueline Tilton Frances Tuite Steven L. and Stephanie A. Victor John and Carol Walter Michael and January Ward Ms. Frances Wilkinson Nina B. Winston Robert and Leslie Zimmerman SUSTAINERS ($2,500-4,999) Anonymous Kristopher J. Anderson Andrew and Susan Arnold Candy and Bill Arnold Paula Ausick William and Sharon Baker John and Caroline Ballantine Zoe and Ken Barley Larry and Margaret Benjamin Henry R. Berghoef Susan O. Berghoef Dr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Berman

Dr. Mary E. Belford MD and Mr. Ric Berta Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boychuck Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Debbie Bricker Ray and Marie Brown Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Cleve Carney Ann and Richard Carr Drs. Rex Chisholm and Kathleen Green Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cohen Pam and Howard Conant Jerry and Josephine Conlon Dawson Sales Company Ms. Kate Cornelius-Schecter Alecia Dantico Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Maxwell S. Davis and Beth Boosalis Davis Robert and Quinn Delaney Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Mr. and Mrs. John DiCiurcio Philip and Marsha Dowd Bernard J. Dowling Drs. Thomas E. Durica and Susan Jacob Donald and Anne Edwards Laura and Scott Eisen Richard and Gail Elden Mary M. Emerson Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal David and Mimi Fiske Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Terri and Stephen Geifman Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Ethel and Bill Gofen Bob and Carol Goldberg Liza and Eric Gravengaard Sue and Melvin Gray James and Brenda Grusecki Michael G. Hansen and Nancy E. Randa John Hass and Mary Frances Budig David Kistenbroker and Cynthia Heusing Judy and Jay Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Hill Dr. and Mrs. David Ingall Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck

Reis and Sherri Kayser Melinda Kempton and Jane Fleming Brad and Kim Keywell Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Korbet Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kramer Suzy Krueckeberg Neil Labute Christine and Michael LaTona Julie and Fred Latsko Steven and Jody LaVoie Don and Margie Leventhal Bernard and Averill Leviton Robert Bud Lifton and Carol Rosofsky Stephanie F. Linn and Seth B. Krantz Timothy and Christine Loyer Mark and Frances Mann Becky and Bob McLennan Barry and Beth Mitchell Mike and Adele Murphy Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Bob and Joyce O’Malley Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Jennifer and Perry Pinto Christine and Michael Pompizzi Frank Ponterio Mr. Matthew Pritzker Bradley and Patricia Reid Lynne Remington and Geoff Goldberg Bob and Mary Reusché Solvig and Harry Robertson Neil Ross MD and Lynn Hauser MD Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Patrick G. Ryan, Jr. Ellen Sandor Schiff Gorman and Krkljes David and Susan Schmid Gloria and Michael Scoby Smita N. Shah Matthew Shapiro Rose L. Shure Matthew Steinmetz Kristin and Stan Stevens Richard and Elaine Tinberg Mr. Jim Walesa Ms. Jaclyn Warren Robert and Susan Warrington Nicholas and Nora Weir Elizabeth Ziegler

BENEFACTORS ($1,500-2,499) Anonymous (3) Emilio and Trish Albertini Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Nicholas and Kathleen Amatangelo Kimball Anderson & Karen Gatsis Anderson Carolyn H. Andress Stephanie and Dana Arnett Jeffrey S. Arnold and Ellen J. Neely Mr. and Mrs. Brian Atwood John and Irene Bacevicius Richard and Janice Bail Yuri and Elena Balasanov Martha and Al Belmonte Ms. Sheridan Prior and Mr. Michael Bender Joel W. Benson Susen H. Berg and James C. Berg Adam and Elizabeth Berger Ron and Colleen Bess Nicholas Biederman Marc D. Blakeman George W. Blossom III Larry and Debbie Brady Kevin and Linda Buggy Barbara and Eric Burgess Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith David Callahan and Terri Abruzzo Philip Chang Mr. and Mrs. H.L. “Chappie” Chapman Dr. Rosalyn Chrenka Clayton A. Cohn Merle R. Cooper Dennis R. Cowhey Shirley Craven, Ph.D. Ana Cristiano Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher Kevork and Rolanda Derderian Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Anne M. Donahoe Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Mark and Sandy Ehlert George Engeln Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Tom and Pat Erickson Marc Falleroni David and Mary Farkas Mr. and Mrs. John Favia Carol and Steven Felsenthal Rajiv Fernando

inidividual contributors/directors circle W. Clinton and Lois Farrell Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Peter Foreman Jana French and Peter Gotsch Kate Friedlob Kay and Howard Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Lori Mae Frith Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Dr. Michael Gelbort and Ms. Sherryl Steinberg Gelbort Stephen C. George Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Bruce and Lisa Goldman Sheila and Tom Gorey Peter and Joellen Granson The Green Family Jack and Donna Greenberg Mary and Jim Greene William and Nanci Greene Warren Grimsley and Jane Jacobs Charles R. Grode Jack and Sandra Guthman Mrs. Louise Hart Stacie R. Hartman Emily Haus Jean Heller Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger Paul and Susan Hill Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hodges Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig David and Deborah Holloway Nancy and John Ide Robert A. Imig Terrell J. Isselhard Marian, Fruman & Lisa Jacobson Tom and Jan Jakobsen Patricia Jeffers Hal and Dona B. Jensen Valerie B. Wiley and Timothy B. Johnson Gregory K. Jones and Family Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Jozwiak Thomas D. Kaczmarek Adam and Renee Keats Anna and Jeff Kelch SBK and Associates

Pamela Kendall-Rijos and John Rijos Rachel Kohler and Mark Hoplamazian David and Kathleen Kovarik Ann M. Krilcich Raminder and Vinay Kumar Michele Kurlander Carol and Jerome Lamet Gerald R. Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Foundation Victoria S. Lautman Eileen and Paul LeFort Benita Levy Beth Loeb Carmen H. Lonstein Frank G. and Gertrude Dunlap Fund Michelle and Alan Luke Mary McCauley Mary MacLaren Sandy and Jerry Manne Barbara and Larry Margolis Mrs. Winifred A. Martin James and Carolyn McClure- Mary McClure Miller Foundation Bob and Barb McCullough Brad and Dee Dee McLane Kevin and Beth McMeen Ms. Helen Melchior Ellie and Bob Meyers Harvey B. Levin Charitable Trust Amy Laiken and Tim Michel Michael and Susan Miller Sherif and Melanie Mityas Dr. and Mrs. George and Maureen Miz Jon and Tanya Morrison William and Kate Morrison Bill and Lorna Fillipini Mulliken Judy Neafsey and Terry Conway Susan and George Obermaier Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Bridget R. O’Neill Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Phyllis Parish Joan and David Parsons Amy and Brent Peebles Simon and Kim Perutz Sherri and Ted Pincus Dale and Loretta Pierson Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Carl and Barbara Plochman

Andrew and Judy L. Porte Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley Elizabeth Price Linda Reid Mr. and Mrs. James M. Reum Sheri and Bob Reum New Horizon Foundation Susan and Edwin Ritts John C. Roberts and Lynn D. Fleisher Barbara and Jim Robins Holly B. Rothschild Janet and Philip Rotner Francis Sadac Richard H. Sanders Pamela and Fred Sasser Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Michelle Maton and Mike Schaeffer Matthew and Tina Schubert Richard and Betty Seid Diana and Richard Senior Howard and Kate Siegel Robert and Nancy Singleton James and Mary Jo Slykas Paul and Elizabeth Sobotka Mr. David A. Solitt Gail and Eugene Steingold Jeff Stoller Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Josh and Kimberly Sutton Lisa Swanson William and Julile Szematowicz Corrine P. Taylor James and Sara TenBroek Laura A. Tomasovic and Jim A. Hargis John and Maribeth Totten Nick Trakas and Marc Ceron Tali and Liat Tzur Annette Rotolo and Donald Van Hulle Susan and Victor Venturi Mr. and Mrs. R. Todd Vieregg Donna and Dirk Vos Lisa and Jason Wadler Ms. Monica L. Walker Dr. David Wasserman In Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Shannon and John Waterfield Bryan and Jennifer Weinstein

inidividual contributors/annual fund Dr. Carey Weiss and Dr. Karen Pierce Jane and Greg Wintroub Bobbi Zabel

Steppenwolf thanks the many supporters who help bridge the gap between annual operating costs and ticket sales. We regret that, due to space limitations, we are unable to recognize gifts below $150. To all our benefactors, we thank you for making possible another season of engaging, provocative theater. Make your gift today by visiting www.steppenwolf.org/support or calling Eric Evenskaas at 312-654-5615. Gifts are as of 9/17/2010. . PRODUCERS ($1,000-1,499) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Jack J. Adrian Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Bruce and Ann Bachmann Grace Barry Robin Loewenberg Berger Mr. Melvyn E. Bergstein Gerhard and Kathleen Bette Andrew and Jennifer Bezaitis Shaun and Andy Block Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III Abdon and Eileen Bray Janyce Brengel Michael and Cathy Brennan Ms. Lois Browning Leslie Burns Mr. Tim Cavanagh Sheila J. Chapmanand David D. Soo Joel Cornfeld Ms. Ellen M. Costello Carl and Cynthia Curry Inge de la Camp Jennifer and John Doran Ms. Stacey Fellars Brian Flanigan Mr. Steven Florsheim and Mrs. Jennifer Friedes Lisa Folkers Mr. James Frank Jim and Sandy Freeburg Aileen Furlong James and Dianna Goldman Richard And Catherine Gottfred Mary Winton Green Victoria and Charles Harris David R. Hawkanson Laura Hazelwood Patricia Hendrick Ms. Melinda Jakovich David Kathman Klaff Family Foundation Jean Ann Klingenstein Robert and Kathie Kolodgy Anne Lanser Jean Linsner Mark and Carol Lorenz

Fran Lambros and John Lowry Mr. Mike Merwin Jerry Mickelson Leslie Milton Mr. Thomas Murray Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parkinson, Jr. Anne and Donald Phillips Sharon and Jerry Rhoads Paul Scavone and Donna Pawlus Nancy and Mark Schumacher Michelle Semisch David and Judith Sensibar Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Silverman Julia Simpson Joan and Thomas Skiba Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skinner Heather and Adam Smedstad Matthew Summy Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas Lisa and Charles Tribbett Reed and Rosemary Tupper Elena Urschel Dia Weil Jeanne Marienthal Westcott Anne and Jay Whipple Patricia J. White Donna Wilkinson‡ Mr. Kimo Williams Ronald and Geri Yonover Eugene and Tita Zeffren

ENSEMBLE ($500-999) Annonymous (10) Judith and Fred Adler Thomas B. Aldrich III Michael Andrews and Ryan Ruskin Jean Arrington Mr. and Mrs. James Aslaksen Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker Mr. Michael Barbiei Leslie and Bill Barker Robert and Sharon Barton Mia A. and Scott Bass

Sandra Bass Stephanie and Barry Batson Brandon Benson Maggie Bobbitt Steve and Lynn Bolanowski Ms. Heather Bollinger Hunter Bradford Myriam Bransfield, In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Larry and Susan Broutman George and Joyce Brown Julie A Brown Lynette Harrison and Paul Brubaker Richard and Barbara Bull Janet Burch John Byrd JoAnn Cantalupo Mr. Adam Carpenter Kyle Carstensen Scott Casty J. Morgan Chism-Diebold Nancy Ciezki and Diane Kostecke John-Marc Clark James and Julie Coffman Dr. Mimis Cohen and Mrs. Andrea Biel-Cohen Steven Collens Everett and Susan Conner‡ Ed and Melissa Cook Mr. and Mrs. Jason Cooper Charles and Judith Cory Ms. Ellen Cotter and Mr. David Burnett Mr. Bruce Crown Josh Daitch Liese Dallbauman Kermit and Jennifer Daniel Rathin Datta Emilie De Angelis and Bert Davenport Ms. Kim Davis and Mr. Brian Eble Richard and Lisette Davison Lauren V. Dettloff Dianna L. Di Iorio Roberta S. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Doyen Christine Dudley Will Dunne Thomas Duszynski John F. Dziedziak

Jennifer M. Ellin Deborah and S. Cody Engle Erika Erich Ms. Heather Erickson Marilyn D. Ezri M.D. Lynette and Kent Fair Juliet and Marc Fallah Gregory Faron Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Ms. Stephanie Fields Michael Fine and Terri Keeley Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fisch Elaine Fishman Cyndi and Cory Fosco Susan Fuchs, M.D. Tom and Beth Garrow Jami Gekas Matthew A. Gelbin Andrew R. Gelman William J. Gibbons Van H. and Sandra Vitt Gilbert Stan and Gerry Glass Lydia Glowaty Keith Goggin Alan Gold Florence Bonnick and Jay M. Goldberg Paul E. Golden Paul Goldstein and Nasrin Mahani Samuel J. Goodman Kerry and Kim Grady Jonathan and Sarah Graham John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Laurence and Carrie Grant Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg Renata and Michael Grossi Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker Faith Dansereau and Larry Haefner Kevin Haight Ms. Katy E. Hall Janice Halpern Amy and Brian Hand David Harrington Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hassan Lois and Marty Hauselman Robert and Linda Hauser Maryan and John Helmerci

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step by step We salute the following individual donors who have committed to a reccurring monthly or quarterly gift to Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work. Anonymous (19) Stephanie Aldort Barbara and Oscar Alonso Kaye B. Aurigemma Borislava Baeva Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker Allison and Daniel Baskes Laura M. Batzer Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Brandon Benson Robert Bernard Mandy Berry Barbara E. Bevan Beryl and David Bills James Blackman Samuel and Phyllis Bowen Philip Boyd Michael and Kate Bradie David Briggs Sarah Brittin Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks George and Joyce Brown Karen Bryant Michelle and David Buck Linda S. Buyer Shalona Byrd Polly Carl and Lynette D’Amico Susan and Jon Chapman J. Morgan Chism-Diebold James Christle Sam and Kathleen Ciulla Bente Clausen Gina Coffee John Collins Constance Coning Everett and Susan Conner Peter and Judith Connolly Maureen Crowley Michelle and Ronald De Vlam Jessica and Robert Dean Erin E. Diener Lauri Dietz Roberta S. Dillon

Mr. Christian Doll John F. Dziedziak Ms. Julie Ellafrits Teri Engler Lori Eyre Lynette and Kent Fair Paul and Christy Fisher Sara Stern and Ted Fishman Marilyn and Eric Fors Cyndi and Cory Fosco Reverend Mark A. Fracaro Jim and Sandy Freeburg Bill and Pat Fuller Stan and Gerry Glass Jennifer Lauren Glasse Alan Gold Karen Goldstein Enid J. Golinkin Maurice Goulding Kerry and Kim Grady Renata and Michael Grossi Cynthia Gunderson Pilar Gut-Rod Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker Joan Hall Richard Halvorsen Vincent Harrell David Harrington Rosalind Henderson Harris Victoria and Charles Harris Tom and Virginia Hartley Stephen and Jaqueline Helm Jeffrey and Peggy Herron Marcia and Darrell Herschler Leslie Herzog Rosalie Hewitt Marco Hidalgo Michael Hinz Vivian and David Hock Nancy C. Holland Sharon Holland David and Suzanne Holmes Mr. Kilton Hopkins Andrea Howard Karen Hunken Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink Heather Ingraham Ben Jafarnia John David Jawor

Dilecta Jenkins Tom ,Patricia, and Will Jobe Carolyn Hutchinson Sarah A. Jolie Andrew Jorczak Ana and Richard Juarez David Kathman Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Sheryl and Tom Keith Seema Khan Stephen Kriegel Ms. Carolyn Kurtz and Mr. Gary Steinberg Mr. Kurt Lagerloef Karen Lalor George M. Langlois, Ph.D. Robert Larrimore Roberta L. and Richard G. Larson Bob and Pat Lavey Ephraim Lee Phyllis Leshoure Gregory and Mary Lewis Fred Lieber Christine Lin Mary Lou Lipscomb Margit “Maggie” Livingston Kristy Lockhart Christopher and Marcia Long Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve Kelly Luchtman Reynato Mallari Arlene Manelli Ruthann Marcelle Maggie Martensen Dr. Norman E. Masters, jr. Erica and Frank Matagrano Suzanne McDermott Carol McKeone Kathy and Alan McLaughlin Loni Mecum Dr. Janis Mendelsohn David and Linda Metschke Robert Middleton Mia and Jonathan Miller Sandy and Scott Miller Chris and Kathe Monley

Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague Jack Montgomery Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Scott Morehead, Jr. and Karisa Bruin Ellen Morrison and Andrew Pasulka Dr. Martin Mozes and Mrs. Chava Mozes Bill and Kim Murphy Christian Murphy Liz Newell and Jack Kragie Mark and Maggie Nichter Kris Nielsen Mariano Nunez Ortiz Peg O’Connor Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman Eric Patnoudes Willie and Erma Pickens Chrystin and Lonnie Pleasants Dan Polsby Frank C. Pond Olivia and Andrew Poska Mike Powell and Deb Boyda Tracey L. Power Carrie and Michael Powers Karen Price V. Pristera, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Reed Jane Rees The Reeves Family Mr. Gary Render Sharon and Jerry Rhoads Dr. Ralph Richter, Jr. and Mrs. Constance Richter Stacey Robbins Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone Jeffrey and Ellen Sadur Brad and Emily Salmon Henry J. Sampson Arturo Sanchez Heddi Schellbach Jonathan Schmugge Susan Schwall Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk Timothy Sherck Cheryl and Philip Sheridan

Brent Siegel Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott Jodi Silberman Joan and Thomas Skiba Heather and Adam Smedstad Jackie Snuttjer Steven Spanbauer William E. Spencer and family Michael Stogdill Gail and John Straus Yvonne Sutor Kris Swanberg Linda K. Swift Tiffany Taft Michael J. Tatak Esq. Ms. Sharlene Toney Michael Trenkmann Dana and Scott Turban Brady I. Twiggs Marilee Unruh Michael Van Zalingen Kathryn Vehe Dr. Susan Vineyard Jonathan Wagner John Wallace June and Patrick Walsh Michael and Gere Warnecke The Watson Family Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman Patricia J. White Barbara Wilder Donna Wilkinson John Will and Ada Gugenheim Deborah B. Williams Ph.D. Jan Williams Gary and Modena Wilson Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski Ms. Ann Witting Stanley Wojcicki Charlotte Wojnowski Ms. Andrea Worth Julia and Tom Young

Donors as of 9/17/10

inidividual contributors/annual fund Leslie Herzog James and Margot Hinchliff The Hirschfields Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Richard and Kathryn Holland Bonny and Todd Hoover Richard and Janet Horwood Francis J. Houlihan Robin and Harry Hunter Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink William E. Ibe Janet Irving Tim Jaster Stephen Kane Arnold Kanter Ernest and Harriett Karmin Jen and Brad Keck Sharon Keehn Sheryl and Tom Keith Gerould and Jewell Kern Jeffrey Kerr Helen Kessler Sylvia and John Kinney Pat and Mike Koldyke Jonathan and Sally Kovler Rachel Kraft Stephen Kriegel Mr. Robert Krug Deborah L. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad George M. Langlois, Ph.D. Roberta L. and Richard G. Larson Bob and Pat Lavey Jonathan Lebedoff and Karla Yeh Peter and Judith Lederer Ms. Tanya Levshina Abby and George Lombardi Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve David Lundeen Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mack Arlene Manelli Maria Manhart John and Claire Marich Christine and David Markovitz Helen Marlborough and Harry Roper Steve and Melissa Marovich Kimberly Masius Kevin and Linda Matheny Mr. and Mrs. George J. Matkov Jerry and Joan Mattson Michele C. Mayes Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister John McCambridge

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mccolgan Margaret S. McGee Charlotte and William Mehuron Dr. Janis Mendelsohn John and Lisa Merlock Susan Messing Robert Middleton Mr. Brian Miller Phillip Moll Patrick Morris and Peggy Unger Mr. John Mulhall Christopher and Eileen Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Murray Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Nard Joan Neil Emily and Hank Neuberger Howard and Cathy Niden Kris Nielsen Michael T. Noonan Mattie Olsen Paul Oostenbrug and Dr. Jeremiah Kelly Rachel Orlikoff Elizabeth, John and Frani Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole Grayce Papp Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman John and Roberta Paskvalich Mr. Mike Pauletti Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Kate Pecoraro Sandra and Michael Perlow Clarisse Perrette and Larry Freed Irene and Eero Pikat Charles and Judith Piper Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Jim and Meg Prendergast Dave and Darby Putman Marsha Raanan Jeff and Susan Rashid Dr. and Mrs. Mehul Raval Gabriel and Dorit Raviv Shirley and Frederick Richter Laura Riddle Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Mrs. Donald S. Roth Doreen and Michael Rothstein T. Marshall Rousseau

Henry J. Sampson A. Sue Samuels Arturo Sanchez Brett Saternus Bill Savage Edna Schade Laura Schalekamp Carrie Schloss Jonathan Schmugge Eli Selinger Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk Lara Shackelford Rebecca M. Shanahan Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Neil and Isabella Smith Ron Smith and Leslie Simonton-Smith Lawrence and Shirley Solomon Candace Song and Alexander Gail Sherman Arlene Lim Christine Anderson and Jay Steinberg Dorie Sternberg Patty Sternberg Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stoeckel Gail and John Straus Andrew and Leonora Svihra Ms. Patti Szabo Peter and Obie Szidon Jim Thompson Carrie Thoms Mr. and Mrs. John Tipton Fred Tokowitz Dana and Scott Turban Catherine Turner Brady I. Twiggs Marilee Unruh Chaidan Upp Peter and Lilian Vardy Tom and Michelle Wake Karen and Herb Wander John F. Ward Michael and Gere Warnecke Chuck Wehland Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Tom and Blaine Wells Natalie West and Keith Viridiana Moore Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman John W. Wheeler Brian and Nancy Whitlock Jan Williams Matthew Wilson and Anne Posner Nick and Nancy Wilson Terry and Mary Winkler

inidividual contributors/annual fund Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski Iris S. Witkowsky Stanley Wojcicki Charlotte Wojnowski Ms. Sarah Wolff and Mr. Joel Handelman Ms. Andrea Worth Carol N. Yamamoto Peter A. Zadeik Eileen Zampa Mark and Margie Zivin Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin DESIGNERS ($250-499) Anonymous (28) Nancy Abshire Carole and Paul Adams Mr. Justin Alden Helen and Mark Alison Brian and Jennifer Alves Ron Amdur Ms. Mary Ammermann Mary and Paul F. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Juan Angelats Janet and Steven Anixter Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Jim Appel John Asplin and Christine Orders Mr. and Ms. Paul Athens Kaye B. Aurigemma Ms. Monica Badlani Ms. Lauren Anne Baird Bill and Ann Baker Barbara Baldwin John and Sharon Baldwin Kevin Baldwin Mr. Gary Baltusis Michael and Mary Baniak Warren and Beverly Bartel Allison and Daniel Baskes Laura M. Batzer Chris and Judith Beardsley Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Ted and Robbie Beaty Daniel Beck Lawrence Bell Laura Berkley Julian and Joan Berman Larry and Phyllis Berning Jason Linforth Adrian and Arta Beverly Maurice J. and Lois Beznos Lois J. Bider Jerry Biederman Noel and Shirley Biery Beryl and David Bills

Lois and Stanley Birer Mr. Kevin Blackman Judith Block R. Darrell Bock Anthony Boggiano Mr. Kevin Booth Kirk and Lucy Borland Mr. and Mrs. Randy Boswell Donald F. Bouseman Samuel and Phyllis Bowen Philip Boyd Patricia Boye-Williams and Chad Williams Michael and Kate Bradie David Briggs Robert and Joell Brightfelt Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brobst Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Jean Broom Susan Brophy Elle Bruno Michelle and David Buck Wade and Kate Buckles Paul Burkhardt Jim and Lori Burns Richard Butler Jenica Byers John and Libby Cady David and Janna Caldarelli Mark Caldwell Curtis V. Canada and Lyn Kendrick Andrea and Geoff Caplea Mr. Ted Cappas Polly Carl and Lynette Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amico Barbara and Mark Carlson Ms. Sheila Carney Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Steve Chamberlin and Cathy Colton Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler Mr. Tarun Chandran Mr. Billy Cheeseman Gerry and Carol Chrisman Sam and Kathleen Ciulla Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Bente Clausen Neil Clipstone Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman John Collins Constance Coning The Cortes Family Ms. Christina Crawford Phyllis Cretors Mr. Louis Crisostomo Colin and Teri Cross Maureen Crowley

Mr. James Daly Stephen F. Danziger Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Davidson Michelle and Ronald DeVlam Jessica and Robert Dean Bernard J Deir and Cynthia Deir Dr. Mark and Rose DeMeo Ms. Joan E. Desmond Robert DeWitt and Sharon Getz Lauri Dietz Patricia and Richard Doonan Steve Eastwood Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten Teri Engler Dale and Jo Ann Engquist Malcolm Ewen Lori Eyre Edith and Gerald Falk Maurice Fantus and Judith Aiello Toni and Joel Fenchel Sean Finn Nancy and Rick Firfer Paul and Christy Fisher Catherine S. Flanagan John and Patti Flanagan Foley Family Foundation Marilyn and Eric Fors Reverend Mark A. Fracaro Dr. and Mrs. James Franklin Donna and Robert Fredricksen June Freidlich Bill and Pat Fuller Ellen Garippo Ralph and Elayne Gebert Hank and Sandy Gentry Mr. Gary Gephart Ms. Julianne Getty Sandra Gidley Bruce D. Gilpin and Susan Gilpin Joanne and Lisa Girardi Jennifer Lauren Glasse David Glueck and Brooke Bremner Eileen M. Golan Sue-Gray Goller Paula Turner Grasso Dr. Kitty Green Michael and Lisa Greenfield Katherine and Adam Greetis Melissa Grund Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis Sarah Hadley

Donald and Susan Hallberg Bill Hamilton Chester and Phyllis Handelman Dr. Raymond and Arlene Handler Vincent Harrell Donald and Sharon Harris Rosalind Henderson Harris Mr. Eric Harrison Kirk Hartley Ali Hassan Rebecca Hedberg Matthew Heller and Susan Holmes Stephen and Jaqueline Helm Hendrick Family Timothy Herboth Frank and Midge Heurich Rosalie Hewitt Martin and Marjorie Hickman Fred Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hill Robert and Sydney Himes Michael Hinz Jennifer Hogberg Sharon Holland Jo Holzer Mr. Kilton Hopkins Jack and Bonnie Horbovetz Kathleen and Jack Horn Paula Horn Andrea Howard Trent Hrncir Ron Huberman Brian Huebner Mr. and Mrs. John Huffman Holly E. Humphreys Jim and Joyce Ibers Becky Iliff Heather Ingraham Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irvine Jim and Peggy Isherwood Ms. Michelle James John David Jawor Douglas and Margaret Jayes Ms. Kenya Jenkins-Wright and Mr. James Wright Shirley and Clarence Johnson Craig and Heidi Johnson Dixie Johnson Carolyn Hutchinson Loren B. Johnson Sharon Johnston Mrs. Bev Jones-Gordon Todd and Jennifer Jones Andrew Jorczak Leslie Josefowicz

Howard and Marianne Jump Mary Jo Kanady Joseph J. Kane Olwyn J. Kane Norma and Nolan Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James Kargman Dennis and Kathryn Karsh Diana and Leslie Kates Ms. Claudia A. Katz Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Faylyn Kaufman Polly Kawalek J.T. Keane Dr. Susan Kecskes Brian Feiges and Tamar Kelber Bunny and George Kennedy Rich Kerhlikar and Judith Barringer Erik Kesteloot Andrew Keyt Seema Khan Sue Kiner Mike and Leslie King Katherine and Frank Kinney Judy and Phil Kirk Dr. M. Barry and Diane Kirschenbaum Michael Klearman and Saralyn Sacks Carol and James Klenk Matt and Karen Klickman Hilary and James Kline Janet Knauff Rita and Jim Knox Don and Cheryl Kobetsky Stanley and Billie Kocal Den and Jinny Koide Amy R. Korin Seth Krantz Neal Kulick Family Fund Linda Kulikowski Bob Kunio Ms. Carolyn Kurtz and Mr. Gary Steinberg Terri Lacy Chuck and Diane Laff Mr. Kurt Lagerloef Karen Lalor Robert Larrimore Edward and Laverne Larsen Nancy and Alan Lasser Patricia Lauber Bart Lazar Ephraim Lee Sheila Fields Leiter Jeffrey and Elise Lennard Madeline Lesnik Dr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Levin Mark Levitin

inidividual contributors/annual fund Richard and Joanne Levy Catherine Leyser Fran and Chuck Licht Arlene Lieb Stacy and Peter Lindau Sue Lippe Darlene Little Margit “Maggie” Livingston‡ Christopher and Marcia Long Dr. and Mrs. Dale Loomis Katherine M. Lorenz Christine Lovejoy Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal Denise and Eric Macey Mr. Joe Madden Frank and Chris Maggio Reynato Mallari Mr. and Ms. Michael P. Malone Brooke and Mike Mandrea Samantha & David Mann Tom and Lori Manning George and Stephanie Mantis Ruthann Marcelle‡ Gloria and Joseph R. Marcus Ken and Nancy Marks Diane Martin Zulma and Julian Martinez Dr. Norman E. Masters, jr. Erica and Frank Matagrano Jennifer Mathis David and Karen Mattenson Dawn Mattozzi and Amy Phinney Margaret F. May Susan McCann Ms. Katie McCoy Suzanne McDermott Sharon McGee Patricia S. McGreevy Paul and Lana McHenry Carol McKeone Kathy and Alan McLaughlin Hugh and Marybeth McLean Janelle Hoekstra and James McMullin Mr. and Mrs. Pierce McNally Ms. Mary Murphy McNally Sheila McNulty and Craig Oswald Mr. Thomas Meagher, Jr. Loni Mecum Claretta Meier Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Tim Meneely Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison Mia and Jonathan Miller

Karen Miller and Sheba Miller-Morris Ralph Miner Robert and Lois Moeller Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt Mort and Joan Mollner Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague Jack Montgomery William Mooney Mrs. Lee Morava-Hahn Scott Morehead, Jr. and Karisa Bruin Joyce Morimoto Blake and Debra Moritz Mr. and Mrs. John Morlock Martha Clare and Jim Morris Corinne Morrissey Janet and Morrie Much John and Jo Muchmore Gerald and Maia Mullin Holly and Edward Murawski Christian Murphy Hollace Murphy Zina and Nicholas S. Murray Dr. and Mrs. Michael Myers Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Cathy and Bob Nathan Randy Nease Wendy Norris Jeremy F. Nepomuceno Liz Newell and Jack Kragie Scott Nickell and Brenda Crank Cheryl and Bill Niro Rebecca Noble Ms. Susan Noyes Mariano Nunez Ortiz Peg O’Connor Chris and Dianne O’Flinn Larry and Barbara Olin Don Olson Bruce Oltman Timothy O’Neill and Jane Rutherford Mayor John and Jacqueline Ostenburg Frances and William Paden Deborah Page Jana O’Brien and Wayne Parman Sheldon Patinkin Charles and Melanie Payne Lynn and Mel Pearl Mr. Chad Pedigo Margaret Pendry Amy and Troy Peters Andy Phelps Willie and Erma Pickens

David M. Pierce Charles and Bettina Pietri William and Suzan Pinsof Brett Plyer Dan Polsby Frank C. Pond Pam and Dean Pontikes Nathan Popkins Avner and Joan Porat Tracey L. Power Dr. Jean E. Prebis Wanda Price V. Pristera, Jr. Elliott Quigley Thomas J. Ramsdell Ms. Barbara Rapp Mr. and Mrs. John Reed P. Kevin Reidy Clisson and Patricia Rexford Fred and Karen Rhynders Dr. Edward O. Riley Bill and Deborah Roberts Stanley Roberts Carol and Riney Robertson Stephen and Caryn Robin Mary Lu and Kenneth Roffe Lynn A. Hellwig and Dr. Dan Roller Mrs. Hilary Rosenthal Ms. H. Cary Ross Michael and Erin Lavelle Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Ms. and Mr. Julie Rubin Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Manfred Ruddat Ms. Marilyn Rusnak Brad and Emily Salmon‡ Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Carolyn Clayton and Patrick Sandercock Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Albert and Marcelle Saporta Christopher and Ann - Marie Saternus John and Mary Satter Gina Saunders Curt Schade Stephanie Scharf and David Taber Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Schimeck Rosa Schloss Frank and Karen Schneider Ms. April Schoepel Susan and Gary Schuman Suzanne Scibek Mr. Stephen Seliger

inidividual contributors/annual fund Jeffrey S.Sharp & Elizabeth D. Sharp Linda and Steve Sharp Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade Timothy Sherck Bradley and Ellen Shorser Brent Siegel Duane Sigelko and Mary K. McDermott Jodi Silberman Brandy and Jason Simon Mr. and Mrs. Ajay Singh Jonathan and Elizabeth Sion Christine A. Slivon Annette and Marvin Smith Marc Smoler Jackie Snuttjer Henry So and Joe Senese Ben Sosewitz John Spahr William Spears Mirja and Ted Haffner Shantha Sreekanth Diana and Thomas Stamborski Mr. Joseph Starshak Thomas Starshak Seena and Carey Stein Susan Stein Steven and Susan Steinmeyer Wallace Stenhouse Gardner Stern and Maxine Weintraub Mary Stern Linda Sahagian and Douglas Stewart Kelly Stonebraker and Debra Stonebraker Katherine Gould Straight Nels Stromborg Mr. Larry Stuckey Judy Sugarman Yvonne Sutor Kamilla and James Svajgl Michael A. Swafford Linda K. Swift Walter Swiston Bonnie K. Tarry Michael J. Tatak ESQ. Nancy M. and Marc A. Taxman Ms. Elaine R. Taylor John R. and Catherine Taylor Alex Tenorio and Anne Marie Hendrickson Arthur and Judith Tepfer Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra

Richard and Alice Teutsch Cheryl Thaxton Barbara and Randolph Thomas Ms. Sue Thompson Skip & Eileen Thurnauer Richard Tobiason Ms. Sharlene Toney John and MadalynTraff Michael Trenkmann Mr. Michael Treon Frank Trocchio John Tullsen Edward and Edith Turkington Stacey Turner Annette Turow Susan Tuteur David and Mickey Unger Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Kathryn Vehe Dr. Susan Vineyard Sarah and Kamiar Vossoughi Paul D. Waas Jonathan Wagner‡ Margaret Walsh Brooke and Greg Walters Mark Walters Mr. William V. Ward Gwenyth B. Warton Steven Wayland James and Christine Webb Sherrie and Albert Weiss Cary Weldy Karl Wenzel Adam and Jamie Weyeneth Michele and Ray Whittington Mark Wiens Barbara Wilder John Willand Ada Gugenheim Gary and Modena Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wislow Ms. Ann Witting Mr. Patrick Wojtak Mr. Stanley A. Woleben Ken Wolfe Mr. John Woodcock Brian and Amie Wrubel Mr. John Xenos Julia and Tom Young Beverly and Arnold Yusim David and Nikki Zarefsky Kathy Willhoite and Rodd Zolkos Karen Zupko Stuart

PLAYERS ($150-249) Annonymous (45) Linda Loving and Richard Aaronson Richard and Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Adler Philip and June Aimen Stephanie Aldort Barbara and Oscar Alonso Jim and Sheila Amend Ken and Donna Amos Bradley Anderson Jean Arndt Rosemary Crowley and Mort Arnsdorf Ms. Blayr Austin Barbara Badger Paramita Bandyopadhyay Sanford and Renee Bank Mr. Solomon Barnett Mr. Matt Bartel Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Mr. and Mrs. George Beck Matthew Behr Susan R. Benner Mr. Stuart Benzal John and Taru Berg Anne Berkeley Mandy Berry Barbara E. Bevan‡ Robert Bionaz and Ms. Karen Christianson James and Dorothy Bishop LaDonna and Ed Black James Blackman Mr. Mark Bloom Frima H. Blumenthal Ronald and Barbara Blumenthal Claudia and John Boatright Fred Boelter Roula Alakiotou Larry and Margo Bostrom Albert Boumenot Andrea Brands Lisa and Steven Bosco Karen Breen Elia and Louis M. Elia Michael Bremer and Lynn Sieben Sarah Brittin Keith and Arlene Bronstein Frank Brooksand Andrea Twiss-Brooks Beth Brown Carol S. Brown Ms. Kate Brown Robert and Ilene Brown Ed Bucher Jay K. Buck

Tom and Veronica Buckley Rita Buczynska Mindy Burke Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Burman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ruppert Crystal and Thomas F. Bush Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bushman Linda S. Buyer Robert and Cheryl Byron Ms. Amy Callahan Joseph and Cory Cancila Barry Carlson Raymond B. Carney and Janice Burnham Sharon Carr Mr. Brent Carstensen Constance Casey Susan and Jon Chapman Rajeev Chopra James Christle Ms. Beth Cieminski Maria Cinelli Lori Civello Amy Clark Carol and Michael Clarke Thomas and Bette Cogan Mark and Helene Connelly Peter and Judith Connolly Mr. Bryce Cooper Diane R. Cooper Barbara Coriden Suzanne M. Coutheoux Harvey and Arlene Coustan Robert Crawford James and Suzanne Culp Ms. Jennifer Cutshall Heidi Dare Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Davis Mary DeCresce Michelle and Christopher DeMent Joy Derwenskus Matthew J. Devereux Donna and Joseph De Vita Stewart and Shari Diamond Rachel and Paul H. Dieterle Mr. and Mrs. Habeeb Dihu Robert and Karen Dirmish William and Phyllis Dobrin Marisa Doherty Ms. Rachel Domaracki Ms. Paige Donaldson Michele and George Dragisity Clinton Dunn Wendy Eager Judy and Howard Edison Wiley and Merry Edmondson Sharon Eiseman Sten and Katherine Ekstrom Brent Eldridge

Tom and Victoria Eley Ms. Julie Ellafrits Mark and Virginia Erlanson Brian R. Falb Tom and Terry Fallon Demitri and Pamela Fardelos Jim and Michael Ferstle Mr. Robert Fisch Peter Fischer Sara Stern and Ted Fishman Lois Flaherty Charlotte and Robert D. Flinn Mike Folk Ms. Janice Fong Paul Fong Timothy and Janet Fox Deitrich Freigang Maya Friedler Bruce and Barbara Friedman Richard and Lois Fuhrer Alexis Funches Dr. and Mrs. Mario Garza Raymond and Patricia Gass Mr. and Mrs. John Gebo Mark and Bonnie Gehrman Bob and Mary Gerstein Joe Gibbs Hugh and Doris Gilbert Pavi and Amy Gill Ms. Tara Gillespie Clark and Nancy Gilpin Anneliese Glick Sue Golan Sue Goldenberg Enid J. Golinkin Jessica L Gonzalez Sandra and James Goodman John and Julie Goodman Robert Gordon Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. Peter Grant Judy Grasmick Dr. and Mrs. Robert Greendale Tara Nussbaum and Alan Greene Mr. Gilbert C. Greenway The Greffin Family Barbara Johanson Grigola Rochelle Grill James and Lynn Grogan Merle and Barry Gross Mrs. Katharine C. Gross David Grossman John Grossman Marie L. Gunn Ms. Joanne Gustafson Catherine and Warren Guthrie Pilar Gut-Rod

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Dalia Gvildys and Steve Anneken Andrew Halbur Joan Hall Richard Halvorsen Renee Hardt and Scott Moehrke Dr. Robert A Harris Teddy and Sarah Tom and Joie Harris Tom and Virginia Hartley Liz Hartong Lee Haupt, Yvonne Lange and Ted Steck J. Michael and Barbara Heaton Ms. Melissa Hellstern Mr. Randall Herbstman Joyce K. Herdliska Olimpia Hernandez Lance G. Herning Jeffrey and Peggy Herron Russell Herron and Lauren Raphael Stuart Hersh and Karen Sheehan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hession Lina and Dave Hilko Mr. John Hill Marc Hilton and Judith Aronson William Hitt Vivian and David Hock Thomas Hogan Michelle and Glenn Holland Nina Hollins Grayson Holmbeck and Anne Updegrove Donald and Karen Holmberg David and Suzanne Holmes Brian M. Holt Ina and John Houck Susan Howard Arthur Howe Peter M. Hsu Karen Hunken Patricia Hunt Barbara Hunter and Cottrell Meadors Patricia Hurley Richard Hutner and Lena Motev The Hyman Family William and Christine Ieuter David and Beth Inlander Joan Istrate Evan Jacover Ben Jafarnia Dilecta Jenkins Sue Jenkins Patricia A. Jiganti

Karen Price Charles and Sharon Pritchard Lynn and Clayton Pruitt Ms. Carryn Quibell Renee Quimby and Robert Rowe Bill and Rita Quinn Karen and Mark Quinn Walter Radloff Richard Ralph Jonathan Ramos Irene and Alan Redman Jane Rees Lisa Remby Mr. Glen Rexing Ms. Joan Richards James R. Richardson Bruce A Richmond Dr. Ralph Richter, Jr. and Mrs. Constance Richter Dean Ricker Ed and Suzette Rickert Sandi Riggs Mr. and Mrs Edwin Rivera Ms. Liz Roberts Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman Susan W. Rogaliner Cleo Orthel Sherman and Sarene Rosen Michael Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. B. Rosenstein Mr. Richard Rosenthal Ann M. Rothschild Chuck and Peg Rowe Nathan Rowlett Helen and Marc Rubenstein Peter and Edye Rubnitz James Ryan Van and Sue Salmans Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Julia Nowicki and Timothy A. Sanborn MD Robert and Mary Ann Savard Marie-Claude Schauer Allison and Charles Scherer Bernice Elbinand Seymour Schiff The Schirato Family Elizabeth Schornak Susan J. Schwartz Celeste and Tony Scolaro Thomas and Marry Ellen Scott Nedinia Searle Elizabeth G. Selmier Margaret Shaklee David Shanahan Kay Shannon Arthur M. Shapiro Elizabeth and Willian Sharpe

Christopher Johnsen Rita and Larry Johnson Sarah A. Jolie Mark and Karla Jones Melvin and Annie Kahn Paula R. Kahn Mr. and Ms. Chad E. Kail Fran and Harvey Kaluzna Ms. Candice Kane Mr. Michael Kanzler Mr. Matt Karingada Charles Katzenmeyer Sandra Blau and Norton H. Kay Matthew Keller, Jr. Harry Kenny Rita Kerns William Ketchum Allan and Sari Kirson Livia and Michael Kiser Carol Chor and Stephen Klafter David Klumpp and Gretchen Norman Claire Knapp Kathy and Roger A. Knuth Robert and Janet Kohrman Annette Baldwin and Paul Kolansinski Mark and Jill Kolker Sharon Korn Jay and Patti Kouba Stanley J. Koziol Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krantz Anne and Ira J. Kreft Barry and Cheryl Kreiter Amy Krukowski Ken and Janet Kubis Don and Jude LaCasse Phil and Helen Lambruschi Ed and Bettine Landon Arlene Lannon Peter and Shirley Dugdale Laundy Marc-Paul Lee William Lee and Malinda Hamann Deidre LeMire Mr. Darrell Leonard and Mr. Ed Nowak Susan Levitt Michael N. Levy Robert and Martha Lichter Paul Liebenson Fred Lieber Mr. Stephen Lieberman Julie and John Linehan Barbara and Edward Linn Dr. Jeffrey M. Lisowski Ms. Juliana Littlejohn Burton and Nancy Litwin

Mark Lococo Laurens and Diane Lohmann William Long Sarah Tanzer and Scott Looper David Lowdon Judy and George Lowman Kelly Luchtman Ms. Sherry Lundell James and Janet Lusk Elliott and Miriam Lyon James Maclennan Sandy and Judy Macnab Todd Magazine Mindy and Barry Malkin Mr. John Victor Malkovich Anthony and Laura Massaro Ms. Kahindo Mateene and Mr. Kisa Mate Mark Materna Henry and Peggy Matson Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Matthews Patricia McBride Mike and Cindy McCabe Mr. Daniel B. McConnell Drs. Linda Skitka and William McCready Stacey and Patrick McCusker Terrance and Jane McElroy Wilhelmina McGee Robin and John McGinnis Laura McGrew Daniel McGuigan Anastasia McGuire The McGuire Sisters Joseph and Agnes McHugh Erin E. McInerney Robert and Lorel McMillan Kathleen A. McQueeny Derek Meier Robert Merrilees Eric and Jess Mersmann David and Linda Metschke Janet Midgley Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Kerry A. Miller Dan and Mary Miller Ron and Pat Miller Sandy and Scott Miller Mr. and Mrs. Richard Minehart Marcus Mintz Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell Roger and Pauline Mohr Terri Monk and Craig Weldon Brian Weatherford and Steven Montgomery Arthur Moore Mr. Louis C. Moore Jr.

Robert J. Moretti Michelle and Michael Morris Bob and Ileen Morris Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison Natalie Moskovich and Allon Katz Karen Mouscher Greg and Colleen Moyer Dr. Martin Mozesand Mrs. Chava Mozes William Myers Robin and David Nankin Denise Nedza Fiona Nesbitt Mark and Maggie Nichter Lynne Nieman Kathleen and Linda Dennis and Sandra Norlin Ann and Dan O’Brien Mary Pat O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Julian Oettinger Patrick O’Harris Colleen M. O’Leary Daniel and Laura O’Neill Clifford Opatken Peter and Alanne Ori Jerome and Kathryn Osen Margie and Derk Osenberg Sandra and Mark Ostler Richard Otto and Jennifer Mueller Brian A. Paetow and Gretchen K. Beetner Katina Panagopoulos Jane Panther Kelly C. and Marshall H. Paquette Mr. and Mrs. Richard Park Catherine and Robert Parks Audrey and John Paton Dr. Steven and Mimi Binette Mr. James H. Pawlak Paula J Pederson Andre and Julie Pernet Raymond and Alice Perry Mr. William Pesetski David and Lindsey Peters Tim Peterson Linda S Piccolo Barb and Ned Piehler Christine Pilat Chrystin and Lonnie Pleasants Pamela Plehn Podolsky Family Foundation Ellen Pomes Sally Potapenko Mrs. Chad Potter Kirsten and James Potter Thomas M Power Carrie and Michael Powers

Kathryn Shenk Cheryl and Philip Sheridan Wm. Angus Shorey Gina Shropshire Ellen and Richared Shubart Ms. Joan Siavelis Evan Siegel Eric and Sabrina Sigg Margaret and Alan Silberman Teresa and Bob Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinise Maureen Slavin Jeffrey and Patrica C. Slovak Hugh and Becky Smart Charles Smith Chuck Smith Margaret Snow John Sowinski Joan Spedale Joseph Spellman William E. Spencer and family Rebecca Stanfield Nikki and Fredric Stein Mark and Donna Steinbach Mr. and Mrs. William Steinmetz Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stern Jason Stipp and Tate Geborkoff Michael Stogdill Kurt Strand Mr. Gary Strandlund Jennifer Strople Sidney Summey and Melissa Cox Tiffany Taft Ms. Sarah Tarpy Lois Teesdale Mr. Martin Telfer Juanita Temple Charles R. Thomas Jeff Thomas and Rebecca Coleman Judy M. Thome Tommy Thornton Rich Thoroe John Tilford Anne and Bill Tobey David Eldon Toombs Carol D. Trapp Dmitry Tyomkin William Udovich Gretchen Vacendak Virginia Vale Michael Van Zalingen Pat and Roger Van Zele Thomas and Kathryn Vargish Ms. Colleen Wade Mrs. Jimmye Wade

Robert and Rose Wagner Babs Waldman Alice and Charles Walker William and Patricia Walsh Mary Warchol John Ward Ms. Candice Warltiar Deborah and Neil Warner Sandra Wolsfeld Warner Susanjane Watson Betsy Shaw Weiner Kimberly Weiner Karen Weiss Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Esther White and Mindy Terrell Brooke and Ted Whittemore Dot and Dan Whittenberger Larry and Susan Wikman Harry and Geri Jender Wildfeuer Steven and Mary Willcox Deborah B. Williams Ph.D. Fredlyn Wilson Ward Wilson Cynthia Wirth Ms. MJ Witt Lawrence Wojcik Julia Wold Peter Tortorello and Bob Wolf Toni Wolf Lisa Wolfe Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Andrew and Janelle Wood Richard Woodbury Joyce Woods Dr. Anne H. Wright Mr. Andrew Yang Mary B and James B Young Judith Youngs Ed and Lisa Zeitler Mr. and Mrs. Marc Zeman David and Teresa Zembower Daniel Ziembo and Nancy Cook Tighe Zimmers Bob and Janice Tonoko Zurawski

Donors as of 9/17/10

inidividual contributors/auxiliary council

inidividual contributors/honorary gifts

Comprised of over 150 Young Professionals, Steppenwolf’s Auxiliary Council works each season to raise funds for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults Programs. We salute the governing members for giving generously of their time and resources.

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

Contact Annie Lebedoff at 312-654-5681 or alebedoff@steppenwolf.org to become an Auxiliary Council member today

Executive Officers Frances C. Sadac* President Seth B. Krantz*‡ Vice President Heather D. Erickson* Secretary Philip S. Chang* Treasurer Nancy Schumacher* Immediate Past President Stephanie F. Linn*‡ Directors Circle Liaison Marisa Bryce* Nora Daley Conroy*‡ Founding Officers

Governors Justin Alden Kristopher J. Anderson* Michael Andrews Natalie Baumann Jay Carey Katie Clow Steve Collens Joel Cornfeld* Alecia Dantico* Kim Davis* Diana Di Iorio Aileen Furlong Sarah Galioto Jami Gekas Stephen George* Lydia Glowaty Liza Michaels Gravengaard*‡ Stacie Hartman Adam Keats Andrew Keyt Amy Korin* Anne Lanser Maria Manhart

Kim Masius Brett Plyler* Lara Shackelford Laura Schalekamp Dina Searle Candace Song Colin Stalnecker Mike Swafford* Alex Tenorio* Frank Trocchio Kamiar Vossoughi Steven Wayland

In Honor of Nora Daley Conroy Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Dia and Ed Weil In Honor of Pat Erickson Susan Payne In Honor of David and Susan Kalt and Eric and Liz Lefkofsky Laura and Scott Eisen Stacy and Peter Lindau

In Memory of Guy Adkins Mark Lococo Ernest Rients In Memory of Mickey Arkin Shirley and Frederick Richter In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Myriam L. Bransfield In Memory Merville Lee Brown, Jr. Carol S. Brown

In Honor of Sandy Karuschak Charles Katzenmeyer

In Memory of James Deuter Richard Quinn and Karen Kruza

In Honor of Steve and Jody LaVoie Eva Lichtenberg

In Memory of Ian Giles Pete and Diana Arsenault

In Honor of Annie Lebedoff Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Head

In Memory of Walter Kulikowski Linda Kulikowski

In Honor of Moira L. MacDonald Joyce and John MacDonald

In Memory of Fred Lifton Livia and Michael Kiser

In Honor of Jan Melk Richard and Katie Gottfred

In Memory of Nan Lipstein Cathy Nathan

In Honor of James Vincent Meredith Esther Gross

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

In Honor of Bruce Sagan Jack and Sandra Guthman

In Memory Of Sharon Muraka Cary Weldy

In Honor of Anne Shropshire Hyde Gina Shropshire

In Memory of Ellie Punkay Enid Golinkin

*Executive Committee Member ‡Directors Circle Member

In Memory of Esther Zadeik Mr. Peter A. Zadeik

Donors as of 10/13/10.

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in-kind contributors Steppenwolf salutes the following individuals and organizations who donated significant goods and/or services. A New Leaf ABC’s Modern Family AlphaGraphics Joan Allen Leonard Becker, Attorney at Law BOKA/Landmark Chicago Magazine ClientFirst Consulting Group Crain Communications Inc. CSI: NY & CBS Studio Center Michael Davis: Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Edge Audio Devlin Elliott the Elysian hotel EntertheChef.com Frontera Grill Frost Lighting Goose Island Brewery Grey Goose – World’s Best Tasting Vodka Deb and John Gross Halls Rental

John Hart: Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Heffernan Morgan, Inc. The James Hotel Neringa Kardelyte Tom Kirdahy Donna La Pietra Tracy Letts Limelight John Malkovich Chef Jason McLeod Chef Michael Kornick-MK Restaurant Microsoft Corporation Amy Morton NBC’s Park’s & Recreation Nick Offerman Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. Perennial David Pisor POP Red Star Printing Riviera Sara Lee Corporation Sepia

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Anna D. Shapiro The Sheraton Universal Hotel Shochu Shure Incorporated Gary Sinise Eric Stonestreet Structured Development A Table for Two The Talbott Hotel Tamari Wines Tasty Catering Time Out Chicago Tipsycake David Turner Photography United Airlines Vinci

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Please note that gifts listed above reflect contributions made as of 9/17/2010. Every effort is made to ensure that the information included in our program is accurate. If you have a question about your recognition or wish to alter your listing, please call the Individual Giving Department at 312-654-5615.

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Accessibility Committed to making the Steppenwolf experience accessible to everyone, we feature: • A sign language-interpreted performance (for guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing) during the run of each subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults production. • Audio described performances, artistic conversations and touch tours of the stage (for guests who are blind or visually-impaired) during the run of each subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults production. • Audio recordings of program articles, available for free on our Watch and Listen page at steppenwolf.org. • Braille programs (available for our audio described performances). • Large print programs (available for all subscription and Steppenwolf for Young Adults performances at our book shop, located across from the box office in the Downstairs lobby). • Assistive hearing devices for every performance in our Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres. • Wheelchair accessible seats in all three of our theatres. • A complimentary courtesy wheelchair (available through the Front of House office).

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

THE 2010/2011 ALBERT 4-PLAY SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE THREE WORLD PREMIERES, CLEVER COMEDIES, A LIGHTHEARTED ROMANCE AND INTIMATE STORIES FROM THE THEATER WORLD’S MOST EXCITING DIRECTORS AND PLAYWRIGHTS.

4 ALBERT PLAYS START AT JUST $79!

REGINA TAYLOR

THE TRINITY RIVER PLAYS

By Regina Taylor Directed by Ethan McSweeny

YASMINA REZA

STAGE KISS

CHINGLISH

STARTS MARCH 5, 2011

STARTS APRIL 30, 2011

STARTS JUNE 18, 2011

By Yasmina Reza Directed by Rick Snyder

STARTS JANUARY 15, 2011

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

DAVID HENRY HWANG

SARAH RUHL

GOD OF CARNAGE

World Premiere

By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Jessica Thebus A World-Premiere Goodman Theatre Commission

By David Henry Hwang Directed by Leigh Silverman World Premiere

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Corporate Sponsor Partner for God of Carnage

Goodman Theatre Women’s Board Production Sponsor for Chinglish

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