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Welcome to The Way West

Letter from Artistic Director Martha Lavey

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Artistic Director Martha Lavey chats with Playwright Mona Mansour about The Way West. Edited by Literary Associate Jenni Page-White

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Zoe Pe r ry

Martha Lavey

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We first read The Way West by Mona Mansour as we were searching for plays for last season’s First Look Repertory of New Work. The play so struck us that we moved it to our consideration of plays for our 2013/14 season. I think what most moved us about The Way West— which is a curious form: a play with songs, a spiky humor, and a dead-serious theme—is its relevance to how we live now. We knew Mona’s work from the plays she has written about her own Middle Eastern background: The Hour of Feeling and Urge for Going. These previous works revealed a scholarly and poetic bent that was intriguing and unique. The Way West is a departure from those previous plays both in its form and its tone. The Way West has an irreverent and jocular tone, but like those earlier plays, it is an interrogation of personal responsibility within a larger cultural frame. The play is set in California, our country’s western edge, in a town that has suffered economic collapse—think Stockton, California: the first American city to declare bankruptcy. California lives large in the American imagination—the farthest destination in the American quest to “Go West!” to the Land of Opportunity. California is a place

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“ I think Mona is asking us to look more closely at our American myth of manifest destiny, which is fueled by an image that Americans possess special virtues that make our situation exceptional.” where people go to remake themselves, to strike gold, to escape, to make it big. Of course, the reality of California is various and encompasses a wide variety of lives and terrains, but our imagination of California as a place of the new, the novel, the sunny and shiny, is vivid. It is especially vivid to Mom as an image of the great pioneering fortitude of the American spirit. She tells tales of our ancestors and breaks into spontaneous song to encourage herself and her daughters to overcome whatever adversity they encounter in their present lives. Mom herself is in the middle of bankruptcy (about which she seems oblivious). Her younger daughter, Meesh, who has been living near and with her mom for years, has acclimated to Mom’s declining financial and physical health and has adopted similar coping strategies—marginally employed, adaptive to scarcity and making do on diminishing resources. When the older daughter, Manda, comes onto the scene with a mission to help her mother sort out her financial situation, Mom’s situation comes under new scrutiny. Manda’s life in Chicago seems, at least on the surface, to be a successful one. She is a grant writer for a not-for-profit—a job that seems a little inscrutable to Mom and Meesh—but she seems to be managing to go on vacations and get fancy

haircuts and in general, she’s “making it.” She is appalled by Mom’s and Meesh’s blithe refusal to see the precariousness of their own situation. That the tenuousness of her own life—supported by her liberal use of credit cards to stay solvent—is invisible to her is a central irony of the play. Manda is convinced that her diminishing resources are balanced against her “potential.” In the ledger sheet of her life, she sees the straitened resources of her present circumstances as a temporary illusion against the reality of what she sees as the unlimited potential of her talents. Manda can’t see how her own mindset mimes that of her mom’s. She is the stand-in for all of us who are living presentable but perhaps unsupportable lives. I think Mona is asking us to look more closely at our American myth of manifest destiny, which is fueled by an image that Americans possess special virtues that make our situation exceptional. We are, in this narrative, destined to succeed, destined to expand, destined to overcome all adversity to achieving our prosperous future. This narrative— central to our American identity—can make us immune to the idea that we can fail even when, like Mom and Meesh (and ultimately Manda) we are in the midst of lives that are unsustainable. And, I think, Mona is suggesting that we have reached the end of the fantasy: we have reached the outermost western edge of expansion and arrived in the new California—

land of the housing collapse and high unemployment. The new West evoked in the play is Seattle, home of Microsoft—our tech-driven future that has made the expertise of so many Americans obsolete. Mona has put her finger on the huge cultural shift from a manufacturing economy to an information economy that has left so many Americans behind. The story of the housing crash, the obsolescence of a wide swath of the American workforce, and the fragility of our credit economy are all embodied in the play. That Mona has managed to take on these issues in a sort of comical and sideways manner is a part of the play’s charm. We laugh at the transparent illusions of Mom and Meesh until we realize, like Manda, that their refusal to recognize the dire entailments of their optimism and cheer are ones we collectively share. America is destined for greatness and we’re all headed toward something better. Right?

Steppenwolf Artistic Director Martha Lavey

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Martha Lavey †* Artistic Director

Davi d Hawkanson Executive Director

S t eppen w o l f T h ea t r e C o m pan y p r e s en t s

Steppenwolf salutes the sponsors of our production of The Way West Major Foundation Support provided by the E lizabeth F. Ch eney Fou ndation.

THE WAY WEST By Mona Mansour Directed by ensemble member Amy Morton†*

Corporate Production Sponsor Fea t u r i n g

Additional support provided by the National E ndowm ent for th e Arts.

I ra Amyx*, Martha Lavey †*, Caroli n e N e ff*, D e i r d r e O’Conn e ll*, Zoe Pe r ry*, Gab r i e l R u i z* Production Kevi n D e pi n et + Scenic Design

Individual Production Sponsors

Nan Ci b u la-J e n ki ns + Costume Design

Doug las R. B rown

Davi d We i n e r + Lighting Design

Hen ry and Le ig h B i enen

Rob M i lb u r n + & M ichae l Bod e e n + Sound Design, Original Music and Arrangements

Th e Com e r Fou ndation

M i ke Tutaj + Projection Design

Nora Daley and Sean Con roy Fran k G. and Ge rtr u de Du nlap Fu nd R ichar d and Mary L. G ray Hope Abelson Production E ndowm ent Fu nd Nancy L. Wald Production E ndowm ent Fu nd

Malcolm R u hl Musical Director E r ica Dan i e ls° Casting Director Aaron Carte r Dramaturg D e b Stye r* Stage Manager M ich e lle M e dvi n* Assistant Stage Manager

Joh n and Carol Walte r Production E ndowm ent Fu nd anonymous The Way West is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Developed at The Lark Play Development Center, New York City.

ComEd is the 2013/14 Season Lighting Sponsor.

The Way West was developed with the support of The Playwrights’ Center

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communication Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater. † member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. + member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of the IATSE. ° member of the Casting Society of America.

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Cast and contributors C a s t (in alphabetical order)

A dd i t i o nal S ta f f

I ra Amyx*

SARAH I LLIATOVITCH-GOLD MAN Assistant Director

Pizza Delivery Guy

Martha Lavey†* Tress

Caroli n e N e ff* Meesh

D e i r d r e O’Conn e ll* Mom

Zoe Pe r ry* Manda

Gab r i e l R u i z* Manny

ARI CLOUS E Script Coordinator STEVE SORE N SON Lighting Assistant MARGARET GRGURICH Assistant Charge Artist

MusIC BY FreDerICK LOeWe BOOK & LYrICs BY aLan JaY Lerner DIreCteD anD CHOreOGraPHeD BY raCHeL rOCKWeLL

D E S IREE AR NOLD Props Overhire JOH N WOE LFER, CH RI S D E PAOLA Carpentry Overhire KATH LEE N D ICKI N SON Stage Management Apprentice

Unde r s t u d i e s

TREVOR NORTH Stage Management Volunteer

D e lia Bas e man Manda and Meesh J u dy B lu e* Mom and Tress J. Salomé Marti n e z Manny Ti m M usach io Pizza Delivery Guy

Spec i al T h an k s t o J e ss ica Amato Nad ia Bowe r s John E i sn e r Hayley Fi nn Li nsay Fi r man

Se t t i n g

Pau l Good r ich

A modern-day California town

Arth u r Kopit Ste lla Rag sdale Gayle Ran ki n

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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

† member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. + member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of the IATSE. ° member of the Casting Society of America.

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THE WAY WEST Photographer Joel Moorman

In rehearsal

Cast member Ira Amyx

Cast members Dierdre o’connell and Caroline neff

Cast member Gabriel Ruiz

Ensemble member Amy Morton

Ensemble member Amy Morton and Cast member Dierdre o’connell

Playwright Mona Mansour

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Cast members zoe perry and Gabriel Ruiz

Cast members Dierdre o’connell and Caroline neff

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THE WAY WEST bios

I r a A m y x (Pizza Delivery Guy) is thrilled to make his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. Chicago credits include The Seafarer, In Pigeon House and That Was Then (Seanachai Theatre Company) where he is a proud company member. He directed the world premiere of Shakespeare’s King Phycus (The Strange Tree Group). Ira received his BA in dramatic writing and acting from Boise State University and his MFA from Indiana University. He has received two Joseph Jefferson nominations (Actor in a Supporting Role and Set Design). Film credits include Assassins, The Dame with No Name and Hitmen. Ma r t h a L a v e y (Tress) has been an ensemble member since 1993 and has appeared at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in more than 20 productions. Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre and Remains Theatre and in New York at the Women’s Project and Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 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 and honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University.

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C a r o l i ne N e f f (Meesh) happily returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company after being seen as Irina in Three Sisters, as well as in Annie Bosh is Missing (First Look 2013), and Where We’re Born as part of the inaugural Next Up Repertory. Other Chicago credits include 4000 Miles (Northlight Theatre); The Knowledge, The Receptionist, Under the Blue Sky, Pornography, A Brief History of Helen of Troy, Harper Regan, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Steep Theatre Company); Port, Stage Door, Be More Chill (Griffin Theatre); The Petrified Forest, St. Crispin’s Day (Strawdog Theatre Company); Cherrywood, Saved (Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.); 25 Saints (Pine Box Theatre Company); The Metal Children (Next Theatre Company); and Moonshiner (Jackalope Theatre Company). Film and television credits include Older Children, Open Tables and Chicago Fire. She is an ensemble member at Steep Theatre Company, holds her BA from Columbia College and can be seen next in The Downpour (Route 66 Theatre Company). Deirdre O ’ C o nnell (Mom) is happy to be at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the first time. Recent stage work in New York includes Scarcity, Rag and Bone (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); A Family For All Occasions (Labyrinth Theater Company); The Vandal (The Flea Theater); Magic/ Bird (Longacre Theater); Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie and Drama Desk Awards; Playwrights Horizons); In The Wake (Los Angeles Ovation Award, The Richard Seff Actor’s Equity Award, Lucille Lortel nomination;

The Public Theater and Mark Taper Forum); In The Blood, The Poor Itch, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (The Public Theater); Thinner Than Water (Labyrinth Theater Company); Pyretown (Keen Company); Manic Flight Reaction, Spatter Pattern Moe’s Lucky Seven (Playwrights Horizon); End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Looking For The Pony (Vital Theatre Company); Cave Dweller, Love and Anger (Drama Desk nomination; New York Theatre Workshop); Big Dance Theater’s Antigone (Classic Stage Company); Two Headed (Women’s Project Theatre); Fugue (Cherry Lane Theatre); Mud (Signature Theatre Company); The Geography of Luck, Three Ways Home, Stars in the Morning (Dramalogue Award, Los Angeles Critics Award), Etta Jenks (Dramalogue Award, Los Angeles Theatre Center); The Front Page (Lincoln Center Theater); A Lie of the Mind (Promenade Theater) and all of the major plays by Anton Chekov at Chekov at Lake Lucille. Films credits include Synecdoche, NY, What Happens in Vegas, Imaginary Heroes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Secondhand Lions, Fearless and Pastime (Independent Spirit Award, Best Supporting Actress nomination). Television credits include many guest stars and movies for television as well as a recurring role on Nurse Jackie and regular roles on L.A. Doctors and Second Noah. Deirdre has an Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Z o e P e r r y (Manda) is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf Theater Company where she was last seen in Pot Mom. Recent theater credits include The Other Place (Manhattan Theater Club); Good Television (Atlantic Theater Company); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Mark Taper Forum); Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden (The Antaeus Company); End Days (Odyssey Theater); Balm In Gilead (Brooklyn, New York); and Teen Girl (The Zephyr Theater). Film credits include Cotton, Turkey Bowl, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Deception. Television credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Cold Case, My Boys, Conviction, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Zoe is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Gab r i el R u i z (Manny) is a graduate of the DePaul Theatre School and a proud ensemble member of Teatro Vista. Chicago credits include How Long Will I Cry?, and understudying The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Upstairs Concierge (Goodman Theater); White Tie Ball (Teatro Vista); Creditors (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Sita Ram (Chicago Children’s Choir); After (Profiles Theatre); Working: The Musical (The Broadway Playhouse); Richard‌ ‌III, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theater Company). Regional credits include Why Torture is Wrong and The People Who Love Them (Forward Theater Company); and Blood and Gifts (The Lincoln Center). Television credits include Boss and Chicago Fire. M o na Man s o u r (Playwright) The Way West received a BareBones workshop at the Lark Play Development Center (directed by Linsay Firman) where Mona was a Fellow in 2012. The Hour of Feeling (directed by Mark Wing-Davey) received its world premiere in the 2012 Humana Festival in Louisville. Following that it was part of the High Tide Festival in the U.K. as part of the Rifle Hall plays. Urge for Going (directed by Hal Brooks) received a LAB production in the 2011 season at The Public Theater and just had its West Coast premiere at San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions (directed by Evren Odcikin). The Vagrant, the third play in the trilogy, was workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute. Mona was a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, a Core Writer at Minneapolis’ Playwrights’ Center and has just been selected for membership in New Dramatists. Other plays include Across the Water, Girl Scouts of America and Broadcast Yourself (part of Headlong Theater’s Decade). With Tala Manassah she has written The House, After and The Letter, which premiered at Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege, a collection of plays commissioned by the New Black Festival. 2013 Middle East America Playwright Award; 2012 Whiting Award. For my mother.

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A m y M o r to n (Director) last directed Penelope at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She has directed or acted with the company in more than 30 productions. She has traveled regionally and internationally with many Steppenwolf productions including Glengarry Glen Ross, Topdog/Underdog, American Buffalo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, August: Osage County (Tony nomination) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony nomination). She has appeared in the films The Dilemma, Up in the Air, Rookie of the Year, Falling Down, Backdraft and Straight Talk. Her latest television work has been a recurring role on the series Chicago PD and Boss. She has also appeared in Girls, Homeland, Blue Bloods and Chicago Fire. Before joining Steppenwolf Theatre Company, she was a member of The Remains Theatre Ensemble for 15 years. Ke v i n D ep i ne t (Scenic Design) recently designed Detroit and American Buffalo at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He also designs at Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The National Theatre of Great Britain, The Royal George Theatre, The McCarter Theatre, Court Theatre, Arden Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, Fox Valley Repertory, The Marriott Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare. He was the associate designer for the original Tony Award-winning August: Osage County. He is also an adjunct professor of design at DePaul University. He studied at Ball State University and the Yale School of Drama. N an C i b u la - J en k i n s (Costume Design) has designed costumes for theater, film, television, opera and dance. At Steppenwolf Theatre Company she has designed costumes for Good People, Clybourne Park, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Top Dog Underdog and The Dresser among many others. Other Chicago credits include Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre and Writers Theatre. Regional credits include costume designs at Arena Theatre in Washington, DC, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage 14 bios

Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Alley in Houston, American Repertory Theatre, The Public Theater, A Contemporary Theatre Seattle, Manhattan Theatre Club and The Kennedy Center. She was the original costume designer for the American premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross at Goodman Theatre and 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. D a v i d We i ne r (Lighting Design) is making his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. Chicago credits incude Smokefall at Goodman Theatre. Broadway credits include Romeo & Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Dinner At Eight (Lincoln Center Theater); Betrayal (Roundabout Theater Company). Off Broadway credits include work with MCC Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience, Vineyard Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company. Regional credits include Center Theatre Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Awards include 2012 Lucille Lortel Award Through a Glass Dark), 2011 Drama Desk nomination Small Fire, 2005 Lucille Lortel Award Rodney’s Wife. davidweinerdesign.com R o b M i lb u r n & M i c h ael B o deen (Sound Design, Original Music and Arrangements) Broadway credits include music composition and sound for No Man’s Land & Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing of Love, sound for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 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 Checkers, Inked Baby, After Ashley, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, Marvin’s Room, sound for Tales of Red Vienna, Jitney, Family Week, 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 Company) and at several international venues. milbomusic.com. M i k e T u taj (Projection Design) returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company having designed projections for Lord of the Flies, The Book Thief, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter and The Hot L Baltimore. Other design credits include Shrek The Musical, Sunday in the Park with George, Beauty and the Beast (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Beyond the Score: Symphonie Fantastique and Beyond the Score: Mr. Haydn goes to London (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); The Mountaintop (Court Theatre); Pullman Porter Blues, By the Way Meet Vera Stark (Goodman Theatre); Still Alice (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Blood and Gifts and 33 Variations (TimeLine Theatre Company). Mike is an Artistic Associate with TimeLine Theatre Company and an adjunct professor in the Theatre Department of Columbia College Chicago. Malc o l m R u h l (Musical Director) makes his Steppenwolf Theatre Company musical direction debut with The Way West. Chicago credits include Hank Williams: Lost Highway (American Blues Theater); A Christmas Carol, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Goodman Theatre); Eastland (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Ring of Fire, Grease (Theatre at the Center); Hairspray, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Drury Lane Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Oklahoma! (American Theater Company); Woody Guthrie’s American Song (Jeff Award), Blues in the Night, Smoke on the Mountain (Northlight Theatre); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Apollo and Forum Theatres). Malcolm was also the Musical Coordinator for Million Dollar Quartet (Apollo Theatre). D eb S t y e r (Stage Manager) recently stage managed the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of The Wheel. Other credits include the Tony Award-winning August: Osage County (Broadway, London, Sydney and Chicago), Belleville, The Birthday Party, The Book Thief, Clybourne Park, The Hot L Baltimore, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Bluest Eye (New York and Chicago), 100 Saints You Should Know, Lady Madeline, Men of Tortuga, The Chosen (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Gypsy, Broadway Bound (Drury Lane Theatre); Take Me Out (About Face Theatre); and American Dead (American Theatre Company). She teaches stage management at Northwestern University.

M i c h elle Med v i n (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company after serving as Stage Manager on Tribes. Other recent projects include Good People, Time Stands Still, Clybourne Park (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Tree and Blue Door (Victory Gardens Theater); and Jackie and Me (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Favorites over the past twelve years with Steppenwolf include Art, The Crucible, August: Osage County, The Pillowman, The Unmentionables, Love Song, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Man From Nebraska, Purple Heart (also Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival), We All Went Down to Amsterdam and many others. Additionally, Michelle has worked with Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Portland Center Stage. Michelle is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity, a graduate of Smith College and most of all Mary’s wife and Elliott’s mama. Ma r t h a L a v e y (Artistic Director) has been an ensemble member since 1993 and has appeared at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in more than 20 productions. Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre and Remains Theatre and in New York at the Women’s Project and Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 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 and honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University. D a v i d Ha w k an s o n (Executive Director) prior to Steppenwolf Theatre Company was the Managing Director of 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 in Connecticut with Artistic Director Mark Lamos. Earlier in his career, he was Managing Director of Arizona Theatre Company. He was a former senior staff member at the National Endowment for the Arts and subsequently chairman of its Theater Program. He has also had an active career as an arts management consultant and trustee for many national organizations and foundations. He currently serves as a trustee of the League of Chicago Theatres and the Arts Alliance Illinois. He is a graduate of Lawrence University.

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“ I’m actually just going to pay for my Sprite” Edited by Literary Associate J e nn i Pag e-Wh ite Artistic Director Martha Lavey chats with playwright Mona Mansou r about The Way West.

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Ma r t h a L a v e y : Maybe the best way to start is to say that you’re a very accomplished playwright. And the plays for which I think you’re most well-known—The Hour of Feeling and Urge for Going—these are plays that draw on your father’s heritage. He’s Lebanese, and also a professor? M o na Man s o u r : No, he’s a lot like the main character in those plays, but he’s not an academic. M L : It’s interesting, because those plays have a very intellectual cast, and The Way West is quite a departure from all that. It’s structured in an entirely different way—it’s a play with songs, the tonality is a bit mad-cap in places, and certainly the characters are very American. MM : I think of those plays as being about my dad’s side of the family. And The Way West is more about my mom and her side of the family. I mean, my mom has physical problems much like the mom in The Way West. She grew up with money in Seattle, and then she married my dad, this immigrant, and we were very middle class. Then after they got divorced, she sort of went on a downward spiral, economically. And my mother had a ‘Tress’ in her life, who literally borrowed money from her for the exact health spa business venture in the play. I did the treatments and all that! M L : One of the things I think is cool about the play is the way the peripheral characters, Tress and Manny, are poised as examples of attempts to succeed in America. Tress is the get-richquick scam-o way, and Manny is the guy who will just work, work, work—and he’s the one who’s going to have a family and a life and a job. MM : Well, it feels important to me to make explicit the connection between what Tress is doing to what happened in 2008 in the

financial markets. Also, as I started to work on the play, I was talking with another playwright, and she said, “People will talk about sex, but they just won’t talk about money.” And that felt important to me, that this play was going to have a character say “How much do you make?” In a country that is so obsessed with material things, you know, we want stuff, but we don’t want to be specific about it… M L : I think because we don’t want to admit our limits. MM : Right. M L : It’s a sin to say “I can’t afford that.” MM : I think that’s true. I got into my own financial mess, and one of the reasons was that I would go out for drinks with people, and I didn’t want to say, “I’m going to order a Sprite, and I’m actually just going to pay for my Sprite. I’m going to be that person.” You know? So instead you say, “No, it’s fine!” And you buy the expensive NYC cocktail. And meanwhile you think, “F***, I hope this credit card works!” M L : The way this play flirts with disaster, that feeling of potential homelessness makes me anxious. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve lived on the edge, you know? It just feels like a state I could revert to, if the wrong series of things happen. MM : When I used to do a lot of temp work, we had this mantra of “Hey! I’m two paychecks away from being homeless.” And we were kidding, but… we kind of weren’t. M L : Right, it’s the flip-side of the idea that everybody can achieve the American Dream. The non-codified class system in the United States means that you can also precipitously fall.

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MM : Especially in California, everything went up so fast. And as fast as they would come up, they would also go down. Where, on the East coast, things moved more slowly and things were more entrenched; when things would fail, they wouldn’t fail as spectacularly. In California, when they failed, they failed terribly. It’s been an interesting thing to read about the history of the state that I came from. M L : One of the things you do so smartly with this play is that you’ve arranged this very particular story about this mom and her daughters so that it tells a larger American story. The imperative that’s always issued in those stories is “go west,” and you locate these people at the Western edge of the country, so that they’re about to fall off the edge. It suggests that the myth has exhausted itself. The question of manifest destiny that’s buried in all of those stories is that America is this place where anyone can achieve, and the reason that all of this should be ours, this land that we’re conquering—read, stealing—from other people, is because we’re inherently better. MM : I think, growing up in California, I definitely had the sense that we were a little better. M L : As Californians or as Americans? MM : Californians! Americans, yes, plus Californians. It was an added ‘better.’ I remember thinking about people who lived in Arizona, and I’d think, “Yeah, they just ran out of gas. They didn’t make it.” Every place has its mythology. But I do feel like the place where the American mythology of what formed this country really comes together is California. The newness of it—well, new to white people— the way that towns went up so quickly, it’s all the things that are American, but on steroids. Someone just told me that they

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saw on Google Translate a guidebook to the US for people from Asia, I think, and it said something like, “Americans are always optimistic, and you cannot hate them.” (She laughs.) We really are optimists. My father is from Lebanon—they are not optimists. M L : You know, Mona, there was a period of time when I was only reading 19th century fiction, and it’s so revealing… You know, the British are sort of beautifully ironic, the French are downright cynical, and the Americans are optimistic. You can really taste the national character in these great works, and it’s pretty consistent from one writer to the next. MM : Like you mentioned, Martha, this play connects the American character to the personal experience. These aren’t people that I’m standing apart from, judging. In writing this play, it’s very much that, okay—I’m the first in line. That Manda trap with the credit cards, where she’s maintaining $700 minimums and not even putting a dent in the actual debt—it’s absolutely the trap I fell into. And I’m happy to say, in case anyone’s wondering, it’s down to one card, and it’s only about $7800. M L : Hey Mona, if we do a good job on your play, here’s hoping that your royalties will pull you out of debt. They could!

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By Director of New Play Development Aaron Carter

I have this friend who is the struggling kind. Barely making ends meet in a small Ohio town. The kind of man whose life is a daisy chain of minor calamity. Scrapes together his house payment, then gets sick and has to spend the money on a hospital bill. Signs up for overtime to get ahead, but the bosses pause production for a few days and he loses his base pay. One day we’re catching up and he tells me he has paid off his car. He bought it used on a ridiculous interest rate, but it runs reliably and now that’s one less payment he’s got to worry about. I breathe a little sigh of relief. Maybe this is the watershed and he can turn things around. Couple of months later, he’s complaining about his auto loan. “You get a new car?” I ask, the judgment in my voice clear. “I did,” he says. I think—but do not say—that this is exactly why he’s always lurching from one near disaster to another. No foresight. No planning. Instant gratification. “Why would you do that?” a hectoring tone edging in “You had a car free and clear!” “I gave that one to this young couple up the road,” he said. “They needed it more than I did.”

In fiscal year 2013, more than one million people filed for bankruptcy, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. According to a study by NerdWallet Health, the number one cause of bankruptcy filings in 2013 was unpaid medical bills. “A lot of Americans probably think about bankruptcy

as coming from unpaid credit-card debt or mortgages,” NerdWallet Health Vice President Christina LaMontagne said. “But the root cause of all those troubles may well be medical bills.” The prevalence of medical cost related bankruptcies may signal a new evolution in how Americans view bankruptcy. In a 1999 article published by the Milliken Institute—an “independent think tank”—author Joseph S. Pomykala paints the history of bankruptcy in America as a conflict between debtors rights and creditors rights: the pendulum swinging in response to the politics of each era. According to Pomykala, the framers viewed bankruptcy as a form of fraud. During the financial Panic of 1837, debt relief became a part of the Whig Party’s platform. As a result, the Bankruptcy Act of 1841 “widened eligibility to all debtors, where before only merchants and traders had been eligible. It also allowed debtors to voluntarily petition themselves into bankruptcy, instead of giving the option only to creditors.” Pomykala goes on to paint a history of bankruptcy in which protection tilts towards creditors in times of prosperity, and towards debtors in times of financial crisis. It is clear that the author is mustering an argument in favor of making it more difficult to declare bankruptcy—perhaps anticipating the 2005 bankruptcy overhaul that made it more difficult for consumers to clear their debts through Chapter 7 bankruptcy. But whether or not you agree with Pomykala’s arguments

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on the particular reform, the notion that bankruptcy law is tied to the spirit of the times is intriguing. It suggests to me that the ways we think about debt and responsibility are tied to our perception of prosperity and to the kind of people we wish to be.

The character of Mom in The Way West believes in a vision of herself—and of her country—that is built on tall tales of pioneers who survived in the face of unimaginable hardship. But the moment that most speaks to me in the play is a little quieter than the rugged western rhetoric. Mom has helped her best friend Tress start a business. A business, you will learn in the course of the play, which most people would view as risky. As the full extent of Mom’s liability becomes clear, Mom declares “Good for me. It’s good to be generous. It’s a good way to be.” Part of what playwright Mona Mansour explores in The Way West is the how the American spirit of optimism, hard word and perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds is both a blessing and a curse. At its best, it makes us capable of extraordinary things. And at its worst, it blinds us to harsh realities, rendering us unable to make difficult decisions or endure short term sacrifice for long term gain. But there is something just as American going on. Mom is in financial trouble because

she wants to believe that she is a good person. A generous person. And, just like my friend back in Ohio, that is an idea of self so strong that Mom is willing to pay for it. In conversations during rehearsal, Mona has said “this isn’t a play about bankruptcy or foreclosure.” And I see what she means—The Way West doesn’t delve into the specifics of either process. Instead, Mona has identified a fascinating nexus where debt, personal responsibility, blame, national identity and individual character all slam together. For me, what drives this collision is our belief in the old adage that “Good things happen to good people.” When we attempt to assign blame in bankruptcy—blame the banks, blame the greedy consumer, blame inadequate health care—we are implicitly trying to identify the good guys. The good guys have suffered at the hands of the bad guys. As the swinging pendulum of bankruptcy history indicates, sometimes the good guys are the debtors that unscrupulous creditors have taken advantage of. And at other times, the good guys are the creditors who have created our prosperity. But finding the good guys and bad guys isn’t always easy. My friend in Ohio did a good thing that he couldn’t afford as did Mom in The Way West. Rather than inviting us to assign blame, I think the play asks us to see ourselves in these struggling characters. After all, if I asked you: would you be willing to go into debt to be a good person, I bet you’d say yes.

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T h e S t eppen w o l f E n s e m ble first began performing in the mid-1970s in the basement of a Highland Park church, the ambitious brainchild of three high school and college friends: Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise. Fast forward 36 years and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company has become the nation’s premier ensemble theater—redefining the landscape of acting and performance. The ensemble has grown to 43 members who represent a remarkable generation of actors, directors and playwrights. Thrilling, powerful, groundbreaking productions from Balm in Gilead and The Grapes of Wrath to August: Osage County—and accolades that include the National Medal of Arts and 12 Tony Awards—have made the theater legendary. Steppenwolf’s artistic force remains rooted in the original vision of its founders: an artist-driven theater, whose vitality is defined by its sharp appetite for groundbreaking, innovative work. That work is represented in production photos displayed throughout the theater.

Joan Allen

Kevin Anderson

Alana Arenas

Randall Arney

Kate Arrington

Ian Barford

Robert Breuler

Gary Cole

Kathryn Erbe

K. Todd Freeman

Frank Galati

Francis Guinan

Moira Harris

Jon Michael Hill

Tim Hopper

Tom Irwin

Ora Jones

Terry Kinney

The Steppenwolf Ensemble Tina Landau

Martha Lavey

Tracy Letts

John Mahoney

John Malkovich

Mariann Mayberry

Tarell Alvin McCraney

James Vincent Meredith

Laurie Metcalf

Amy Morton

Sally Murphy

Austin Pendleton

Jeff Perry

William Petersen

Yasen Peyankov

Martha Plimpton

Rondi Reed

Molly Regan

Anna D. Shapiro

Eric Simonson

Gary Sinise

Lois Smith

Rick Snyder

Jim True-Frost

Alan Wilder

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S t eppen w o l f S ta f f

B o a r d o f T r u s t ee s

Martha Lavey

Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise

David Hawkanson

Artistic Director

Executive Artistic Board

Executive Director

Artistic

PAUL G. MILLER

Shilla Shakoori

Erica Daniels

Executive Assistant

Graphic Designer

Associate Artistic Director

Lupe Garcia Quiles

JIMMY FREUND

Aaron Carter

Events Management Associate

Audience Services Manager

Angela johnson

STEPHANIE HELLER

Office Management Associate & Receptionist

Audience Services Subscription Manager

Producing Associate

Jackie Snuttjer

Jenni Page-White

Finance Specialist

Mike brunlieb MATTHEW LYLE

Director of New Play Development

Greta Honold

Literary Associate

Jessamyn Fuller Casting and School Assistant

Development SANDY KARUSCHAK Director of Development

Tracy Letts Amy Morton Jessica Thebus Yasen Peyankov

ERIC EVENSKAAS

Associate Artists

Director of Campaign Gifts

Sheldon Patinkin Artistic Consultant

Steppenwolf for Young Adults Hallie Gordon Artistic and Educational Director

Megan Shuchman Associate Education Director

Lauren Sivak Education and Community Programs Coordinator

Amanda Acevedo Cara epstein Larry Grimm Ali Hoefnagel L’Oreal Jackson Michael Leon Blake McKay NICOLE RIPLEY Ashley Roberson Samuel Roberson Emilio Robles Teaching Artists

Administration David M. Schmitz Managing Director

Production

Audience Services Associates

Shop Foreman

Megan a. Smith Director of Corporate Relations

DEBORAH STEWART Director of Foundation and Government Relations

KENDRA VAN KEMPEN Director of Special Events

Suzanne Miller Annual Fund Manager

Lauren Fisher Major Gift Coordinator

Jessica Gretch Individual Giving Coordinator

Kaleigh Lockhart Cioffi Development Coordinator

Robert S. Brown Assistant Technical Director

Christopher Kristant christopher grubb Kyle Land Russell Scott Scenic Carpenters

Operations

Melissa rutherfoord

JAY JUSSAUME

Charge Scenic Artist

Director of Operations

zoe Shiffrin

Lauren Connor

Peter van kempeN

Properties Master

Operations Coordinator

ANDRIA SMITH

Adrian castro RYAN PALMA

Assistant Properties Master

Sarah Tongren Special Events Associate

Facilities Staff

Master Properties Artisan

Eric Van Tassell

David Barati Victor David Padam Dhungel Tika Ram Kafley Ethan Ozaniec Bhagirath Timsina Biak Sang

Emily Guthrie

Custodial Staff

Staff Wardrobe

EVAN HATFIELD

CARYN WEGLARZ KLEIN

Director of Audience Experience

Costume Director

Danielle shindler

Assistant Costume Designer

Foundation and Government Associate

Corporate Relations Associate

erika Nelson Associate Director of Marketing

Donovan Foote Design Director

Digital Content Producer

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Technical Director

Jenny DiLuciano

Brian Hurst

IT Associate

RUSSELL POOLE

Physical Plant Supervisor

jamie alexander

Samar Sharba

Assistant Production Manager

Antonio Ibarra

Human Resources and Professional Leadership Programs Coordinator Finance Coordinator

Cathy Taylor public relations inc

Brianna Parry

Development Associate

Anna Brenner

Director of Marketing and Communications

Kate holst Test

Publicity

Volunteer Usher Coordination

Interim Charge Scenic Artist

Events Management Director

Company Manager

JACK MEYER, THE SAINTS

CRAIG BARNES BILLIE RYE BRYANT REBECCA BUTLER DERRIK DICKINSON RENALDO DUMAS LACEY HOLMES SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS THERESA MASSE SARAH NELSON TYRONE PHILLIPS CHARLES STRATER

JOhn Zinn

Erin Cook

ROSEANN BISHOP

Parking Staff

Emilie De Angelis

Heather C. Joireman

IT Director

Group Sales Associate

MUSTAFA CHAUDHRY DONALD COULSON Indra Kafley

Subscriptions and Audience Services Assistant

Director of Finance

Scott Macoun

Molly Layton

Front of House Staff

Associate Director of Development

Marketing, Communications & Audience Services

Rachel D. Freund

Audience Services Supervisors

Chase Kimball Jessica Lind Michelle Maurer Maggie Ritter Melissa Rose Eleni Sauvageau Elissa Shortridge Brittany Stock Christopher Young

Marketing Manager

JOEL MOORMAN Neel McNeill Marketing Assistant

Front of House Manager

Will Allan Kelsey Chigas Autumn Cranor Anna Donnell Daniel Dvorkin Sarah Goldberg Leanna Harney Bridget Holmes

CHARLES MOSER

Properties Artisan

JESSICA STRATTON Wardrobe, Hair & Make-up Supervisor

Melissa tulchinsky

MAE HASKINS

J. R. LEDERLE Lighting Supervisor

ERNESTO GOMEZ Head Electrician

RICK HAEFELE House Carpenter

DAWN PRZYBYLSKI Stage Carpenter

MARTHA WEGENER Audio Engineer

GREGOR MORTIS Assistant Audio Engineer

Cassie Calderone Malcolm Ewen Christine D. Freeburg Laura D. Glenn Michelle Medvin Deb Styer Stage Managers

E x ec u t i v e C o m m i t t ee

T r u s t ee s

E m e r i t u s T r u s t ee s

Sarah B ear dsley

J. Rob e rt Bar r

Nora Daley Chair

M ichae l W. B e nd e r

Lawr e nce B lock

Mar le n e B r e slow B litste i n

John N. Fox, J r.

E r ic Le fkofs ky Secretary Pau l W. Good r ich Treasurer H e n ry S. B i e n e n Carole L. B rown Doug las R. B rown M ichae l Cahan Eli zab eth H. Conn e lly R ich Fe itle r Caryn Har r i s Lynn Lockwood M u r phy

Call Center

Ke nn eth J. Por r e llo

CASEY VANWORMER

D e borah H. Quaz zo

Associate Campaign Director

Daniel Rubens Tiffany Rae Wilson Audience Outreach Supervisors

Laura Barati Sidney Cristol Charles Frydenberg Marilyn Hillary Jennifer Hogan Elliot Ivins Max Lando Audience Outreach Associates

Randall K. Rowe B r uce Sagan Har ry J. S e ig le Ste phan i e B. S m ith John R. Walte r H e le n Z e ll

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Ebs B u r noug h Te r r i L. Cable Rob i n Te nnant Colb u r n Keati ng Crown B eth Boosali s Davi s Ki m Davi s Amy Eshle man J. Scott Etz le r D. Cam e ron Fi ndlay N e n e Foxhall Lawr e nce M. G i ll Matth ew G ray Robert J. Greenebaum, Jr. John H. Hart

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D e nn i s D. Howarte r Te r ry J e n ki ns G eorg e A. Jos e ph Donna La Pi etra Martha Lavey Mary Lu d for d

MICHAEL BESANCON Alexis Chaney Kathleen Dickinson Kevin Dwyer Elizabeth Gottmann Elle Kaplan Lexy Leuszler Andrew Lex Gee Hoon Lim Adrienne Littlefield david Masnato Patrick McGovern Chrystle Morman Diana Raiselis Travis Ray Raisa Stebbins Aaron Stephenson Karyn Todd Kathryn Zukaitis

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LAUREL CLAYSON Head Draper

Kevin Peterson Shop Foreman

lynae vandermeulen Staff Draper

Daisy lindas Project Coordinator

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The Seafarer, 2008

Detroit, 2010

The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water, 2010

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Last of the Boys, 2005

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Steppenwolf gratefully recognizes the community of people who serve in leadership roles and provide invaluable support to the Theater. 2 0 1 4 Gala Steppenwolf ’s Gala Co-Chairs plan the signature fundraising event led by the theater’s Board of Trustees. Lawr e nce M. G i ll* and Ch r i sti n e Alb r ig ht Kathle e n and Te r ry* J e n ki ns

N e w P la y D e v el o p m en t F u nd C o m m i t t ee The New Play Development Committee promotes and supports new play development for the theater, ensuring that Steppenwolf remains a leading voice in new American plays. H e le n Z e ll*, Chair

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Jay Fran ke

Sarah B ear dsley*

Doug B rown* Joyce Ch e lb e rg Rob i n Te nnant Colb u r n* Caryn Har r i s* Joan Har r i s Li z Le fkofs ky J i m Mab i e Rob e rt Sanbor n* Matth ew S hapi ro* Colette Cach ey S m ithb u rg*

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D i r ec t o r s C i r cle C o m m i t t ee The Directors Circle Committee’s purpose is to steward and help grow the Directors Circle program comprised of generous donors who annually support Steppenwolf’s artistic initiatives. Ton i S m ith, Chair B eth B. Davi s* G r eg D e smond R itu D h i ng ra J u li e G ustafson M i ke G ustafson S h e r r i Kays e r M ichae l Ke nn e dy M ichae l LaTona B eth Loe b

Cathy Nathan Franci s Sadac Gai l Ste i ngold Fran Tu ite Susan War r i ngton Steve n N. Wayland

P u bl i c Sq u a r e C o m m i t t ee The Public Square Committee helps Steppenwolf foster public dialogue driven by the work on our stages and our relationships with community partners from the Chicago metropolitan area. Amy Eshle man* Co-Chair Lynn Lockwood M u r phy* Co-Chair J. Rob e rt Bar r* Sarah B ear dsley* Ebs B u r noug h* Jam e s Ch e s i r e Steve Colle ns Joe l Cor n fe ld B eth Davi s* Pau l Gaynor G eoffr ey Goldb e rg Pau l W. Good r ich* Sand ra P. G uthman Lynn Haus e r Ann H ickey Ke nn eth H u nte r J usti n e J e nte s Donna La Pi etra* syb i l mad i son-boyd Jan et M e lk* N e i l Ross R uth Schm i dt Nancy Sch u mach e r Ann i e Tu lly J e nn i fe r We sley N i na Wi nston Sarah Wolff Rob e rta B. Zab e l * Steppenwolf Trustee

E d u ca t i o n C o m m i t t ee The Education Committee promotes the voices of Chicago youth and advocates for the programming of Steppenwolf for Young Adults to the Chicago Public Schools and larger citywide community. D e borah Quaz zo*, Chair Sarah B ear dsley* S h e i la Chapman J e r e my D u nn Amy Eshle man* Lar ry G r i mm Caryn Har r i s* John Hart* Solve ig H e r z u m Lynn Lockwood M u r phy* N icole Losu r do S i dn ey S i dwe ll M e lan i e Thompson

P lanned G i v i n g A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t ee The Planned Giving Advisory Committee, comprised of estate planning professionals, provides expertise and serves as a valuable resource in supporting Steppenwolf’s planned giving activities. Ch r i sti n e Alb r ig ht Chair And r ew R. G e lman Edwar d A. G e r shman Jam e s H. Good r ich J u li e G ustafson Le ig h S. Harte r J u li e H e nd r icks Kath ryn Ke nn e dy Rob e rt LoPr ete Pam e la L. Luci na Th e r e sa Marx Colle e n McElligott Susan A. Payn e J u d ith M. Pi e pe r Clau d ia B. Sang ste r

Kathle e n O’Hagan Scallan R ichar d B. Th i e s Fran k Trocch io

A u x i l i a r y C o u nc i l The Auxiliary Council Executive Committee is the leadership team for Steppenwolf ’s junior board comprised of more than 100 dynamic young professionals with a shared interest in supporting the theater’s education program for teens, Steppenwolf for Young Adults. E x ec u t i v e O f f i ce r s Ki m Davi s* President Franci s Sadac Immediate Past President and Directors Circle Liaison Isaac Colu nga Vice President of Partnerships Jasm i n e G uy Vice President of Member Experience Kat Rothste i n Vice President of Communication & Outreach J e nn i fe r Stuart Vice President of Development E x ec u t i v e C o m m i t t ee Van e ssa Ab ron Kr i stoph e r And e r son Jon B lanc Steve n Colle ns B ryce Coope r Ai m e e G raham Con e ry Hoffman Ryan Staffor d Tanya Stan fi e ld J e ff Tsai

To get involved or learn more, please contact Eric Evenskaas, Associate Director of Development, at 312-654-5615 or eevenskaas@steppenwolf.org. * Steppenwolf Trustee

Y o u n g A d u lt C o u nc i l Steppenwolf’s Young Adult Council is a unique after-school program for high school students who see the entire Steppenwolf season and organize events for their peers around Steppenwolf productions. R e my D h i ng ra Sophomore, Latin School of Chicago N icolas D iaz d e Leon Freshman, Jones College Prep Ch r i sti n e Jor dan Senior, Providence St. Mel School Mar io Jos e ph Senior, TEAM Englewood High School Danny Kapi nos Senior, John Hersey High School Lu i s Lope z R e ichli ng Senior, St. Benedict College Prep H eath e r Mack Senior, Oak Park River Forest High School Molly McGaan Junior, Senior, Francis W. Parker School Salomon Navar ro Senior, Curie Metropolitan High School  Mar ia Pr ivite ra Sophomore, University of Chicago Laboratory School Mali k Pau ldon Senior, Chicago Academy for the Arts Donald Rapi e r Junior, Lindbom Math and Science Academy High School Sam R eyolds Senior, University of Chicago Laboratory School N ia Rob i nson Junior, Lane Tech College Prep Olivia S h i n e Sophomore, Senn Fine Arts M e lan i e Thompson Senior, Prosser Career Academy Joey Vargas Junior, Senn Fine Arts Ch r i stian Vazqu e z Junior, Lincoln Park High School J e r e m iah Watson Senior, Urban Prep Charter Academies Mar iah Woods Junior, Lindbom Math and Science Academy High School D eja Wou ld folk Junior, Air Force Academy High School

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Steppenwolf’s reputation derives from our willingness to take on challenging, ambitious projects. Our future relies upon the generous support of season sponsors who provide invaluable resources for the work of our actors, directors and playwrights. We thank you for your commitment to the vision of our ensemble.

Steppenwolf is honored to recognize BMO Private Bank as a lead sponsor of Steppenwolf’s upcoming 2014 Gala Benefit on Saturday, May 3. We are deeply grateful for BMO Harris Bank’s ongoing partnership with Steppenwolf, including their sustained lead sponsorship of Steppenwolf’s annual Women in the Arts Luncheon. With their sponsorship of these important Chicago cultural events, BMO Harris Bank recognizes the role that the arts play in enhancing the quality of life for all people in our community. BMO Harris Bank takes pride in providing financial support to organizations, like Steppenwolf, whose missions align with the needs of the local community.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s 2013/14 season is generously sponsored by: With a partnership founded on shared ideals of creativity and innovation, Steppenwolf is proud to continue our longstanding relationship with Ogilvy & Mather Chicago. With a strong history of giving back to the community, each year Ogilvy employees donate their time, energy and creativity to help nonprofit organizations, like Steppenwolf, pursue their missions. A leader in marketing communications, Ogilvy has shared this valuable support with Steppenwolf for more than a decade.

Grand Benefactors

Steppenwolf is pleased to welcome PwC as the Corporate Production Sponsor of The Way West and as a supporter of Steppenwolf’s 2014 Gala Benefit. PwC is dedicated to serving the communities in which their clients and people live and work. With our shared focus on innovation, Steppenwolf is proud to partner with PwC to bring new American plays to Chicago.

Benefactors

Steppenwolf is honored to continue our longstanding partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Endowment supports the creation of art that meets the highest standards of artistic excellence. This season, the Endowment’s investment in The Way West has provided essential resources for an ambitious new play about the pressing issue of class in America. With the Endowment’s support, we are proud to contribute this innovative work to the repertoire.

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Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

This world premiere of The Way West is possible in part thanks to the generosity of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation whose commitment has supported the play in its development to full production. The Foundation is a longstanding partner in Steppenwolf‘s artistic mission, including the creation of new works of theater. As a benefactor of Chicago arts organizations for nearly 30 years, we admire The Cheney Foundation’s dedication to enriching the civic and cultural life of the city. Steppenwolf is honored by The Foundation’s investment in the artistic excellence of our theater and ensemble.

The Edgerton Foundation

The Edgerton Foundation’s New American Play Awards represent an exceptional commitment to the future of the American theater. The Awards support the final development stage of premiere productions. Our production of The Way West joins the ranks of a distinguished company of plays to be honored by an Edgerton New American Plays Award. Steppenwolf is proud to be so recognized and grateful to the Edgerton Foundation for its dedication and vision.

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G r and B ene f ac t o r s ($ 1 00 ,00 0 + ) The Davee Foundation‡ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation‡ Joyce Foundation‡ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation*‡ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation‡ Nonprofit Finance Fund‡ Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. Shubert Foundation, Inc. Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust ‡ United Airlines Zell Family Foundation

B ene f ac t o r s ($ 5 0 ,00 0 – 9 9 , 9 9 9 ) Allstate Insurance Company* Alphawood Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Chicago Community Trust ComEd The Crown Family‡ Julius Frankel Foundation BMO Harris Bank* J.P.Morgan Lefkofsky Family Foundation‡ The Negaunee Foundation Northern Trust* Polk Bros. Foundation* PwC Smart Chicago Collaborative Smart Family Foundation The Sun-Times Foundation Target Theatre Communications Group, Inc. Vinci

P r o d u ce r s ($ 2 5,0 00 – 4 9 , 9 9 9 ) Paul M. Angell Foundation Grosvenor Capital Management The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. King Harris Kathy Harris

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Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Szokol Mr. and Mrs. William Friend Mr. and Mrs. John Harris Illinois Arts Council, a state agency OptionsHouse PNC Prince Charitable Trusts Sage Foundation Schiff Hardin LLP Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust

The Roche Family Foundation, Inc Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman LLP Dr. Scholl Foundation Seigle Family Foundation Gary Sinise Foundation Smithburg Family Foundation Swett & Crawford Group William Blair & Company, LLC

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Pat r o n s ( $1 0 ,0 0 0 – 2 4 ,9 9 9 ) Anonymous (3) Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture American Express Bank of America* Barclays Capital Baxter International Inc.* Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois The BOKA Group BNY Mellon Wealth Management Helen Brach Foundation Buchanan Family Foundation Capri Capital, LP Chopper Trading, LLC CNA Financial Corporation* The Comer Foundation‡ Deloitte DLA Piper LLP (US) Frank G. and Gertrude Dunlap Fund Edgerton Foundation The Field Foundation of Illinois Lloyd A. Fry Foundation GCG Financial, Inc. Grainger Foundation Green Courte Partners, LLC Grund & Leavitt, P.C. Holland and Knight LLP Illinois Tool Works Foundation InterCall Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP James S. Kemper Foundation Kraft Foods* Marsh Private Client Services McKinsey & Company, Inc. Norcon, Inc POP Rhoades Foundation

Aon Corporation Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Margaret S. & Philip D. Block, Jr. Family Foundation Carol Lavin Bernick Family Foundation The Boeing Company Philip H. Corboy Foundation Crown Packaging International/ Polycon Industries Inc. John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Hub International The Hunter Family Foundation Ice Miller LLP Modestus Bauer Foundation Newcastle Limited Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation The George H. Scanlon Foundation Howard and Jackie Shapiro Foundation Siragusa Foundation The Skender Foundation Takiff Family Foundation

The Morris Kaplan and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund of the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation KlearSky Solutions, LLC The Public Hotel Suite Home Chicago Westside Mechanical Group

G u a r an t o r s ( $1,000 – 2,4 9 9) The Alter Group, Ltd. Arcadis The Arts Federation Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust Complete Mailing Service Inc. Daley Mohan Groble Efroymson-Hamid Family Foundation Hamilton Thies & Lorch LLP Hotel Lincoln Illinois Humanities Council Innovative Benefits Consultants JAM Productions Jensen Litigation Solutions Donald S. Levin Family Foundation Ligne Roset Louis & Nellie Sieg Fund Luminaire Mesirow Financial New Horizon Foundation The Northridge Group, Inc. Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. Plante Moran Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Sidley Austin LLP

Join us this summer in the Garage Theatre for an energizing repertory of never-before-seen work. Through three developmental productions, readings and other events, First Look showcases plays and playwrights that we think will have a significant impact on American theater for years to come.

writers who rock. Awesome new plays. see them first. steppenwolf.org/firstlook

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The generosity of Steppenwolf’s Directors Circle members annually provides vital support for Steppenwolf’s many streams of artistic and community programming. In recognition of their contributions, members receive complimentary subscriptions with VIP ticketing services and are invited to private events with the artists of Steppenwolf. Donors with ‡ have made a generous multi-year pledge. To join this distinguished group, call Jessica Gretch at 312-654-5672 or e-mail directorscircle@steppenwolf.org.

Artistic Endowment established through the Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Douglas R. Brown Playwright/Director Endowment Fund Ford Foundation Artistic and General Operating Endowment Funds

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Richard and Mary L. Gray Production Endowment Fund

( $5 0,000+ )

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

Ind i v i d u al C o n t r i b u t o r s V i s i o na r y C i r cl e We are honored to recognize the following individuals who have included Steppenwolf in their will or estate plans. The esteemed members of the Visionary Circle help ensure the vitality of Steppenwolf for future generations. Contact Sandy Karuschak at 312-654-5621 or sandyk@steppenwolf.org to learn more about the giving options to consider in your estate planning. Anonymous

Michael Goldberger

Valerie and Joseph Abel

Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa

Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall

Robert C. Anderson

John H. Hart

Sylvia J. Pozarnsky

Dr. Marvin and Joyce Berman

Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross

Dr. Edward O. Riley

Norma Borcherding

Stephen Johnson

T. Marshall Rousseau

Douglas R. Brown

Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck

Harry Seigle

Janice and Rob Esser

Melanie G. Larch

Rose L. Shure

Robert H. Glaze

Dr. Paul Lisnek

Judy Sugarman

Julie and Roger Baskes‡ Sarah Beardsley‡ Michael Bender and Sheridan Prior‡ Henry and Leigh Bienen‡ Douglas R. Brown‡ Joyce Chelberg‡ Elizabeth H. Connelly Nora Daley and Sean Conroy‡ Rich and Margery Feitler Nene Foxhall Christine Albright and Lawrence Gill Valerie and Paul Goodrich Bob and Amy Greenebaum‡ King and Caryn Harris‡ John H. Hart and Carol Prins‡ Kathleen and Terry Jenkins George A. Joseph and Carolyn Bateman‡ Liz and Eric Lefkofsky‡ Mary and Bill Ludford Ronald J. Mallicoat Jr. Lynn Lockwood Murphy and Barrett B. Murphy‡ Kenneth J. Porrello and Sherry L. McFall‡ Deborah and Stephen Quazzo Merle Reskin‡ Randy and Susi Rowe Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Manuel Sanchez and Pat Pulido Sanchez Harry and Susan Seigle‡ Helen Zell‡

GR A N D P A TRO N S We remember the following members of the Steppenwolf family who have made a bequest to the theater. Their legacy will help to ensure that Steppenwolf continues to flourish. Hope A. Abelson Alba Biagini Jo Hopkins Deutsch Marjorie Douglas Andrea Romain and Cleo Orthel Nancy L. Wald

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( $25,000 – 4 9, 9 9 9+ ) Anonymous Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Betty Bradshaw‡ Terri L. Cable Beth Boosalis Davis and Maxwell S. Davis Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly‡ Michael and Jacky Ferro Richard and Mary L. Gray‡ Martha Lavey‡ Steven D. Loucks‡ Jim and Kay Mabie‡

Janet Melk Christopher and Eileen Murphy M.K. and J.B. Pritzker Michael R. Salem Robert and Louise Sanborn Matthew Shapiro Toni Sandor Smith‡ Colette Cachey Smithburg and Tom Smithburg John and Carol Walter

D ISTI N GUISH E D P A TRO N S ($ 10, 000 – 24, 9 9 9) Anonymous (2) Philip and Janice Beck Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand Cindy and Michael Bonds Carole L. Brown Phil and Mary Beth Canfield Richard M. Daley and Family Kim Davis and Brian Eble Amy Eshleman and Lori Lightfoot Scott Etzler Raj Fernando Mary and Paul Finnegan Scott and Rita George Leslie and Matthew Gray Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Mrs. John M. Hartigan David Herro and Jay Franke Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal Cynthia Luse-McKeen and Douglas McKeen L. Heather Mitchell and Kenny Mitchell James F. Oates David and Hilary Pisor Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Dr. Christopher Randolph The Rooney Family Cari and Michael J. Sacks Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald Smith Bill and Orli Staley Frances E. Tuite Meredith Bluhm-Wolf and Bill Wolf

P A TRO N S ($ 5, 000 – 9, 9 9 9) Anonymous (2) Loren Almaguer William and Sharon Baker

Dr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Berman Shaun and Andy Block Larry and Debbie Brady Michael and Merle Cahan Ann and Richard Carr Mr. Isaac Colunga Fred J. Costello Mary A. Dempsey Amy and Cameron Findlay John and Katherine Fox M. Julie and Michael Gustafson Ms. Joan Harris Mrs. Louise Hart Jon Michael Hill David Hiller Marko Iglendza Marian, Fruman and Lisa Jacobson Stephen Johnson David and Susan Kalt Dr. Mary Dochios Kamberos Pamela Kendall-Rijos and John Rijos Robert M. and Diane VS. Levy Amos and Anat Madanes Ashley and Noah Pettit Anne and Don Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Cody Phipps Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Neil Ross MD and Lynn Hauser MD Leif Selkregg Rose L. Shure Jeffrey Singer and Patricia Carman Bonnie and James Spurlock Marcie and Avy Stein Jacqueline Tilton Michael and January Ward Robert and Susan Warrington Steven Wayland and Jennifer Wesley Tom and Blaine Wells Nina B. Winston Robert and Leslie Zimmerman Neal Zucker

SUSTA I N E RS ($ 2, 5 00 – 4, 9 9 9) Anonymous (4) Ms. Carina Abbaticchio Jack J. Adrian Kristopher J. Anderson Andrew and Susan Arnold Paula Ausick John and Caroline Ballantine Mr. Gerry Barad

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Zoe and Ken Barley Bob and Trish Barr Henry R. Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef Susan O. Berghoef Doug Bradbury Debbie Bricker Lois Browning David Callahan and Terri Abruzzo Nicole and Billy Cheeseman Drs. Rex Chisholm and Kathleen Green Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cohen Michael and Edie Cohen Steven Collens Jerry and Josephine Conlon Bryce Cooper Kate Cornelius-Schecter Dennis R. Cowhey Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta Diane Dawson Greg Desmond and Michael Segobiano Philip and Marsha Dowd Bernard J. Dowling Drs. Thomas E. Durica and Susan Jacob Dr. Steven B. Edelstein Donald and Anne Edwards Laura and Scott Eisen Mary M. Emerson George Engeln James and Kelly Epstein Tom and Pat Erickson Marc Falleroni Roxanne Hori and Robert Felsenthal David and Mimi Fiske Steven Florsheim and Jennifer Friedes Leonard Gail and Robin Steans Ethel and Bill Gofen Bob and Carol Goldberg Mrs. Keith Goldstein and Mr. Rodney Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Gottfred Sue and Melvin Gray The Green Family William and Nanci Greene James and Brenda Grusecki Jack and Sandra Guthman Marcy and Harry Harczak Pam and David Harrington David R. Hawkanson Jeffrey W. and Julie Conboy Hesse David Kistenbroker and Cynthia Heusing Judy and Jay Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Hill Conery and Gail Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. David Ingall

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Timothy B. Johnson and Valerie B. Wiley Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck Reis and Sherri Kayser Jen and Brad Keck Melinda Kempton and Jane Fleming Kathryn G. and Michael J. Kennedy Brad and Kim Keywell Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Korbet Raminder and Vinay Kumar Mr. Matthew Kutcher and Ms. Rebecca Richards Christine and Michael LaTona Steven and Jody LaVoie Bernard and Averill Leviton Susan Lichtenstein and John Rokacz Robert Bud Lifton and Carol Rosofsky Timothy and Christine Loyer Mark and Frances Mann Alex and Pat Marren Becky and Bob McLennan Kevin and Beth McMeen Mike and Adele Murphy Howard and Sandy Nagelberg Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Geoff Nyheim Elizabeth Orelup and Lawrence Sonntag Simon and Kim Perutz Dale and Loretta Pierson Mrs. Sherri Pincus Jennifer and Perry Pinto Bradley and Patricia Reid Linda Johnson Rice Margaret Robson Desirée Rogers Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Ellen Sandor Roberta Schaffner David and Susan Schmid Mark and Kimberly Shadle Smita N. Shah Michael Shannon Gail and Eugene Steingold Matthew Steinmetz Kristin and Stan Stevens Lisa Swanson Richard and Elaine Tinberg Steven L. and Stephanie A. Victor Donna and Dirk Vos Cate and Rick Waddell Dr. David Wasserman Dr. Carey Weiss and Dr. Karen Pierce Lorrayne and Steve Weiss Jane and Greg Wintroub Ronald and Geri Yonover Elizabeth Ziegler

B E N E F A C TORS ( $1,5 00 – 2,4 9 9) Anonymous (6) Mr. and Mrs. John Aalbregtse Kathi and Roger Adams Karen and Scott Alexander Nicholas and Kathleen Amatangelo Kimball Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson Carolyn H. Andress Stephanie and Dana Arnett Jeffrey S. Arnold and Ellen J. Neely Edgar Bachrach Richard and Janice Bail Yuri and Elena Balasanov Solomon Barnett‡ Doug and Mary Jo Basler Sandra Bass Martha and Al Belmonte Bruce and Debbie Bentcover Shirley and Tom Berchou‡ Susen H. Berg and James C. Berg Dennis and Joan Berger Ron and Colleen Bess Nicholas Biederman Patricia C. Bobb Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boychuck Dr. Michael Branch M.D. Michael and Cathy Brennan Mr. Robert Briscoe Kevin and Linda Buggy John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Timothy Burroughs and Barbara Smith Stephen Byrne and Kerry Shannon Sheila J. Chapman and David D. Soo Dr. Rosalyn Chrenka Prncss and Daddio Mr. and Mrs. Tuey Connell Liam and Francesca Connell Kevann M. Cooke Merle R. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Brian Cornell Joel Cornfeld Cynthia and Patrick Coyle Carl and Cynthia Curry Emilie De Angelis and Bert Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Menahem Deitcher David and Tracy Deno Donald Deutsch Gautam and Ritu Dhingra Roberta S. Dillon Patrick and Denise Dills Anne M. Donahoe Erin and Ian Drury Stephen and Dorne Eastwood Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Juliet and Marc Fallah David and Mary Farkas Mary Jo and Robert Fasan

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Randall Fearnow and Beth Compton Harris J. Feldman, M.D. Carol and Steven Felsenthal Marilyn and Larry Fields Lois Farrell Fisher Elaine Fishman Stacy and Ian Fleming Lisa and John Folkers Al Franklin Jim and Sandy Freeburg Kate and Michael Fridholm Kate Friedlob Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Friedman Mr. Stephen Fussell Noreen Ann Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Galvin Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Terri and Stephen Geifman Dr. Michael Gelbort Gary L. Gephart Beverly Wyckoff and Charles Ginsberg Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Elizabeth Glassman Sheila and Tom Gorey Thomas and Kristine Gorman Peter and Joellen Granson Mary and Jim Greene Charles R. Grode Renata and Michael Grossi Joan Hall Mary Elizabeth Hamlin Shannon Stacie R. Hartman Mark and Joelle Hayes Sandra L. Helton and Norman M. Edelson Marlene and Sonny Hersh Richard and Elaine Heuberger Ann S. Hoenig and Jonathan L. Hoenig Kathleen and Jack Horn Katie and Nehl Horton Michael Hsu Brian W. Huebner Nicole and Pedro Irazoqui Mary Ittelson Tom and Jan Jakobsen Patricia Jeffers Jeffrey and Lisa Jozwiak Dr. Claudia Anne Katz‡ Anna and Jeff Kelch Gerould and Jewell Kern Jonathan Klein and Susan Cohn Stephanie and Peter Klein James Kochalka Stephen Kriegel Suzy Krueckeberg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lad Karen Lalor Carol and Jerome Lamet Gerald R. Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz

Eileen and Paul LeFort Tanya Levshina and Ilya Volvovski Benita T. Levy Stephanie F. Linn and Seth B. Krantz Dr. Paul M. Lisnek Beth Loeb Abby and George Lombardi Fran Lambros and John Lowry Mr. Brian Lukanic Alan and Michelle Luke Arlene Manelli‡ Sandy and Jerry Manne Barbara and Larry Margolis Christine and David Markovitz Jim and Lynn McClure Bob and Barb McCullough Randi Merel and Allen LeHew Robert Merrilees Ellie and Bob Meyers Amy Laiken and Tim Michel Michael and Susan Miller Dr. and Mrs. George and Maureen Miz William and Kate Morrison Bill and Lorna Filippini-Mulliken Jo and Wally Nard‡ Patrick J. Nash, Jr. Cathy and Robert Nathan Judy Neafsey and Terry Conway David Ellis and Hope Nightingale Carlos Noble Bruce Norris Susan and George Obermaier Joe O’Leary Bob and Joyce O’Malley Bridget R. O’Neill Susan and Ted Oppenheimer Sandra and Mark Ostler Brian A. Paetow and Gretchen K. Beetner Phyllis Parish Amy and Brent Peebles Raymond Perry David Peterson and Tony Gueimunde Patricia Pippert and Steven Redfield Carl and Barbara Plochman Avi and Joan Porat Andrew and Judy L. Porte Mary Beth and Terry Porter Sylvia J. Pozarnsky and Tom Riley Elliott Quigley Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rauner Linda Reid Lynne Remington and Geoff Goldberg Sherry and Bob Reum Oksana Riberdy Lauri Riggen Susan and Edwin Ritts John C. Roberts and Lynn D. Fleisher Dr. Abbie and Sandra Roth Holly B. Rothschild

Mr. and Mrs. John Rothstein Janet and Philip Rotner George and Kimberly Ruhana Francis C. Sadac Richard H. Sanders Pamela and Fred Sasser Paul Scavone and Donna Pawlus Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Michelle Maton and Mike Schaeffer Gail Schaffner Matthew and Tina Schubert John Schuchert and Alan Kozlowski Diana and Richard Senior David and Judith Sensibar Surendra and Dorothie Shah Nancia Shawver and Larry Weiner Hope and Jeffrey Sheffield Scott and Tommy Sheridan Judy and Jeffrey Silverman Robert and Nancy Singleton James and Mary Jo Slykas Heather and Adam Smedstad‡ Charles Smith Neil Smith Family Ron and Leslie Smith Lisa Stevak Ellen Stone Belic Gail and John Straus Mary Stowell and Jim Streicker Lauren and Steve Strelsin Judy Sugarman William and Julie Szematowicz Corrine P. Taylor James E. Thompson Carrie Thoms The Tipton Family John and Maribeth Totten Nick Trakas and Marc Cerone Reed and Rosemary Tupper Hollis and Alvan Turner Stacey Turner Scott Turow Tali and Liat Tzur Marilee Unruh Shawn VanDerziel and Jay Clarke The Wakes Jeanne Marienthal Westcott Jack and Keli Wildermuth Donna Wilkinson Robert Williford Eugene H. Winkler Jessica and Jeff Wisniewski‡ Richard and Mary Woods Bobbi Zabel

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Ind i v i d u al C o n t r i b u t o r s A nn u al F u nd

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Steppenwolf thanks the many supporters who help bridge the gap between annual operating costs and ticket sales. We regret that, due to space limitations, we are unable to recognize gifts below $150. To all our benefactors, we thank you for making possible another season of engaging, provocative theater. Make your gift today by visiting steppenwolf.org/support or calling Suzanne Miller at 312-654-5617. Gifts are as of January 30, 2014. P RO D U C E RS

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Anonymous (2) Ellen Alberding and Kelly Welsh Kris Alden and Trisha Rooney Alden Robert C. Anderson Gustavo Bamberger Ted and Robbie Beaty‡ Robin and Mark Tebbe Stephen and Lynn Bolanowski‡ George and Joyce Brown‡ Janet Burch Ebs Burnough Mr. John Butler and Mr. John Vanderlinder Joseph and Cory Cancila‡ Mr. and Mrs. Rob Clements Mr. Michael Davis Nancy Dehmlow John C. Donnelly Patricia and Richard Doonan Rachel Dvorken Mariwyn Evans Lori Mae Frith Tom and Beth Garrow‡ Stephen C. George Susan and John Gibbons Mark and Greta Giesen Gordon and Wendy Gill James and Dianna Goldman Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Greenberg‡ Ms. Jasmine E. Guy Ginger and Del Hall

Victoria and Charles Harris‡ Lois and Marty Hauselman Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Larry Hochberg Mr. and Ms. Jeff Jacobson David Kathman‡ Judith and Jerry Kaufman Hilary Odom Jean Ann Klingenstein Pat and Mike Koldyke Rachel Kraft Beth L. Kronfeld and Matthew D. Means Daniel Castellaneta and Deborah Lacusta Mr. and Mrs. Larry Levine Ms. Rose Lizarraga Mark and Carol Lorenz Mrs. Barbara Lucas and Ms. Toni Sieve‡ Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Randolph Lyon Malkin Family Daniel and Vida Marks Michael McCaslin Janelle Hoekstra and James McMullin‡ Dr. Janis Mendelsohn‡ Tamara Meyer Margaret Minneman Jane Mody Patricia Murray-Rutz Bruce and Colleen Mygatt Catherine B. and Robert T. Napier Howard and Cathy Niden

Guests enjoying a backstage tour at the 2013/14 season kickoff.

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Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Mr. and Mrs. Mark Osmond Mr. and Mrs. L. Robert Pasquesi Linda Lowy and Jeff Perry Mary Reusché Sharon and Jerry Rhoads‡ Mr. Robbie Robinson Ms. Breda Rugai Joanne and Paul Ruxin Ms. Sonia Sahai Richard and Betty Seid Ralph Senst and Karen Zelden Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Shortridge Ryan Stafford Nikki and Fredric Stein Tricia and Kevin Stewart Dr. and Mrs. James V. Talano Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas Frank Trocchio Brady I. Twiggs Betty Vandenbosch‡ Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Mr. and Mrs. William Wardrop Mr. Jim Welch Dr. and Mrs. S. Thomas Westerman Beth and Bruce White Mr. Michael Wilczynski Ruth Winter Andrea Worth‡ Clifford Yuknis Peter A. Zadeik

ENSEMBLE ($500 – 999) Anonymous (12) Vanessa Abron Tord and Carrie Alden Brian and Jennifer Alves Jim and Sheila Amend‡ Mr. John Arthur Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer Scott and Kimberly Wayne Dr. Stephanie and Mr. Andy Baker‡ David Pruitt and Marjorie Baltazar Cindy Barbera-Brelle Robert Bartell Ms. Courtney Bass Kathleen Hughes and Armand Beaudoin Susan R. Benner Adrian and Arta Beverly

Lois J. Bider Jerry Biederman Beryl and David Bills‡ Jon Blanc Mr. and Mrs. Philip Block III Mr. and Mrs. David C. Blowers Mr. David Blowers Jr. James Botana‡ Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brooks Susan Buchanan and Steve Buchanan Leslie Buchbinder Michelle and David Buck Rony and Tom Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Bill Butler John Byrd Mr. Kevin Caceres John and Libby Cady Ray Capitanini Ms. Diana Chafey and Mr. Charlie Olson J. Morgan Chism-Diebold Nancy Ciezki and Diane Kostecke James and Julie Coffman Marge and Lew Collens Pam and Howard Conant Constance Coning‡ Everett and Susan Conner‡ Ed and Melissa Cook J. Gorman Cook Mr. and Ms. Robert Creamer Maureen Crowley Liese Dallbauman Rathin Datta Jonathan Davila Ms. Pam Davis and Mr. Dan Davis Richard and Lisette Davison Mr. and Mrs. Habeeb Dihu Michele and George Dragisity John F. Dziedziak‡ F.S. Eberts Jennifer M. Ellin Susan Emmerson Erika Erich Malcolm D. Ewen Gary and Sandy Fencik Paul and Christine Fisher‡ Ms. Morgan Flatley and Mr. Luke Johnson Jean and Jim Foley Foley Family Foundation Mr. Robert Forest Joanne B. Friedland Kathryn C. Froney Myriam Fullard Denise Michelle Gamble Timothy A. Gant and Scott Perry Hank and Sandy Gentry William J. Gibbons Tara Gillespie

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Glaser Keith Goggin Eileen M. Golan Ms. Deidra Gold Enid J. Golinkin‡ Chester Gougis and Shelley Ochab Kerry and Kim Grady‡ Ms. Aimee Graham John S. Mrowiec and Karen Granda Dedrea Gray Dr. Kitty Green Michael and Lisa Greenfield Katherine and Adam Greetis Mr. Michael Guyader and Ms. Jean Guyader Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hacker‡ Faith Dansereau and Larry Haefner Donald and Susan Hallberg Janice Halpern Melanie Harris Liz Hartong James and Anne Heger Emily Heisley-Stoeckel and Kevin Stoeckel Frank and Midge Heurich Scott Hildebrand Melinda and Craig Hilsenbeck James and Margot Hinchliff Scott Hodes and Maria Bechily Anne Linsdau-Hoeppner and Walter F. Hoeppner III Ms. Cheryl Hoffman Kilton Hopkins‡ Arnold and Judith Horwich‡ Holly E. Humphreys Clare and Mark Hurrelbrink‡ Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson William E. Ibe Heather Ingraham Dr. and Mrs. Stravros Ionides Tim Jaster Hal and Dona Jensen Carolyn Johnson Mr. Douglas W. Johnson Sharon R. Johnston‡ James A. Jolley, Jr. and R. Kyle Lammlein Ernest and Harriett Karmin Dennis and Kathryn Karsh Adam and Renee Keats Mr. Thomas Keim Sr. Sheryl and Tom Keith‡ Brian Feiges and Tamar Kelber Michelle Keller Chris Kendrick and Kasturi Haldar‡ Helen J. Kessler‡ William Ketchum Ms. Vicki King Frank and Katherine Kinney‡ Janet Knauff‡

Annette Baldwin and Paul Kolansinski Rob and Laura Kozloff Melinda Kramer Neal Kulick Family Fund Chuck and Diane Laff George M. Langlois, Ph.D.‡ Robert and Lynn Larry Patricia Lauber Marc-Paul Lee Lesnik Family Foundation Patricia L. Levy Catherine Leyser‡ Mr. Alec Litowitz and Mrs. Jennifer Litowitz Kaleigh Lockhart Mr. Larry Loziuk Karyn Lutz Ms. Meredith Mack Frank and Chris Maggio Sandra Mangurian‡ Randi Ragins and Bob Markowski Jennifer Marling Mr. and Mrs. George J. Matkov Robert and Eleanor M. McAllister Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward McGreevy‡ Paul and Lana McHenry Hugh and Marybeth McLean Kathleen A. McQueeny Susan Messing Karen Meyer Tom Mikrut Sheba Miller-Morris Helen Harvey Mills Marcus Mintz Robert and Lois Moeller Joyce Morimoto‡ Blake and Debra Moritz‡ Darcy Morowitz Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Morrow Pamela Moy Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Muller Michael and Kathleen Murtaugh Joseph Mwachullah Walter Nathan Randy Nease Joan Neil Wendy Norris Emily and Hank Neuberger Liz Newell and Jack Kragie Barbara Rawley and Daniel Nordby‡ Ralph and Victoria Nuzzo Margaret O’Connor and Michael O’Meara Peg O’Connor‡ Ms. Maureen O’Brien Richard Ostrow Grayce Papp Patricia Parchem and Candace Zimmerman‡ Jana R. O’Brien and Wayne T. Parman

‡Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to steppenwolf 43 Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

…cont’d annual fund

John and Roberta Paskvalich Thomas Pawlik and Ava Cohn Sandra and Michael Perlow Bill and Judy Pesetski Dr. Susan Burland and George Plumb Brett Plyer Podolsky Family Foundation Ms. Sara J. Potts V. Pristera, Jr.‡ Jonathon Pyburn‡ Ms. Barbara Morse Quinn and Mr. Barry Quinn Marsha Raanan Richard and Joan Ralph‡ Jesus Ramirez Jeff and Susan Rashid William and Tracy Reeder P. Kevin Reidy‡ Fred and Karen Rhynders Laura Riddle Richard and Susan Rieser Thomas Kapacinskas and Judith Robert Stephen and Caryn Robin Randy and Betsy Rochman Steve Rodichok and Renee Gattone‡ Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Joseph Ross and Jean Shutler Lisa and Doug Rosskamm Kimberly and Ari Rubenfeld Diana and Ed Ruthman Ms. Carol S. Sadow Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Henry J. Sampson‡ Sheldon and Lynne Sandman Chris and Barb Sanford‡ Brett Saternus Bill Savage Curt Schade Ms. Susan Schaefer Stephanie Scharf and David Taber‡ Marie-Claude Schauer‡ Mr. and Mrs. Darryl G. Schimeck Danelle Schuch Nancy and Mark Schumacher Susan and Gary Schuman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Schwab Carla Scott‡ Nedinia Searle Jeff and Sonia Semenchuk‡ Ms. Leslie Shad Mr. Josh Shames David Shanahan Michael Shapiro and Deb Gohr Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. David R. Shevitz Mr. Peter Sichrovsky Brent Siegel Julia Simpson

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Ms. Julia Simpson Christine A. Slivon Sharon Specht Mr. Michael Stashwick Mr. Frank Steeves Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Patty Sternberg Linda and John Stock Joseph and Sylvia Stone Fund Kelly Stonebraker and Deborah Stonebraker Mary Strabel Mr. Gary Strandlund Terri E Strauss Ms. Jennifer Stuart Linda and Stephen Sullivan Ms. Patti Szabo Tracy Tajbl and Neil Jones John R. and Catherine Taylor Dick and Alice Teutsch Jane Tyner Susan Vonderheid Karen and Herb Wander Laura and Bob Watson‡ Mr. and Mrs. Ben Webster John W. Wheeler Brian and Nancy Whitlock Leslie Whittet Ms. Michele Willmott Gary and Modena Wilson‡ Johner Wilson Matthew Wilson and Anne Posner Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wilson Cynthia Wirth Charlotte Wojnowski‡ Ms. Sarah R. Wolff and Mr. Joel L. Handelman Jane Worthington Mr. Naywri Wright Carol N. Yamamoto Stephanie Yancey

D E SIG N E RS ($250 – 499) Anonymous (29) Thomas W. Abendroth and Terri L. Mascherin Jeannie L. Adams Ms. Yolanda T. Adler Mr. and Mrs. Brian Ahern Thomas B. Aldrich III Helen and Mark Alison Ms. Mar Alkemade Polly Allen Denise Allsberry Richard and Jill Almeida Ms. Evie Alter Greg and Janine Amoroso Ken and Donna Amos‡

Harold & Judith Anderson‡ Ms. Mimi Anderson Mary and Paul F. Anderson Scott and Jeanna Ando Cedric H. Antosiewicz and Margaret M. Gudenas Jurgis and Dalia Anysas Walter Aque Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Armada Jean Arrington John Asplin and Christine Orders Mr. Hrayr Attarian Mike and Karen Atwood Kaye B. Aurigemma‡ Mr. Emmanuel Ayala Jim Babin Melissa and Richard Bacon Spencer and Daniel Baker Bill and Ann Baker John and Sharon Baldwin Michael and Mary Baniak Catherine Bannister Roy Barber Cynthia Barginere Leslie and Bill Barker Charles Barnett Mr. and Mrs. James Barone Mr. Matt Bartel Mia A. and Scott Bass Laura M. Batzer‡ Brian and Jennifer Bauer Maria Bautista Judy and Chris Beardsley Thomas Bearrows and Holly Hirst Mr. Michael Beasley Ms. Lisa Belcher Ms. Claudia Crilly Bellucci Julie and Howard Benario Ms. Sirisha Bendapudi John and Taru Berg John and Elizabeth Berge‡ Dorothea Berggren Julian and Joan Berman Gene and Natalie Bernadoni Mandy Berry Jane E. Berry Mr. Jeff Berta Dr. Mary E. Belford MD and Mr. Ric Berta Ms. Leslie Bertagnolli Martha Berzon Laura and Philip Bierman Lois and Stanley Birer James Bishop Frances and Ed Blair Nicholas J Blair‡ Mr. Terry Blake Dan Bleil Mr. Mark Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Boardman

…cont’d annual fund

R. Darrell Bock Anthony Boggiano Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bolas Ms. Deborah Bone Nicole Bonk Nina Boryszczuk Albert Boumenot‡ Donald F. Bouseman Samuel and Phyllis Bowen Mr. Jeff Boyce Michael and Kate Bradie‡ Mr. Kevin Bradley William Brady Andrea Brands Mrs. John J. Bransfield, Jr. Karen Breen Elia and Louis M. Elia‡ Mr. Robert Brewer David Briggs Robert and Joell Brightfelt Betsy Brint Sarah Brittin‡ Jean Broom Julie A. Brown Ed Bucher‡ Ms. Cynthia Buckley David A. Buls Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burfeind Bruce and Kate Burgun John and Maureen Burke Ms. Genevieve Burns Crystal and Thomas F. Bush Richard Butler Robert and Cheryl Byron Toni and Mike Cainkar David and Janna Caldarelli Karen A. Callaway Andrew Campbell and Dana Campbell Terri Candela Ms. Alexandra Carlson Barry Carlson Ms. Lindsay Walter Carlton and Mr. Christopher Carlton Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Jay Case Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Chandler Gerry and Carol Chrisman Mr. Mike Christ Mr. Timothy Christian Sam and Kathleen Ciulla‡ Drs. William and Elizabeth Clark Mr. James Clark and Ms. Christina Labate Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Carol and Michael Clarke Bente Clausen‡ Betty Cleeland‡ Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Curt Coolidge

Mr. Robert Corbett Ron Corthell & Laura Bartolo Arlene and Harvey Coustan Robert Crawford Max Freedman and Family Colin and Teri Cross Mr. Bruce Crown Mr. Scott Cullen James Culp Ms. Allyson Cunningham Mr. Dan Curley David and Jean Curtis Laura and Frank Czechanski Josh Daitch‡ Stephen F. Danziger Ms. Mary Davidson Anne Megan Davis‡ Michelle and Ronald De Vlam‡ Linda DeBolt‡ Roxanne Decyk and Lew Watts‡ Ms. Cheryl Deese Brian Dennen Pierre Desy and Michel Desjardins Matthew J. Devereux April Dial Mr. Austin Dias Jennifer Dienes Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine Dimun Mr. Vincent Dina Jeff Dineen Michele and Robert Disselhorst Edward Dobbins

Joan and John Dysart Mr. David P. Earle Jeanene Ebert Wiley and Merry Edmondson Estia Eichten and Deborah Eichten Sharon Eiseman and Noel Hertz Michael and Kristen Goggin‡ Linda A. Ellis Ms. Heather Erickson Brian Fabes and Lisa Schneider Fabes Edith and Gerald Falk Maurice Fantus and Judith Aiello Demitri and Pamela Fardelos Linda and Ed J. Farkas Ms. Juliette Feld Deb Feldman Tim and Cathy Felts‡ Toni and Joel Fenchel Mr. William Field Mr. Dan Filowitz Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fisch Liz Fisher Liz Fisher‡ Jeremiah Fisher Marilyn E. Fites Catherine S. Flanagan Adrienne Flowers Jim and Yvonne Fogerty‡ Mr. Richard Landgraff and Ms. Bernadette Foley Mike Folk Ms. Betty Forman

“My wife and I enjoy attending the shows at Steppenwolf. They are both thought provoking and entertaining. We support Steppenwolf just to do our very small part to make certain the excellence continues. As an added benefit, being a part of the donor events really enhances the overall Steppenwolf experience.” —Brian Paetow, Steppenwolf supporter since 2002 William and Phyllis Dobrin Dorothy L. Domuray Ms. Nancy Dondero Ms. April Donnellan Mr. Paul Donnellan Raymond and Marybeth Drake‡ Raymond H. Drymalski Natalie Dudek‡ Mr. Paul Dufallo Donna and Michael Dumke‡ Will Dunne Gregory Durkin Leah Mooshil‡ Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dutcher

Mr. Joseph Fosco Sean Foster‡ Timothy and Janet Fox Reverend Mark A. Fracaro‡ Dr. and Mrs. James Franklin Ms. Rhona Frazin Joy Frey Kimberly Masius June Freidlich Susan and Sy Frolichstein Susan Fuchs, M.D. Phillip D. Funkenbusch‡ Mr. Vince Gaffney‡ Stephanie Gaines‡

‡Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to steppenwolf 45 Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

…cont’d annual fund

Heather Gardner Ellen Garippo Royal Gaston Mark and Bonnie Gehrman Dr. and Mrs. Mark Gendleman Philis and Alex George‡ Thomas and Patricia Germino‡ Ms. Alison Geyer Sandra Gidley Clark and Nancy Gilpin Carlen Gilseth Mr. and Mrs. Marin Gjaja Mr. William Glascott and Ms. Jane Pothoff Gerry and Stan Glass Anneliese Glick Jaye and John Golanty Florence Bonnick and Jay M. Goldberg Karen Goldstein‡ Marsha and Michael Goldstein Sue-Gray Goller Sam Goodman Leo and Linda Gordon Robert Gordon Darla Goudeau‡ Joanne Graham Laurence and Carrie Grant Paula Turner Grasso Susan Leigh‡ Mr. Sherwin Green Dr. and Mrs. Robert Greendale The Greffin Family Mrs. Katharine C. Gross Marie Gunn‡ Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gustaitis Mick Guzman William C Haddad Sarah Hadley Mr. David Haley Bob and Melanie Halvorson‡ Bill Hamilton Chester and Phyllis Handelman Howard Handler Dr. Raymond and Arlene Handler Kristin and Charles Harper Ms. Barbara Hart Tom and Virginia Hartley‡ Julianne Hartzell Richard and Dorothy Harza Ali Hassan and Amber Fritz‡ Robert and Linda Hauser Van and Ruth Hawkins‡ Jean Hawkinson Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hayes Stephen Henderson Pat and Ron Henning Joyce K. Herdliska Constance Herrera‡ Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hession‡

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John and Martha Higgins Lina and Dave Hilko‡ Fred Hill Linda and John Hillman Mr. and Ms. Bill Hinchman Bill and Pat Hitt Mr. Karl Hoffman Philip and Eileen Hoffman Jerri and David Hoffmann John E. Holland Jo Holzer‡ Paula Horn Eric Horng Joseph Horton and Sandra Morrison Mr. Peter Hoskow Ms. Karen Hott Leigh and John Hourihane Thomas and Karen Howell Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hughes Karen Hunken‡ Patricia Hunt‡ Dard Hunter Robin and Harry Hunter Patricia Hurley Jim and Joyce Ibers Mr. Troy Ihlanfeldt Matthew Ingenito‡ Jim and Peg Isherwood Peter Ivanovich Ronald and Lizette Jacobson Shirlie James‡ John David Jawor‡ Douglas and Margaret Jayes‡ Emily Jelsomeno Rebecca Johnston Todd and Jennifer Jones Daniel and Mary Ann Jordan Sandra L. Jordan Ms. Angela Kabbes Melvin and Annie Kahn Ms. Heather Kalita Tom and Esta Kallen Joseph J. Kane Olwyn J. Kane Jon and Liz Kaplan‡ Norma and Nolan Kaplan Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer‡ Dr. Susan A. Kecskes‡ Ms. Stephanie Keenan Eva Kellogg Ms. Sheena Kemp Ms. Lucy Kereta-Bloch Andrew Keyt Seema Khan‡ Candace Killian Linda Belan and Vincent Kinehan‡ Mike and Leslie King Sylvia and John Kinney Drs. Tom and Linda Kirch

Dr. and Mrs. M. Barry Kirschenbaum Matt and Karen Klickman Dawn Klingensmith and Jeff Pinkerton‡ Mr. and Mrs. David Knapp Anne Chipman and Joe Knecht Ms. Molly Kobelt John Kobza Steve Koch Mr. Michael Kochman Ms. Sheila Komarek Cheryl and Robert Kopecky Barry and Cheryl Kreiter Mr. Craig Krenek Mary Kupferberg‡ Walter and Elaine Kurczewski Terri Lacy Marcia Lafferty‡ Mr. Kurt Lagerloef‡ Ed and Bettine Landon Terrence Landry Mr. Edward Langan Ghita Lapidus Thomas Lariviere‡ Edward and Laverne Larsen Nancy and Alan Lasser Dr. and Mrs. Jules H. Last Marc Lauerman Peter and Shirley Dugdale Laundy Douglas Lavanture Catherine and Peter Lawler Bart Lazar Mr. Michael Leb Jill S. Lederman‡ Olivia Lee Bill Lee and Malinda Hamann‡ Peggy and Greg Legan‡ Brett Legner and Eve Sorenson‡ Linda Legner Ms. Leslie Lehman Travis Leiser Sheila Fields Leiter Laurie Leli Jeffrey and Elise Lennard Jeffrey Lennard David and Sandy Lentz Darrell Leonard and Ed Nowak Carolyn S. Levin Dr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Levin Grant and Michelle Ley‡ Rachel Libman Fran and Chuck Licht‡ Robert and Martha Lichter Mr. and Mrs. Paul Liebenson Cheryl Lindquist Barbara and Edward Linn Lynn Liston‡ Lee Litas Margit “Maggie” Livingston‡ Velda Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Gershon Locker

…cont’d annual fund

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lofgren Renee Logan Michael Loquercio and Ashley Wilgus‡ Katherine M. Lorenz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lovaas Jeff and Nancy Lowenthal‡ Judy and George Lowman James and Janet Lusk Matt MacKenzie Jim Maclennan Madeline MacMillan Mr. Joe Madden Mr. and Mrs. Charles Magill Ms. Karen Maki Joseph and Rose Manak Brooke and Mike Mandrea Samantha & David Mann Joseph and Gloria Marcus Steve and Melissa Marovich Ed and Linnea Martin‡ Mr. Michael B. Masius Jr. Erica and Frank Matagrano‡ David and Karen Mattenson Mr. and Mrs. R. David Matthews Dawn Mattozzi and Amy Phinney Mr. and Ms. Sergey Mavrody Mike and Cindy McCabe John McCambridge Mr. And Mrs. Michael Mccarthy Drs. Linda Skitka and William McCready Nicolette McDavid‡ C. A. McElligott Terrance and Jane McElroy Sharon McGee Elisabeth and Michael McHugh‡ Ryan and Claire McKenzie Joan Mclane Kathy and Alan McLaughlin‡ Ms. Mary McNulty Nuncia and Rafael Medina Sheila and Harvey Medvin John and Lisa Merlock Bruce Merrick Allyson Metcalf and Brian Tennison‡ David and Linda Metschke‡ Mia and Jonathan Miller‡ Nina Kavin and Kerry A. Miller Alison Millerick Craig and Donna Mindrum Dino and Heathre Moler Barbara and Ron Moline Mort and Joan Mollner Reginaldo and Jennifer Montague‡ Jack Montgomery Janet and Robert Montgomery‡ Forrest Moore Sheba Miller-Morris Corinne S. Morrissey

Dr. and Mrs. Martin Mozes Charles G. Mueller Ms. Ellen Muench Gerald and Maia Mullin Patrick Mulvey‡ James and Jean Murphy Tom Murray Ms. Jennifer Myers Tom Myers‡ Mike and Nance Nalepa Denise E. Nedza Vernon Nelson and Kay Alden Mr. Jack Newell Lynne Considene Nieman Mark Noethen Mr. and Ms. Carlton Nolan Kitty Norton Mr. and Mrs. Charles Norwesh Susan and Nicholas Noyes Ann and Dan O’Brien Mike and Joan O’Brien Mary Pat O’Brien Paul & Karin O’Connor‡ John and Megan O’Connor‡ Ronan and Jill O’Donovan Dennis J. O’Keefe and Mary Jo Barrett Barbara and Franklin A. O’Leary Mr. and Mrs. John O’Malley Timothy O’Neill and Jane Rutherford Nancy and Myles O’Reilly‡ Patrick and Eileen O’Sullivan Gary and Marcie Ochs Larry and Barbara Olin Paul Oliver Don Olson Bruce Oltman Jamie and Rachel Orlikoff Mr. and Ms. Don Oros Ms. Anastasia Osipova Pilar Ossorio

Mayor John and Jacqueline Ostenburg Michelle Owens Mr. Dale Packard and Ms. Linda Edral‡ Frances and William Paden Hilda and Jose Padilla Ronna Page‡ Deborah Page Jane Panther Anthony Papini‡ Catherine and Robert Parks Mr. Pradip Patiath and Ms. Shalini Sharma Sheldon Patinkin Michael Patterson Peggy Paulsen Joseph Pawlikowski‡ Robert Payne III Charles and Melanie Payne Lynn and Mel Pearl Margaret Pendry Mr. Gavin Perkins Leanne Perlman Ross and Jackie Peterson Andy Phelps Charles and Mary Phillips Linda S. Piccolo Ms. Laura Pichon Barb and Ned Piehler William and Suzan Pinsof Chuck and Judy Piper Ms. Vera Pless Elizabeth and Harvey Plotnick Danielle Pollard Dan Polsby‡ Ellen Pomes‡ Frank C. Pond‡ Pam and Dean Pontikes Mr. and Mrs. John Powers James and Gayle Prete Jean and Preston Price‡

Season kickoff guests learning about the upcoming plays from the companies of the Garage Rep 2014

‡Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to steppenwolf 47 Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

…cont’d annual fund

David and Valeria Pruett Dave and Darby Putman Pamela Qualls Kevin and Dagmara Quast Leona Quist Bernard and Joan Rabinowitz Lori Ramsey Mr. Craig Randall Barbara Rapp Mr. and Ms. Scott M. Rappe Robert Rauschenberg Gabriel and Dorit Raviv Mr. Steve Reagan Diane Reilly Lisa Remby Clisson and Patricia Rexford Trisha Rich Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Richter, Jr.‡ Jacob Ringer Bill and Deborah Roberts Carol and Riney Robertson Sandra and Jeffrey Rochman Mr. Bruce Rodman Mary Lu and Kenneth Roffe Beverly J. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rogoz Dr. Daniel A. Roller and Ms. Lynn A. Hellwig Mrs. Sarene L. Rosen Mr. David Rosenbaum Linda Rosenblum and Steven Swiryn

Dan and Deni Ryan John and Eileen Saksa A. Sue Samuels Julia Nowicki and Timothy A. Sanborn MD Stephen and Leatrice Sandler Mr. and Mrs. Steven Sargent Christopher and Ann Marie Saternus John and Mary Satter Robert and Mary Ann Savard‡ Jane Schaafsma Edna Schade Susan Tobias and Alan Shapiro Allison and Charles Scherer Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Schewe Seymour Schiff and Bernice Elbin Schiff William B. and Carolyn A. Schildgen Cynthia Schilsky Tony and Celeste Scolaro‡ John Scott and Linda Johnson‡ Nedinia Searle Mr. John Sevcik Scott Shallenbarger and Bradley Burke‡ Ms. Sandra Shane-DuBow and Mr. Richard Hay Bill and Kristen Shaner Mr. and Ms. John Shannon Jeffrey S. Sharp and Elizabeth D. Sharp David and Kimberly Shaw

“I like the shows because they are not just entertaining but also challenging and, in some cases, require me to reexamine my own thoughts and beliefs. I support Steppenwolf as a donor because I think it is exceedingly important that we keep being exposed to art that mimics life.” –Vinay Kumar, Steppenwolf supporter since 2000 Mary Rosengrant Hilary Rosenthal Mr. and Ms. Richard Rosenthal Mrs. Donald S. Roth Michael and Bonnie Rothman Kathryn Rothstein Maureen A. Rubino Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Manfred Ruddat Ms. Kathryn W. Rugen Ms. Joseph Rulli Ray Rusnak Matt Russell‡ Brad S. Rutledge

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Courtney Shea Luna Okada and Wynn Sheade Cathy Shelko Timothy Sherck‡ Karen Shields Bradley and Ellen Shorser Ms. Renee Shrier Eric and Sabrina Sigg Margaret and Alan Silberman Rhett Silver Judy Silverman Susan and Paul Silverman‡ Patricia Costello Slovak Laura C. Smail

Karen Smilie Betty Scott Smith Chuck Smith Edith Smith Drs. Carol Payne and Robert L. Smith Mr. Stephen A. Smith James Smutniak Brent Snow Jackie Snuttjer Henry So and Joe Senese Mr. Andrew Sobol Raymond Socki‡ Ms. Dana Sodikoff Ms. Jamie Sodikoff Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sodikoff Michael Solberg Sonja L Solberg‡ Mr. Joseph Spellman and Ms. Michelle Drazba Stephen Spigel and Diana Williams Marilyn and Joel Sprayregen Shantha Sreekanth Colin Stalnecker Diana and Thomas Stamborski Ms. Tanya Stanfield Mr. Eric Stavriotis Sarah Stec and Doug Bobenhouse Peggy Steffy Jeremy Steglitz Seena and Carey Stein The Steinbachs‡ Dorie Sternberg Ms. Barbara Stewart Todd Stofflet and Jason Stevens Jeanine Stout‡ Mr. Paul Strabbing Mercedes and Martin Straus Ms. Bethany Stripp Mr. Larry Stuckey Robin Klein and Bill Summers Ms. Janet Sussman Yvonne Sutor‡ Ms. Sylwia Szewczyk Peter and Obie Szidon Ms. June Tate and Mr. Samuel Coffee, Jr. Ms. Elaine R. Taylor Vivian Teng Ilene Patty and Tom Terpstra Richard and Anita Thies Barbara and Randolph Thomas D and WThomas‡ Nancie Noie‡ Jim and Sue Thompson Cade Thurlby Richard Tobiason Mr. David Todd Trevor Tomkins Ms. Sharlene Toney Mr. Eddie Torres

…cont’d annual fund

Jeanne Towns John and Madalyn Traff Carol D. Trapp Ronald Trigg Jeff Tsai Ms. Anne Tucker Mary and Greg Tuite Edward and Edith Turkington Annette Turow Deborah Twardowski Chris Ulmer Mr. and Mrs. Mike Unetich Mr. and Mrs. Steven Van Dorf Mr. Peter Van Kempen Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable Peter and Lilian Vardy Kathryn Vehe‡ Butch and Debbie Viccellio Ken and Lorraine Victor Jessica Videlka Ms. Marilyn Vitale Paul D. Waas Eugene and Sandra Wagner Robert and Rose Wagner Ms. Amy Waldon William and Sharon Wallin Mr. Matthew Walsh William and Patricia Walsh Mary Lou Waltz‡ Deborah and Neil Warner‡ Elissa B. Weaver Melanie and Judson Weeks James Weidner Michael Weiland and Shelley MacGregor Ms. Wallace Weinper Sherrie and Albert Weiss Adam and Jamie Weyeneth Charles and Leah Wheelan Steve and Bonnie Wheeler Esther White and Mindy Terrell Dot and Dan Whittenberger Mr. Chris Whyde Larry and Susan Wikman Mrs. Barbara Wilder Jon Will and Ada Mary Gugenheim‡ Johner “JT” Wilson Susan and Bob Wislow Iris S. Witkowsky Ms. Elizabeth Wohlleb Esther and Stanley Wojcicki Lawrence Wojcik Ann R. Wolfe‡ Lisa Wolfe and Mark DiGanci Joe Wolnski and Jane Christino Andrew and Meghan Woltman‡ Kelly Wood Dr. Rodney and Susan Yergler‡ Linda Yin

Fred Young‡ Sandy Young Francesca Zambello Eileen and David Zampa David and Nikki Zarefsky Daniel Ziembo and Nancy Cook Tighe Zimmers Mark and Margie Zivin Kathy Willhoite and Rodd Zolkos

P L A Y E RS ($150 – 249) Anonymous (38) Frida Abrahamian Richard and Louise Abrahams Mr. Steve Abrams Nancy Abshire Mr. Brian Acuff Heidi Adams Donna Dorl-Adams and Tom Adams Dwetri Addy Ms. Kaleem Ahmed Judy and Robert Airhart John B. Albright Mr. Kenneth Alexander Barbara and Oscar Alonso‡ Alyssa Altman‡ Caryl and Brian Anderson Ms. Autumn Anderson Irene Anderson‡ Testosterone Tom Anson Mr. Dean Antonopoulos Robert Arensman Rosemary Crowley Mr. Rex Babiera Linda A. Bacci James M. Bachner Elizabeth and Jack Bannon Mr. Simon Bare Merrill Barnes Beverly Bartel Jeanette and Vern Bartels Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer‡ Jayne Bazos‡ Mr. Frank Bear Anne Beck Dan Bell Nanette Benbow Christine and Michael Benton Judith Bergen J. Berkowitz Harvey and Helene Berlin‡ Ruth Berns Mr. Larry Bernstein Mr. Stephen Best Mary Anne and Joe Bigane Ben Birch John Blackburn and Bill Gilmer Marc D. Blakeman

Judith L. Blank Teresa N. Blaurock‡ Bernard and Nancy Blayer Claudia and John Boatright Linda Bolte Ms. Sarah Bordson Catherine Borowski Larry and Margo Bostrom Mr. Kurt Bowden Bob and Sue Bowker Philip Boyd Elaine Brandstetter Steven and Lisa Bosco Nicole and David Braun Susan M Brazas Judith and Harold Bregman Stephanie Brenner‡ Carolyn Brna Albert and Jean Broday Tim Brogla and Laura Demoor Beth Sprecher Brooks Frank Brooks and Andrea Twiss-Brooks‡ Beth Brown Evelyn G. Brown Robert and Ilene Brown Edith Brownman John Buenz Anne Burke Tripp Burton Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Bussell Mr. James Butler William Butler Kelly and Kasia Byrne Amy K. Callahan Stephen C. Carlson Mr. Michael Carnow and Mrs. Abby Reiss Mrs. Constance K. Casey Nick Casto Beverly and Dennis Cavanaugh James Challancin Ms. Leemor Chaplin Stephen and Jane Chernof Ms. Debbie Chipman James Christle George Chuzi Ms. Virginia Clark Dr. Neil Clipstone Thomas and Kathleen Coleman Ms. Roma Colwell-Steinke Cheryl and Gary Conley Allan Connolly and Jennifer Williamson Peter and Judith Connolly‡ Marcia Mary Cook‡ Dr. Tracy Cooley Zachary Cooper Ms. Merle Cowin Mr. Danny Cox Norma I. Crane

‡Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to steppenwolf 49 Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

…cont’d annual fund

Shirley Craven, Ph.D. Tony Creed Mr. Mark Curran Paul and Deanna Danao‡ Kathleen Daniels Daphne M. Daume‡ Bruce and Tina Day Barbara L. Dean Ms. Rebecca Delcomyn Maureen and Mel De Matoff Michelle and Christopher DeMent Mr. Bob Dengel Mary and Daniel Deziel Stewart and Shari Diamond Harriet and Lou Dicerbo Rachel and Paul H. Dieterle Lauri Dietz‡ The DiGregorio’s‡ Evan Djikas and Jennifer Djikas Carmelita Dockery, PhD Student Maria Domanskis Joseph Dellaratta Susan V. Downing Drapeau Watts Family Donald and Beatrice Drayer Judy and Jerry Drommerhausen Rosanne Druian Eileen and Howard Dubner Patrick and Julie Duffy David and Suzanna Dulin Arthur and Elizabeth Duquette Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Durot John and Pat Dyble Wendy Eager Rick Eddington Carla and Jay Edelston Marci Eisenstein Whitney Ekblad Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Julie Ellafrits Phyllis Ellis Derrick English Mark and Virginia Erlanson Judy Erwin Ed Everett Jamie and Sam Evins Ms. Jenifer Fabian Joan & John Fadden Paul Fahy Tom and Terry Fallon David and Loren Farmer Mr. Stephen Fedo Ms. Mary Feeney Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fegan Drs. Richard and Roberta Feldman Mr. Kyle Fennell Ira Fenton Mark Fenzel KC Ferguson

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Ms. Katherine Feucht Elaine Filus Marty and Susie Fine Nancy and Rick Firfer Peter Fischer Mr. and Ms. Donald Fisher Sara Stern and Ted Fishman‡ Ms. Cynthia Fitzharris Chad Fitzloff Sam Fleischacker and Amy Reichert‡ Kass Fleisher‡ Heather and Jeff Fleitz Sandy Fliegelman Jeanne Flosi Art Fogel Paul Fong Calvin Forbes Ms. Carma Forgie Marilyn and Eric Fors‡ John and Adrian Foster Mr. William Fotis Donna Fredricksen William Freitag Richard and Lois Fuhrer Daniel and Dorothy Fusco Ms. Julie M. Galiotto and Mr. Tony Galiotto Mr. Brandon Gardner Raymond and Patricia Gass Cheryl Gehrke Barbara J. Geist Ava George Stewart Nancy Gidwitz Geoffrey L. Gifford Hugh and Doris Gilbert Van H. & Sandra V. Gilbert Mr. Richard E. Ginsberg and Ms. Natalie Tessler Patricia and James Gladden Mitchell Glaser Martin and Cathy Glickman Sarah E. Tarabori Sue Golan Marvin and Phyllis Goldblatt Mr. Ivan Golden Jennifer Goldman Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Golub Brian Gonner‡ Jessica L. Gonzalez Sandra and James Goodman Bruce Gorchow and Marie Fioramonti Sophie and Bob Gordon Patricia Graham Bobby Grant‡ William and Diane Grant Judy Grasmick Chris Gravenites Allen Greenberger Gabriel Greene

Hannah Greene James and Lynn Grogan Merle and Barry Gross Jeffrey Gross Nathan and Evelyn Grossman Bryan and Pamela Gruley David A. Hall Ted and Kathleen Halloran Linda Halperin Bonnie Hammerschlag Ms. Tina Han Ednalyn and Barbara Hansen Ms. Mary Kay Hardcastle Anne Harney Alex Harris and Stefanie Glover Ameerah Harris Edward and Louise Hartigan Patrick and Carol Haverty Steve Hayes and Patricia Olcenica Dave Hayes and Mary Stelmach-Hayes Diana J Healy Bridget and Richard Heathfield Albert and Amy Heber Mr. and Ms. Bruce Hecktman Alison Hefele Bonney Alison Heiser Drs. Uri and Tamar Heller Ms. Sandra L. Helton Martha Henry Ms. Lynne Hensel Eileen Herber Nancy Herring Marcia and Darrell Herschler‡ David and Patricia Hight Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hill James Hill and Patrice Keleher Michael Hinz Nancy and Allen Hirschfield Morgan and Melissa Hirst Vivian and Dave Hock John and Virginia Hogan Ms. Karolina Hogueisson Ms. Janet Hoiberg Michelle and Glenn Holland Nancy C. Holland‡ Donald and Karen Holmberg Ms. Carol Holmes Mr. Jeffrey Holst Mr. James Holzhauer Chanda Hott William Hubbard Annie Nabra Mr. Dave Dimmlich and Ms. Beth Hummelberg Amy Hutchinson‡ Richard Hutner and Lena Motev Beartriz Iorgulescu Grady Irey Joan Istrate Ms. Eileen Jeffers

…cont’d annual fund

Patricia A. Jiganti David Joel and Susan Holtzman Mr. Tony Johnson Holly Johnston Ruth Johnston‡ Jasond A Jones Joyce D. N. Jones Mary Jo Kanady Shelly Kaplan Mr. Steven Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James Kargman Jerry Karlin Mel and Renee Katten Annonymous Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kelch Matthew J. Keller Valerie Kendrick Ms. Portia Kennel Harry Kenny Bonnie Kepplinger Rita Kerns Dawn and Jim Kink Maureen and Kim Klatt Kelli Klauber Susan Klein Douglas and Catherine Knuth Zachary Koenig Janet Kohrman Betty H. Kolb Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kooperman Stanley J. Koziol Jennifer A. Krug Ken and Janet Kubis Bob Kunio and Libby Roth‡ Ms. Kim Kusiciel Carol L. Kutak Pamela K. Ladd Steve LaHaie Kevin Lamanna Ms. Margaret Lambrecht Allen Lawent Dayna Lee Neil Lenhoff Wallace and Carol Lennox Robert Levels Marc and Cynthia Levin Michael R. and Cara Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levitin Susan Levitt Gregory Lewis and Mary Strek‡ Jacquie Lewis Arlene Lieb Arnie Liepa and Susan Warren-Liepa Jean Linsner Peter Lipton Ms. Sherry Liske Lora Jane Lisle Mr. and Mrs. Burton Litwin Judi Lockhart

Ingrid LoGiudice Thomas and Susan Long Sherry Lundell Elliott and Miriam Lyon Mardie MacKimm Alice R. Macy Del & Tammy Madsen Claude Maechling and Carrie McNally‡ Mr. Patrick Magee Ms. Veronica Maldonado Mr. and Ms. John V. Malkovich Ms. Donna Mallon Loretta Malone Pamela Manning Wendy Manto Melissa and Richard March David Marker and Georgann Joseph Nancy and Kenneth Marks Tom and Robin Martin Anthony and Laura Massaro Henry and Peggy Matson Mr. And Mrs. Joseph Maurice John May Margaret F. May Larry Mayer Lisa Mayntz and William M. Blidy John M. McCabe Thomas and Barbara McCaffrey Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Mccormick‡ Stacey and Patrick McCusker Danny and Mary McDermott Denise McGuffin Anastasia McGuire Ms. Therese McGuire and Mr. Rob Porter Joseph and Agnes McHugh Erin E. McInerney Ann and Christopher McKee‡ Angie McKie Robert and Lorel McMillan Tom and Adrienne McMullen Claretta Meier Maureen Meier Scott and Beth Mercola Michael and Nancy Merel Eric and Jess Mersmann Terri Mertz and Richard P. Deranian Chuck and Sylvia Meyers‡ Ron Micheletto‡ Dean A. Miller and Martha H. Swift Ron and Pat Miller Sandy and Scott Miller‡ Susan M. Miller Nathan Fleming and Abby Mohaupt‡ Roger and Pauline Mohr Drs. Terri Monk and B. Craig Weldon‡ Chris and Kathe Monley‡ Ms. Carolyn Montford Brian Weatherford and Steven Montgomery

Ms. Shannon Moore Ms. Shirley Moore Ms. Mary Louise H. Morrison David and Linda Moscow William Myers Ms. Lois Mysliwy Jenny Nagaoka and Bart Longacre Jamie Nagle Elke Aippersbach and Piers Nash Erika Nelson and David Wagener Jack and Leanne Neurauter Charlotte Newfeld Tom and Julia Nicholas Dani Nichols Mark and Maggie Nichter‡ Karen Nickelson Mary Nolen Mr. Peter Norman Mr. Hans Frank Normolle Ms. Ellen Noth Mary E. O’Leary Daniel and Laura O’Neill Maria and Ev Ocasio The Odom Family Shelia and Julian Oettinger Christine Olson and James Eccleston Kirsten Olson Peter and Alanne Ori Susan Orlowski County Clerk David Orr Marjorie Orr Jerome and Kathryn Osen‡ Mr. Nick Paavola Jim and Sue Pajakowski Brian and Megann Panek Lynne Pantalena Debra Parker Mark and Mary Partridge Audrey and John Paton Douglas and Linda Paul Dr. Steven and Mimi Binette Elyse Pearlman and Brad Teckenbrock Denny and Kay Pearson Caroline Pearson Raymond Olson and Paula Pederson Vanessa Perkins Ms. Leann Perlman Ms. Allison Peters David and Lindsey Peters Katherine D. Peterson Tim Peterson Sheldon and Marcia Pevsner Larry Pfaffenbach David M. Pierce Christine Pilat Chrystin and Lonnie Pleasants‡ Geoffrey Polk Emily R. Pollock Ms. Cecilia Porter Mr. Charles Porter

‡Step-by-Step We salute the individual donors who have committed to a recurring monthly or quarterly gift to steppenwolf 51 Steppenwolf. Their ongoing support helps fuel Steppenwolf’s mission of superior acting and risk-taking work.

…cont’d annual fund

Steppenwolf Donor Events These one-of-a-kind events celebrate the work seen on our stages with our acclaimed ensemble of artists. Steppenwolf’s 2014 Gala Benefit Sa t u r da y , Ma y 3

Join our acclaimed ensemble and Board of Trustees for an unforgettable night in support of Steppenwolf Theatre. After an exclusive 30-minute performance of scenes from The Way West, enjoy a lively cocktail reception and gourmet seated dinner with members of the Steppenwolf ensemble, an exciting live auction featuring once-in-a-lifetime adventures with our artists, and a private rock concert by Steppenwolf co-founder Gary Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band, followed by a late-night DJ and chic after-hours lounge. Individual Tickets are $1,000; proceeds benefit Steppenwolf’s artistic and educational programs. For more information or to reserve your table or tickets to the 2014 Gala, call 312-654-5632 or email specialevents@steppenwolf.org.

Annual Fund Donor Cast Party with the cast of The Qualms Wedne s da y , J u ne 1 1

Annual Fund donors at the Designers Level are invited to join us in our rehearsal space for appetizers and drinks with the cast of The Qualms. Artistic Director Martha Lavey will lead a conversation with the director and cast about the process of bringing this new Bruce Norris play to life. This event is for Annual Fund donors only. For more information on becoming a donor, please contact Suzanne Miller at 312-654-5617 or smiller@steppenwolf.org.

Auxiliary Council Mixer Join Steppenwolf’s Auxiliary Council at the Hotel Lincoln to learn more about membership and the Council’s important role in supporting the Steppenwolf for Young Adults program. All guests will enjoy an evening of networking, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. This event is open to the public. For more information, please contact Kaleigh Lockhart at 312-654-5623 or auxiliarycouncil@steppenwolf.org.

Images from Steppenwolf’s 2011 Red or White Ball

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Ms. Regina Porter Stephen Porvin Posner Family Trust Ms. Carol Postulka Carrie and Michael Powers‡ Renee Preftakes Charlie Propsom Mr. and Mrs. William B. Prugh Lynn and Clayton Pruitt Ms. Marcia Purze Laura Quayle Katherine Quigg Heidi Ralli Dean Rapp Ms. Azar Rashidfarokhi Bridget Ray Jeff Raymond Mr. Chuck Rebesco Jim Reid John Rice James R. Richardson Sandi Riggs Paul Rink Burt and Fran Rissman Stacey Robbins Marjorie Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Russ Rockenbach Susan W. Rogaliner Deborah Rogers Mr. Alexander Roman Mr. and Mrs. Alan Rosenberg Lorraine Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg Mr. Howard A. Rosenblum Bernhard and Judith Rosenstein Michael Ross and Erin Lavelle Robert and Sue Ross‡ T. Marshall Rousseau Ms. Shirlee Rubenstein Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rubinstein Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Michael Ryan Krista Sahakian Dirk Denison and David Salkin Van and Sue Salmans Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Carolyn Clayton and Patrick Sandercock Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sandoval Ursula Sanne Mr. Gabriel Sayer Ms. Theresa Scales Alice and Don Schindel Robert and Barbara Schmid Mr. Ed Schmidt Rose Schmidt‡ Frank and Karen Schneider Chris Schroeder Mrs. Margaret Schuring

Ms. Michele Schuller Robert I. Schwartz Barbara Jo and Thomas D. Scott Thomas and Mary Ellen Scott‡ Jo and Glenn Seiden Benjamin C. Seigle Elizabeth G. Selmier Mary Lou Shadle‡ Sugar Shankman Kay Shannon Elizabeth and Michael Shapiro Neil Shapiro‡ Elizabeth and William Sharpe‡ Jennifer P. Sheffield Cheryl and Philip Sheridan‡ Rebecca Shilling Robert and Nancy Shipley Mr. and Mrs. William Shorey‡ Debra Siegel Mark Silver Mrs. Dolores Silverman Ilene Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinise Jane Sisco‡ Ellen Mrazek and Daniel Slattery Rae and David Smerling Ms. Janet C. Smith Janet Carl Smith and Mel Smith Lois Smith Mr. Larry K. Snider Vivien Sookram Ben Sosewitz Gary Spangler and Julie B. Aimen-Spangler Dusica Korda-Sparks and James C. Sparks Janine L. Spears Lisa Spector Patricia Staab Rebecca Stanfield Patricia Staszak Donald F. Steiner Wallace Stenhouse Kay Stephens Charles and Janet Stern Carol S. Stern Gardner Stern and Maxine Weintraub‡ Mr. Larry Stone Robert and Mary Rose Strezewski‡ Jennifer Strople Lisa Sullivan Ms. Patricia Sullivan Michelle Sweet Anne Taft Susan C. Taylor‡ Saren A. and Robert D. Tepper Mr. Darrin Thomas Floyd Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Towers Daniel Trainor and Claudia Berg

Michael Harmon Traison Kristin Trovillion Edward and Julie Turner Susan D. Tuteur Dmitry Tyomkin Shawn Tyrrell Ms. Cynthia Vahlkamp Virginia Vale Caren and Walter Van Slyke Dr. and Mrs. Vanagunas Suzanne Venecek‡ Mr. TJ Veneris John Viars‡ Mr. and Ms. Darren Vilmin Mr. Jon Volkert Michael L Wagner Nancy Wai Lillian and Steven Walanka Mr. James T. Walesa William Walton Allante Warren Gwenyth B. Warton Linda Watson Mr. David Waud Al Wayne and Lynne Copp James and Christine Webb Mary Jo Weis Hava Weissberg Barbara A. Weithaus Kal Wenig Donna Werner‡ Mr. and Mrs. Doug West Elayne L Wheeler‡ Mr. Sanford White Ms. Ann Whitney Deborah B. Williams, Ph.D.‡ D. Terry and Sharon Williams Audrey Wilson Freddie Wilson Dr. David Wise and Dr. Dianna Niebylski‡ Coleman Wolf and Ellen Chapelle‡ Stephanie Wolf Joyce Woods Patrick Woods and Kathleen Clark Mr. James Wright Anita and Steve Yablong Dick Yankow Steve and Arna Yastrow Judith Youngs David and Teresa Zembower Barbe and Bill Zillman

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

Ind i v i d u al C o n t r i b u t o r s A u x i l i a r y C o u nc i l

Ind i v i d u al C o n t r i b u t o r s H o n o r and M e m o r i al G i f t s

Comprised of more than 100 Young Professionals, Steppenwolf ’s Auxiliary Council works each season to raise funds for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults Programs. We salute the governing members for giving generously of their time and resources. Contact Kaleigh Lockhart Cioff at 312-654-5623 or klockhart@steppenwolf.org to become an Auxiliary Council member today.

By making an honorary or memorial gift to Steppenwolf Theatre Company over the past year, the following individuals celebrated a special occasion or paid tribute to a loved one. Make an honorary gift by contacting Suzanne Miller at 312-654-5617 or smiller@steppenwolf.org.

E x ec u t i v e O f f i ce r s

G ove r nor s

A s s o c i at e s

Ki m Davi s*‡ President

Vanessa Abron Kristopher Anderson Courtney Bass Jonathan Blanc David Blowers Jr. Julie Brown Haydee Caldero Alexandra Carlson Steve Collens Isaac Colunga Chanel Coney Bryce Cooper Joel Cornfeld Danny Cox Kim Davis‡ Brian Eble Heather Erickson Juliette Feld Jami Gekas Stephen George Aimee Graham Jasmine Guy Conery Hoffman Adam Keats Andrew Keyt Rachel Loftspring Sergey Mavrody Ashley Mintz Marcus Mintz Derek Nelson Brett Plyler Kathryn Rothstein Francis Sadac‡ Dina Searle Ryan Stafford Tanya Stanfield Jennifer Stuart Frank Trocchio Jeff Tsai

Karma Abraham Stephanie Ailor Nicholas Alexsovich Melissa Andrews Marjorie Baltazar Andrew Banas Marisol Barrera Christina (Chrissy) Batorski Andrew Cioffi Molly Clark Derrik Dickinson Tom Ehrhart Nina Esshaki Sean Finn Jodi Frank Rebecca Fons Myriam Fullard Anne Gillespie Tara Gillespie Justin Glasson Ivan Golden Mark Greer Reginald Guy Lucy Hall Matthew Herek Gail Hoffman Amanda Hope Erica Jaffe Maureen Johannigman Kelli Johnson Dana Katz Sheena Kemp Molly Kobelt Jeff Koh Nate Kush Katie Lanigan Travis Leiser Marc Levy Gary Light Oren Lund

Franci s Sadac‡ Immediate Past President and Directors Circle Liaison Isaac Colu nga Vice President of Partnerships Jasm i n e G uy Vice President of Member Experience Kat Rothste i n Vice President of Communication and Outreach J e nn i fe r Stuart Vice President of Development F o u nd i n g O f f i ce r s Mar i sa B ryce Nora Daley*‡ E x ec u t i v e C o m m i t t ee Van e ssa Ab ron Jon B lanc Steve n Colle ns ‡ B ryce Coope r Ai m e e G raham Steve S h e r man Ryan Staffor d J e ff Tsai

Julia Luscombe Josh Mallamud Jen Mallamud James Miles-Polka Carolyn Montford Kristina Morris Brittany Mosley Tyler Murphy Catherine Napier Christina Napolez Kate Nardin Stacy Newman Akin Owolabi Brad Perkins Leann Perlman Sara Potts Ryan Powers David Pruitt Rissa Reddan Joseph Richiusa David Rigler Michelle Schlack Bengi Selcukoglu Joe Senese Laura Sexauer Ryan Shafer Steve Sherman Chandra Simmons Pier Smith Lydia Snowden Henry So Jamie Sodikoff Michael Stashwick Lisa Stevak Kerry Straub Jennifer Strople Michael Tutino Shana Vitek Kerstin Walker Bill Walsh

In Honor of Doug Brown & Rachel Kraft Judith and Jerry Kaufman

In Honor of Ronald and Paula Mallicoat Richard and Elaine Tinberg

In Honor of Michael Cahan Walter Nathan

In Honor of Molly McGaan Betsy and David Brint

In Honor of Nora Daley Shawn M. Donnelley, Robin and Mark Tebbe

In Honor of Jan Melk Richard and Katie Gottfred

In Memory of Jerry Horton Katie and Nehl Horton In Memory of Abby S. MagdovitzWasserman Dr. David Wasserman In Memory of William H. Minneman Margaret Minneman

In Honor of Frank Galati Susan Lane

In Honor of Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Anita and Jamie Orlikoff

In Honor of Martha Lavey Rhona and Julian Frazin

In Honor of John and Carol Walter Roger and Pam Weston

In Memory of James D. Suchy Richard J. Kos

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

In Honor of Ralph Senst and Karen Zelden Linda A. Ellis

In Memory of Kari Timm Jill O’Donovan

In Honor of Steve Loucks and Doug Lyon Wayne Box and Max Goonan, David Germaine and Rob LoPrete, Esther Gross, The Testa family

In Memory of Dr. Morton Arnsdorf Rosemary Crowley In Memory of John J. Bransfield, Jr. Myriam L. Bransfield

In Memory of Jack B Stanford Dr. Lisa D. Stanford

In Memory of Nancy Wald Albert Wald In Memory of Esther Zadeik Mr. Peter A. Zadeik

Ind i v i d u al C o n t r i b u t o r s In - K i nd C o n t r i b u t o r s Steppenwolf salutes the following individuals and organizations who donated significant goods and/or services. Joan Allen Apex3 Security ARK Restaurant Group Balena Chef Rick Bayless Leonard Becker, Attorney at Law David Binder Kevin Boehm The BOKA Group Catering Chocolate The Chicago Cubs City Winery ClientFirst Consulting Group Crain Communications Inc. CS Magazine Danny Macaroons David Burke’s Primehouse Michael Davis, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. Deca Restaurant and Bar Diageo DJ Madrid

Edge Audio Services EntertheChef.com Event Creative Fred’s at Barneys New York Frontera Grill Frost Lighting Tony Goldwyn Goose Island Beer Company Joan Hackett Halls Rental Service Halsted Vodka John Hart, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. HMS Media Hotel Lincoln Chef Stephanie Izard Jellyfish JW Marriott, Chicago Neringa Kardelyte Rob Katz Chef Michael Kornick Donna La Pietra Martha Lavey

Tracy Letts Limelight Food Illuminated The Lincoln Center Lowitz & Sons Linda Lowy Magnolia Photo Booth Co. Mark Campbell Creative James Vincent Meredith Laurie Metcalf Microsoft Corporation Sandro Miller MK Restaurant Bruce Norris Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. Partytime-HDD Productions, Inc. Peak6 Investments Jeff Perry William Petersen POP The Public Hotel Rondi Reed Jeffrey Richards Associates Riviera

Schiff Hardin LLP Anna D. Shapiro Shure Incorporated Gary Sinise Sono Wood-Fired Spin Spun Structured Development Summer House Santa Monica Sun-Times Taco Joint Tasty Catering Theatre Development Fund Tipsycake Steve Traxler David Turner Photography United Airlines Venue One Viaggio Vinci V.I.P. Valet Services, Inc. The Weinstein Company Whole Foods Sarah and Kerry Wood Bellamy Young

Please note that gifts listed above reflect contributions made as of January 30, 2014. 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 312-654-5617.

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* Steppenwolf Trustee

‡ Directors Circle Member

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Accessibility at Steppenwolf

“Our 2014/15 season is a treasure trove of great plays and exciting artists both familiar and new.”

Announcing the

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

season

• Audio-described performances, artistic conversations and touch tours of the stage for guests who are blind or visually-impaired. • Guides dedicated to assisting patrons during audio-described performances. • Complimentary playbills in Braille, large-print and audio formats. • Sign language-interpreted and open-captioned performances for guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. • Volunteers who use sign language to greet the audience at sign-interpreted performances. • Assistive listening devices in our Downstairs and Upstairs theaters. • Wheelchair accessible seats and restrooms in all of our theaters. Would you like to utilize or learn more about these services? Audience Services 312-335-1650 TTY 312-335-3830 E-mail access@steppenwolf.org

The Night Alive By Conor McPh e r son Directed by Hen ry Wishcam pe r

Driving to the theater? Rather than arriving to discover that our garage has reached capacity (which can happen during busy performances), please enter the Steppenwolf Parking Hotline (312-335-1774) into your cell phone and call us when you’re a few minutes away from the theater—we’ll tell you if there’s still space available in our facility, or suggest the most convenient alternative. Spending your intermission in line at the bar? Enjoy the entire break by ordering and paying for your intermission refreshments before the show. When you exit the theater at the end of the first act, your drinks will be waiting for you. Need restaurant information or the score of the ballgame? Please visit our book shop and information desk at the south end of the main floor lobby. Hailing a cab after the play? This is typically an easy affair—Halsted is a busy street and sees a fair amount of taxi traffic. If you’d like assistance hailing a cab or calling a company, though, just ask a member of the house staff; we’re happy to help.

Lost or Found? On-site? Please check in with a member of the house staff. Already left? Call the Front of House office at 312-932-2445. Want to provide feedback? Your input is always valuable to us. 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 join the conversation at facebook.com/steppenwolftheater. Have a comment about your overall experience at the theater ? Please ask us for a customer service form to fill out, or e-mail us at customerservice@steppenwolf.org. Need to contact a patron during a performance? If you need to contact a patron during a performance in our Downstairs or Upstairs Theaters, please call our Concierge Desk at 312-932-2476. Hours: one hour prior to curtain until 15 minutes after curtain call.

September 18 – November 16, 2014

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Henry Wishcamper

Ch icag o Pr e m i e r e

Ian Barford

Tim Hopper

“D’Amour is…a great playwright, a timely playwright.” – Chicago Tribune

By Lisa D’amou r Directed by Joe Mantello

December 4, 2014 – February 8, 2015 Wor ld Pr e m i e r e

Lisa D’Amour

Marie Antoinette

By Davi d Adj m i Directed by Robe rt O’Hara

Joe Mantello

“An unconventional, bitingly comic play… a jagged yet elegant historical riff.” – Time Out New York

Featuring ensemble members Alana Arenas, Tim Hopper, Ora Jones and Alan Wilder

February 5 – May 10, 2015 Ch icag o Pr e m i e r e

Alana Arenas

The Herd

By Rory Ki nnear Directed by ensemble member K. Todd Fr ee man

Ora Jones

Alan Wilder

“K. Todd Freeman, a superb actor, has clearly mastered the director’s trade, too.” – Chicago Sun-Times

Featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan and John Mahoney

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager. The theater reserves the right to limit admission of children younger than 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. Photo/Video Disclaimer: During your visit, you or members of your family may be filmed, videotaped, and/ or photographed by a Steppenwolf employee, contract photographer or the media. Your attendance at Steppenwolf events serves as permission for the use of your image, or the image of your family members, by Steppenwolf.

“Extraordinary! The play can only be called transcendent. A heaven-sent vision.” – The New York Times

Featuring ensemble members Ian Barford, Francis Guinan and Tim Hopper

Airline Highway Steppenwolf Customer Service Tips

– Martha Lavey, Artistic Director

Content Disclaimer: Steppenwolf offers an advisory about any stage effect of potential concern to patrons’ health. We will post this information as soon as it’s available. We don’t offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have any concerns about content, please contact audience services.

April 2 – June 7, 2015 US Pr e m i e r e

K. Todd Freeman

Francis Guinan

The fifth show of our 2014/15 season

John Mahoney

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