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K STEEP THEATRE ENSEMBLE MEMBERS James Allen Peter Dully Caroline Neff Julia Siple Jonathan Berry Jonathan Edwards Jim Poole Sasha Smith Lucy Carapetyan Nate Faust Egan Reich Kendra Thulin George Cederquist Alex Gillmor Joel Reitsma Robin Witt Matthew Chapman Nick Horst Melissa Riemer Brendan Melanson Brad DeFabo Akin Lauren Lassus Brandon Rivera in memoriam Maria DeFabo Akin Ashleigh LaThrop Michael Salinas Thomas Dixon Cynthia Marker Amber Sallis Patricia Donegan Peter Moore Joanie Schultz

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Catherine Allen Jon Ravenscroft Brandon Wardell Kristin Leahey Alison Siple Assoc. Playwright Chelsea M. Warren Emily McConnell Dan Stratton Ellen Willett

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Doug Passmore Anne Marie Mitchell David Bock Kelly Fitzgerald President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Dave Bartusek Sonya Dekhtyar Ted Lowitz Anne Puotinen Kelly Carpenter Ian Galleher Cooper Melgreen Jessica Schrey Louis Chieng Stu Kiesow Elizabeth Moore

EMERITUS BOARD FRIENDS OF STEEP Neil Jain Jon Putnam Heidi Brock Diane Galleher Molly Johnson John White Reid & Jennifer Barry Grant Katie Kett Sara Levy Quinn Broda Amanda Passmore Jen Moore John Dunnigan Christine Rousseau STAFF Peter Moore Lisa Troi Thomas Lee Miller Ryan Kling Artistic Director Program & Box Photographer Bar Manager Kate Piatt-Eckert Office Manager Gregg Gilman Brad DeFabo Akin Executive Director Egan Reich Photographer Bartender Julia Siple Literary Manager Kelsey McGrath THE BOXCAR Managing Director Stu Kiesow Bartender Thomas Dixon Graphic Designer Abbas Salem Artistic Curator Bartender SUPPORT

Jordan & Jean Nerenberg Family Fund Rothman Family Foundation

Steep is a member of the League of Theatres and Theatre Communications Group. 1115 West Berwyn, Chicago, IL 60640 www.steeptheatre.com · [email protected] · (773) 649-3186 Steep Theatre Company proudly presents the World Premiere of The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys by Isaac Gomez

CAST (in order of appearance) Son ...... Brandon Rivera^ Boy ...... Alec Coles Perez Dad ...... Victor Maraña Older Brother ...... Arash Fakhrabadi Uncle ...... Eduardo Curley-Carrillo Other Uncle ...... Sebastian Arboleda* Little Brother, Strange Man, Bartender ...... Juan Muñoz Other Other Uncle ...... Dennis Garcia

UNDERSTUDIES Son ...... Magdiel Carmona Boy ...... Brandon Rodriguez Dad ...... Michael Gomez Older Brother ...... Adriel Irizarry Uncle ...... Charlie Diaz Other Uncle ...... Alex Morales Little Brother, Strange Man, Bartender ...... Nick Mayes Other Other Uncle ...... Armando Reyes

PRODUCTION STAFF Director...... Laura Alcalá Baker Stage Manager ...... Jon Ravenscroft^^ Scenic Designer...... Arnel Sancianco† Costume Designer...... Uriel Gómez Lighting Designer...... Alexander Ridgers Sound Designer...... Thomas Dixon^ Props Designer...... Emma Cullimore Intimacy & Violence Director...... Micah Figueroa Choreographer...... Breon Arzell Dramaturg...... Lucas Garcia Casting Director...... Lucy Carapetyan^ Assistant Director ...... Ismael Lara, Jr. Assistant Stage Manager...... Isaac Jay Pineda Assistant Scenic Designer ...... Jessie Baldinger Assistant Lighting Designer...... Conchita Avitia Associate Sound Designer...... Agata Pacia Production Manager...... Catherine Allen^^ Technical Director...... Evan Sposato Master Electrician...... Lena Aubrey Scenic Painter...... Alyssa Mohn ^Steep Theatre Ensemble Member ^^Steep Theatre Artistic Associate †Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys was commissioned by Steep Theatre. The video and audio recording of this show is strictly prohibited. You may take photos of the stage before or after the show, but not when actors are present. If you post these photos online or elsewhere, please credit the production’s designers listed above. Production Sponsors: Season 19 Sponsor: The Bayless Family Foundation Susan Burland & George Plumb, Production Support: The Pauls Foundation Ken Burlington, Karen Shankman & Jim Fruehling, Timothy Sherck DIRECTOR’S NOTE

“Hurt people hurt people.” wish I could find where that phrase originated but that seems to be lost to history. I consider that phrase a lot when trying to lead with empathy in life and in art. It helps me remember to seek understanding when my body wants to push it away. The hurt we passed on runs deep. Deeper than person to person, than kin to kin, than blood to bone. It has been inherited through generations and lives far beneath the parched, sandy earth.

Early in the play’s development, Isaac sent me a draft that left me breathless. It felt like a burn radiating off the page. Isaac’s work has always challenged me as a director and a viewer but this was more than challenging. It was a level of self- reflection and vulnerability that I had not encountered from a playwright. It was truth, relentless and unbound.

For us unpracticed writers, it’s an unimaginable vulnerability to take a piece of yourself, however fictionalized, and put it to the page, let alone to ask it to breathe life before an audience. That is a bravery only for playwrights seeking to unearth what the body remembers but words struggle to wash clean.

There’s a moment late in the play where Son asks, “How do I learn to love the very thing I hate the most?” This lies at the core of Son’s journey as each of the people in this play suffer their own crisis of machismo. What does is mean to fulfill the mandate of manhood? As with all inherited trauma, Son must bear this burden too.

Women are notably absent in this play. One feels that acutely because in their absence we see a fragile fraternity that cannot help but be at war with itself. We see how colonial wounds manifest into binary gender roles with impossible standards. We see men’s relationship to other men built to topple at the slightest breath of intimacy. We feel how close a hug is to a choke when love and hate share a home.

Isaac has written a play that cuts so close to the vein it nearly knicks it. It’s wildly unapologetic, deeply personal, and puts words to an unspeakable ache. It is a cry out to the heavens, a neon light in the dark of night, a cleaved open gate in a border wall, and the smell of sweets from tú abuela’s kitchen long after she’s passed. It is a relief. It is a relief to name the hurt because only by naming it can you move through it like water.

This production is relentless. It has asked every single artist and collaborator who has touched it to dig deeper, work harder, and be bolder than we ever could have imagined. You, our brave audience, will have to do the same to receive it.

If you don’t know that yet, you will soon enough.

-Laura Alcalá Baker DRAMATURG’S NOTE

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 (RSV)

It is no accident that the characters in this play both fear, and yearn deeply for, the language with which to articulate the violence they enact and that is enacted upon them, and thereby control it.

It is no accident that the expression of these characters’ love for each other is often formulated through violence and unspoken or internalized expectations.

The arrival of European invaders to a world that they mistook as new was the beginning of a calculated and strategic campaign of extraction, destruction and genocide that is ongoing until this day. This campaign has attempted, and sometimes succeeded, in severing the links in the chains of indigenous oral histories and traditional knowledge systems that stretch back into time immemorial.

But the body remembers.

The memory of the body is subtle, vibrating in the folds and layers of genes, in the sequences inherited from our parents, and from every mother before our own since the dawn of humanity’s short time on the earth. Subtle though it may be, the body’s memory is present even at a molecular level. In that way, it is persistent, resilient, and inescapable.

It is the nature of this white supremacist cis-heteropatriarchal capitalist colonial enterprise to discourage, if not punish, our attunement to the body’s language. To separate us from our inherited memories. To put in their place a narrative of exceptionalism, salvation, and righteous devouring. To create an unsolvable puzzle, an impossible task, an impassable border, as test of our worthiness.

Though the borders that these characters exist in and navigate are artificial ones, including the physical border, they are part of a story that is told to justify great and terrible injustice, as license for violence, and as armor for a deceitful empire. In ways big and small, the twin cities of El Paso and Juárez, and their people, defy that story every day.

-Lucas Garcia Taste of New Orleans Edgewater Chicago

5352 N Broadway Chicago, pearlschicago.com CAST Brandon Rivera (Son) Brandon Eduardo Curley-Carrillo (Uncle) is grateful to be working with Eduardo is a Mexican American this group of artists. As an actor, a South Side native, and ensemble member, Steep a Steep debutant. Most recent credits include Pomona, Zürich, work has been at Writer’s and Brilliant Adventures. He Theatre (A Doll’s House) and spent the fall in North Carolina working on No The Goodman (Lottery Day). Other theatre Child with Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Select escapades inlcude: The Hypocrites (Wit, G&S Chicago credits include Pinocchio (The House Rep), (Bilal Dardai’s The Man Theatre of Chicago), Round Heads and Pointed Who Was Thursday), Children’s Theater of Heads (Red Tape Theatre), Akeelah and the Bee Madison (The Miraculous Journey of Edward (Adventure Stage Chicago), and Into the Beautiful Tulane), American Players Theatre (A Midsummer North (16th Street Theater). Brandon graduated Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, Three from the University of Illinois - Urbana, Champaign Sisters), and Remy Bumppo (The Life of Galileo, and is represented by Gray Talent Group. Pirandello’s Henry IV). Radio plays include Brava and City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Alec Coles Perez (Boy) Alec is (MakeBelieve Association and WBEZ). incredibly grateful to be working with the Steep Theatre is his Sebastian Arboleda (Other theatrical debut in Chicago. Uncle) Sebastian is excited and Previous regional credits honored to be working at Steep include Tecumseh! (Tecumseh Theatre for the first time. Outdoor Drama) and The River Bride (Arizona Recent credits include The Theatre Company). He is represented by the Adventures of Augie March wonder team at DDO Chicago. Endless thanks to (), December (Goodman Theater - the Steep, family and friends. Playwrights Unit), Curve of Departure (Studio Theatre), Love’s Labour Lost (Oregon Victor Maraña (Dad) Victor is Shakespeare Festival’s PlayOn!). Upcoming, extremely excited to be making Sebastian will return as Director of Romeo and his Steep debut. He trained as Juliet for Teatro Vista’s Community Outreach an actor at the Royal Academy program. TV: Chicago P.D. Sebastian received his of Dramatic Art in London. With MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is proudly more than 15 years of acting represented by Stewart Talent. experience, he has worked in several productions at the National Theatre in Mexico City and The Juan Muñoz (Little Brother) , Teatro Vista, Shattered Globe, Juan is a Chicago-based writer, The RBP, Something Marvelous, among others. As actor, and producer. Most an On Camera and Voice Over actor he has recently, he was in Santa worked for , Paw Patrol, Pace, IL Lottery, Monica at the American Film Sloan, Van der Hagen, and more. Market where he was invited to pitch Discoteca, his debut feature screenplay. Arash Fakhrabadi (Older Recent credits include the Pop Up Series Brother) Arash is incredibly performance of Dolores Diaz’s Los Tequileros, excited and humbled to be a and his traveling, ALTA nominated musical solo part of The Leopard Play, or sad show I’m Not Sad! To keep up with Juan’s songs for lost boys. Arash projects, his pet fish Pudge, and upcoming graduated with a BFA in Acting performances follow him on Instagram and from Cal State Fullerton. As the son of two Twitter @juanwithwords immigrants, Arash can’t imagine something more rewarding than giving a voice to the voiceless. Dennis Garcia (Other Other He’d like to thank his close friends and family, Uncle) Dennis is thrilled to be everyone at Paonessa Talent agency, as well as making his Steep debut! His Steep Theatre. recent credits include: Cold Town/Hotline (Raven Theatre) Richard, Dick, Jane And Sally The World Premiere THE TASTERS by Meghan Brown Directed by Devon de Mayo

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This sharp, energetic new play explores the Photo: Nathanael Filbert nuances of political resistance, self-interest, Celebrate Rivendell’s and individual action creating hope in the 25th Anniversary! face of hopelessness. RivendellTheatre.org | 773.334.7728 CAST, continued (2018 LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work) How To has appeared in Blue Skies Process and Use A Knife (Shattered Globe Theatre) Merchant Postnation at the Goodman Theatre, and on On Venice (Rasaka Theatre Company) FADE u/s Chicago Med and Chicago Justice on NBC. He has (Teatro Vista), Water And Power (Urban Theater written and performed two solo shows, Hi, Mijo, Company), Bittersweet Ambrosia (Meter Feeders It’s Your Mom and Pardon Me, and was a 2016 Productions), My Mañana Comes (Teatro Vista), U NBCUniversal Bob Curry Fellow at the Second Don’t Know Me (CASA 0101), Always And Forever City. He was recently featured in the 2019 (Watts Village Theatre Company), Proof (Circus NBC-Second City Break Out Comedy Festival. Theatricals), and A Christmas Carol (South Coast Gomez is represented by Grossman & Jack Repertory). Film & Television credits: Chicago PD. Talent. Chicago Med, Chicago Justice (NBC); NFL Total Access (NFL Network); Soul Sessions (nGage Adriel Irizarry (U/S Older Productions); Barrio Boy (Cautious Films). Brother) After spending the last 6 years in New York, Adriel, is Magdiel Carmona (U/S Son) back home where the heart is. Magdiel is beyond thrilled to be Raised in Romeoville, Adriel working with Steep Theatre for won’t let you forget he was born the first time. Past Chicago in Humbolt Park! Wepa!! Last seen as Leach in credits include; Stupid F**cking Urban Theater Company’s Back in the Day, he Bird (Boheme Ensemble), Buyer has found great success since his return and and Cellar (Pride Plays and Film), Spark (20% being apart of his first Steep Theatre show has Theatre), a supernumerary appearance in Enemy been nothing less of a dream come true. He is of the People (Goodman Theatre), and a recurring repped by Bret Adams Ltd agency in New York role in the web series Apartment 101 City and is excitedly awaiting for the release of the (Professional From Here Up Productions). He feature film,VITA , currently in post-production. would like to thank the production team, Steep Gracias to this incredible cast, to Laura and Theatre, and Isaac for tackling such a dynamic Ismael for this creation, and Isaac for the and important piece of theatre as well as Chicago vulnerability this script bleeds. Brave and audiences for venturing with an open mind into fantastic work everyone! these unspoken, underrepresented worlds that gracefully bleed integrity and humility. Charlie Diaz (U/S Uncle) Charlie is happy to make his Brandon Rodriguez (U/S Boy) Steep debut understudying Brandon is thrilled to be such an impactful piece of art working with the incredible with this wonderful team he’s team at Steep Theatre for the gotten to know and work with. first time. He was most recently Charlie has received his BFA in Acting and seen in Scary Stories: Are You Theatre Performance from the University of Afraid? (Random Acts Chicago); Strange Heart Illinois at Chicago and is proudly represented by Beating (Cloudgate Theatre); and Plainclothes his beautiful team at Paonessa. Nevertheless, (Broken Nose Theatre). He is a proud graduate of he’s enjoying the journey of life and making his the University of Illinois at Chicago (Bachelors in wildest dreams come true. Acting) and the ACADEMY at Black Box Acting. He is also an artistic associate with Random Acts Alex Morales (U/S Other Uncle) Chicago and is represented by BMG Talent. You Alex is a Chicago-based actor, can catch him practicing his guitar, reading at his improviser, and teaching artist favorite coffee shop, or staring at the clouds. originally from North Carolina. Having just finished with the Michael Gomez (U/S Dad) School at Steppenwolf, he is Michael is a writer/actor/ beyond excited to work with Steep Theatre on this comedian from Miami, FL. He project! Stage credits include Damien in Porch has trained at Play at Theater Momentum and Anton in Anne Conservatory, iO Chicago, and Frank: Voices in the Attic with Greatworks. Annoyance theaters. Gomez Understudy credits include George in Our Town CAST, continued and Napoleon in Animal Farm at Milwaukee Rep. production for all their hard work. He is proudly Screen credits include Bottled Up (Webseries) represented by Paonessa Talent. and G(r)eek. Armando Reyes (U/S Other Nick Mayes (U/S Little Brother) Other Uncle) Armando is a Nick is excited to be working Chicago-based stage, film and with Steep Theatre for the first voice actor who has performed time. Recent Chicago credits with Repertorio Latino Theater include Hope: Part II of a Company, Interrobang Theatre Mexican Trilogy (Teatro Vista), Project, , Pride Film and Plays, Oil The Giver (Improv Playhouse), and Romeo and Lamp Theater, The Agency Theater Collective, Juliet (Shakespeare All-Stars). Other credits are Urban Theatre Company, Teatro Vista, and many Much Ado About Nothing, Scenes From An others. Film and television credits include Execution, and The Liar (Oklahoma Chicago PD, Chicago Med, The Killing of Kenneth Shakespeare), and Peter and the Starcatcher Chamberlain, Nowhere Mind, The Origins of Wit (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre). Nick would and Humor and When Icarus Fell. Armando is like to thank everyone involved with the represented by Gray Talent Group. SPECIAL THANKS Jason Akemann Elaine Glusac Gabe Morrison The School at Daniel Barat Jerry Goodman Alderman Harry Steppenwolf Charlotte Berry Jane Hollinger Osterman Alderman Mary Ann Mary Brennan Kosmo Music Amanda Passmore Smith Ally Brisbin Deirdre Kinahan John Paulun Patrick Shanahan Kurt Kolar David Raino-Ogden Craig Steadman Amber Calderon Eileen LaCario David Reed Darian Tene Deb Clapp Dan Luna Jeff Riemer Ben Thiem Columbia College Leo Mendoza Beth Rohlmeier Bart Vivian Chicago Liz McGarry Meaghan Schneider Jack Wallace Kimberly Corrigan Elisa Miller Gary Segal Ernst Walter Diane & Ian Galleher Lee Miller Adrienne Smith LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We recognize that Steep Theatre sits on Native land. This area is the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa. American Indians continue to call this area home, and now Chicago is home to the sixth largest Urban American Indian community that still practices their heritage, traditions, and care for the land and waterways. Although for over 200 years Native Nations have been forcibly removed from this territory, we must acknowledge that this land continues to be a site of gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Tribal Nations and remains home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois. You can support them by supporting Native- led organizations working in a variety of ways to preserve their sovereignty and culture, cultivate community, and enable erased and displaced peoples to flourish. Check out the work of organizations like The American Indian Center, The Chi-Nations Youth Council, and the International Indigenous Youth Council. Support native art and artists, organizers, activists, and people in your home and work communities in concrete ways, and move with awareness, compassion, and bravery. No matter where you are coming from or how you got here, we invite you to move respectfully with us on this land and in this space. We are grateful to to Fawn E. Pochel at the American Indian Center - Chicago and dramaturg Lucas Garcia for their guidance in offering this acknowledgement. PRODUCTION STAFF

Isaac Gomez (Playwright) Isaac Gomez is an has continually sought out creative means for award-winning Chicago-based playwright originally accessibility in the theatre through directing from El Paso, Texas / Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His programs such as Chicago Cultural Accessibility play La Ruta received its world premiere at Consortium’s Access Live, which provides theatre Steppenwolf Theater Company this past Winter. leaders a live example of growing practices His one-woman show the way she spoke integrated with accessibility in mind. Laura is a premiered Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane proud member of the Alliance of Latinx Theatre Theatre (produced by Audible) in Summer 2019. Artists and was nominated for ‘Best Casting He is currently under commission from South Director’ at the 2018 ALTA Awards. Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and Steep Jon Ravenscroft (Stage Manager) Jon (JR) is an Theatre. His plays have been supported by Artistic Associate at Steep, and is happy to have Steppenwolf, , Oregon Shake- made his artistic home here. The Leopard Play is speare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Albany Park Jon’s eighth adventure with Steep; previous Steep Theater Project, WaterTower Theater, Haven shows include Red Rex, Birdland, Earthquakes in Theater, Greenhouse Theater Center, Pivot Arts, London, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, and many others. He is the recipient of the 2018 Moment, Pornography and Harper Regan. Jon’s Dramatists Guild Award, the 2017 other theatrical outings include Griffin Theatre Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary (Violet, London Wall, Pocatello, Balm in Gilead, Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” Golden Boy, Flare Path, The Burnt Part Boys, grantee, a Resident Playwright at Chicago Spring Awakening, Port and Company) and work Dramatists, an Artistic Associate with Victory with Haven (The Wedding Singer), Caffeine (Many Gardens Theater, Ensemble Member with Teatro Loves, The Oxford Roof Climbers’ Rebellion), Vista, Artistic Associate with Pivot Arts, and an Theater Seven (Boys and Girls, The Sand Castle, advisory committee member of the Latinx Theatre Cooperstown) and Strawdog (St. Crispin’s Day), Commons (LTC). He is a Professional Lecturer at among others. The Theatre School at DePaul University, and is represented by The Gersh Agency and Circle of Arnel Sancianco (Scenic Designer) Arnel is a Confusion. Chicago-based award-winning set designer. He studied drama with honors in design at UC Irvine, Laura Alcalá Baker (Director) Laura Alcalá Baker and received his MFA in scenic design from is a Chicago-based director and casting director. Northwestern University. He has designed all She served as the Casting Director and Artistic around the United States. Credits include The Programs Manager at Nerd, The All Night Strut (Milwaukee Rep); The from 2016-2019, leading programs such as The Lifespan of a Fact (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Access Project and Directors’ Inclusion Initiative. A Doll’s House (Writer’s Theatre); The Color Purple While at working at B Street Theatre, CA, as an (Drury Lane Theatre); Twelfth Night (American Artistic Associate, she directed Equivocation, The Players Theatre) Put Your House in Order (La Jolla Giver, 11:11, Collapse and assistant directed May Playhouse); Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Adrales on Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them. Landladies, Into the Breeches (Northlight Shifting her focus to new play development, Laura Theatre); Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Raven); directed the world premiere of Isaac Gomez’s the Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt, Empower (Lyric way she spoke: A Docu-mythologia (DCASE, Unlimited); Something Clean (Sideshow); The Greenhouse Theater Center). Other select Chicago Cake (Rivendell); Master Class, Boy (Timeline); pieces include: There is No Message in the The Mousetrap, Photograph 51, The Belle of Message, Shamed (The Gift Theatre’s TEN); Amherst (Court); We Are Proud to Present, The Project Potential (Broken Nose Theatre’s Bechdel Crucible (Steppenwolf); The Wiz, Little Fish Fest); Jets, Sharks, and Beckys (Collaboraction’s (Kokandy); Wolf Play, Hangman, Pilgrims (The Peacebook Festival) and assistant directing Seth Gift); Hookman, Earthquakes in London, First Bockley on the world premiere of Samsara by Love is the Revolution (Steep); Peerless (First Lauren Yee (Victory Gardens Theater). Most Floor); The Total Bent, The Displaced, How We Got recently, she directed the audio drama BRAVA by On (Haven); You on The Moors Now (The Nancy Garcia Loza (Make-Believe Association) Hypocrites); and Xanadu (American Theatre Co.) which is available on all podcast platforms. Laura PRODUCTION STAFF, continued Uriel Gómez (Costume Designer) Design credits design credits include working with Marcus Doshi include the Chicago premieres of Head Over Design LLC, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Heels (Kokandy Productions); The Madres, The Theatre and The National Theatre, London. Wolf At The End Of The Block, Parachute Men Alexander has an MFA from Northwestern (Teatro Vista); Small World, Punk! (The New University and teaches lighting design at Colony); De Troya, The River Bride (Halcyon University of Illinois at Chicago. Theatre); Mike Pence Sex Dream, Refrigerator, www.alexanderridgers.com Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (First Floor Theatre); and many more. He would like to thank his Thomas Dixon (Sound Designer) Thomas is a friends and family for all their support. For more company member at Steep Theatre, where he has information & designs please visit ugomez.com. designed Pomona, Linda, Lela & Co., Wastwater, Brilliant Adventures, and many more. His work Alexander Ridgers (Lighting Designer) Alexander has been heard elsewhere around Chicago and is very excited to be designing The Leopard Play the country at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and making his Steep Theatre debut. Other Victory Gardens Theater, , notable design credits include working with Jackalope Theatre Company, First Floor Theater, American Blues Theatre, The House Theatre of Cleveland Play House, Kansas City Repertory Chicago; Chicago Children’s Theatre; Griffin Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Dance Exchange, Theatre Company; Writers Theatre; Milwaukee and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is a Chamber Theatre; Kokandy Productions; Next Act member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Theatre; Denver Center Theatre Company; Composers Association, and he teaches at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Lucky Plush Produc- Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University. tions; Hedwig Dances; Flint Repertory Theatre; Thomas also serves as artistic curator of The UIC School of Theatre & Music. Assistant lighting Boxcar, Steep’s intimate next-door space,

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Emma Cullimore (Props Designer) Emma designs Breon Arzell (Choreographer) Breon’s breakout, costumes and properties for The Plagiarists and and award-winning, premiere as a Chicago costumes for Chicago Tap Theatre, while also choreographer came with Oracle Productions’ The freelancing with other Chicago storefront Hairy Ape. Developing his own style of dance and companies. Outside of Chicago, her designs have storytelling,* non-musical movement credits been seen at the Alabama Repertory Dance include: First Deep Breath, Rightlynd, & House Theatre, the Okoboji Summer Theatre, and That Will Not Stand (Victory Gardens), The internationally in Havana, Cuba. Emma holds an Brothers Size & We Are Proud... (Steppenwolf MFA from the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa, Theater Co.), Back in the Day (UrbanTheater Co.), and a BFA from Stephens College. Voyeurs de Venus (Northwestern U.), Insurrection (Stage Left), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea & Mike Micah Figueroa (Violence & Intimacy Director) Pence Sex Dream (First Floor Theater), Wig Out Micah is a Chicago-based Actor, Director, (DePaul U.), and more. A Detroit native, his talents Choreographer, and Teaching Artist specializing in have allowed him to work all across the U.S., physical theatre, stage combat and circus arts. He , England, , , , is thrilled to be at Steep for the first time! He is Singapore, & Malaysia. Special thanks to Darian dedicated to the advocacy of performers’ safety Tene. *Hip-Hop, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Contempo- and artistic integrity. His most recent projects rary, West African, & Body Percussion. have been with First Floor, Haven, and UIC www.breonarzell.com Theatres. He would like to thank Steep, Isaac, Laura, and all of the cast for all of their hard work PRODUCTION STAFF, continued

Lucas Garcia (Dramaturg) Lucas is a writer and dramaturg from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their previous dramaturgy includes: Rutherford and Son, Master Class, In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play (TimeLine Theatre), Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars (Goodman), Twelfth Night (Writers), Columbinus (The Yard), and W;t (The Hypocrites).

Ismael Lara, Jr. (Assistant Director) Ismael is a director from Southeast Texas, a Drama League Fellow and an MFA Directing Candidate at Northwestern. He champions work that aids the fight against injustice, creating a bridge between underrepresent- ed communities and the theatrical institution. Selected directing credits: Kicked! (Cleveland Play House), Lily Plants A Garden (Hangar), The Thing I Hold (Hangar), And All the Dead Lie Down (Convergence-Continuum), Aunt Leaf (CPH), and The Mint Play (Cleveland Public Theatre). Assistant credits: Guards at the Taj, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Junk, The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Rep), The Family Claxon (Cleveland Public Theatre, World Premiere).

Isaac Jay Pineda (Assistant Stage Manager) Isaac is a proud Chicano theatre artist hailing from Southern California and a recent Columbia college alumni. Isaac works as a freelance costume designer and stage manager. Some favorite credits include: Waiting for Godot (Victory Gardens), A Man of No Importance (Columbia College Chicago), Four Places (The Den), Mosquitoes (Steep Theatre), Orlando (Columbia College Chicago), Marcus and the Secret Of Sweet (Columbia College Chicago). Check out his work at www.isaacjaypineda.com.

Jessie Baldinger (Assistant Scenic Designer) Scenic Design: Stop Kiss, Arc Theater/Pride Films and Plays; The Women of 4G, ; Brotherhood, PTP at Williamstown Theater Festival; In Search Of, PTP at Williamstown Theater Festival; Hello, Dolly!, , and Little Shop of Horrors, Danceworks, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, A Streetcar Named Desire, PRODUCTION STAFF, continued Northwestern University. Assistant Scenic Design: Agata Pacia (Associate Sound Designer) Emma and Romeo and Juliet, Scott Davis, Originally from Wrocław, , Agata is a senior Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Mousetrap, studying Sound Design at The Theatre School at Arnel Sancianco, The Court Theater; The Lifespan DePaul University. She has designed over 10 of a Fact, Arnel Sancianco, St. Louis Reperatory shows at The Theatre School and was recently Theater; Around the World in 80 Days, Arnel the Associate Sound Designer for Pineapple (Irish Sancianco, Theaterworks Colorado; TRU, Theatre of Chicago). Sound Engineer/Board Op Woongjin Oh, Stage 773; Damsels, Susannah credits include For the Record, (Northwestern), Hyde, PTP at Williamstown Theater Festival. Women of Soul (BET), The Cherubs Program Education: BS, Northwestern University (2018), 9 to 5 (Firebrand), Marie Christine www.jessiebaldingerscenicdesign.com (BoHo), Seussical (BAM Theatre), West Side Story (BAM Theatre), (IHSTF), and Pippin (IHSTF). Conchita Avitia (Assistant Lighting Designer) Agata previously interned with the Broadway Conchita is a freelance Lighting Designer based musical The Cher Show and with The Public in Chicago; she holds her BA in Theatre Design Theatre in . from Columbia College Chicago. Recent design credits are with WildClaw Theatre (Hell Followed Catherine Allen (Production Manager) Catherine With Her), Water People Theatre (The Delicate is always thrilled to be working at Steep where Tears of the Waning Moon), Broken Nose Theatre she is an Artistic Associate. Previous production (Language Rooms) and Infinity Arts Academy (Les management credits at Steep include Pomona, Misérables, A Midsummer Night’s Dream). When First Love is the Revolution, Zϋrich, Birdland, she isn’t designing, she is either serving as an Hinter, The Invisible Hand, Hookman, Bobbie M.E. or ALD throughout the city. Recent Master Clearly, and The Few. Other selected production Electrician credits are with Remy Bumppo management credits include work with Porchlight (Howards End), and The Gift Theatre (WOLF PLAY, Music Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Doubt: A Parable). Recent Assistant Lighting About Face Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, Griffin Designer credits are with Steppenwolf Theatre Theatre, Route 66, Congo Square, Haven (Dance Nation), Court Theatre (For Colored Girls), Theatre, and many circuses with Actors and Mercury Theatre (Little Shop of Horrors). Gymnasium where she is the staff Production Production photos and updates: Manager. She is a graduate of the University of www.avitialighting.com. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she received a BFA in Acting.

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Programming at The Boxcar is supported by an Idea Lab Grant from the Arts Work Fund.

STEEPING AROUND TOWN Steep’s ensemble is busy making theatre around Chicago and across the country.

Lucy Carapetyan is performing am Not Your Perfect Mexican 22 and is touring Chicago at her circus home, The Actors Daughter, based on Erika L. Public Schools and surrounding Gymnasium in Evanston. The Sanchez’s novel and adapted suburbs with Imagination Ghost in Gadsden’s Garden for the stage by Isaac Gomez. Theater for their young runs through March 22. audience shows. Caroline Neff is on stage at George Cederquist is the Steppenwolf in Dance Nation. Joanie Schultz is in Minneapolis Artistic Director of Chicago directing A Doll’s House Part 2 Jon Ravenscroft is the Creative Fringe Opera. He’s the host of at the Jungle Theatre and Director for the Chicago Opera Box Score, America’s staying with/collaborating with Onscreen Local Film Showcase, Talk Radio Show About Opera, Artistic Associate Chelsea via the Chicago Park District, heard every Monday at 9 pm on Warren! screening its seventh year of WNUR 89.3 FM & HD1. locally-made and Chicago- Sasha Smith is doing intimacy Matthew Chapman finally gets focused films in parks this choreography for Graveyard to work with fellow Steep August 24-29. Shift at The Goodman and Ensemble Member, Thomas Legacy Land at Kansas City Joel Reitsma has a principal Dixon, as his Associate Sound Repertory Theatre. She is role in the feature film The Designer for How To Defend teaching a ten-day intensive at World Without You, which will Yourself at Victory Gardens. the Eugene O’Neill Center in be in the JCC Chicago Jewish Connecticut with Intimacy Patricia Donegan will appear in Film festival this winter. Directors International and will Audrey Cefaly’s Alabaster at Brandon Rivera can be heard finish her training to be an 16th Street Theater. wherever podcasts are available Intimacy Coordinator for film Ashleigh LaThrop will appear in in Brava, an audio drama and television in January. Gillian Flynn’s new Amazon produced by Make-Believe Robin Witt is directing Caryl show Utopia. Association. Churchill’s Far Away as well as Pete Moore will be appearing at Amber Sallis will appear in Top a short piece for the Steppenwolf this winter in the Girls at Remy Bumppo from Remembrance Concert at UNC world premiere production of I January 16 through Feburary Charlotte. Feb 28 - Mar 28 Revival of ITP's inaugural production HerE Henry's got a lot he has to tell you, he just can't guarantee that it's all true. HEN In this gripping one-man Directed by Elana Elyce play, Henry offers a provocative take on love, death, beauty, and of course, good old-fashioned lying.

Rivendell Theatre Tickets at 5779 N. Ridge interrobangtheatre.org Steep Theatre is profoundly grateful to the following supporters for their generous contributions. DONORS This list reflects gifts received between January 1 and December 31, 2019. Season Sponsor Steep Benefactors Lawrence DelPilar Steep Contributors The Bayless Family ($1,000 to $4,999) Lisa Donovan & ($250 to $499) Foundation The ADJLM Foundation Bradford Smith Anonymous Bank of America Diane & Ian Galleher Jennifer Beachell Production Sponsors David Bock Gregg Gilman Kay Berkson & Susan Burland & Patricia Cox Elaine Glusac & Sidney Hollander George Plumb Kassie Davis & Dave Bartusek Meg & Matt Breslin Ken Burlington Bruce Beatus Nancy & Bob Goldin Karen A. Callaway Karen Shankman & Kelly Fitzgerald & Susan & Peter Gray JPMorgan Chase Jim Fruehling Chad Newman Steven A. Grossman & Dell Timothy Sherck Sallie Gaines & Rachel Perlman Dan & Katherine The Pauls Foundation Mark Richardson John Hahm Diamond Hospitality Sponsor Deborah Garber & Dorothy Harza Vincent DiFruscio & John Tielsch The Illinois Tool Works Neil Averick Ted Lowitz Denise Hazaga & Foundation Suzanne Elkins Rose Access Ticket Fund Lisa Vandermark Stu Kiesow Michael M. Glusac Sponsors Leigh & John Carolyn & Gordon Kirk Carol & Alan Greene Ann & Rich Carr Hourihane Kerry & Kenny Lassus Joe Hartness & Joseph Zambrano Sara & Adam Levy Susie & Tom MacLean Troy Baresel Steep Producers Shana Lowitz & Lani Mesa Ellis Nancy & John ($5,000 and up) William Swaim, M.D. Anne Marie Hoffmann Anonymous Timothy Lyman Dumas Mitchell & Peter James The Alphawood Cooper Melgreen John Bistolfo Molly Moore Johnson Foundation Jen & Peter Moore Anne & Richard Moore Cynthia Kirk Arts Work Fund for Colleen & John Mueller Elizabeth Moore H. B. Lottero Organizational The Jordan & Jean Kate L. Moore Ricki & Joshua Lowitz Development Nerenberg Family Amanda & Doug Gregory Mancuso & Julie & Roger Baskes Fund Passmore Laurie Breitkopf The Bayless Family New Suit Theatre Pepsico Foundation The Sharon and Scott Foundation James T. O’Neill Becky & David Perry Markman and Dr. Susan Burland & Anne Puotinen Margaret Piatt & Family Fund at the George Plumb The Pauls Foundation Jim White Chicago Community Ken Burlington Melissa & Jeff Riemer Dawn & Larry Roberts Foundation Ann & Rich Carr The Rothman Family Nancy Schaefer & Jim McDermott Holly & David Collins Foundation Chet Kamin Frank Newell The Robert D. Collins Karen Shankman & Karen & Frank Kaye & Bob Passmore Fund James Fruehling Schneider Susan A. Payne The Gaylord & Timothy Sherck Dr. Michael Schnur & Angela & Charles Platt Dorothy Donnelley Sylvia & Joseph Stone Dr. Jack Bulmash Jerry Proffit Foundation Kate Welborn & Jessica & Christoph Dr. Edward O. Riley The MacArthur Fund Ann McGill Schrey Sheila G. Rock for Arts and Culture Anna Wermuth & Hope & Jeff Sheffield Hunter Sanders & at the Richard Alex Gillmor Bill & Cathy Siple Jason Proper H. Driehaus Lisa & Randy White Betsy Solaro & Susan Ringel Segal & Foundation Dr. Jan Willer & Joe Frank Gary Segal The Illinois Arts Council Mark Osing Anne & Scott Springer Elisabeth Rose & Owen Agency Martha Anne & Susie Stephenson Shapiro Ted Lowitz Stephen Yandle Mary E. Strek & Lynne & George Simon Gregory M. Lewis Holly & Tony Storck Margaret & Peter Steep Patrons Barbara & Randy Linda Swift Morris ($500 to $999) Thomas Meg Thalken & The Saints Anonymous Laura & Robert Watson Gary Baugh Marlys Akin Joseph Zambrano Margaret & Joe Tilson Stacy Bosma & Pooja & Peter James Allen Vukosavich Reid & Jennifer Quinn Mark Woodward Broda DONORS, continued Steep Circle Louis Chieng Leonard Goodman Morgan Lavenstein (up to $249) Stephanie Chu Prudy & Jacques Gerald Lee Anonymous Johnny Clark Gourguechon Sandy & John AbbVie Fay Clayton & Deborah Granite Lemming Christina Adachi Lowell Sachnoff Cathie Gray Joyce & Jules Lerner Aurora Adachi-Winter Heather Colburn & Cari & Tom Greene David Levett Martha Adrienne Steve Kane Cindy & Mark Patricia & Darryl Levine Andersonville Chamber Newton Cole Greenwood Diane & Michael Levy of Commerce Frederica & Andrew Susan & Anthony Fran & Chuck Licht Aon Foundation Conroy Grosch Daniel Lunney & Ann Marie & Michelle Courvais Glenn Grzonka Marco Espinoza Joseph Arden Ann & Russ Covode Jeff Hackett Matthew Lunt Sarah-Jayne Stephany Creamer Marilyn Heckmyer & John Maher Ashenhurst Janet Creevy Avery Gerald Landy Nancy Malitz & Peggy Bagley & Rabbi Adam Cullin Simon Hedger Lawrence B. Douglas Goldhamer Ann Cunniff Quinn Hegarty Johnson Larry Baldacci & James K. Cunningham Heidi Henning Michael Maltenfort Ray Cunha Sonya Dekhtyar & Stephanie Hernandez Dr. Norman Masters, Jr Jeff Baldassarra Benny Zheng Donna Higgins Robert Mattaliano Grace Balogun Sally deVincentis Phyllis Hill Deborah McBride Rollie Batten Alyssa Dickman James & Lois Hobart Barbara McCaffrey Jan & Tim Bell Leonora Dickson Eric Hogberg Kristina McCloskey Tiana Benway Lisa Disch Janice A. Holling Gretchen McGinn Deanna Berman Joseph Dombrowski Mary Alice Hope Kelsey McGrath Linda Bierig Scott Drummond Holly E. Humphreys Kate McGregor Dennis Bierlein Alice & Ed Dubose Amy Jacob Donald Mckay Bindy Bitterman Ronald Duda Donna Jaggard Mary & Harris McKee Cathy & Trip Blair, Matthieu Dupas Tamara & Neil Jain Geoffrey Meyer in honor of Kelly Sylvia Dybiec & Stasha Jain Renee Meyer Fitzgerald Mike Bayard Klara Jarolimova Ingrid Michaels Joan & Hank Bliss Kenneth East & Eric Johanson & Nicholas Miliotis Carol Borden & Timothy Thurlow John Potter Barry Minx Joel Shapiro Yazid Ebeid Brandon Jones Lori Montana Susan Bowen & Phil Eckert & Pat Dean Jaclynn Jutting Emily Moore Larry Grimm Keely Ellingson Jared Kaplan Joseph Moore Claire Bowens Jennifer & Craig Kate & Sandeep Corinne Mucha Gregory Boyd Erdmann Kapoor Lenore Murphy Lillian Braden Karen & Ed Evans Paul Kaufmann Susan & Patrick Nash Charles Brookover Edith I. Farrar Pam Kaul & Raymond Nicholas Corinne Brophy Steve & Sharon Fiffer Andy Berman Susan Noel Caroline & Dean Michael Fitzgerald, Charlotte & David Peter Norman Browell in honor of Kelly Kempner Michael O’Connell Lee Brozen Fitzgerald The Kenney Family Marie O’Connor Alison Bruegger Virginia Fitzgerald Chris Khoshaba Lori Offergeld Arch Bryant Dan Flannery Thad King Gay Byrne Olk Janet Burroway Michael Foltz Svitlana Kochman & Hallie Palladino Patricia Butkus Sarah Foresman Francis O’Hern Arline Paul Maggie & Barry Cain Shirley Foster Julie Koerner Alice Perlin & Lenore & Dale Caldwell Jeanne Marie Freed Ryan Kordana Ray Bacon Jorge L. Camacho Kathleen Gaffney Peg & David Kritzler Lauralyn Persson Carol & Stephen Cann William Gasbarra Mary & Christopher Rachel Perzynski Bruce Caris Diane Gault Krueger Jane & John Peterson Jack Cederquist & Thomas Gibson Nada Kuzmanovic Anne Phillips Meg Kennedy Shaw Ethel & Bill Gofen Eli Lampson Kate Piatt-Eckert & Jacqueline Mary & Charlie Gofen Rosalie & David Tony St. Clair Chang-Stroman Jane & Leon Goldfayn Lauerman Pizzeria Aroma DONORS, continued Dan Polsby Ellen Rubert & Ruth Smerling Deborah & Neil Warner Anton Pujol Martin Ley Charles Smith Paul Waterhouse Mario Ragazzone Yuliia Rud Toni Sandor Smith Shontavia Weatherly Ian Randall Juan Ruiz Jackie Snuttjer Lorrayne Weiss Alyssa Ratkovich & Dr. Elaine A Sachnoff Mary Solt Sally & Mark Weiss Devon Nimerfroh Larry Salustro Kevin Sparrow Mary Wermuth, in Nadia & Ed Rausch Oliver Sava Gail & Bob Spiel honor of Alex Gillmor Elizabeth Raymond & Chad Schmerling Ryan Stanfield Catherine Wertjes Paul Hybel Mary Jo Schmitz James Stimac Kyle Whalen Marilyn Reid Jill & Paul Lesley Stone & Michael Wheeler Deirdre Rice Schoenwetter Ed Furman Barbara Whitney Eugene Rinaldi Sarah Schol Joshua Straus Victoria & Sean Wiedel Courtney Rioux David Schousboe Jim Swanson Megan Wildebour Brandon Rivera James Schulman Martin Till Tilly Wilhoite Richard A. Roberts Hugh & Melissa D. Timmen Katherine Willhoite & Mary Sue & Clark Schulze Dylan Toropov Rodd Zolkos Robson Sharon Seeder Martha Trueheart Amy & Jon Wishnick Maggie Rogers Laurie Shaman & William Udovich Robin Witt, in memory Judy & Bernie Ed Hinkley Elizabeth Verzo of Howard Witt Rosenstein Louise Sharrow Lana & Roy Voigt Tom Wojcik Matt Rosin Peggy & Don Shearn Lisa Wainwright & Anne Wrider Brenda Rossini Becca Sheehan Bruce Doblin Roberta Zabel Peggy Rubens Norm Sloan Linda Walker Steve Zoellick

1107 W Berwyn Ave Three doors east Enjoy 15% off of Steep Theatre when you present M-F 6am-7pm S-S 7am-7pm this program at Rewired Cafe. THE On November 2nd we celebrated the beginning of Steep’s 19th season with an evening of festivity and merriment. Thank you to all who helped to make FEARLESSFEARLESS BALLBALL the celebration an amazing success!

Underwriters Sponsors Kate & Sandeep Paramount Theatre Susan Burland & Nancy & Bob Goldin Kapoor Pizzeria Aroma George Plumb Kerry & Kenny Lassus Kerry & Kenny Lassus Kassie Davis & Colleen & John Mueller Elizabeth Moore Revolution Brewing Bruce Beatus Jessica & Christoph Devon Nimerfroh SoPrime Entertainment Leigh & John Schrey Hallie Palladino Southern Glaziers of Hourihane Lisa & Randy White Sondra Pfeffer Illinois Ted Lowitz Susan Ringel Segal & Steppenwolf Theatre Donors Peter & Margaret Gary Segal TimeLine Theatre Larry Baldacci & Morris Lesley Stone & Company Ray Cunha Ed Furman Tito’s Handmade Honorary Host Jeff Baldassarra Linda Swift Vodka Committee Jan & Tim Bell Amy & Jon Wishnick Veuve Clicquot Dave Bock Meg & Matt Breslin vomFass Kelly Fitzgerald Arch Bryant In-Kind Donors Elaine Glusac & Heather Colburn & John Bistolfo Special Thanks Dave Bartusek Steve Kane Chicago Magic Lounge Denise Hazaga & Sonya Dekhtyar & Chicago Shakespeare Lisa Vandermark Benny Zheng Theatre Company Stu Kiesow Yazid Ebeid Colvin House Sara & Adam Levy Jennifer & Craig CorePower Yoga Cooper Melgreen Erdmann Court Theatre Anne Marie Dumas Michael M. Glusac Empirical Brewery Mitchell Mary & Charlie Gofen Fierce Productions Jen & Peter Moore Susan & Anthony Fig Catering James T. O’Neill Grosch Goodman Theatre Amanda & Doug Marilyn Heckmyer & Hubbard Street Dance Passmore Gerald Landy Lookingglass Theatre Anne Puotinen Stasha Jain Martha Anne & Molly Johnson Northlight Theatre Stephen Yandle Jaclynn Jutting Orangetheory Fitness

STEEP’S SEASON 19 MEMBERS This list reflects Season 19 Members as of December 31, 2019

Julie & Roger Baskes Suzanne Elkins Rose Jim McDermott Karen & Frank Andrea Biel-Cohen Kelly Fitzgerald & Lani Mesa Ellis Schneider David Bock Chad Newman Elizabeth Moore Jessica & Chistoph Dr. Susan Burland & Gregg Gilman Margaret & Peter Schrey George Plumb John Hahm Morris Elisabeth Rose & Owen Ken Burlington Denise Hazaga & Colleen & John Mueller Shapiro Karen Callaway Lisa Vandermark James T. O’Neill Hope & Jeff Sheffield Ann & Rich Carr Stu Kiesow Susan A. Payne Timothy Sherck Kassie Davis & Thad King Becky & David Perry Susie Stephenson Bruce Beatus Gregory Lewis & Dr. Edward O Riley Laura & Robert Watson Vincent DiFruscio & Mary Strek Sheila G. Rock Kate Welborn & Neil Averick H. B. Lottero Nancy Schaefer & Ann McGill Lisa Donovan Ted Lowitz Chet Kamin Lisa & Randy White To join this exceptional group or to learn more about becoming a member of Steep Theatre’s 19th season, inquire at the box office, visit steeptheatre.com, or call us at 773-649-3186. IN-HOUSE FULL COLOR DIGITAL OFFSET PRESS!

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For only $100, a Steep Pass gets you: • a reserved seat at each of Steep’s next 4 plays - that’s a 36% savings on a year’s worth of theatre, • discounted tickets for your friends, • a standing invitation to Steep’s famous post-show parties. Plus, the Steep Pass is super flexible - changing your dates is always free and easy. Ask about the Steep Pass at the box office or check it out online at steeptheatre.com/pass. UP NEXT AT STEEP... Ironbound By Directed by Jonathan Berry

April 17 - May 23, 2020

Twenty-two years, three relationships, and one New Jersey bus stop tell the story of Darja’s journey through the American Dream. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s Ironbound navigates the murky waters of love, security, immigration, and mobility with heartbreaking humor.