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Artistic Director
Executive Director
Martha Lavey†*
David Hawkanson
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welcome to Next up 2013 ! Now in its third year, Next Up presents the work of artists graduating from Northwestern University’s MFA programs in directing and design. Next Up is a unique collaboration, bringing together a large group of artists, teachers and staff from Steppenwolf and Northwestern working together to support these plays by our next generation of theater makers. The collaboration also allows Steppenwolf and Northwestern, as partners, to offer these students multiple layers of mentorship as they create three productions for our Garage Theatre. At Steppenwolf we often talk about the importance of “repeated collaborative relationships” and we see that value taking shape in Next Up. All the faculty mentors of these young theater makers are artists who work at Steppenwolf regularly—ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro, Jessica Thebus, Todd Rosenthal, Walt Spangler, Anna Kuzmanic, Kevin O’Donnell, Michael Rohd, to name a few—and it has been rewarding to be in conversation with these teachers as they offer their support and insights. They are dedicated to the excellence of the work of these young artists.
Mentorship also extends from our artistic office, specifically our Literary department. As these artists prepare for their thesis shows in the Garage, the artistic staff of Steppenwolf guides them through a selection process—putting plays in front of them that we think will highlight their individual gifts as directors. This year, that process resulted in three very different plays by writers we love: Fat Pig by Neil LaBute, The Internationalist by Anne Washburn and The Drunken City by Adam Bock. And finally, Next Up allows the students to be mentors to each other, as they discover how to work in the challenges of rotating repertory. All these layers of mentorship build on each other to create Next Up as a professional platform for these emerging artists—supported by Steppenwolf’s veteran production team, and, importantly, cast with professional actors. We hope this platform supports their discovery and risk taking.
May 28 – June 16, 2013 Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Next Up program showcases Chicago’s next generation of artists, in three productions presented in rotating repertory. Next Up is presented in collaboration with Northwestern University’s MFA programs in direction and design, and features the work of current students of those programs with casts of professional Chicago actors.
Fat Pig
The Drunken City
The Internationalist
By Neil LaBute
By Adam Bock
By Anne Washburn
Directed by David Prete
Directed by John Michael DiResta
Directed by Erin Murray
Support for Next Up comes through the “Leading for the Future Initiative,” a program of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Thanks for being here, and supporting these artists! See you in the Garage!
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater.
member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage Managers. †
Rebecca Rugg artistic Producer
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Jacob G. Padrón Associate Producer
photographer joel moorman
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Fat Pig
By Neil LaBute Directed by David Prete Cast (in alphabetical order) Baize Buzan Josh Bywater* Anne Joy JJ Phillips*
Jeannie Tom Helen Carter
Production Staff Chelsey Batson Rebecca Barrett Kevin O’Donnell Kyle Hamman Erica Danielso Kathleen E. Petroziello* Brianna Parry
scenic/Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer projections designer Casting Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Understudies Matthew Glasner
Tom, Carter
Additional Staff Kelly Crook John Holt, Eric Vigo Claudette Perez Carlene Descalo Megan Snowder
Run Crew Chief Run Crew Sound Board Operator Wardrobe Run Crew Master Electrician
Intermission
There will be no intermission
Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
* member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. o member of the Casting Society of America
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cast | playwright | director The CRY HAVOC Company in New York and an alum of The School at Steppenwolf. “Endless thanks to Erica and friends and family near and far.”
Baize Buzan Jeannie
is happy to be performing at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the first time. Recent work includes Rich and Famous (Jackalope Theatre Company); Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater); and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Redtwist Theatre). She has also worked with Theatre Seven of Chicago, Theatre Mir, Adventure Stage Chicago and Oracle Productions. Television credits include Chicago Fire (NBC) and the pilot, Sirens (USA). Baize is a graduate of Vassar College and The School at Steppenwolf. baizebuzan.com.
Anne Joy Helen
is thrilled to be at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Chicago credits include The Hamlet Project (ShakesBEER); Theatre of Women 7 (Dream Theatre); and the upcoming Fallow (Steep Theatre Company). Anne received her undergraduate degree from the University of Evansville and attended The School at Steppenwolf in 2012.
Neil LaBute Playwright
received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab. His films include In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmakers’ Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things (a film adaptation of his play by the same title), The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace and Death at a Funeral. His plays include Bash, Latter-day Plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance from Here, Autobahn (a collection of five one-act plays), Fat Pig, Some Girls, This is How It Goes, In a Dark Dark House and reasons to be pretty, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. He is also the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy, among others. “Seconds of Pleasure,” a collection of his short stories, was published by Grove Atlantic. David Prete Director
JJ Phillips Josh Bywater Tom
is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he was last seen in One Arm (About Face Theatre, Tectonic Theater Project). Chicago credits include The Story (Goodman Theatre); Time and the Conways and Picnic (Griffin Theatre Company). New York credits include Greasemonkey (The Robert Moss Theater); Falling (FringeNYC); and Bea Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Ars Nova). Regional credits include The Aliens and The Crucible. Television credits include As the World Turns and Grey’s Anatomy. He is a resident artist with
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Carter
is thrilled to be making his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut with this wonderful cast. He most recently appeared in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Lookingglass Theatre Company) and in Punk Rock (Griffin Theatre Company, Jeff Award). He will next appear in The North China Lover at Lookingglass Theatre Company this fall. Television and film credits include Chicago Fire (NBC) and the short film Green (Tribeca Film Academy). He studied at The School at Steppenwolf and under Daniel Cantor at Northwestern University. JJ is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
is excited to work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company again where he last assisted ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro on Three Sisters. David worked as a writer, actor and director in New York City for 15 years before attending the MFA Directing program at Northwestern University. Chicago credits include Purple Heart and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (Northwestern University). He graduated from The New Actors Workshop where he studied with Mike Nichols, Paul Sills and George Morrison. He acted Off-Broadway and co-founded the Water Theatre Company in New York City. W.W. Norton published both his novels Say That to My Face (2003) and August and Then Some (2012). davidprete.com.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH
DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK
FAT PIG Director DAviD prete with Director of Northwestern University’s MFA Directing Program and ensemble member anna D. SHaPIro
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CoStUMe DeSIgNer ANNA D. shApiro: WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT STORY TO TELL?
DAviD prete: This is a story about how we damage other people’s hearts by disobeying our own. Obeying our hearts, our deepest beliefs, is no small task; it takes an unusual amount of courage. I think we all search for that level of courage. This play shows that search and the consequences of not finding it. ADs: WHAT THEMES ARE YOU ExPLORING IN YOUR PRODUCTION? Dp: Courage. Sexism. Self-possession. How we mistake normalcy and physical beauty for happiness… ADs: WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE WILL
TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR SHOW?
Dp: As with anything I make, I hope this show inspires people to do something, whether that’s write a poem, ask someone out, support a political candidate… But I also hope they walk away from this particular play wanting to know more about what really guides them, so they may get closer to living out the story their inner life keeps telling them.
“Here we see Helen on a date with Tom, at the very beginning of their relationship. Helen is a fun, confident plus size woman, comfortable with her body in a way that is foreign to most everyone. We wanted to incorporate this confidence into her personal style, and support her outgoing, flirtatious personality with some fun patterns and accessories. She’s not one to blend into the crowd.”
ADs: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR
GREATEST CHALLENGE IN APPROACHING THIS PIECE?
Dp: Conveying what I feel is driving these characters is tough because on the surface it’s easy to dismiss a lot of their behavior as cruel. Yes, cruelty exists in this play, but I think their motives are deeply complicated and often come from vulnerability and inner-struggles, not from a desire to hurt. Expressing that reality is the challenge. ADs: HOW IS THIS PRODUCTION CONNECTED TO YOUR WORK OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS? Dp: In the last three years I’ve become increasingly more interested in what happens when we experience a disconnection between our inner and our outer lives: the disappointment of not being able to grab the life we imagine, and the possible freedom we can find in the life that appears in its place. I think the characters in this play are struggling with at least one of those conditions.
Helen, Scene 1
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SCeNIC DeSIgNer “We wanted a way to evoke the pressure Tom feels throughout the show. The televisions give a nod to location but also represent a constant outside influence on Tom. The monitors only fade to black when he is truly alone with Helen, and happy with his somewhat secret woman.” Scenic Model
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The Drunken City By Adam Bock Directed by John Michael DiResta Cast (in alphabetical order) Audrey Francis* Emjoy Gavino* Andrew Goetten Brian King Darci Nalepa Sean Parris
Melissa Linda Eddie Frank Marnie Bob
Production staff Yu Shibagaki Stephanie Cluggish Rebecca Barrett Kevin O’Donnell Frankie DiCiaccio Erica Danielso Jonathan Nook* Mary Hungerford
Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer sound designer choreographer Casting Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Understudies Darci Nalepa
Melissa, Linda
Additional Staff Ned Baker Kelly Cook John Holt, Eric Vigo Claudette Perez Carlene Descalo
Assistant Director Run Crew Chief Run Crew Sound Board Operator Wardrobe Run Crew
Megan Snowder
Master Electrician
Setting
The city.
Intermission
there will be no intermission.
“Drunken City, The” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The play received its Off-Broadway New York City premiere in 2008 by Playwrights Horizions, Inc, and was commissioned and premiered at Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY, Rachel Lampert, Artistic Director. * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. o member of the Casting Society of America
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cast | playwright | director
Audrey Francis Melissa
is grateful to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she was last seen in Life & Limb (Next Up 2012), Where We’re Born (Next Up 2011) and Want (First Look 2011). Other Chicago credits include Talking Pictures, The Actor (Goodman Theatre); A Girl with Sun in Her Eyes (Pine Box Theater Company); Awake and Sing! (Northlight Theatre); Othello, Another Part of the Forest (Writers’ Theatre); Desire Under the Elms (The Hypocrites); and The Credeaux Canvas (Circle Theatre, Jeff Award nomination). Film credits include Dig Two Graves, Bad Planning, The Promotion, Dustclouds and Chicago Overcoat. Television credits include Chicago Fire, ER and Porkin’ Across America, a new web series created by The Onion. Audrey has directed multiple productions with Pine Box Theater Company, First Floor Theatre, Chicago Dramatists and The University of Chicago. In addition, Audrey teaches the Meisner Technique at The School at Steppenwolf and is the very proud cofounder and owner of Black Box Acting.
Emjoy Gavino Linda
was previously seen at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as an understudy in Kafka on the Shore. Recent Chicago
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credits include Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater); Seascape (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Hair (The Paramount Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Working (The Broadway Playhouse); Wilson Wants it All (The House Theatre of Chicago); Cooperstown (Theatre Seven of Chicago); Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Wait Until Dark (Court Theatre); A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol (The Neo-futurists); That’s Weird, Grandma (Barrel of Monkeys); and 4,000 Miles (Northlight Theatre). Regional credits include The Violet Hour (The Repertory Actors Theatre); Miss Saigon (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and Searching 4 Y (Village Theatre). Film and television credits include Chicago Fire (NBC), Mob Doctor (fox), Boss (starz), and Freudian Slip (Big Toe Films). Emjoy is a 2010 graduate of The School at Steppenwolf.
The Drunken City Instructor and Company Director of Black Box Acting. She is represented by Actors Talent Group. “Gratitude and love to the BB Community, M, P, and B.”
Brian King Frank
is thrilled to be working at Steppenwolf Theatre Company once again. Chicago credits include Fair Use, The North Plan (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); and Low Hanging Fruit (The Second City). Television credits include Prison Break, Leverage, Detroit 1-8-7, The Mob Doctor, Boss and Chicago Fire. Film credits include Stash, Punching and the upcoming Man of Steel. “Endless thanks and love to my family and friends for their unwavering support. For Uncle Frank.”
Sean Parris Bob
Chicago credits include The Whipping Man (Northlight Theatre); Pornography (Steep Theatre Company); Seascape (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and A Girl with Sun in Her Eyes (Pine Box Theater Company). Sean received his MFA from The Theatre School at DePaul Univeristy. He is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. “Sean is super excited, jumping up and down, running around like a starfish because he gets to be part of Next Up. Love to my class, my friends, and especially my beautiful Mom.” Adam Bock Playwright
Andrew Goetten Eddie
is making his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. Chicago credits include Hot ‘N’ Throbbing (Interrobang Theatre Project); The Gacy Play (Sideshow Theatre Company); Thirty Thousand One (Pursuit Productions); The Duchess of Malfi (Strawdog Theatre Company); Residue (Buzz22 Chicago); LOW (Slingshot Productions); The Big Meal (American Theater Company); Roadkill Confidential (Dog & Pony Theatre Co.); and She Loves Me (Writers’ Theatre). He is a graduate from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Darci Nalepa Marnie
is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she last understudied The March. Chicago credits include Flare Path, Company (Griffin Theatre Company); Dirty (The Gift Theatre); Love and Money (Steep Theatre Company); Snapshots (Northlight Theatre, understudy); reasons to be pretty (Profiles Theatre, Jeff Award nomination); and The Ring Cycle (The Building Stage). Darci has appeared as an entertainment anchor for The Onion News Network. She is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf where she now assists in the Meisner Technique and proudly works as an
Plays include Phaedra (The Shotgun Players), A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk Award nomination), book for We Have Always Lived in the Castle with music by Todd Almond (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Flowers (About Face Theatre), The Receptionists (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2008 Outer Critics Award nomination, Best Plays of 2007-2008, The Evidence Room with Megan Mullally), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons, 2008 Outer Critics Award nomination), The Thugs (Soho Rep, 2007 Obie Award for Playwriting), The Shake Chair (2005 Humana Festival), Swimming in the Shallows (The Shotgun Players,
Second Stage Uptown, 2000 BATCC Award, Clauder Prize), Five Flights (Encore Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2002 Glickman Award, ACTA Award nomination, Osborn Award nomination), Marcy Comes Home and The Typographer’s Dream (Encore Theatre, The Shotgun Players). He is a 2012 Guggenheim grantee, a NEA grantee and a Guemsey Award winner. Adam is the resident playwright of Encore Theatre and an Artistic Associate with The Shotgun Players. He is a three-time resident at Yaddo, a former member of Soho Rep’s Writer/ Director Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect, a TDF Open Doors mentor and a proud member of New Dramatists. Adam’s plays are published by Samuel French Inc., Dramatists Play Service Inc. and Playscripts, Inc. John Michael DiResta Director
focuses on new play development and theater for social justice. Recent credits include Yellowface, Lyle the Crocodile, The Romeo and Juliet Project, The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Northwestern University); The Insurgents (New Dramatists); Favorites (Rising Phoenix Rep); A Crack in the Canvas, Bisexuality is for Teenagers, Watching the Thunder (MCC Theater); and Back to Society (Abrons Arts Center). John has assistant directed Skylight (Court Theatre); The Verona Project (American Music Theater Project); Judgment Day (Bard Summerscape); and Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). John was the producer of the MCC Theater Youth Company from 2007– 2010, and is also a teaching artist and writer.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH
DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK
THE DRUNKEN CITY Director JohN michAel DirestA with Director of Northwestern University’s MFA Directing Program and ensemble member ANNA D. shApiro ANNA D. shApiro: WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT STORY TO TELL?
JohN michAel DirestA: People often make disastrous choices to fulfill the story that was written for them, instead of writing their own story. The Drunken City is a story about people who become brave enough to write their own stories. This play allows audiences to imagine saying yes to the things we truly want. ADs: WHAT THEMES ARE YOU ExPLORING IN YOUR PRODUCTION? JD: Love. This is a play about the unimaginable depths of love that people can have for each other. These characters love each other so much. Even when they are truly awful to each other, they are doing it out of love. ADs: WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR SHOW? JD: Adam Bock said something interesting to me when we first spoke about the play. I told him how much I love Linda, Marnie and Melissa— but also about how when I lived in Hell’s Kitchen in New York, I hated the drunk girls who would scream down Ninth Avenue. Adam said, “You wouldn’t hate them if they were your best friend.” I realized, then, that no matter how progressive or open-minded we may claim to be, we all have our prejudices that stand in the way of our really knowing people. I think The Drunken City forces us to re-evaluate these prejudices.
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CoStUMe DeSIgNer “The costumes for The Drunken City begin by evoking a playful, cute, over-the-top quality that is belied by the drunken confessions that come out during the play. In the harsh light of morning, we see the reality of the girls underneath the dresses.”
ADs: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE IN APPROACHING THIS PIECE? JD: Being “drunk” means so many different things to different people. To some, it’s a beautiful word that glistens and shimmers; to others, it’s death. Depicting such a bombastic yet elusive state of being on stage—a state of being which erases your memory of what experiencing it is like—is a serious challenge, and is going to be serious fun. ADs: HOW IS THIS PRODUCTION CONNECTED TO YOUR WORK OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS? JD: Somewhat accidentally, I only directed plays in grad school by gay men. The other two, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, each deal, in their own way, with the trauma caused by the heaps of shame piled upon gay men throughout our lives. With The Drunken City, I’ve shifted my focus from the question of dealing with shame to embracing the joy of a life lived without shame.
Marnie, Act 1 Bob, Act Four
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SCeNIC DeSIgNer “The scenic design for The Drunken City seeks to capture the noisy, chaotic atmosphere of a drunken stroll through the streets of New York City.”
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LIghtINg DeSIgNer “Amidst the drunken revelry, moments of clarity emerge and the lighting transforms our world from magical and shimmering into something gritty and honest.” Scenic Model and Lighting Design
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The Internationalist By Anne Washburn Directed by Erin Murray Cast (in alphabetical order) Tony Bozzuto Amy J. Carle* Andrew Carter John Gray Nicholas Harazin Kelly O’Sullivan*
nicol, guard Irene, Anon Woman Simon, Paul James, Bartender Lowell Sara
Production staff Stephanie Cluggish Chelsey Batson Rebecca Barrett Kevin O’Donnell Erica Danielso Michelle Medvin* Jennifer McClendon
Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Casting Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Understudies Christine Stulik
Irene, Anon Woman, Sara
Additional Staff Quinn Hegarty, Galya Loeb Emily Reit Kelly Crook John Holt, Eric Vigo Claudette Perez Carlene Descalo Megan Snowder
Assistant Directors Dramaturg Run Crew chief Run Crew Sound Board Operator Wardrobe Run Crew Master Electrician
Setting
An undisclosed Eastern European country.
Intermission
There will be no intermission.
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.
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cast | playwright | director
Tony Bozzuto Nicol, Guard
is excited to be working with Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the first time. Chicago credits include The U.N. Inspector (Next Theatre Company); Memory, Three Days of Rain, Orange Flower Water, On an Average Day (BackStage Theatre Company); and Skin Tight (COR Theatre). Television credits include Boss, Chicago Fire and a commercial for the NFL. Look for Tony in this summer’s upcoming film Man of Steel. Tony received his MFA from Wayne State University and is represented by Paonessa Talent LLC. “Peacocks.”
Amy J. Carle Irene, Anon Woman
Previous Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include The Book Thief (Steppenwolf for Young Adults), Animals Out of Paper (Next Up), Sex with Strangers (First Look) and Hedda Gabler. Amy is a founding member of Roadworks Productions, where she appeared in SubUrbia, The Lights (Jeff Award nomination), Ecstasy, WAS and The Planets. Other Chicago credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Peter Pan, Trust (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Season’s Greetings (Northlight
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Theatre); Orlando (Court Theatre); The Sins of Sor Juana, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Desire Under the Elms (Goodman Theatre); and Refuge (Collaboraction, Jeff Award nomination). Off-Broadway national tour credits include The Vagina Monologues. Regional credits include Fully Committed, The Diary of Anne Frank (Madison Repertory Theatre); and Morning Star (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Television credits include Boss (STARZ), Chicago Code (FOX), Law & Order (NBC) and The Guiding Light (CBS). Amy will be marrying John Stokvis in June 2013.
Andrew Carter Simon, Paul
makes his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. He is an Associate Artist with TimeLine Theatre Company, where he appeared in The Pitmen Painters, Frost/Nixon, The History Boys, Pravda and This Happy Breed. Other Chicago credits include It’s a Wonderful Life (American Blues Theater); The Hot L Baltimore (MaryArrchie Theatre Co.); A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre); Rose Rage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Mermaid, Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and A Dublin Bloom (Irish Repertory Theatre). Regional credits include Once in a Lifetime, Yentl, Fallen Angels (Asolo Repertory Theatre); and Romeo and Juliet (Cardinal Stage Company). Television credits include Boss (Starz) and Chicago Fire (NBC). He is represented by Gray Talent Group. For more information please visit abcisme.com.
The Internationalist
John Gray James, Bartender
returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where he was last seen in Penelope and Superior Donuts. Regional credits include The 39 Steps, Art and Moonlight & Magnolias (Howmet Playhouse). He is a proud company member of Trap Door Theatre, where he appeared in Minna, Horses at the Window, Old Clown Wanted, Alice in Bed, Amerikafka, Quills and The Crazy Locomotive. Other Chicago credits include Superior Donuts, The Freedom of the City (Mary Arrchie Theatre Co.); The Front Page (TimeLine Theatre Company); The Physicists (A Red Orchid Theatre); Hellcab (Famous Door Theatre Company); Becket (Shattered Globe Theatre); and La Musica (Saloome Speelt). Television credits include Chicago Fire and Boss. Film credits include Into the Wake and Hatred of a Minute. “Special thanks to Erin Murray, Erica Daniels and Dawn Gray, and much love to Ellie and his kids John and Hayley.”
Nicholas Harazin Lowell
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Rabbit (Stage Left Theatre); and I Am Going to Change the World (Chicago Dramatists). Regional credits include Ten Chimneys (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Subject was Roses, Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Sum of Us (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); The Persians (Renaissance Theaterworks); Henry V, Comedy of Errors and As You Like It (American Players Theatre). Nick is a proud member of the Back Room Shakespeare Project and a recent graduate of The School at Steppenwolf. “Many thanks to Erin, Erica and Nick.”
Erin Murray Director
Kelly O’Sullivan Sara
is thrilled to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Chicago credits include Honest, Good Boys and True, The Crucible, 100 Saints You Should Know (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Seagull (Goodman Theatre); columbinus, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (American Theater Company); Hesperia (Writers’ Theatre); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Northlight Theatre); Jon (Collaboraction); The Glory of Living (Profiles Theatre); and Mr. Marmalade (Dog & Pony Theatre Co.). Regional credits include My Wonderful Day (The Wilma Theater) and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Film and television credits include In Memoriam, Battleground and The Mob Doctor. Kelly is a graduate of Northwestern University and The School at Steppenwolf. Anne Washburn Playwright
is making his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut with The Internationalist. Chicago credits include Short Shakes! versions of Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth
The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides’ Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, Folger Theatre, Gate Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, The Studio Theatre, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Awards include a Guggenheim, an NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P. Anne is currently commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep and Yale Repertory Theatre.
is honored to be making her directorial debut at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Northwestern University credits include The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, All My Sons and Michael Rohd’s How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (Assistant Director). In addition to being the staff director at Opera Theatre Company in Dublin, other Ireland credits include Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne (Associate Director, Irish National Tour); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Best Production at the Speigeltent, Dublin Fringe, 2005); The Glory of Living (Dublin Tour); and 4.48 Psychosis (The Samuel Beckett Theatre). Seattle credits include The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Short Shakes at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Centre House Theatre at the Seattle Center); and The Merchant of Venice directed by John Langs (Assistant Director, Center House Theatre at the Seattle Center). Erin received her BA from Trinity College Dublin. erinmurraydirects.com.
Plays include Mr. Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers,
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AN INTERVIEW WITH
DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK
THE INTERNATIONALIST Director eriN murrAy with Director of Northwestern University’s MFA Directing Program and ensemble member ANNA D. shApiro ANNA D. shApiro: WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT STORY TO TELL?
eriN murrAy: The Internationalist asks the question: When will America’s unique Idealism cease to be the tip of its sword, but the nail in its coffin? This play is about the cyclical nature of History. America is the world’s only superpower but we can no longer afford to pretend that it has always been that way. The Northern Hemisphere is a graveyard of fallen empires. We must realize the game of colonizer/colonized has warped and it is now he who can integrate who survives. ADs: WHAT THEMES ARE YOU ExPLORING IN YOUR PRODUCTION? em: I have said from the beginning that this play explores the challenges of rescuing a stranger. What is discovered by the self-identified savior? When/how does the victim evolve from victim to bystander to potential perpetrator? Who will ultimately emerge as the bloated corpse and who the supreme hero? Other themes I will be exploring: Real-time dream-like reality, the loss of idealism, uncanny voyeurism, socially-accepted sexism, binding nationalism, psychological alienation, and individualism vs. collectivism. ADs: WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR SHOW? em: I want people to be unsettled by The Internationalist both as theater-goers and Americans. If you have never been abroad, I hope you feel what it is like to be stripped of the familiar. If you have been abroad, I hope
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chelsey bAtsoN you revisit the sickening waves of culture shock. Overall, I hope people enjoy the darkly wild and disturbing ride of Lowell’s visit while mulling over the qualities of Lowell they see in themselves. ADs: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE IN APPROACHING THIS PIECE? em: Going into rehearsal, my chief concern is how do you build a unique European culture that feels historically grounded as well as active, not just playing a “weird/obtuse” state. My preparations involved investigating “the uncanny” and turning to the master composers of strange communities: during the design process, I turned to Stanley Kubrick and The Shining for inspiration; pre-rehearsal room, I turned to David Lynch’s television series, Twin Peaks, and his biography, “Lynch on Lynch.” ADs: HOW IS THIS PRODUCTION CONNECTED TO YOUR WORK OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS? em: I came to Northwestern to study American Realism and The Internationalist brings my study onto a contemporary canvas as it is a story of failed American Idealism. Although the script summons odd visuals, all of the events are still reality-based phenomena (hangover, jetlag, culture shock and sexual fantasy). Additionally, the rhythm of the story parallels the protagonist’s panicked psychological state just like Willie Loman or Blanche DuBois. We are far from the tranquil torture of the Keller’s backyard, but The Internationalist is American Realism.
CoStUMe DeSIgNer “This is the first time we meet Lowell, an American having just arrived in this ‘foreign’ country. In this moment he is quite rumpled and informal, not expecting to be met by a colleague, especially someone as mysterious and beautiful as Sara. He certainly doesn’t put his best foot forward.” Lowell, Scene 1
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SCeNIC DeSIgNer “We chose to create a space for The Internationalist that seems to have stood for centuries, with small updates catering to modern life; there is always a sense that we have been here before—things look familiar, but turn out to be different than we remember. There is an underlying sinister quality to the architecture that reflects the feeling that everything and everyone in this city seems to have the upper hand on Lowell.” Scenic Model
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Next up designers | stage managers | dramaturg Yu Shibagaki
Scenic Designer: The Drunken City
Rebecca Barrett Lighting Designer: Fat Pig, The Drunken City,
The Internationalist
is in her third year of the MFA program in stage design at Northwestern University and is excited to debut her work on The Drunken City at Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre. She was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan and has been studying and working in the United States since 2003. She has been fortunate to design The Exonerated, You Can’t Take It with You, Purple Heart, Rent (Northwestern University); The Valley of Fear (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and The USA Student Exhibit (2011 Prague Quadrennial World Theater Convention). yushibagaki.com. Stephanie Cluggish
Scenic Designer: The Internationalist Costume Designer: The Drunken City
is excited to be a part of this collaboration with Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Recent design credits include Michael Rohd’s How To End Poverty in 90 Minutes, Nickel and Dimed, Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Northwestern University); and The Rake’s Progress (Music Academy of the West). Upcoming projects include a new production of The Magic Flute at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. Stephanie received her BFA from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Chelsey Batson
Scenic Designer: Fat Pig Costume Designer: The Internationalist
is excited to be a part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Next Up repertory. Recent costume designs include You Can’t Take it with You, The Exonerated, Purple Heart and Rent (Northwestern University). During her time in Chicago, she has had the pleasure of assisting designers Elizabeth Wislar (Lifeline Theatre), Anka Lupes (Chicago Opera Theatre) and David Hyman (Writers’ Theatre). She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Florida. “She would like to thank her family for their encouragement and support.” Frankie DiCiaccio
Choreographer: The Drunken City
is elated to work with Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the first time and to collaborate once again with Johnny DiResta. Recent choreography credits include Lyle the Crocodile and With a Song in My Heart (Northwestern University). Chicago performance credits include The Pajama Game (The Music Theatre Company) and Teeny Travel Takes a Trip (Coriolis Theater Company), as well as guest appearing with the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project. Favorite educational credits include Twelfth Night, Falsettos, Rent, Godspell and MASS at Northwestern University, where Frankie studied acting with the inimitable Gail Shapiro. “Infinite thanks to family, mentors, friends and Jeremy.”
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is thrilled to be working with Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Next Up. Rebecca is completing her final year as a graduate student at Northwestern University pursuing her MFA in Lighting Design. Rebecca has worked freelance in and around the Chicago area as a lighting designer and lighting coordinator for the past ten years. Her favorite designs include The Pajama Game, You Can’t Take It with You, Never the Sinner, The Glass Menagerie (Northwestern University); Golden Child (Silk Road Rising, After Dark Award for Design/ Technical Achievement); Dorian (Bailiwick Chicago); New Anatomies and Impossible Marriage (Foreground Theatre Company). Rebecca graduated from Ithaca College in upstate New York with a BFA in Theatrical Production Arts. Kyle Hamman
Projections designer: Fat Pig
is delighted to be making his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut. Kyle is the owner of KBH Media. He is an ensemble member and Associate Artistic Director of Strawdog Theatre Company. Design credits include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Strawdog Theatre Company); I Put The Fear of Mexico in ‘Em (Teatro Vista); Exit Pursued by a Bear and In the Heart of America (Theatre Seven of Chicago). Directing credits include Improbable Frequency (Jeff Award nomination for Best Director), Old Town (Strawdog Theatre Company); and Ren Faire! Fistful of Ducats (The Factory). Acting credits include Uncle Vanya, Red Noses, Aristocrats and Marathon ‘33 (Strawdog Theatre Company). Mary Hungerford
Assistant Stage Manager: The Drunken City
could not be happier to work with this fantastic and talented group of theatre artists on Next Up. She is also excited to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she worked as a Stage Management Apprentice on Penelope and The March. Production Management credits include She Kills Monsters (Buzz22 Chicago, Steppenwolf Garage Rep); Selections from Rogers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (Theater Wit); and Ragtime (Northwestern University). Stage Management credits include CPS Shakespeare! Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Ethan Frome (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Godspell, Tartuffe, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Parade and Noises Off (Northwestern University). “Endless thanks to Jeff and Kelley.” Jennifer McClendon
Assistant Stage Manager: The Internationalist
is excited to be working at Steppenwolf Theatre Company again this season. She is a former Steppenwolf Multicultural Fellow and Production Management Apprentice. Her recent Stage Management credits include Superior Donuts (Royal George Theatre); Seascape (Greenhouse Theater Center);
bios South of Settling (Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Next Up); Rung (The Ruckus); and Mud Blue Sky (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Production Management credits include The Hypocrites’ Ivywild (Chopin Theatre); Theatre Seven of Chicago’s BlackTop Sky (Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Garage Rep); and American Storm (Greenhouse Theater Center). Michelle Medvin Lead Stage Manager, Stage Manager: The Internationalist
is happy to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Recent projects include Good People, Time Stands Still, Clybourne Park (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Tree, Blue Door (Victory Gardens Theater); and Jackie and Me (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Favorites over the past 12 years with Steppenwolf Theatre Company 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. “Proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity, a graduate of Smith College, and most of all Mary’s wife and Elliott’s mama.” Jonathan Nook
Stage Manager: The Drunken City
is overjoyed to be returning to the Garage Theatre for his third year of Next Up. At Steppenwolf Theatre Company, he has worked on South of Settling, Want, Closer Than I Appear (Jeff Garlin), No Sugar Tonight (Jeff Garlin), Animals Out of Paper, The North Plan, Sex with Strangers and Steppenwolf’s third and fourth Annual First Look Repertory of New Work. Other stage management credits include Collected Stories, Waiting for Lefty (American Blues Theater); Invisible Man, Orlando, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson (Court Theatre); Radio Macbeth (Court Theatre, SITI Company); Freshly Fallen Snow (Chicago Dramatists); and The North Plan (Theater Wit). Jonathan also serves as the production manager for Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. Upcoming projects include the Chicago Commercial Collective’s remounting of To Master the Art at the Broadway Playhouse.
Hypocrites). He has been nominated for 20 Jeff Awards over the last 10 years, and has worked regionally at ACT Theatre, The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Lamb’s Players Theatre, and in New York at 59E59 Theaters, Cherry Lane Theatre and St. Ann’s Warehouse. Brianna Parry
Assistant Stage Manager: Fat Pig
couldn’t be more pleased to be returning to Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she completed an apprenticeship during the 2011/12 season. Chicago credits include the pre-Broadway premiere of Big Fish, the Chicago tour of The Book of Mormon (Aurora Productions, Broadway In Chicago); Down and Derby (The New Colony); Three Sisters, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Brianna is a graduate of Ohio’s Kenyon College. Kathleen E. Petroziello
Stage Manager: Fat Pig
is excited to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she most recently assistant stage managed The Birthday Party. Other credits include Sweet Bird of Youth, Joan Dark (Goodman Theatre); Time Stands Still, Sex with Strangers, Fake, Of Mice and Men, Perfect Mendacity (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Great Fire, The Last Act of Lilka Kadison, Trust, Nelson Algren, Argonautika (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Death of a Salesman, Avenue Q, A Number (Weston Playhouse Theatre Company); and the Chicago productions of Altar Boyz and Million Dollar Quartet. “Much love to Jason.” Emily Reit dramaturg: The Internationalist
is thrilled to be working on her second Steppenwolf Theatre Company production. Most recently, she was the Assistant Dramaturg for Tracy Letts’s adaptation of Three Sisters. Emily will receive her dual degree in psychology and theater from Northwestern University in June 2013. “She’d like to thank Erin Murray and Dassia Posner for this wonderful experience.”
Kevin O’Donnell
Sound Designer: Fat Pig, The Drunken City,
The Internationalist
is an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Theater Design program at Northwestern University. At Steppenwolf Theatre Company he has designed sound or music for Sex with Strangers, Art, Samuel J & K, The House on Mango Street, The Elephant Man and the previous two years of Next Up. Visiting company shows include The Sparrow, The Nutcracker (The House Theatre of Chicago); and 4:48 Psychosis (The
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