Bios
Bios
lawyer, another dead man. Victory Gardens Theater: a doctor, a hippie, a playwright, a cross dresser, a working man, a vagrant. At Northlight Theatre: a slob. Drury Lane Theatre: producer. Next Theatre Company: agent. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: murderer, lord mayor, soldier, another soldier, a mighty man of Pisa. Writers’ Theatre: a suitor. Famous Door Theatre Company: business man, artist, ward boss, pimp. Broadway: poker player, neatnik. Marc has been nominated for two Jeff Awards for Best Actor (business man, vagrant) losing out to a holy man and a Communist.
Francis Guinan
(Goldberg) is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble. He has appeared in more than 30 Steppenwolf productions including The Book Thief, Time Stands Still, Endgame, American Buffalo, Fake, The Seafarer and August: Osage County. He has also appeared in productions for Northlight Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, TimeLine Theatre Company and American Blues Theater. Recent television appearances include Boss, Mike and Molly and Chicago Code. Film work includes roles in The Last Airbender, Hannibal, High Tide, Typing and The Double. For Kate, always.
Moira Harris (Meg) is an original member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble and comes to the cast of The Birthday Party after a long
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absence. Moira first appeared at Steppenwolf in the 1976/77 season-opening production of Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson. She was last seen on the Steppenwolf stage in the 1998 production of The Playboy of the Western World. Other Steppenwolf credits include Road to Nirvana, Curse of the Starving Class, Love Letters, The Homecoming, Little Egypt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Bang, Frank’s Wild Years, Lydie Breeze, Coyote Ugly, Big Mother, The Miss Firecracker Contest, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Waiting for the Parade, Exit the King, The Coarse Acting Show, Philadelphia, Here I Come, The Fifth of July, Mack, Anything Goes over the Rainbow, Our Late Night, Sandbar Flatland, The Seahorse, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year and Look, We’ve Come Through. In New York she appeared in the Steppenwolf production of And a Nightingale Sang (Lincoln Center Theater) and Off-Broadway in Fool for Love. Film credits include Terminator 3, Chicago Cab, Breakdown, Three Wishes, Tall Tale and Of Mice and Men. Television credits include Chicken Soup for the Soul, Between Love and Hate and Murder in Green Meadow (Emmy Award).
John Mahoney
(Petey) most recently appeared in The Seafarer, I Never Sang for My Father (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Outgoing Tide, A Life (Northlight Theatre); Prelude to a Kiss (Broadway); and Romance (Almeida Theatre). He has appeared in more than 30 Steppenwolf Theatre Company productions. He received a Tony Award for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves. Film credits include Moonstruck, Tin Men, Say Anything, Primal Fear, Barton
Fink and, most recently, Flipped. On television John starred in Dinner at Eight, H.E.L.P., The Human Factor and Frasier.
Sophia Sinise (Lulu) is so excited to be on the Steppenwolf Theatre Company stage for the first time. Her most recent stage credit is 110 Stories (Geffen Playhouse). Television and film credits include CSI: NY, the independent film Fear Not and SYFY channel’s Swamp Shark. Sophia studied theater at California Lutheran University where she received two Irene Ryan Awards for The American College Theater Festival and is now currently studying at Warner Loughlin Studios. Alan Wilder (u/s Goldberg/Petey) has been a Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member since 1976 and has appeared in about 100 productions, give or take. He was last seen in several roles on both sides of the Civil War in The March. On screen, Alan has appeared in Public Enemies, Gifted Hands and was seen most recently as a mole on Keith Richard’s face in The Pirates of the Caribbean films. Also worth noting, Alan always performs all of his own stunts. Austin Pendleton
(Director) has been a Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member since 1987. His acting credits at Steppenwolf include The Sunset Limited, Uncle Vanya,
Valparaiso and Educating Rita. His previous directing credits at Steppenwolf include Time Stands Still, Detroit, Love Song, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Harvey, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Three Sisters, Loose Ends and Say Goodnight, Gracie. His play Orson’s Shadow premiered in The Steppenwolf Garage and was seen again in the same production (directed by David Cromer) at the Chicago Center of Performing Arts and the Barrow Street Theatre in New York. His other plays that have also been produced in Chicago include Uncle Bob (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Booth (Writers’ Theatre). He recently appeared in the Public Theater production of Mother Courage and Her Children (with Meryl Streep) and appeared on Broadway in the revival of The Diary of Anne Frank (with Natalie Portman) and Off-Broadway in the title roles of Hamlet, Richard III and Richard II. Last season, he directed Detroit at the National Theatre of Great Britian. This season he directed Ivanov (with Ethan Hawke) at Classic Stage Company. Two seasons ago, he played in Rosmersholm at the Pearl Theatre and directed Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company (Obie Award). He also wrote the book for A Minister’s Wife (a musical based on Shaw’s Candida), conceived by Michael Halberstam, with music by Josh Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Tranen, which appeared at Writers’ Theatre in Chicago in 2009 and won the Jeff Award for Best New Musical. It was recently produced at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. His film credits include Dirty Work, A Beautiful Mind, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, What’s Up Doc, Catch-22 and Wall Street 2. Television appearances include episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Oz and Homicide.
Harold Pinter (Playwright) was born in London in 1930 and died on Christmas Eve, 2008. He was married to Antonia Fraser. He wrote
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