Theatre, Oregon Shakespreare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Syracuse Stage, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage Company and Alley Theatre. Mr. Nardelli has received four Jeff awards and eight Jeff nominations.
Cassie Calderone (Stage Manager) returns
to Steppenwolf Theatre Company after recently assistant stage managing Straight White Men. Recent credits include The Christians, Between Riverside and Crazy (Steppenwolf); The Heir Apparent and Othello (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Chicago credits include: Betrayal, Gary, Fair Use, The Glass Menagerie (twice), To Kill a Mockingbird, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life, Head of Passes, The Wheel, The Gospel of Franklin, Grand Concourse, Marie Antoinette, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Hushabye, Russian Transport, The Compass (Steppenwolf); Song for the Disappeared (Goodman Theatre); Grease, A Chorus Line (Paramount Theatre); The Homosexuals (About Face Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Chicago); The MLK Project (Writers Theatre); The Sparrow (Broadway in Chicago); and the Gay Games Opening Ceremony at Soldier Field. Regional credits include work with ArtsPower National Touring Theatre, Catharsis Productions, Opera Illinois and Portland Stage. Cassie is a proud member of AEA. “Many thanks to my little family for all their support.”
Anna D. Shapiro (Artistic Director) joined
the Steppenwolf ensemble in 2005 and was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London). She was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Public Theater, Labyrinth Theater). Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, A Parallelogram, Up, The Crucible, The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), I Never Sang for My Father, Man from Nebraska, Purple Heart (also in Galway, Ireland), The Drawer Boy, Side Man (also in Ireland, Australia and Vail, Colorado), Three Days of Rain, The Infidel and This is Our Youth (which transferred to Broadway). Other Broadway credits include Of Mice and Men (with James Franco) and Fish in the Dark (with Larry David). Off-Broadway credits include Domesticated (Lincoln Center). She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Columbia. She is a full professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Theatre.
David Schmitz (Executive Director) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for 11 years, serving in the roles of Director of Finance and Administration, General Manager and currently as Executive Director. Prior to working at Steppenwolf, David was the General Manager at Lookingglass Theatre Company, Associate Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre and Business Manager at the entertainment agency Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Adair Performance. Currently, he serves as Vice President of the Board for The House Theatre of is happy to return to Steppenwolf Theatre Chicago as well as on the boards of the League Company following her 2014/15 stage of Chicago Theatres and Arts Alliance Illinois. management apprenticeship. Steppenwolf credits David is a former board member for the Lincoln include work on The Fundamentals, Constellations, Park Chamber of Commerce and has worked as John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, The Herd and a strategic planning, business practices, finance Airline Highway. Recent credits include A Doll’s and hiring consultant for numerous Chicago House Part 2, Flora & Ulysses, Office Hour (South organizations, including The House Theatre of Coast Repertory); Cinderella at the Theater of Chicago, The Hypocrites and Stage Left Theatre, Potatoes (The Hypocrites); Hand to God (Victory among others. He holds a BA in theatre from the Gardens Theater); Far from Heaven (Porchlight University of Northern Colorado, an MFA from Music Theatre); and Gotta Dance (Broadway in the Theatre Conservatory at the Chicago College Chicago). She also stage manages for South Coast of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University and Repertory’s youth conservatory program. Kat a Certificate in Non Profit Management from Roosevelt University. holds a BA from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. 12 Bios
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