Her other work includes assistant director and dramaturg for Bug (Steppenwolf), associate director for His Shadow (16th Street Theater); and associate director for The Shipment (Red Tape Theatre). She is the recipient of 3Arts “Make a Wave” award, a Black Theater Alliance Award, Chicago Reader’s “Best Stage Performer” runner-up, a four-time Jeff Award nominee and has been featured twice as part of NewCity’s “50 Players of the Year.” Proud member of AEA and SAGAFTRA. Represented by Stewart Talent. Gigi Buffington (Company Voice, Text & Dialect Coach) has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Company Vocal Coach for five seasons. Steppenwolf: Dance Nation, Lindiwe, The Great Leap, True West, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, The Children, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Familiar, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), Guards at the Taj, The Minutes, Hir, The Rembrandt, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe, East of Eden. Broadway: Clyde’s, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men, King Kong: Alive on Broadway. New York: Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater); The Thin Place (upcoming), Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Noura (Playwrights Horizons); Pass Over (LCT3); Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (Bedlam); Coriolanus (Red Bull); The Tempest (La Mama); The Merchant Of Venice (Venice, Italy); Elizabeth R.: texts & beheadings (BAM, The Folger); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Maids (director), Pericles, Othello, An Iliad, The Seagull, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (American Players Theatre). Film: (currently) Spike Lee’s Prince of Cats. 12 Bios
Buffington is an Associate Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, VASTA.
THE STEPPENWOLF ENSEMBLE
Christine D. Freeburg (Production Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Wally World, Animal Farm, BUG, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, La Ruta, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), The Minutes, Linda Vista, Constellations, The Flick, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, The Herd, Airline Highway, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, American Buffalo (also at McCarter Theatre), The Tempest, The Seafarer, The Diary of Anne Frank, after the quake, Cherry Orchard. Chicago: Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre. Freeburg is the interim Head of Stage Management at The Theatre School at DePaul University and spent nine summers at Weston Playhouse in Vermont. She is happily married to Thom Cox and the proud mother of Joan Marie. For Malcolm. Kathleen Barrett (Assistant Stage Manager) Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Dance Nation, The Great Leap, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, The Crucible, Pass Over, Constellations, East of Eden, The Herd, Airline Highway. Chicago: The Secret of My Success (Paramount Theatre); The Steadfast Tin Soldier, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (Lookingglass Theatre Company); additional work for The Hypocrites, Victory Gardens Theater, Porchlight Music Theatre, Broadway in Chicago. Regional: world premieres of Cambodian Rock Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Office Hour (South Coast Repertory) and productions with Geva Theatre Center, Florida Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Mason Street Warehouse. Kat is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Glenn Davis
Audrey Francis
Joan Allen
Kevin Anderson
Alana Arenas
Randall Arney
Kate Arrington
Ian Barford
Robert Breuler
Cliff Chamberlain
Gary Cole
Carrie Coon
Celeste M. Cooper
Kathryn Erbe
Malcolm Ewen*
K. Todd Freeman
Frank Galati
Francis Guinan
Moira Harris
Glenne Headly*
Jon Michael Hill
Tim Hopper
Tom Irwin
Ora Jones
Rajiv joseph
Terry Kinney
Tina Landau
Martha Lavey*
Tracy Letts
John Mahoney*
John Malkovich** Malkovich
Sandra Marquez
Mariann Mayberry*
Tarell Alvin McCraney
James Vincent Meredith
Laurie Metcalf
Amy Morton
Sally Murphy
Caroline Neff
Bruce Norris
Austin Pendleton
Jeff Perry
William Petersen
Yasen Peyankov
Martha Plimpton**
Rondi Reed
Molly Regan
Karen Rodriguez
Anna D. Shapiro
Eric Simonson
Gary Sinise
Namir Smallwood
Lois Smith
Rick Snyder
Jim True-Frost
Alan Wilder
As Steppenwolf enters this next chapter in our history, the ensemble continues to evolve and expand. We are proud to highlight the election of our new Artistic Directors, outlined in red. It is also important to the artists who call this company home that we acknowledge our collective history. This includes recognizing members who have passed* and honoring those who have needed to step away for personal or professional reasons.** In this way, we are celebrating the dynamic relationship between artist and institution that defines an ensemble theater. We honor the extraordinary collection of artists who collectively built Steppenwolf and, by doing so, left an indelible mark on the American Theatre.
The Steppenwolf Ensemble
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