Steppenwolf’s 2022 Gala celebrates the return of live theater and launches the next chapter in the company’s storied history. Join us on May 14 for an unforgettable night alongside Steppenwolf ensemble members and friends.
Proceeds support Steppenwolf’s nationally recognized, bold and innovative productions as well as education programs and community partnerships that inspire thousands of students, educators, and families across Chicago and beyond.
Gala Co-Chairs:
Caroline and Keating Crown
Nora Daley and Sean Conroy
Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert
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Please send payments to:
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Attn: Special Events
1700 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614
Event Contact: Livia Kenney
About Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Steppenwolf ensemble first began performing in the mid-1970s in the basement of a Highland Park, IL church, the ambitious brainchild of three high school and college friends: Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise. Fast forward 40 years and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company has become the nation’s premier ensemble theatre—redefining the landscape of acting and performance. The ensemble has grown to 49 members who represent a remarkable generation of actors, directors and playwrights. Thrilling, powerful, groundbreaking productions from Balm in Gilead and Grapes of Wrath to August: Osage County—and accolades that included the National Medal of Arts and twelve Tony® Awards—have made the theatre legendary. Steppenwolf’s artistic force remains rooted in the original vision of its founders: an artist-driven theatre, whose vitality is defined by its sharp appetite for groundbreaking, innovative work.
Steppenwolf operates as a not-for-profit organization relying on community support to produce or present up to 16 plays and nearly 700 performances, readings and other events every year on our three stages. The theatre’s artistic and educational programs draw a multi-generational audience of nearly 200,000 from the greater metropolitan Chicago area, while our impact reaches well beyond this region with productions that tour nationally and internationally.