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Carrie Coon’s work spans stage, television, and film. Her portrayal of Honey in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? earned her a Tony Award nomination. Since then, she’s appeared Off-Broadway in Placebo (Playwrights Horizons) and Mary Jane (New York Theatre Workshop), and has been a company member with Steppenwolf Theatre (2019). Her television credits include The Leftovers on HBO (Critics’ Choice Award), Fargo on FX (Emmy Award nomination), The Gilded Age on HBO (Emmy Award nomination, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination), and The White Lotus (Emmy Award nomination) on HBOMax.

Namir Smallwood joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2017. Steppenwolf: You Will Get Sick, The Book of Grace, The Seagull, Bug, True West, BLKS, Monster, Man In Love, The Hot L Baltimore, Last Night and the Night Before. Broadway: Pass Over. Off-Broadway: Pipeline, Pass Over (Lincoln Center). Chicago: Primary Trust (Goodman); Charm (Northlight Theatre); The Grapes of Wrath (The Gift Theatre); East Texas Hot Links (Writers Theatre). Regional: Marin Theatre Company, Pillsbury House Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, Guthrie Theater. International: True West (Galway International Arts Festival). Television: Chicago Fire, Betrayal, Elementary, American Rust (Showtime/FreeVee); Power Book IV: Force (STARZ). Film: Rounding, About Time, Bailey's Blues.

Randall Arney joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1984 and served as artistic director from 1987-1995. Steppenwolf (directing): True West, Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers, The Geography of Luck, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (directed subsequent national and international productions). Steppenwolf (acting): Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take It with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead, Coyote Ugly. As artistic director of Steppenwolf, Arney oversaw the creation of a new state-of-the-art theater, which is Steppenwolf’s current home. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award – Best Play). Arney recently served as the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (1999-2017). Education: MFA, Illinois State University; he has taught at the University of California Los Angeles, Steppenwolf, around the US and in Tokyo. Member: SAG-AFTRA, SDC, AEA.

Off-Broadway: Excuse My Dust, The Words Of Dorothy Parker. Regional: Simpatico (McCarter Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival), One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (Steppenwolf Theatre), MacBeth (Barbican Theatre), Norte Dame Shakespeare Festival. Chicago: Sky Girls (Northlight Theatre), The Mutilated, Fatboy, Eric LaRue Simpatico, The Moors, The Hothouse (A Red Orchid Theatre), Sweet Bird Of Youth (Goodman Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers Theatre).

Broadway: SWEAT. Off Broadway: The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre); Blue Surge (The Public Theater). National Tours: August: Osage County, SWEAT. Regional: Bug, One Arm, The Libertine, As I Lay Dying (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Feathers & Teeth, Vigils, Zoo Story, Blue Surge (Goodman Theatre); Grace, Better Late (Northlight Theatre); Rest, Circle Mirror Transformation (Victory Gardens Theater); Brothers Karamazov (Lookingglass Theatre); The Unseen (A Red Orchid Theatre); Misery, The Rainmaker, Orpheus Descending (American Blues Theater); Coyote On A Fence, Talk Radio (Shattered Globe Theatre). Film: Public Enemies, Hayseed, Canvas, 1,000 Acres. Television: Power Book IV: Force, South Side, Evil, FBI: Most Wanted, The Good Fight, Boss, Chicago Fire, Elementary, Mob Doctor, Law & Order: SVU.

Tracy Letts is the author of The Minutes (Pulitzer finalist), Linda Vista, Mary Page Marlowe, The Scavenger’s Daughter, Superior Donuts, August: Osage County (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award for Best Play), Man from Nebraska (Pulitzer finalist), Bug, and Killer Joe. He won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in the Tony Award-winning revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In 2002, he joined the Steppenwolf Ensemble and appeared in American Buffalo, Betrayal, The Pillowman, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Three Days of Rain. Film and television credits: Little Women, Ford v. Ferrari, The Post, Lady Bird (SAG Ensemble nominee), The Lovers, Indignation, Christina, The Big Short, Wiener-Dog, Guinevere, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, (Emmy nominated for Guest Actor), The Sinner, and Homeland, (SAG Ensemble nominee). Upcoming film projects include Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite and Rosebush Pruning; upcoming TV projects include FX’s The Lowdown, Netflix limited series East of Eden. Letts is also currently working with James Taylor on writing the book for the new stage musical Fire & Rain.

New York credits include Dead Outlaw; Good Night, and Good Luck; The Antiquities; The Counter; I’m Almost There; A Prayer for the French Republic (MTC); Camp Siegfried; A Case for the Existence of God; The Sound Inside; The Band’s Visit; The Treasurer; The House of Blue Leaves; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Nikolai and the Others; The Effect; When the Rain Stops Falling; Tribes; Adding Machine; Our Town; and Orson’s Shadow. For his work, he has received a Tony Award, three Tony Award nominations, a Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lortel Awards, and in 2010 was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow.

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