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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.

Jessie Mueller starred on Broadway in the revival of Carousel in her Tony and Grammy nominated role as Julie Jordan, opposite Joshua Henry for which she also received the Drama Desk Award. Prior to that, she originated the role of Jenna Hunterson in composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles’ hit Broadway musical Waitress for which she was nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk and Grammy award. She earned all three awards for her starring role as Carole King in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. In a new Lifetime movie Patsy & Loretta, which premiered in the Fall, Jessie plays Loretta Lynn opposite Megan Hilty as Patsy Cline. She recently starred as Marian in The Music Man with Norm Lewis and Rosie O’Donnell at The Kennedy Center. Other major Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk nomination), and her Broadway debut as Melinda in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever opposite Harry Connick, Jr. (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). She portrayed Carrie Pipperidge in the New York Philharmonic’s staged and televised concert production of Carousel at Lincoln Center, and was a part of Carnegie Hall’s family concert series, Take the Stage with Broadway Stars.  Jessie received an Emmy Award Nomination for her performance in the PBS broadcast of Chicago Voices  and can be seen in The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg.

Ian Barford's prior Broadway credits include Tracy Letts’ critically acclaimed Linda Vista, Tony Award Winning productions of The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime (original Broadway company), August: Osage County and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. A Steppenwolf ensemble member since 2007, Mr. Barford has originated four roles in Tracy Letts’ plays, among many others. Along with Steppenwolf, Ian has appeared in productions at the Goodman Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago, along with The Geffen Theatre and Ahmanson Theatre in LA. Film credits include: Catch Hell, Return to Sender, Road to Perdition and 13 Going On 30.

Sally Murphy has been seen on Broadway in Linda Vista, August: Osage County (also London and Sydney), Fiddler On The Roof, The Wild Party, Carousel and The Grapes Of Wrath (Also London). Off Broadway: Admissions, A Man Of No Importance, Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center); The Apple Family Plays (Public, Also Europe), Angel Reapers (Signature), Threepenny Opera (Atlantic), A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (City Center Encores!), Brutal Imagination (Vineyard). Member Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble: The Minutes, Linda Vista (Also Mark Taper), Visiting Edna, Time Stands Still, Sex With Strangers, Uncle Vanya, Skylight, The Crucible. Film: Pollock, Scent Of A Woman, Fearless. TV: Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife, HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk, PBS’ Great Performances and American Playhouse. 

Noah Reid played Patrick in the global television smash “Schitt’s Creek.” He won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his cast-mates for Best Ensemble, was nominated three times for a Canadian Screen Award and won the award for Best Supporting Actor/TV Comedy. His soulful acoustic cover of Tina Turner’s Simply the Best in Season 4 landed atop the iTunes charts. An actor since the age of eight, Reid began his career as “Chip” in the Toronto Mirvish production of Beauty and the Beast. Soon after, he originated the voice of the beloved “Franklin the Turtle” in the animated series Franklin. He went on to star in the television series Strange Days at Blake Holesy High and the film Terry, about Terry Fox’s “Marathon of Hope,” all before the age of 18. More recently, Reid starred as the title role on the series Kevin From Work. Other TV credits Backpackers, the miniseries Titanic written by Julian Fellowes, House of Lies, The Firm and Rookie Blue. An accomplished theatre actor, Reid recently starred in the title role of Hamlet at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre and at the Coal Mine Theatre in Annie Baker’s The Aliens and Strindberg’s Creditors. Other notable theatre credits include George F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor (Mirvish/Canadian Rep), John Logan’s Red (Neptune), John Patrick Shanley’s A Woman Is A Secret, David French’s Jitters (Soulpepper) and Morris Panych’s Trespassers, for which he won the prestigious John Hirsch Award given to the most promising actor in the Stratford Festival company. Reid most recently starred in the independent feature films Cardinal, Buffaloedopposite Zoey Deutch and Judy Greer, and Clifton Hill opposite Tuppence Middleton and David Cronenberg. Other notable film credits include Old Stock, Score: A Hockey Musical and People Hold On, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song. In 2016, Reid released is debut solo record Songs From A Broken Chair, produced by Juno Award Nominee Matthew Barber. And in 2020, he released his second record Gemini. His forthcoming third record will be released in 2022.​ Noah next stars in Brian Watkins’ series “Outer Range” opposite Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots and Lewis Pullman for Amazon due out next year.

Blair Broadway has been seen on Broadway in The Parisian Woman, Copenhagen (Tony Award), James Joyce’s The Dead, Cabaret, The Secret Rapture and The Threepenny Opera. Off-Broadway/regional: Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater, Steppenwolf), On The Shore of the Wide World, Nikolai and the Others, The Clean House, Arcadia, The Tempest (McCarter Theatre), A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), Humble Boy, Camino Real (Williamstown), My Life as a Fairy Tale (LCF), Comedy of Errors (NYSF), The Skin of Our Teeth (Old Globe), seasons at Stratford-Ontario and Guthrie Theater. Film: My Art, Speed of Thought, Dark Matter, The Sentinel, Dogville, Space Cowboys, The Astronaut’s Wife, Altered States, Continental Divide, Strapless, Stealing Home and A Flash of Green.  TV includes: Orange Is The New Black, Jack Ryan, Elementary, Limitless, Forever, Person of Interest, The Affair, Fringe, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (5 Emmy Nominations), ER, ED, The Ultimate Life, Kennedy, A Season in Purgatory, The Good Policeman, Hands of a Stranger, Follow the Stars Home, In His Life: The John Lennon Story, Convictions, Gifts of Love, To Walk Again: The Eddie Keating Jr. Story, Missing Parents, Majority Rules, Extremely Close Up, Those Secrets and Space. Directing: Rosemary and I (Passage), Lovely Day (Play Co.) and A Feminine Ending (PCS).  Narrator of more than 50 documentary films and audio books.

An actor, director, playwright, and, at HB Studio in New York, a teacher of acting.  His most recent acting appearances in New York have been in Life Sucks (with the Wheelhouse Company), and Choir Boy (MTC Broadway). He has appeared in many movies and a great deal of TV.  He is a member of the Ensemble at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.

Cliff Chamberlain is an ensemble member with Steppenwolf, where he appeared in the original production of The Minutes, as well as Belleville, Clybourne Park, and many others. His Chicago theatre credits include The Seagull at The Goodman Theatre and The Sparrow at The House Theatre of Chicago, where he is a company member. He last appeared on Broadway in Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts. He most recently wrapped a major recurring role on the final season of “Homeland” and is currently shooting USA’s “Dirty John: Betty.” He is coming off recurring roles in Netflix’s Easy and Altered Carbon as well as NBC’s Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.  He also appeared as a series regular on NBC’S State of Affairs.

Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Superior Donuts. Additional theater includes Ski Dubai, The Tempest, Carter’s Way, The Crucible, The Bluest Eye, Take Me Out (Steppenwolf); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, King Lear, American Voices (Piven Theatre Workshop); The King and I (Drury Lane); Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, King John, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and A Raisin in the Sun (Goodman). Film: Widows. TV includes: Fargo, Chicago Med, The Mob Doctor, Betryal, Boss, Chicago Code and Law & Order: SVU.

A longtime company member at Chicago’s acclaimed A Red Orchid Theatre, Danny McCarthy’s stage credits also include The Iceman Cometh opposite Denzel Washington on Broadway, Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and Lucille Lortel Best Play winner The Open House at Signature Theatre, Grace at Broadway’s Cort Theater, the world premiere of Kill Floor at Lincoln Center, The Minutes, The Flick, Middletown, The Pillowman, Take Me Out, and The Water Engine at the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago, David Cromer’s visionary A Streetcar Named Desire at Writer’s Theater of Glencoe, and Circle Mirror Transformation at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, where his performance earned him a Kevin Kline Award nomination for Best Actor. Danny recently finished his run as Sheriff Heck Tate in the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition to numerous national commercials and voice-overs, Danny McCarthy’s film and television credits include The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Stronger, Elvis & Nixon, The Drop, The Express, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Killing Kennedy, The Chicago Code, Chicago Fire, Detroit 1-8-7, ER, Fred Claus, Flags of Our Fathers, Stranger Than Fiction, Derailed, Proof, Boss, Underemployed, Betrayal, Elementary, Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire and Prison Break.

Broadway: The Minutes, To Kill a Mockingbird (also National Tour), Oslo (Tony Award, Best Play), Fish in the Dark, Therese Raquin, August: Osage County (Tony Award, Best Play, also National Tour), Lombardi, Bronx Bombers, Job. Off-Broadway: Tribes, Our Town, Adding Machine: The Musical, and Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow. Regional: Harry Brock in Born Yesterday (Guthrie), Rothko in Red (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), The Stage Manager in Our Town (Kansas City Rep), Salieri in Amadeus (Cardinal Stage), Dr. Sweet in the world premiere of Bug(Gate Theatre, London), and 13 shows with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

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.

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