Artist

Stephen Eich is currently the Managing Director of the Geffen Playhouse. He is a producer, manager, and director with over twenty year's experience in both the commercial and not-for-profit professional theater. From 1979 to 1995 he was the Managing Director of Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company where he produced over 125 productions including the 1990 Tony Award Winning Best Play, The Grapes of Wrath. With his Steppenwolf partner at the time, Artistic Director Randall Arney, he oversaw the emergence of an internationally recognized award-winning theater, built a new $9.5 million dollar home for the company and secured the theater's administrative future. He produced Steve Martin's award-winning Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Steppenwolf, then in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and England. He was co-producer of Paul Simon's musical The Capeman, which starred Marc Anthony and most recently produced two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York featuring Lucecita Benitez and Danny Rivera, the national voices of Puerto Rico. Steve received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Education from Illinois State University