Artist

Steve Pickering is a Chicago-based actor (AEA, SAG-AFTRA), director and playwright (Dramatists Guild). A Creative Partner with the Goodman Theatre, and a member of their 2019/20 Playwrights Unit, he is currently adapting George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia for Goodman Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez. Steve is the Project Manager and co-founder of Shanghai Low Theatricals, whose innovative stage adaptations include Orwell’s Animal Farm for the Steppenwolf Young Adult Program in 2014, and – in a 2018 Jeff-nominated script collaboration with director David Kersnar - Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas for the Lookingglass Theatre Company. Steve is formerly the Artistic Director of the Next Theatre in Evanston, and a 2016 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow with the Ten Chimneys Foundation.