Artistic Director

MARTHA LAVEY (Steppenwolf Artistic Director) is an ensemble member and the Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre. She has appeared at Steppenwolf in I Never Sang for My Father, The House of Lily, Valparaiso, The Memory of Water, The Designated Mourner, Supple in Combat, Time of My Life, A Clockwork Orange, Talking Heads, SLAVS!, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Ghost in the Machine, A Summer Remembered, Love Letters, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Savages.

Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight and Remains theaters, and in New York at the Women's Project and Productions. She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the City Arts panel of Chicago.

She holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is a member of the National Advisory Council for the School of Communication at Northwestern and a board member of TCG.

She is a recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award and an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University.