Direct Address @ Steppenwolf Theatre

This program brings early-career directors face-to-face with established industry professionals in a structured, supportive environment. Each session provides:

Practical Directing Experience: Selected participants direct actors through 5-minute scenes.

Professional Feedback: Receive direct notes and guidance from an accomplished director.

Community Building: Connect with fellow directors and industry professionals.

Career Insights: Learn about pathways to assistant directing opportunities with Chicago institutions.

Director Application forms are available through our website

Why is there a ticket price? Direct Address is a brand new artistic initiative. The ticket price attached to the event, in sliding scale format, will allow for the continuation of events like this one, solely aimed to provide more visibility, mentorship and connections for early career artists, to exist. The goal for Direct Address is to continue around the Chicago theatre network, connecting more and more artists to reputable organizations and established artists, providing an access point for real work and opportunity.

Featured Director: Jonathan L. Green

Jonathan L. Green is the Director of New Play Development for Steppenwolf where his most recent dramaturgy credits include Amadeus, Mr. Wolf, The Book of Grace, Fool for Love, and both the world premiere and Broadway transfer of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose.

Previously Green was the Director of New Works for Goodman Theatre, where his dramaturgy credits included the world premieres of Christina Anderson’s How to Catch Creation, Rogelio Martinez’s Blind Date, Charles Smith’s Objects in the Mirror, and Doug Wright’s, Scott Frankel’s and Michael Korie’s War Paint, as well as works in development by Charise Castro Smith, Octavio Solis, Abe Koogler, Bess Wohl, Paola Lázaro, and Dave Harris.

As a director, he has worked with Sideshow Theatre, Steppenwolf, Diversionary Theatre, TheatreWorks, Greenhouse Theater Center, Silk Road Rising, Playwrights’ Center, and more. Green served as the Artistic Director of Sideshow Theatre Company from 2007-2020. (photo: joe mazza -- brave lux inc)

This event is a Pocket Theatre program, hosted at Steppenwolf Theatre

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