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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.
When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.
I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.
Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.
This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.