KEITH HUFF is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists; holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop; and is the recipient of a Jeff Award, a Drama-Logue Award, the Cunningham Prize, the John Gassner Award, the Berrilla Kerr Award and three Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowships. He has developed plays at the O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference, the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, the Eureka Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Eye of the Storm, Echo Theatre, Act One/Showtime, Alice’s 4th Floor, Florida Studio Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory and Midwest PlayLabs. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway, internationally and nationally. Recent productions include Pursued by Happiness at Steppenwolf Theatre, Gray City at American Repertory Theater, Dog Stories at Stageworks/Hudson, Leon and Joey at the Edinburgh Fringe, Karaoke Night at the Hog at Chicago Dramatists and The Bird and Mr. Banks at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles. His recently completed works include The Detective’s Wife and Tell Us of the Night, which round out a trilogy of Chicago cop plays that began with A Steady Rain. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Georgette, and his daughter, Robin.

Cast and Crew

Kathi E.B. Ellis (Director, A Steady Rain) is a member of the Lincoln & Chicago Directors’ Labs and an associate member of SDC. She has participated in the LaMama International Symposium for Directors, Italy, and is listed in the Southern Artistry Registry for outstanding southern artists. Kathi directs around the country and her productions of West Side Story and Jekyll and Hyde received nominations for the South Florida Regional Theatre Carbonell Awards. Previously, Kathi has directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Jar the Floor in Lexington.  This spring Kathi’s production of Fabric, Flames, and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, with Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, performed at Manhattan Theatre Source as part of the Centennial Remembrances of the Triangle Factory Fire. Kathi obtained her MFA in directing from the University of Louisville, interned with Livui Ciulei at Arena Stage, and has also  assistant directed with Susan Booth and Seret Scott at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Additional credits include The Real Inspector Hound; Faith Healer; Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth; Women Behind Bars; Slaughter City; and Three Tall Women;  originally-devised work with Looking for Lilith Theatre Company; and new plays with Juneteenth Legacy Theatre and Finnigan Productions. She created the informal ShoeString Productions collective, with whose artists she has directed The Zoo Story (also co-presented with Balagula), Art, and The Glass Menagerie, and she is a founding principal of StageLab, dedicated to ongoing training for theatre artists. Most recently she directed an all-female, site-specific production of Macbeth at Josephine Sculpture Park in Frankfort.

Clint Gill received his training from The University of Louisville.  As Actor, Director and Lighting Designer, he has been a part of the Louisville and regional semi-professional theatre scene for the last 25 years. Previous work with Kathi includes "Faith Healer", "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and, most recently, The Alley Theatre's production of "The Yellow Boat.

Andrew Pyle is a Louisville native and has worked extensively in local theatre there for a decade or two. Last December he opened Louisville's Land of Tomorrow in The Normal Heart. He has also worked with The Necessary Theatre, The Savage Rose Theatre co.,   The Louisville Repertory Company,Pandora Theatre,  Finnegan Productions, Derby Dinner Playhouse and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Favorite roles include McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ben from Mercy Seat,  and Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He earned a BFA in Acting from SMU.