Martha Lavey is an ensemble member and the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has appeared at Steppenwolf in Love-Lies-Bleeding, Lost Land, 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, Ms. Lavey has performed at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight, and Remains theatres, in New York at the Women's Project and Productions, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Lavey has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group 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. She is a recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award, an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University, and a Leadership award from the League of Chicago Theatres. Ms. Lavey is on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group.