Our New Home

It is an honor and thrill to share with you today renderings for our new Steep Theatre. Our team of ensemble and board members, architects, and consultants has been working tirelessly since acquiring 1044 West Berwyn to create an artistic home that embraces the best Steep traditions and serves and anticipates the needs and aspirations of our artists and community far into the future. 

The new Steep will feature an intimate, flexible 70-seat black box theater with advanced theatrical and technical capabilities; a lobby-lounge to welcome audiences, foster conversations between artists and audience, and host off-night programming and community events; and comfortable support spaces for our artists and staff.

Our community has carried us throughout this process. Your support and input have been inspiring and I'm grateful to you all for helping move our dream forward. Special thanks to our architects at Civic Projects and theater consultants at Charcoal Blue for being our partners in making our vision a reality.

This is a momentous milestone in Steep’s journey home. Thanks to the support of the City and your generosity, we have raised 90% of the funds necessary to complete this project. While there is still more to do, we have a lot to celebrate as construction is now mere weeks away. I look forward to sharing more news with you very soon, including information about our groundbreaking ceremony this spring.

With gratitude,

Peter Moore Ensemble Member & Artistic Director peter.moore@steeptheatre.com 773-649-3186 Support Steep Today!

Get Involved

Now is the moment to make an impact, to create a beacon of art and light in Edgewater, and to be an integral part of the future of Steep Theatre.

For information about naming opportunities and multi-year gifts, please contact:
Executive Director Marisa Macella
marisa@steeptheatre.com
(773) 649-3186

Mailing Address
PO Box 607415
Chicago, IL 60660

Steep Theatre is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and all contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law. EIN: 36-4459659

Supporters

Steep is in position to purchase a building thanks in no small part to a group of generous friends of the company who have enthusiastically supported our search for a new home since moving on from 1115 West Berwyn. We are profoundly grateful!

This list includes gifts of $1,000 or more pledged or received by January 2025.

Land Acknowledgement

The area that we now call Chicago, including the piece of land where we plan to establish our next theatre, is the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires. This area has long been a vibrant site of trade, life, and community-making for many Indigenous nations and is now home to 65,000 American Indian people. As the current occupants of this land, many of us are here as a legacy of the forced removal of Indigenous Peoples by a settler-colonial state.

As a step toward honoring this truth and achieving healing and reconciliation, we share this statement acknowledging the traditional Native lands on which we stand. Such statements become truly meaningful when coupled with authentic relationships and sustained commitment, and we encourage you to check out the work of organizations like The American Indian Center and to support native art and artists, organizers, activists, and people in our community.