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Fact Sheet
- Emmy Award Winner
- Premiered April 2000
- One hour documentary
About this Show
The history and style of Chicago’s most acclaimed theater company and one of the world’s great acting ensembles. Includes in-depth conversations with theater ensemble members Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, John Mahoney, Joan Allen, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and the rest of Steppenwolf’s acclaimed collective of actors and directors. It is highlighted by rare and previously unseen excerpts from Steppenwolf performances from the past twenty years
Interesting Facts
- Awarded Documentary of Cultural Significance in the 2000 Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards
- Steppenwolf was founded in 1974 by high school friends Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois
Noted and Quoted
Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 25 Years on the Edge takes a simple approach to complex and insightful ends... It’s not an easy thing for such a film to cut through the pomp and circumstance to get to the substance beneath, but writer/producer Scott Silberstein and editor Matt Hoffman, co-founders of HMS Media, pull it off... (Steppenwolf) benefits from that. So does the viewer.
— The Daily Herald
Congratulations and thank you... you did excellent work on 25 Years on the Edge
— Gary Sinise, Co-founder, Steppenwolf Theatre Company