Private company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Logo: https://www.steppenwolf.org/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Theatre company in Chicago, Illinois, US

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Immaculate Conception grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street. After occupying several theatres in Chicago, in 1991, it moved into its own purpose-built complex with three performing spaces, the largest seating 550.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1974Founded1
  • HeadquartersChicago, United States1
  • Websitewww.steppenwolf.org/about-us/who-we-are
  • Legal formNonprofit Corporation1
  • LEI5493000X7PBMCV5HIU983
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressC/O ELIZABETH BROOKE FLANAGAN, 60614 Chicago, United States3
  • Registered withBusiness Services (Office of the Secretary of State), 506067083
Steppenwolf theater Chicago
Photo: victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Immaculate Conception grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street. After occupying several theatres in Chicago, in 1991, it moved into its own purpose-built complex with three performing spaces, the largest seating 550.2

Timeline

  1. 1974Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$3.4M 2020–2021
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2021: $3.4M in all. PPP loans $3.4M.$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2020 · PPP loans: $1.7M20202021 · PPP loans: $1.7M2021
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2021$1.7M$1.7M
2020$1.7M$1.7M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA6. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 28, 2020$1.7M PPP loan (first draw) from The Northern Trust Company6To STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY, Chicago IL; $1.8M forgiven Feb 4, 2022
  2. Mar 31, 2021$1.7M PPP loan (second draw) from The Northern Trust Company6To STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY, Chicago IL; $1.7M forgiven Jul 18, 2022