16th Street Theater Announces the Opening of THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE BLOCK

16th Street Theater announces the opening of Ike Holter's THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE BLOCK directed by Lili-Anne Brown March 29 - May 5, 2018 at North Berwyn Park District's 16th Street Theater, 6420 16th Street in Berwyn with a press opening of Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 PM.

Ike Holter is one of Chicago's most exciting playwrights. His play is the second offering in 16th Street's 2018 Season Eleven: Heroes. "When I saw the premiere of WOLF at Teatro Vista last spring," states Artistic Director Ann Filmer, "I was on the edge of my seat: like I held my breath for the full 90 minutes. Ike knows how to spin a yarn and this one is tangled in events both current and timeless. Director Lili-Anne Brown is fully embracing the film noir style Ike wrote. This play will provoke exciting dialogue here at 16th Street."

Chicago. Fall. One night, a boarded up bar on the dark side of the block becomes a terrifying crime scene. In the next 48 hours, the neighborhood digs deep into escalating mystery, working against time to separate fact from fiction. But as the clock ticks down, the clues spiral into a razor sharp jigsaw, and what began as a simple mystery quickly twists into a personal, pointed and political thriller.

THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE BLOCK features Alberto Mendoza, Gabriela Diaz, Tony Santiago, Associate Artist Stephanie Diaz and Christian Isely.

Ike Holter is a 2017 winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize, one of the highest awards for playwriting in the world. Holter is a resident playwright at Victory Gardens Theater, and his work has been workshopped at The Kennedy Center, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and The Playwrights' Center. His work has been produced at the Steppenwolf Garage, The Philadelphia Theater Company, Off Broadway at Barrow Street and Cherry Lane, The Lily Tomlin Center in L.A, True Colors in Atlanta, Water Tower Theater in Dallas, 3oaks in Michigan, and Jackalope, Teatro Vista, A Red Orchid , and The Inconvenience in Chicago. He is the artistic director of The Roustabouts and is a regular performer at Salonathon and The Paper Machete.

Lili-Anne Brown, a native Chicagoan, works as a director, actor and educator, both locally and regionally. She is the former Artistic Director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she directed Michael John LaChiusa's See What I Wanna See (Steppenwolf Theatre Garage Rep), the critically acclaimed Chicago premiere of Passing Strange (BTA Award for Best Director of a Musical, Jeff Award nomination for Best Director of a Musical), the world premiere of Princess Mary Demands Your Attention by Aaron Holland, and the Chicago premiere of the Ahrens & Flaherty musical Dessa Rose, for which she received the Joseph Jefferson Award. Other directing credits include: Lottery Day by Ike Holter (Goodman Theatre, New Stages Festival), Marie Christine (Boho Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Metropolis Performing Arts),The Wiz (Kokandy Productions), Xanadu (American Theatre Company), Jabari Dreams of Freedom by Nambi Kelley (Chicago Children's Theatre), the national non-Equity tour of Jesus Snatched My Edges; American Idiot at Northwestern University; On the Boards and Hearts of Darkness at Roosevelt University; and Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Unnecessary Farce, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, at Timber Lake Playhouse. She is a member of SDC, Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, and a graduate of Northwestern University.