Martha Lavey talks with Rick Logan Live!

Martha Lavey is a Steppenwolf ensemble member and has been the company’s Artistic Director since 1995. She has appeared at Steppenwolf in Good Boys and True, 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 Lapine Agile, Ghost in the Machine, A Summer Remembered, Love Letters, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Savages. Elsewhere in Chicago she has performed at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight and Remains theaters and in New York at the Women’s Project and Productions.  She has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the City Arts panel of Chicago. Lavey 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 and a board member of TCG.

 

The host of Conversations with Extraordinary People, Rick Kogan is senior writer and “Sidewalks” columnist for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine. He also hosts WGN's "Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan" (6:30–9 am Sundays, 720 AM). A newspaper man since age 16 when he wrote his first story for the Chicago Sun-Times, he was a reporter for the Chicago Daily News where he authored a weekly nightlife column, later collected in a book, Dr. Night Life's Chicago. He joined the Chicago Tribune in the 1980s where he was TV critic for five years and later the editor of Tempo, the Tribune's daily feature section. A captivating storyteller, Kogan has written ten books, including two published in 2006 — A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, A Curse and the American Dream and Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago.

 

"Conversations with Extraordinary People" is a regular program series presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and sponsored by The Whitehall Hotel and Fornetto Mei Restaurant. It is taped for broadcast at 4 pm on Sundays and Mondays, and 1 pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on Cable 25, the pulse of Chicago.