Established in 2016, LookOut is Steppenwolf’s performance series that presents the work of Chicago artists and companies across genre and form. LookOut’s mission is to expand the audiences and artists that come into Steppenwolf, whether they are new in their careers or seasoned professionals. LookOut provides resources while serving as a venue where people regularly go when they’re looking for a fun night out.

In its format the LookOut model is about flexibility, diversity in all aspects, and helping make Steppenwolf a different kind of experience to different kinds of people. LookOut creates relationships based off people, artists, and communities the series wants to engage with and not on work that needs to be intentionally in conversation with each other. That is why when I joined the LookOut team I designed a new way artists can be apart of the series with the launch of the Lookout Curatorial Residency.

The LookOut Series is Steppenwolf’s performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form. Emerging artists and performance legends, quintessential Chicago companies and young aspiring ensembles, familiar Steppenwolf faces and new friends.