About "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs"
A play by Mike Daisey | Directed and performed by Lance Baker
A harrowing tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, illuminates how Jobs and his obsessions have shaped our lives.
The play takes the audience all the way to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods, shining a light on our love affair with devices and the human cost of creating them.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs features Lance Baker, a Joseph Jefferson Award-winning Chicago actor who has appeared on stages at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Theatre Wit, and others. The ETOPiA production is a remount of the 16th Street Theatre’s production, in which Baker starred in February 2013.
Artist Biography
Lance Baker is an actor in Chicago. Recent shows include The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (16th Street), Henry VIII and Amadeus (Chicago Shakespeare), Speed-the-Plow and Doubt (ATC), Sleuth and The Fox on the Fairway (Theater at the Center), Ten Chimneys and Mauritius (Northlight), Invisible Man and Travesties (Court Theatre), Becky Shaw and The Mandrake (A Red Orchid), Dollhouse and Lobby Hero (Goodman), Spin and Santaland Diaries (Theater Wit), Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass/Kansas City Rep), and Fanny Brice (Asolo in Sarasota, FL and Maltz in Jupiter, FL).
He has also directed several plays, including A Very Merry Scientology Pageant and The Earl.
Film credits include Public Enemies, The Express, Repetition, Road to Perdition, Treasure Island, and Payback.
