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Many thanks to all of the fine people—hundreds of them, actually—who helped realize the productions of Linda Vista at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, and Second Stage in New York.

As is always the case with my plays, my director and dramaturg were instrumental in the creation of the work. So I give thanks to Dexter Bullard and Ed Sobel.

I was blessed with a phenomenal company of actors in all three cities. I’m deeply grateful to the contributions and deep commitment of Ian Barford, Tim Hopper, Kahyun Kim, Sally Murphy, Caroline Neff, Chantal Thuy, Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, and Troy West.

My designers always have a lot of helpful things to say. Thanks to Laura Bauer, Marcus Doshi, Todd Rosenthal, and Richard Woodbury. Chris Freeburg, David Franklin, Jim Harker, and all of their assistants, ran remarkably smooth operations.

We used Steely Dan music for our transitions. Tracking down and acquiring the rights to those recordings was a job of work. Very special thanks to Lindsay Allbaugh, Eric Sims, Nausica Stergiou, David Leinheardt, Sara Danielsen, Christie Evangelista, Reed Wilkerson, Billy Petersen, Alan Rosenberg, Irving Azoff, and the Estate of Walter Becker. And thanks to the man himself, Donald Fagen, for making it happen.

For good listening and wise counsel, I thank Anna D. Shapiro, Michael Ritchie, Jon Berry, Aaron Carter, Hallie Gordon, Dianne Nora, Laura Dupper, Juli Del Prete, and Ron Gwiazda. Valuable workshop help was provided by Dianne Doan, Sandra Marquez, and Rachel Sondag. Dear friends Bob Fisher, Loren Lazerine, Scott Morfee, David Pasquesi, and Jeff Still all made contributions, whether they know it or not. And Carrie Coon is the best first reader any writer could hope for.