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DEAR FRIENDS, Beth Henley wrote what would become her break-out play while holding down jobs at a department store and computerpart manufacturer. In hopes that it might appeal to theatre companies on a budget, she limited the cast size to six, confined the action to one set, made sure no props had to break, and imagined that the lights would fade out before the cake was cut to avoid having to buy a new one for each performance. Actors Theatre of Louisville produced that little play. And then Manhattan Theatre Club did. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama, transferred to Broadway and ran for 535 performances, and became a hit film starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek. That play was called Crimes of the Heart. The impression it made was so indelible that most people, to this day, associate Beth Henley with realistic tragicomedies set in the American South.

But in the intervening decades, Beth has revealed herself to be a writer intent on continuing to push her craft and challenge herself. Among her plays is one set in a futuristic Hollywood and another indebted to Greek festival drama. She has written in modes as diverse as postmodern parody, language-based formalism, and play noir. If you haven’t paid attention to her work lately, I have a surprise for you: Beth Henley is a genre-defying stylistic innovator.

Laugh is one of her wildest yet: a pies-in-faces romp indebted to American silent films. It’s a far cry from Southern realism. But if you know her work and listen carefully, you’ll hear undeniable echoes of her earlier work that mark this as a Beth Henley play: comic detail in the midst of pain and disappointment; an embrace of outsiders, non-conformists, free spirits; and an abiding faith in the human spirit even though the universe seems to be against us. In many forms and many genres, Beth Henley has spent her career making desperation recognizable, complicated, and very, very funny.

We’ve been delighted to have Beth among us over the last month as her play took shape.

She is joined by an adventurous troupe: six transformative actors, four ingenious designers, an inspired composer and musician, and a seasoned director who makes his Studio debut.

Please join me in saluting their talent and ingenuity as we usher this new play onto the stage.

YOURS, DAVID MUSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

LAUGH

BY BETH HENLEY ORIGINAL MUSIC BY WAYNE BARKER DIRECTED BY DAVID SCHWEIZER A WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION

DAVID MUSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MERIDITH BURKUS MANAGING DIRECTOR SERGE SEIDEN PRODUCING DIRECTOR

SET DESIGNER ANDROMACHE CHALFANT LIGHTING DESIGNER MICHAEL LINCOLN COSTUME DESIGNER FRANK LABOVITZ SOUND DESIGNER ADAM W. JOHNSON FIGHT DIRECTOR JOE ISENBERG MOVEMENT CONSULTANT ELENA DAY DRAMATURG ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL

Laugh is a professional production employing members of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and United Scenic Artists (USA).

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ANTHONY O. BULLOCK* TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ROB SHEARIN

Laugh is presented by special agreement with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.

Laugh was developed at Theatreworks, Palo Alto, CA as part of their New Works Festival.

It was originally presented by New York Stage and Film & Vassar as a Play Workshop at the Powerhouse Theater, Summer 2014.

Beginning March 11, 2015 in the Mead Theatre.

Laugh is generously underwritten by Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber.

AN INTERMISSION DOUBLE FEATURE: “BOOKS & BOOZE” THE FUN DOESN’T HAVE TO END WHEN THE LIGHTS COME UP. Take home Beth Henley’s world premiere play Laugh, now available for purchase in the Studio bookstore.

Immerse yourself in the full 1920s experience and visit concessions for our specialty cocktail, The Bee’s Knees.

CAST

MABEL — HELEN CESPEDES* ROSCOE — CREED GARNICK* CURLY P. CURTIS and Others — EVAN ZES* UNCLE OSCAR DEFOLIANT and Others — JACOB MING-TRENT* AUNT OCTOBRA DEFOLIANT and Others — EMILY TOWNLEY* MISS BEE SUNSHINE and Others — FELICIA CURRY* PIANIST/NARRATOR — WAYNE BARKER Laugh will be presented with a 10-minute intermission.

UNDERSTUDIES MABEL EMILY GRACE WOODHOUSE+ ROSCOE ROBERT MUELLER+ CURLY P. CURTIS and Others STEPHEN RUSSELL MURRAY+ AUNT OCTOBRA DEFOLIANT and Others GRAZIELLA JACKSON+ MISS BEE SUNSHINE and Others SHERRY BERG+ *Members Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Equity Membership Candidate

SP IN RI TO NG SU MM ER A hilarious and heartbreaking play about romance, resilience, taking chances, and moving on by the winner of Britain’s 2012 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

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MURDER BALLAD CONCEIVED BY AND WITH BOOK AND LYRICS BY JULIA JORDAN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JULIANA NASH DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE BEGINS APR 15, 2015 Sara’s life is perfect—Upper West Side husband, daughter, and life—until her irresistible past blows back into her life in the form of an old flame, a dangerous passion, and a love triangle headed for ignition. Staged cabaret-style in Stage 4 with full bar service before and after the performance, Murder Ballad puts the audience in the middle of its action for a full immersive experience. It’s Studio Theatre like you’ve never seen it before.

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BEGINS JUL 15, 2015 Clarice, Hannibal, Buffalo Bill— all singing, all dancing, and more outrageous than ever. This spoof of the 1991 Oscar-winning film features gleefully vulgar songs, non-stop zingers, and a singing chorus of tap-dancing lambs.

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NOTE A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG, ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL “I wanted to laugh,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley about the genesis of her latest play. She’d been working on The Jacksonian, a very dark comedy set in Civil Rights-era Mississippi, and decided she needed a change of pace. She paced it up tremendously, drawing inspiration from her long-time love of the classic films of the 1920s, their slapstick antics, sometimes subversive examinations of power, and indelible stars, particularly Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and their Keystone Kops adventures with Charlie Chaplin. The resulting play—called Laugh, appropriately enough—features a clever and headstrong leading lady, a young man with more heart than he knows, and a treacherous world of opportunists and greed that lands our heroes in Hollywood at its most glamorous and toxic.

Laugh offers the many and deep pleasures of accomplished physical comedy, but alongside its physical and plot calisthenics, the play offers an exploration of the power of transformation from a playwright at the top of her craft. Mabel starts off an explosion-smudged bumpkin and teaches herself how to be a star through a steady diet of silent pictures and observation. Roscoe takes on his disguises to make up for the worst of his cowardice only to discover that he may be made of slightly stronger stuff than he’d realized. The other twentyeight characters are played by four versatile performers who take on roles across gender and age while channeling the spirit and silhouette of early films.

Henley’s play offers madcap adventure and slapstick comedy (Mud fights! Pratfalls! Pies to the face!) with the same keen insight into the strange, funny, and deeply human foibles of relationships she explored with such skill in Crimes of the Heart and its darker cousin, The Jacksonian. Henley’s characters are full of bravery and cowardice in turn, fighting for the work and people they love, stumbling—at times in spite of themselves—into more resilient, more empathic, slightly better versions of themselves.

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BETH HENLEY

Beth Henley is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress whose 1979 drama Crimes of the Heart received the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

She began writing plays as a BFA student at Southern Methodist University. The success of Crimes of the Heart has been followed by a long and distinguished career that includes the screenplay for the 1986 film of the play which featured Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Tess Harper, and Sam Shepard. Other notable achievements are The Miss Firecracker Contest (both play and screenplay), The Wake of Jamey Foster, The Debutante Ball, The Lucky Spot, and Abundance.

Her most recent plays are Signature, Control Freaks, L-Play, Impossible Marriage (with Holly Hunter in the lead), and The Jacksonian, directed by Robert Falls at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and The New Group in New York. In addition to the screenplays of Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest, Ms. Henley has written several television and movie screenplays, including “Survival Guides” with Budge Threlkeld for PBS and the films Nobody’s Fool and True Stories (the latter is a collaboration with Stephen Tobolowsky and David Byrne of the rock group Talking Heads). Ms. Henley is a Theatre Arts Presidential Professor at Loyola Marymount University LA.

CAST HELEN CESPEDES (Mabel) returns to Studio Theatre, where she was last seen as Sylvia in Tribes. She recently understudied the role of Helen McCormick in the Broadway production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe at The Cort Theatre. Off Broadway, she performed in A Picture of Autumn at The Mint Theater. Her regional credits include Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by David Hyde Pierce and starring Tyne Daly) at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Love’s Labour’s Lost at Chautauqua Theatre Company. Her film credits include The Way I Remember It, starring Christine Ebersole. Ms. Cespedes holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Barnard College and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she received the John Houseman Prize for exceptional ability in classical theater.

CREED GARNICK (Roscoe) debuted on Broadway as Spike in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. He was also seen as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre Center. Mr. Garnick is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s Drama Division, where he performed in Savage in Limbo (directed by Pam MacKinnon), Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Scapin, The Mound Builders, The Seagull, and The Crucible. His film and television work includes The Broken Towers (directed by James Franco), To. Be. Determined., and Unsolved Mysteries.

EVAN ZES (Curly P. Curtis and Others) makes his Studio Theatre debut.

His New York credits include Freedom of the City, Man and Superman, White Woman Street, Around the World in 80 Days at Irish Repertory Theatre and American Dreams and As You Like It with The Acting Company. His DC area work includes Pericles at the Shakespeare Theatre Company and The Arabian Nights at Arena Stage. His international credits include Julie Taymor’s The King Stagg at the Barbican in London and A Dream Play at the Moscow Art Theatre. Select regional credits include productions at The Goodman, The Old Globe, New York Stage and Film, La Jolla Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Baltimore Center Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others. His film and television credits include The Street, Last Night at Angelo’s, and All My Children. He received his MFA from A.R.T./ Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard University.

JACOB MING-TRENT (Uncle Oscar Defoliant and Others) appeared on Broadway in Hands on a Hardbody and Shrek the Musical. His Off Broadway credits include Father Comes Home from the Wars and The Tempest, Public Theater; Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, Theatre for a New Audience; On the Levee, Lincoln Center; Dispatches from (A)mended America, Widowers’ Houses, Epic Theatre Ensemble. Regional credits include productions at American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theater,

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EMILY TOWNLEY (Aunt Octobra Defoliant and Others) has previously appeared at Studio Theatre in Skin Tight, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and The Bright and Bold Design. She is a Company Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, where she has performed in multiple productions; her favorite roles there include Penny Easter in The Totalitarians (2015 Helen Hayes Nomination), Mary in Detroit, Pauline in A Bright New Boise, Lizzie in Mary Stuart, Heidi in Fuddy Meers, and Marilyn in Watbanaland. Locally, she has appeared in numerous productions for the Folger Shakespeare Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, Rep Stage, MetroStage, Washington Stage Guild, Source Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and Round House Theatre. Last year she was seen as Madge in The Game’s Afoot and Sue Bayliss in All My Sons, both Gulfshore Playhouse. Her upcoming credits include Bad Dog at Olney Theatre Center. Ms. Townley is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

FELICIA CURRY (Miss Bee Sunshine and Others) was last seen at Studio Theatre as the Storyteller in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Her area credits include A Christmas Carol and ...Spelling Bee at Ford’s Theatre, This at Round House Theatre, and Home at Rep Stage, as well as shows at The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, Arena Stage, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, MetroStage, Olney Theatre Center, and Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Her regional credits include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and The Mountaintop at Gulfshore Playhouse and The Color Purple at Virginia Repertory (RTCC Award). Her New York credits include We Three Lizas at Joe’s Pub, as well as Petite Rouge and Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue Presents the Brontes at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Ms. Curry co-hosted the 28th Helen Hayes Awards, has been nominated for three individual Helen Hayes Awards and two ensemble awards, receiving one for the ensemble of Les Miserables. She is a member of the Capitol Steps and Factory 449 and is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.

WAYNE BARKER (Pianist/Narrator) See bio on Artists page.

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ARTISTS DAVID SCHWEIZER (Director) makes his Studio debut with Laugh, after a career of more than 40 years developing and directing new theatre, opera, and performance art both nationally and internationally. Mr. Schweizer attended the Yale School of Drama and made his New York debut at Lincoln Center with a radical version of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (produced by his early mentor Joseph Papp); he returned to Lincoln Center decades later with his landmark staging of Richard Rodney Bennett’s opera The Mines of Sulphur. Recent career highlights include Rinde Eckert’s And God Created Great Whales, an Obie Award-winning chamber opera in New York (and on tour worldwide), as well as his recent staging of Frank Martin’s rarely performed chorale opera The Love Potion at Boston Lyric Opera. His extensive regional theatre work includes productions at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, and many shows at Baltimore’s Center Stage, most recently this past fall’s production of Next to Normal. Mr. Schweizer will direct the upcoming world premieres of the original musical Max Understood at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco and The Long Walk at Opera Saratoga.

WAYNE BARKER (Pianist/Narrator/Original Music/Music Director) received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award for his music for Peter and the Starcatcher. He also composed the music and co-wrote lyrics for the Broadway production of Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance and contributed songs to the current Dame Edna farewell tour, as well as her 2004 Royal Command Variety Performance. His other scores include The Great Gatsby and The Primrose Path at the Guthrie Theater, Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers at Seattle Repertory Theater, and Parallel Exit’s dance theater piece I Heart Bob. He has arranged and conducted a variety of scores for regional theatres and in 2010 he orchestrated Mark Bennett’s score for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at La Jolla Playhouse. His symphony pops arrangements have been played by orchestras all over the world.

Last fall, Mr. Barker made his acting debut as Cosme McMoon in Souvenir at Portland Stage Company.

ANDROMACHE CHALFANT (Set Designer)’s recent New York credits include Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers (directed by David Schwimmer) at Second Stage Theatre and Kimber Lee’s brownsville song (b-side for tray) (directed by Patricia McGregor) and Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake (directed by Evan Cabnet) at Lincoln Center Theater. Her opera designs include a co-production with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Gotham Chamber Opera of Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; a new work by composer Lembit Beecher titled I Have No Stories To Tell You, directed by Robin Guarino; El Gato Con Botas produced

by Gotham Chamber Opera at El Museo Del Barrio; A Streetcar Named Desire at Virginia Opera; and Faust at Minnesota Opera. Regionally, she has designed at Hartford Stage, The Old Globe, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, The Curtis Institute,

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Ms. Chalfant is a graduate of Bennington College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

MICHAEL LINCOLN (Lighting Design) returns to Studio Theatre having designed The Night Watcher, The Adding Machine: A Musical, Bachelorette, Venus in Fur, The History Boys, Grey Gardens, Privates on Parade, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog, and many other productions since 2000. He was also the lighting consultant for Studio Theatre’s building expansion and renovation in 2002. His work in New York City includes Copenhagen, Skylight, and More to Love on Broadway and Off Broadway productions of Mr. Goldwyn, The Bubbly Black Girl…, If Love Were All, Defying Gravity, and Bunny Bunny. Mr. Lincoln was the Associate Designer for Broadway’s Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, and City of Angels. He has designed over 300 productions and has long associations with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, and Cleveland Play House. He is currently serving as the artistic director of the theater division at Ohio University.

FRANK LABOVITZ (Costume Designer) returns to Studio Theatre, where he has previously designed Torch Song Trilogy for the Studio Subscription Series, Dirt for the Studio Lab, and Astro Boy and the God of Comics and Mojo for 2ndStage. His designs have appeared in the Washington area at many theatres including Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Theater J, and Imagination Stage. Mr. Labovitz received the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design for his work on Dreamgirls at Signature Theatre. He received his MFA in Design from the University of Maryland.

ADAM W. JOHNSON (Sound Designer), a DC-based sound designer and engineer, returns to Studio after designing and mixing Carrie the Musical for 2ndStage. Locally, he has designed Los empeños de una casa and Puro Tango 2 at GALA Hispanic Theatre, as well as F@#king Up Everything for the New Musical Foundation. Other designs include Always... Patsy Cline at Stoneham Theatre, Aesop’s Network for the BTF PLAYS! program at Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Metamorphoses at Live Arts. He was the Associate Sound Designer for The Love of the Nightingale with Tom Teasley at Constellation Theatre, and has assisted John Gromada on productions at Ford’s Theatre including Fly and The Laramie Project. Mr. Johnson works as a staff audio engineer at Arena Stage, where his engineering credits include The Mountaintop, The Music Man, and the world premiere of Pullman Porter Blues. He is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia.

ELENA DAY (Movement Consultant) specializes in movement theatre and circus.

Ms. Day served as the Movement Director for Moth in Studio 2ndStage and teaches Movement for the Actor at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory. Other area credits include directing Balloon Plays at Capital Fringe and directing/producing on the nOse at Round House Theatre, which was also seen at Brick Theater and Orlando Fringe.

She served as Movement Director on Wiley and the Hairy Man at Imagination Stage, Merrily We Roll Along at Sidwell Friends, and Mockingbird at The Kennedy Center. Ms.

Day served as Assistant Director on Stuart Little and Movement Consultant on Tiny Tim at Adventure Theatre MTC. She also consulted on the Look Both Ways Festival at The Kennedy Center. Regionally, Ms. Day directed Hair at Mad Cow Theatre and Cirque du Charme at Artscape, which she also wrote. Her performing credits include Cirque Mechanics’ Boom Town and Cirque du Soleil’s La Nouba. Ms. Day performs worldwide with Cirque du Soleil in their special events department and is a graduate of Oberlin College, L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.

ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL (Dramaturg) is Studio Theatre’s Literary Director.

At Studio, she has dramaturged the world premieres of Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses as well as productions of Bad Jews, Cock, Moth, Edgar & Annabel, The Apple Family Plays, An Iliad, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She also served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 new, contemporary, and classic plays there, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, Rinne Groff, The Civilians, Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Jordan Harrison, and John Belluso. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of five editions of plays through Studio. Ms. Hansel holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

ANTHONY O. BULLOCK (Production Stage Manager) joins Studio Theatre as its new Resident Stage Manager. Originally from Oklahoma, he has spent most of his time in the Philadelphia/Central New Jersey area. He has worked internationally on The White Snake by Mary Zimmerman with The Goodman Theatre, as part of The Wuzhen Theatre Festival in Wuzhen, China. Regionally, he has worked at Classic Stage Company, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Passage Theatre Company, ReVision Theatre, Oklahoma City Repertory, Black Hills Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Children’s Theatre. He holds a BFA in Stage Management from Oklahoma City University. Mr. Bullock is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

NATHAN NORCROSS (Assistant Director) is Studio Theatre’s Artistic Apprentice.

As a director, Mr. Norcross’ early professional career has spanned a variety of genres and forms—from large-scale musicals to intimate chamber pieces, from developing new plays with living playwrights to developing his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Mr. Norcross has worked alongside a number of directors he now counts as valuable mentors, including Mark Lamos, Nicky Martin, Gary Griffin, Bob Moss, and Eric Rosen. He assisted Phylicia Rashad in directing a production of A Raisin in the Sun at the Westport Country Playhouse. Mr. Norcross is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he earned a BFA in Acting, as well as Florida State University where he recently completed an MFA in Directing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Studio Theatre thanks the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for Performing Arts and Lizbeth J. Dobbins for their support of Laugh.

Studio Theatre is grateful to WAMU, media sponsor of Laugh.

Beth Henley would like to dedicate this production to Ron Marasco and the Laugh class at Loyola Marymount University LA. Studio Theatre would like to thank Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Murdoch Campbell, Carol Flaisher, and The Washington Source for Lighting.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

LAUGH STAFF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NATHAN NORCROSS ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER JEN GRUNFELD+ LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR ERIC MCMORRIS SOUND BOARD OPERATOR CHRISTAL JEREZ FLOOR MANAGER/GAFFER CODY WHITFIELD+ PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/GAFFER JOHNNY DAY+ AND CHRISTINE RUNTHENBERG-MARSHALL PROPS ARTISANS MICHELLE ELWYN, DEB GLASSBERG, DEB CRERIE, AND KAY RZASA CARPENTERS CATHRYN SALISBURY VALERIEN, NICK ARANCIBIA, AND LOUIS DAVIS PRODUCTION INTERNS TYNIAH LEWIS AND ELLISON ROBERTS For additional members of the production staff, please see the full staff listing.

ABOUT STUDIO Studio Theatre is dedicated to the best in contemporary theatre, producing an uncommonly rich and wide-ranging repertoire of provocative new writing from around the world alongside unique special events and inventive stagings of contemporary classics. Devoted to artistic excellence, Studio Theatre strives to present audiences with extraordinary writing, sophisticated design, and stunning performance. Our commitment to connecting actors and audience is built into our architecture, where none of our four performance spaces seats more than 225 patrons. No theatre of comparable budget size operates such exclusively intimate spaces.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Gerald M. Rosberg, Chairperson Virginia A. McArthur, Vice Chairperson Jon Danforth, Treasurer Irene Harriet Blum Frederick J. Boyle Vincent Brown Susan L. Butler Liz Cullen Mark W. Foster Susan L. Gordon Jean Heilman Grier Leonade Jones

Albert G. Lauber, Jr. Wendy Luke Stanley Marcuss Herbert E. Milstein A. Fenner Milton Larry Naake James Nozar Jonathan Pitt Teresa M. Schwartz Steve Skalet Jerome Sowalsky David Steinglass Roberta S. Terkowitz Robert Tracy

Jonathan Tycko Janet Wittes EX-OFFICIO Meridith Burkus David Muse Serge Seiden HONORARY BOARD Jan Carol Berris Morris J. Chalick, M.D. Barbara Smith Coleman* Virginia R. Crawford John G. Guffey Warren Graves

S. Ross Hechinger E. C. Michael Higgins Jaylee M. Mead, Chair Emeritus* Russell Metheny Harold F. Nelson Nancy Linn Patton Marshall E. Purnell Joan Searby Victor Shargai Henry F. von Eichel* Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director *in memoriam

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LEADERSHIP DAVID MUSE (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) is in his fifth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre. For Studio and 2ndStage, he has directed Belleville, Cock, Tribes, The Real Thing, An Iliad, Dirt, Bachelorette, The Habit of Art, Venus in Fur, Circle Mirror Transformation, reasons to be pretty, Blackbird, Frozen, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow.

Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he directed seven productions, including Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Coriolanus. Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Swansong for New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theaters, including New York Theatre Workshop, Geva Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Mr. Muse has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A six-time Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction, he is a recipient of the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. Mr. Muse is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.

MERIDITH BURKUS (MANAGING DIRECTOR) joined Studio Theatre in May 2014. She brings ten years of arts management experience to the position—encompassing theater, music, film, and public media. Most recently, Ms. Burkus held the position of Director of External Relations at StoryCorps, the Peabody Award-winning radio program and national oral history project, working to optimize StoryCorps’ impact on a national scale.

Under her leadership, StoryCorps increased its operating budget by 25% and launched several new initiatives and recording locations across the country. She previously held positions in marketing, public relations, and development with several New York City organizations, including five seasons at The Public Theater as Director of Individual Giving. At the Public, she significantly increased annual contributions to various programs and initiatives such as Shakespeare in the Park, Public Lab, Joe’s Pub, and the Under the Radar Festival, in addition to being a key player in the successful completion of the recent $40 million capital campaign to renovate The Public’s historic home on Lafayette Street. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music.

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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED Celebrating the marriage of board members E.C. Michael Higgins and Virginia McArthur, and hosted by son John Michael Higgins (Pitch Perfect, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show), proceeds from the event supported Studio’s new play initiatives, including this world premiere of Laugh from Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Beth Henley.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS: Carolyn Alper BB&T J. Frank Bernheisel and Kathleen Cavanaugh Sue and Joe Bredekamp Susan L. and Dixon M. Butler Dr. Morris J. Chalick Nancy Chasen and Don Spero Liz and Tim Cullen Miriam Cutler and Paul Salditt Lizbeth J. Dobbins Margery Doppelt Hope and Mark Foster Burton Gerber Susan L. Gordon Graham Holdings Company Kenneth G. Hance, Jr. and Kamer Davis John and Meg Hauge

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S E A S O N

JUL 10 – AUG 2 2015

STUDIO STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID MUSE

MANAGING DIRECTOR MERIDITH BURKUS

Literary Director: Adrien-Alice Hansel Associate Literary Director: Lauren Halvorsen

Development Manager of Major Gifts: Zack Lynch Development Officer: Stephanie Hagen Development Associate, Individuals and Events: Kelsey Beaumont Development Apprentice: Laura Cohen

Artistic Apprentice: Nathan Norcross Director of Design: Debra Booth Commissioned Writers: Vivienne Franzmann, Clare Lizzimore, Stew and Heidi Rodewald PRODUCING DIRECTOR SERGE SEIDEN Associate Production Manager: Lorna Mulvaney Production Associate: Jacob Janssen Company Manager/Production Apprentice: Victoria Vasquez Resident Stage Manager: Anthony O. Bullock Stage Management Apprentice: Jen Grunfeld Technical Director: Robert Shearin Assistant Technical Director/Master Carpenter: Jen Worster Scenic Artist: Erich Starke Carpentry/Scene Shop Apprentice: Bianca Hamp Properties Director: Deborah Thomas Costume Shop Manager: Brandee Mathies Master Electrician/Sound Technician: Adrian Rooney Electrics Apprentice: Eric McMorris Sound/Projections Apprentice: Christal Jerez Director of Education: Roma Rogers Education Manager: Madeleine Burke Pitt Education/Conservatory Apprentice: Kaitlyn McElrath Instructors: Joy Zinoman (Director of Curriculum and Teacher Training), Meade Andrews, Carol Arthur, Nancy Bannon, Diana Bradley, Zach Campion, Kate Davis, Elena Day, Kate Debelack, Denise Diggs, Catherine Eliot, George Fulginiti-Shakar, Julie Garner, Charlotte Graham, Robb Hunter, Nancy Paris, Madeleine Burke Pitt, Roma Rogers, Serge Seiden, Colette Yglesias Silver, Matthew Vaky

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