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FRIENDS, Studio Theatre has a distinguished history of producing plays by Irish dramatists.

Among them: Studio favorites Conor McPherson, Mark O’Rowe, Martin McDonough, Enda Walsh, Samuel Beckett, and Sebastian Barry. Each of those writers uses language masterfully, finds a poetry in the everyday, and draws inspiration from a rich heritage of Irish dramatic literature.

The Irish playwrights that Studio has produced share something else in common. They are all men.

I’m pleased that it’s Deirdre Kinahan who puts an end to that streak. Over the last decade, Deirdre has risen to prominence in the UK, but her work has not been widely enough produced in America. She is one of those writers who use everyday talk and realistic detail so skillfully that you hardly notice the cagey structural work underlying her plays. She also, in a way that makes her work feel as indebted to American playwrights as Irish ones, gets families — how sibling rivalry works, how patterned our familial behavior becomes, how sexism plays itself out, how we embrace and obscure our past, and how nurturing family can be through it all.

This production also marks a Studio debut for director Ethan McSweeny, a native son who has directed throughout the city and all over the world, but never here. He has assembled an exceptional cast from both sides of the Atlantic. I’m so pleased to welcome you to Studio to share the fruits of their collective effort.

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BY DEIRDRE KINAHAN DIRECTOR ETHAN McSWEENY SET DESIGNER DEBRA BOOTH COSTUME DESIGNER PHILIP WITCOMB LIGHTING DESIGNER SCOTT BOLMAN SOUND DESIGNER PALMER HEFFERAN DIALECTS GARY LOGAN DRAMATURG LAUREN HALVORSEN CASTING LAURA STANCZYK CASTING, CSA PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ANTHONY O. BULLOCK* PRODUCTION MANAGER JOSH ESCAJEDA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ROB SHEARIN Moment is presented by special arrangement with The Gersh Agency.

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CAST In order of appearance

Niamh Lynch | EMILY LANDHAM* Fin White | AVERY CLARK* Teresa Lynch | DEARBHLA MOLLOY* Ciara Blake | CAROLINE BOOTLE PENDERGAST* Dave Blake | CIARAN BYRNE* Nial Lynch | PETER ALBRINK* Ruth Pigeon | HANNAH YELLAND* Hilary Kelly | MIRA COHEN Moment will be presented with an intermission.

UNDERSTUDIES Niamh Lynch | AUDREY BERTAUX + Fin White/Nial Lynch | LOUIS LAVOIE Teresa Lynch | PEG NICHOLS + Ciara Blake | DALLAS MILHOLLAND + Dave Blake | SETH WILLIAM ROSENKE + Ruth Pigeon | EMILY KESTER + Hilary Kelly | ISABELLA BRODY + * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Equity Membership Candidate

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NOTE A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG, LAUREN HALVORSEN “I don’t particularly write about the safe things in life,” admits Deirdre Kinahan. The playwright’s oeuvre traffics in grim subjects gleaned from far-flung sources: “I feel I pick up plays from off the street, from the top seat of a bus, or from a fragment of newspaper,” she says, “Plays echo all humanity as I encounter it.”

In 2008, Deirdre received a commission from the Solstice Arts Centre in Meath, Ireland and, true to her process, inspiration came from multiple sources: a series of high-profile criminal cases in Ireland and a radio interview conducted by broadcaster Marian Finucane. Deirdre recalls listening to Finucane speak with a grieving mother still grappling with her son’s murder of her daughter: “She spoke for a full hour about the horror of that day, that phone call, that moment that shattered her existence... She spoke for an hour and circled, circled, circled around the heart of her distress, around the murder itself. She could never enter it.”

Moment is not an adaptation of these tragedies, but instead a fictionalized navigation of an aftermath. “That woman spoke so powerfully and eloquently of her grief,” says Deirdre, “I decided to write about trauma. A trauma that shapes you, wounds you, and envelops your life. I did some preliminary investigation and then began to reimagine a family and build an afternoon.”

The construction of that family was paramount for Deirdre’s storytelling: “My work is quite character-driven. It’s all about people: Characters are what pull you through, they are what enable you to bring people to places they don’t normally go.” Deirdre draws a vivid portrait of a Dublin family, reuniting for the first time in years. The Lynches’ varied responses to their complicated, shared past — staunch denial, volatile anger, quiet uncertainty, an unapologetic desire to move on — illustrate the wily emotional ripple effect of cataclysmic events. (Deirdre further emphasizes this with the inclusion of several characters in the immediate family’s orbit who, despite their distance from the original trauma, ultimately can’t escape its violent reach.)

One of Moment’s many pleasures is its careful unraveling of familial history and secrets; to delve too deeply into its plot mechanics would be a disservice, but the play adheres to Deirdre’s aversion to dramatizing “the safe things in life”. Moment examines the difficulty and danger of our most intimate human relationships, forcing essential questions to the surface: How well can you ever truly know another person?

Is forgiveness a myth? How can we ever reconcile our past with our present?

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PLAYWRIGHT DEIRDRE KINAHAN Deirdre Kinahan is actively involved in the Irish theatre sector both as playwright and producer. She was a founding member and Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Company for 15 years and now sits on the Abbey Board (Ireland’s National Theatre) and on the advisory committee for the Stewart Parker Trust, whose mission is to encourage new writing for the stage. Her work is translated into many languages and produced regularly both in Ireland and internationally. In 2016, Ms. Kinahan’s plays will be produced in Chicago, New York, Washington, London, Warsaw, and Ireland.

She is published by Nick Hern Books.

Moment debuted at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin before playing at the Bush Theatre in London to critical acclaim and sold-out audiences in 2011. Other plays include Spinning, These Halcyon Days, Bogboy, Hue & Cry, Melody, Maisy Daly’s Rainbow; her work has been presented at The Royal Court, Fishamble Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Civic Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Tall Tales, and Livin Dred in Ireland.

Ms. Kinahan’s latest play Wild Sky, commissioned by Meath County Council Arts Office, is written in commemoration of events leading up to the 1916 Irish Rising and will premiere in Spring 2016 at various venues in Ireland, Europe, and the United States.

Ms. Kinahan is currently under commission to The Old Vic Theatre (London), Manhattan Theatre Club (New York), and Fishamble Theatre Company (Ireland), with numerous other theatre projects in development. She is co-writing her first feature film with the support of the The Irish Film Board and has another feature in development with Blinder Films in Dublin. Her radio credits include Bogboy (RTÉ) and A Bag on Ballyfinch Place (BBC).

Ms. Kinahan has received numerous playwriting awards, including a Fringe First for These Halcyon Days in 2013 and the Tony Doyle Bursary with BBC Northern Ireland in 2009. She is the recipient of the Jim McNaughton Tilestyle Artist’s Bursary (2013), Peggy Ramsay Award (2014), and an Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award (2015).

CAST BIOS EMILY LANDHAM (Niamh Lynch) makes her Studio Theatre debut. Recent credits include Rosalind in As You Like It, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale at Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and Shelby in Steel Magnolias at Studio Tenn; Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest and Annie in All My Sons at Nashville Rep; Julie in Christmas is Miles Away at Babel Theatre Project; and as an understudy for Slippy Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan at Atlantic Theatre Company. Some of her film, television, and commercial credits include: Desolation, Chasing Ghosts, Closer to God, Season of Miracles, Still the King, Tempo, The Game, Toyota, Zaxby’s, Captain D’s, State Farm, and Dollar General. Ms. Landham is an NYU Tisch School of the Arts honors graduate and a member of the Wynn Handman Studio. She resides in Nashville, TN and is the co-founder of the social enterprise BRANDED Collective.

AVERY CLARK (Fin White)’s select New York credits include Arcadia and the original cast of Coronado by Dennis Lehane at Invisible City, The Pillowman at Astoria Performing Arts Center, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at MCT, and The Scarecrow at Metropolitan Playhouse. In the DC area he has performed in Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. His regional work includes Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, and The Count of Monte Cristo at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Hamlet, Henry V, and The 39 Steps at Arkansas Rep; Journey’s End at the Alley Theatre; The Heidi Chronicles at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Three Days of Rain at Oldcastle Theatre Company; and The Shape of Things at Premiere Stages. His television credits include Guiding Light on CBS and American Genius on National Geographic. He will play Jurge Tesman in Hedda Gabler at Studio later this season.

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DEARBHLA MOLLOY (Teresa Lynch) has worked frequently on Broadway and London’s West End, as well as with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. She was last seen in Washington DC in The Cripple of Inishmaan at The Kennedy Center. Ms. Molloy has appeared at all the major regional theatres in England, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the Michael Douglas and Geffen Theaters in Los Angeles, and ART in Boston. She is an Associate Artist of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre. She received a Tony Award nomination for Dancing at Lughnasa on Broadway. She is also the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, a Theatre World Special Award, a London Critics Award, two Irish Theatre Awards, and an Audie Award. Her nominations include a Royal Television Society Award, Independent Film and Television Award, Irish Theatre Award, and a Grammy Award. Her film and television appearances include playing the Queen in the opening episode of season 5 of Scandal.

CAROLINE BOOTLE PENDERGAST (Ciara Blake) returns to Studio Theatre having previously appeared in Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Real Thing. Other DC credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost and Richard III with Shakespeare Theatre Company. She has performed on Broadway in Proof with Mary-Louise Parker and Neil Patrick Harris and in King Lear with Christopher Plummer.

Regional work includes As You Like It with the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Richard II at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and three seasons at The Heritage Repertory Theatre of Charlottesville, VA. Among Ms. Pendergast’s television credits are All My Children and Guiding Light. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Juilliard School. A DC-area resident, she has taught acting at Imagination Stage and The Aidan Montessori School.

CIARAN BYRNE (Dave Blake) is a Company Member of New York City’s Irish Repertory Theatre, and an Artist in Residence at The Cell: A Twenty First Century Salon. Mr. Byrne’s Off Broadway work includes Juno And The Paycock and The Freedom Of The City at Irish Rep and Blood with The Cell.

Regionally, his appearances include Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme at PICT Classic Theatre and The Night Alive with City Theatre. Mr. Byrne’s film and television work includes Trifles for a Massacre selected for 2015 Festival de Cannes; In Between Men, screened at the New York Television Festival; and TNT’s Public Morals, produced by Edward Burns and Steven Spielberg.

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PETER ALBRINK (Nial Lynch)’s New York credits include These Seven Sicknesses directed by Ed Iskandar. Regional credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by David Cromer; Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Gordon Edelstein; Sam Hunter’s When You’re Here; Finding Robert Hutchens; and Papermaker. His TV credits are Gotham, Orange Is The New Black directed by Jodie Foster, Limitless, Elementary, and Unforgettable. His film credits include The Heart Machine, Game Lands, and The Gamble. Mr. Albrink attended Carnegie Mellon University before moving to New York City.

HANNAH YELLAND (Ruth Pigeon) makes her Studio Theatre debut. Her recent DC credits include Hermione in The Winter’s Tale and Laura Jesson in Kneehigh Theatre Company’s visiting production of Brief Encounter at Shakespeare Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award for Best Visiting Production 2015). Ms. Yelland originated the role of Laura in Brief Encounter on Broadway, for which she received a 2011 Tony nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play. She also toured this production to ACT, San Francisco; St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn; The Guthrie, Minneapolis; and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. Other theatre credits include Rachel in My Cousin Rachel at the Gate Theatre, Dublin; and Spoleto Festival 2014; Nora in A Doll’s House at the Abbey Theatre; Kate Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby in the West End/ Chichester/Toronto; and Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession directed by Sir Peter Hall. Film/TV credits include AKA, The Secret, Dalziel & Pascoe, Ultimate Force, Dinotopia (Hallmark), and Poirot; Lord Edgware Dies.

MIRA COHEN (Hilary Kelly) makes her professional acting debut at Studio Theatre. Recent acting credits include ensemble in Legally Blonde Jr. at Adventure Theatre MTC and Ursula in The Christmas Revels. Singing credits include Children’s Chorus for Wammie-winning Washington Revels 30 Year Anniversary CD, solo performance at Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, and solo National Anthem singer at Girls on The Run. Ms. Cohen has been studying ballet for 8 years and plays the piano.

She is in her third year of Adventure Theatre MTC’s preprofessional program and is in her first year of middle school.

DEIRDRE KINAHAN AND HER WORK Deirdre Kinahan is often cited as one of Ireland’s most celebrated and prolific playwrights, and with good reason: she’s written over twenty plays spanning genres, styles, and influences. (And her oeuvre continues to expand: her latest drama Wild Sky premiered last month in Dublin to rave reviews.)

Deirdre started her theatre career as an actor, but wrote her first play, Be Carna, after running a series of theatre workshops with Ruhama Women’s Project, which provides education to women working in prostitution. When the women expressed interest in performing something related to their lives, Kinahan replied, “ ‘I’m not a writer.’ But they said we trust you so I agreed to do it.” The play was produced at Andrews Lane Theatre and then at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999.

Structured in three intersecting monologues set in 1974, 2001, and 2010, Bogboy, an expansion of Kinahan’s radio play of the same name, offers multiple perspectives on the Northern Ireland conflicts through individual characters’ connection to the ‘Disappeared’, civilians who are believed to have been abducted, murdered, and secretly buried by the IRA. These Halcyon Days was drawn from the more personal experience of watching her own uncle deteriorate through dementia in a nursing home in North County Dublin while she was taking work from Tall Tales Theatre to a series of nursing homes throughout Ireland. It premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival and went on to receive a Fringe First award at Edinburgh in 2013, where it was praised as “honest, funny, and strikingly well-observed” (The Scotsman).

Spinning, commissioned and produced by Fishamble Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival, depicts an unflinching reckoning with a teenager’s death that plays out over three overlapping storylines. The 2014 production was praised as “an original multi-layered drama that sees past the black and white.”

Steve Blount in Tall Tales’ 2010 production of Bogboy. Photo: Pat Redmond

Karl Shiels and Caitriona Ennis in Fishamble’s 2014 production of Spinning. Photo: Pat Redmond.

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ARTIST BIOS ETHAN McSWEENY (Director) makes his Studio debut some thirty-five years after he first attended performances here as an audience member. Washington audiences know his work from productions at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Major Barbara, Ion, and The Persians), the Broadway-bound premiere of A Time to Kill at Arena Stage, the recent opera premiere Better Gods at WNO, and his debut production of Never the Sinner at Signature in 1993. Now based in Brooklyn, his work in New York includes premieres by Kate Fodor (100 Saints, Rx), Jason Grote (1001), Thomas Bradshaw (Fulfillment), John Logan (Sinner — Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), as well as the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards). His international work includes two seasons at the Stratford Festival, Canada and three productions for the Gate Theatre, Dublin including the Irish Times Award winning A Streetcar Named Desire. Later this spring he will tour his Midsummer to open the Macao Arts Festival in China. Nationally, he had directed more than seventy productions of premieres, classics, and musicals on many of the country’s preeminent stages including The Guthrie, Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe, The Alley, The Denver Center, South Coast Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Center Stage, and Pittsburgh Public, among many others. He has served as Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Theatre Company from 2004 – 2011, Associate Director of the National Actors Theatre, Resident Director at New Dramatists, Associate Artistic Director of the George Street Playhouse, and is currently a trustee of SDC, the national labor union representing directors and choreographers. A native of the city of Washington, Mr. McSweeny received the first degree in Theatre ever conferred by Columbia University.

DEBRA BOOTH (Set Designer) is Director of Design at Studio Theatre, where she has designed Constellations; The Apple Family Cycle; Jumpers for Goalposts; Belleville; Cock; Edgar & Annabel; Bachelorette; Moonlight; Blackbird; My Children! My Africa!; The Pillowman; Caroline, or Change; Fat Pig; A Number; Afterplay; The Russian National Postal Service; Far Away; Privates on Parade; and many others. Her international work includes premiere operas Marco Polo (Tan Dun/Martha Clarke) in Munich, Hong Kong, and New York and The Hindenburg (Steve Reich/Roman Paska), which toured Europe. Regionally, Ms. Booth’s credits include the premiere of Lost Boys of the Sudan at Minneapolis Children’s Theatre; Marisol at Hartford Stage and the New York Public Theatre; Trying, The Illusion, and Happy Days at Portland Stage Company; the New York premiere of Angels in America at The Juilliard School; The Game of Love and Chance at the Berkshire Theatre Festival; Broken Glass at Philadelphia Theatre Company (Barrymore Award nomination); and Moon for the Misbegotten at Yale Repertory Theatre. She has also collaborated on several projects with Estelle Parsons and Al Pacino for the Actors Studio. Ms. Booth is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

PHILIP WITCOMB (Costume Designer) is a British set and costume designer based in New York. After studying Theatre Design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and The Slade School of Fine Art, Mr. Witcomb started his design career at the acclaimed Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Subsequently, he has designed over 70 productions on both sides of the Atlantic, from intimate studio shows to main house stages and from commercial multi-venue tours to large open-air productions. His work has been nominated for multiple Best Design awards in both the UK and the US, and he was one of twelve finalists selected for The Linbury Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious award for stage design, culminating in an exhibition of his work at the Royal National Theatre in London.

SCOTT BOLMAN (Lighting Designer) recently lit the premiere of the new dancetheater work MIDNIGHT at RADIALSYSTEM V in Berlin. Other recent credits include Fortuna Desperata at Performa 2015, a revival of Song from the Uproar with L.A. Opera at REDcat, The Chandelier for Celebrity Cruise Lines, A Wonderful Life at Goodspeed Opera, piece.piece at Gibney Dance Studios, Intimate Apparel at Chautauqua Theater Company, The Box with the Foundry Theater, and Urban Renewal at FIAF and La Cité International in Paris. Mr. Bolman also works as a collaborative lighting designer with Robert Wilson. Past projects include Zinnias at Peak Performances, Odyssey at the National Theater of Greece, and KOOL at the Guggenheim Museum. Upcoming collaborations include Der Sandman at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Paola Prestini’s new opera Two Oars at Australia’s Bleach Festival. Mr. Bolman is a founding member of Wingspace Design Collective, where he serves as the producer of their Salon Series and is a co-creator of their Professional Mentorship Program.

PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) is a composer and sound designer working in regional theatre and in New York. In 2014, she was named by Live Design Magazine as their “2014 Young Designer to Watch.” Other credits at Studio Theatre include Bad Jews, Edgar & Annabel, Sorry, and Regular Singing. Other shows this season in DC include Equus at Constellation Theatre, and Women Laughing Alone With Salad and Guards At The Taj at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Her New York credits include the Broadway production of Mothers and Sons (assistant), Revolt. She Said, Revolt Again. at Soho Rep, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century at Manhattan Theatre Club, A Delicate Ship at Playwrights Realm, HIR at Playwrights Horizons (associate), The Film Society at Keen Company, The Surrender at Clurman Theatre, I Am The Wind at 59E59, Sex with Strangers and Boys’ Life at Second Stage (assistant), This American Life with Ira Glass at Brooklyn Academy of Music (assistant), and Salome at JACK. Select regional credits include Tiger Style! at Alliance Theatre, Twelfth Night at Center Stage, Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill at Signature Theatre, American Night at Yale Rep, and Heroes at American Players. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

GARY LOGAN (Dialects)’s previous work for Studio Theatre includes dialects for Jumpers for Goalposts, The Wolfe Twins, Tribes, Belleville, The Real Thing, Venus in Fur, Frozen, and Crestfall. Internationally, he was the voice and text coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Tantalus, and for several seasons was a voice and dialect coach for the Stratford Festival of Canada. Regionally, his work includes Lights Rise on Grace and Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth; Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill (with Christine Lahti) and Tender Napalm at Signature Theatre; Master Class (with Tyne Daly) at The Kennedy Center; Shenandoah (with Scott Bakula) at Ford’s Theatre; The Beaux’ Stratagem, Private Lives, and August: Osage County at Everyman Theatre; Love in Afghanistan at Arena Stage; Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing at Folger Theatre; and Othello, The Tempest, and Design for Living for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Mr. Logan is a recipient of The Tyrone Guthrie Award and is the author of The Eloquent Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press).

LAUREN HALVORSEN (Dramaturg) is in her fifth season as Associate Literary Director of Studio Theatre. Her dramaturgy credits at Studio include Between Riverside and Crazy, Chimerica, The Wolfe Twins, Belleville, Water by the Spoonful, Tribes, The Real Thing, The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Aliens, Bachelorette, The Big Meal, and Time Stands Still. Previously, Ms. Halvorsen spent three seasons as Literary Manager of the Alley Theatre. She was the Artistic Associate of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory for six years and has worked in various artistic capacities for City Theatre Company, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, First Person Arts Festival, and The Wilma Theater. Ms. Halvorsen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

LAURA STANCZYK, CSA (Casting) Selected Broadway, off-Broadway and tours include Side Show, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Damn Yankees, Dirty Dancing, The Glorious Ones, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Tryst, Flight, and Urinetown. Other theater includes premieres of Are You There Mcphee; Cotton Club Parade; Harps and Angels; Me, Myself & I; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Golden Age, as well as productions of Master Class, Lisbon Traviata, Shawshank Redemption, and Long Day’s Journey into Night. DC-area casting includes productions at Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Other regional casting includes McCarter, Wilma, Alley, Huntington, Goodman, Pasadena, Milwaukee Rep, Drury Lane, ACT and La Jolla, among others. Nominated for six Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting, and won for production of Follies.

ANTHONY O. BULLOCK (Production Stage Manager) is in his second season as the Resident Stage Manager at Studio Theatre. He has worked internationally on The White Snake by Mary Zimmerman with 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 Theatrical Design and Production with an emphasis in Stage Management from Oklahoma City University. Mr. Bullock is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SIVAN BATTAT (Assistant Director) is Studio Theatre’s 2015–2016 Artistic Apprentice, where she serves as Studio’s resident assistant director. This season, she has assistant directed Between Riverside and Crazy, The Apple Family Plays, and Chimerica. Outside of Studio, Ms. Battat has worked with a number of artists including Kim Weild, Lily Whitsitt, Faye Driscoll, Yuri Kordonsky, and Rinde Eckert. She has worked at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, as well as New Haven-based companies Elm Shakespeare and Collective Consciousness Theatre. She has spent time working with various peace-based groups abroad including the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa in South Tel Aviv, and a young artists’ festival in Sderot, Israel. She most recently worked with the Doris Duke Building Bridges Grant to develop a new commission with Leila Buck for the Muslim Women’s Voices Series at Wesleyan University. Ms. Battat spent a semester training at the Moscow Art Theatre School and is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where she received her BA in Theater and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.

AMANDA LANDIS (Assistant Stage Manager) is Studio’s 2015-2016 Stage Management apprentice. This season she has Assistant Stage Managed Chimerica, Bad Jews, and Between Riverside and Crazy. Ms. Landis is a recent graduate of Northwestern University, where she received a BA in theatre arts and emphases in artistic leadership and management and musical theatre performance. She has worked in various capacities with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Project &, Next Theatre Company, Catalogue for Philanthropy, and Rubicon Theatre Company.

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MOMENT STAFF Assistant Director SIVAN BATTAT Assistant Stage Manager AMANDA LANDIS Take Over Production Stage Manager MADISON BAHR* Take Over Assistant Stage Manager PAUL LUCKENBAUGH Light Board Programmer/Operator SEAN PATRICK FORSYTHE Sound Board Programmer/Operator JESS HOOVER For additional members of the production staff, please see the full staff listing. * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Robb Hunter.

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.

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ABOUT STUDIO THEATRE Now in its sixth season under the leadership of Artistic Director David Muse, 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, performed by acclaimed actors in intimate spaces.

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.

Throughout the Theatre’s 37-year history, the quality of its work has been recognized by sustained community support as well as with 341 nominations and 63 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in professional theatre.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bobbi Terkowitz, Chair Teresa Schwartz, Vice-Chair Jean Heilman Grier, Secretary Jon Danforth, Treasurer Robert Batarla Fred Boyle Susan Butler Liz Cullen Mark Foster Susan Gordon Albert Lauber Wendy Luke Stan Marcuss Ginny McArthur Herb Milstein

Fenner Milton Larry Naake James Nozar Juan Otero Gerry Rosberg Steve Skalet Jerome Sowalsky Robert Tracy Jonathan Tycko Janet Wittes EX-OFFICIO Meridith Burkus David Muse HONORARY BOARD Jan Carol Berris Irene Harriet Blum Vincent Brown 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

LEADERSHIP DAVID MUSE (Artistic Director) is in his sixth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre. For Studio, 2ndStage, and Studio X, he has directed Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, 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 PHOTO: TEDDY WOLFF. Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Swansong for New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theatres, 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 theatre, 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.

YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN AT STUDIO A GIFT TO STUDIO HELPS US BRING THE VERY BEST IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE TO DC. WE CELEBRATE EXCELLENCE

Studio plays explore the contemporary world with style, wit, and passion.

Our uncommonly rich repertoire of provocative writing from around the world is marked by extraordinary writing, sophisticated design, and stunning performance.

WE SERVE THE COMMUNITY

Studio opens its doors to students and audiences across the region by donating tickets to schools, community organizations, and theatres. Our accessibility initiatives aim to make our work available to the widest possible audience. Last season’s production of Choir Boy reached hundreds of metropolitan DC students through Studio’s student matinee program.

WE INVEST IN WRITERS

Studio supports new writing from inception to first production: commissioning new work, giving writers time and resources to develop their work, and hosting them in residence during the rehearsal process. This season, we inaugurated our new Studio X series with a play we commissioned: Clare Lizzimore’s Animal.

WE ANCHOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Studio has grown up in DC’s historic 14th Street Corridor and is the cultural hub of our energetic and revitalized neighborhood.

WE NURTURE CREATIVITY

With an ambitious season of five Main Series shows and four Studio X projects, our programming is the most wide-ranging in the city. Additionally, our acclaimed Acting Conservatory reaches over 500 students in its 60 classes every year.

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THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE To enable us to make significant investments in artistic innovation, a group of Studio enthusiasts have created the Artistic Director’s Circle, a membership program that supports the creative vision of Studio Theatre and allows Studio to invest in the art and artists that make our work so distinctive. Commitments begin at $15,000 and are designated to enhance our artistic programming.

Thank you to our incredible family of Artistic Director’s Circle members:

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THE MILTON CIRCLE

David and Jean Heilman Grier Albert Lauber and Craig Hoffman Susan and Dixon Butler Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber Anonymous Esthy and James Adler Don and Nancy Bliss Bruce Cohen Rick Kasten

THE METHENY CIRCLE Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss Virginia A. McArthur and E.C. Michael Higgins

THE STAGE 4 CIRCLE

Stephen and Judy Hopkins John Horman and Toni Ritzenberg Henry H. and Carol Brown Goldberg

Gerald and Laura Rosberg Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz Joan and David Maxwell Daniel and Teresa Schwartz Irene and Alan Wurtzel

For more information on how to become a member of the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Zack Lynch, Manager of Major Gifts at zlynch@studiotheatre.org or by calling 202.232.7267 x370.

Tom Patterson and Lily Balatincz in Constellations. Photo: Igor Dmitry.

THANK YOU Without the generosity of our dedicated supporters, Studio Theatre could not continue to bring the best of contemporary theatre to our nation’s capital. Thank you to all who have made gifts for general operating support, special events, and new projects.

$75,000+

Anonymous Andrew C. Mayer Charitable Trust National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program and the US Commission of Fine Arts The Shubert Foundation

$50,000 – $74,999

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation David and Jean Heilman Grier Albert Lauber and Craig Hoffman Share Fund

$30,000 – $49,999

Abramson Family Foundation Susan L. and Dixon M. Butler Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber The JBG Companies Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss Virginia A. McArthur and E.C. Michael Higgins Gerald and Laura Rosberg Sherman Fairchild Foundation Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz

$15,000 – $29,999

Anonymous The Adler Family Fund Don and Nancy Bliss Bruce Cohen

Henry H. and Carol Brown Goldberg Judy and Steve Hopkins Rick Kasten Helen and David Kenney The Mandy & David Team, Compass Real Estate Joan and David Maxwell National Endowment for the Arts PEPCO Daniel and Teresa Schwartz Mr. Craig Pascal and Mr. Victor Shargai Hattie M. Strong Foundation Weissberg Foundation William S. Abell Foundation, Inc.

$7,500 – $14,999

Peter A. Bieger Trudy H. Clark The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts Thomas F. and Elizabeth D. Cullen Sheryl and Rick Donaldson Hope and Mark Foster Wendy and William Garner Graham Holdings Company John Horman Lynne and Joseph Horning Carolyn and Warren Kaplan The Lewis & Butler Foundation Wendy Luke Nancy and Herbert Milstein Ann K. Morales Juan and Julissa Otero Toni Ritzenberg Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation Jon and NoraLee Sedmak Jerry and Patti Sowalsky Tycko & Zavareei LLP

United Way of the National Capital Area George Wasserman Family Foundation J. Watkins and Brad Frey Marvin F. Weissberg Alan and Irene Wurtzel Judy and Leo Zickler Nina Zolt and Miles Gilburne

$5,000 – $7,499

Anonymous (2) Frederick and Theresa Boyle Jon Danforth and Carol Arthur Lois England Jinny and Michael Goldstein Susan L. Gordon John and Meg Hauge Peter B. Kovler and Judy Lansing The George Preston Marshall Foundation A. Fenner Milton The Morningstar Foundation Larry and Joan Naake James Nozar and Adam Unger Comcast Jonathan and Madeleine Pitt Lutz Alexander Prager Lola C. Reinsch Statistics Collaborative Robert Tracy and Martha Gross Jonathan and Joan Tycko

$2,500 – $4,999

Dr. Stewart Aledort and Dr. Sheila Rogovin BB&T Bank Joe and Sue Bredekamp Dr. Morris J. Chalick Nancy Chasen and Don Spero

Miriam Cutler and Paul Salditt Margery Doppelt and Larry Rothman Mona and Mark Elliot Betty and Wes Foster Family Foundation Burton Gerber Andrea Hatfield and Buck O’Leary F. Lynn Holec William Logan Hopkins Mark and Carol Hyman Fund IBM Matching Grants Program Anthony and Karen Kamerick Stephen and Maria Lans Susan Lee and Stephen A. Saltzburg The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund B. Thomas Mansbach Karen and Daniel Mayers Wallis McClain Cyrus Mehri Carl and Undine Nash Rogers & Company PLLC Steve and Ilene Rosenthal Drs. Irene Roth and Vicken Poochikian Joan Searby Linda and Stanley Sher David and Peggy Shiffrin Patricia Smith Gene Spencer The Touma Foundation Margot and Paul Zimmerman

$1,500 – $2,499

Anonymous Marc Albert and Stephen Tschida The Alford Foundation Aron Family Foundation Cindy and Mark Aron Leonard and Joy Baxt Carl and Rise Cole Kenneth G. Hance, Jr. and Kamer Davis Dimick Foundation

Lizbeth J. Dobbins George M. Ferris The Ferris Family Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nancy Deck and Michael Gross IBM Corporation Arlene and Martin Klepper Barry Kropf Peter Kunstadter Mark Lewellyn Romana Li and Bruce Bartels Steven Perez Carol Rabenhorst Anne & Henry S. Reich Family Foundation Bishop Gene Robinson Steven M. Rosenberg and Stewart C. Low III Mary Ann Stein Sidney Stolz and David Hatfield Martha Washington StrausHarry H. Straus Foundation Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander Eric R. and Laura M. Wagner Susan P. Willens Bruce and Margareta Yarwood

IN-KIND

Amtrak Aram Designs B Too BakeHouse Balance Gym Barcelona Restaurant and Wine Bar Birch & Barley Bluebird Bakery BodySmith Gym + Studio Cava Mezze CHURCHKEY Colonial Parking Compass Coffee Cork Daikaya Dolcezza Drafting Table EatWell DC

Fathom Creative Ghibellina Hank’s Oyster Bar Hemphill Fine Arts Kingsbury Confections Lunar Massage Marvin Restaurant Mehri & Skalet Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams New Columbia Distillers Number Nine Policy Restaurant and Lounge Posto Shugoll Research Slipstream Sotto Sweetgreen Teavine/Cider Snap The Fainting Goat Unipark Valet Services YMCA National Capital

For a complete listing of our generous supporters, please visit studiotheatre.org/ support. *In Memoriam This list represents contributions received through February 29, 2016.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this listing. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 202.232.7267.

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