Julia May Jonas is a writer and the founder of the theater company Nellie Tinder. Her theater work has been presented/developed with Lincoln Center Theater, The Bushwick Starr, New Georges, Ars Nova, Target Margin Theater, PRELUDE, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Montclair State’s New Works Initiative, North American Cultural Laboratory, and others. Her debut novel, Vladimir, was published in February 2022 by Avid Reader Press and was named "Best Book of 2022" by Time Magazine, New York Public Library, People, New York Magazine, Town & Country, Vogue, Esquire, NPR, and others, was selected as a New York Times Editor's Pick, and has been translated into 14 languages. Julia has taught at Skidmore College and New York University, and lives in Brooklyn with her family. 

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Sivan Battat (she/they) is a theatre director & cultural organizer, and Director of New Work Development at Noor Theatre. Sivan began their career here at Studio Theatre, as an Artistic Apprentice. Recent credits include: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Studio Theatre), Wish You Were Here (Yale Repertory Theatre), Layalina (Goodman Theatre), Backstroke Boys (Fault Line Theatre), Brass Knuckles (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Trouble in Mind (AD, Broadway), Coexistence My Ass (Edinburgh Fringe). Sivan has developed work with companies including Roundabout, the Park Avenue Armory, NYTW, Atlantic, Ars Nova, Berkeley Rep, New Georges, New York Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Long Wharf, MCC, and more. Fellowships include: Roundabout Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, TCG Rising Leaders of Color & The Workshop, centering the work of JOCISM (Jews of Color, Jewish-Indigenous, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists & culture-makers. sivanbattat.com

Stephanie Janssen was most recently seen on Broadway in Goodnight, Oscar. Other Broadway credits include Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and A Delicate Balance. Off Broadway, she has appeared in Queen at the National Asian American Theatre Company (in a co-production with Long Wharf Theatre), Ivanov at Classic Stage Company, Clive at The New Group, PTSD at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Arcadia at Potomac Theatre Project NYC. Regional work includes All the Days at the McCarter Theatre Center, Nora at Westport Country Playhouse, A Map of Heaven at the Denver Center Theatre Company, Absalom at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Against the Rising Sea at Queens Theatre. On screen, she’s been seen in Succession, New Amsterdam, FBI, The Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, The Good Wife, Elementary, Law & Order, and Inner Dragons. Stephanie wrote and performed in The Umbrella Plays (2008 NYC Fringe, winner Outstanding Play). B.A. Middlebury College, MFA from the Graduate Acting program at NYU Tisch. 

Annie Fox is an actor and writer based in New York. Her theater credits include Lobby Hero on Broadway, Beginning Days of True Jubilation and The Strangers Came Today at the New Ohio Theatre, The Wolves at the McCarter Theatre Center, and The Diary of Anne Frank at Cleveland Playhouse. Annie can be seen in episodes of WeCrashed on Apple TV+, Blue Bloods on CBS, and in the film Something's More Than One Thing. She is the co-writer of the short film Goodnight. She is a member of Stone Soup Film Collective and Society Theater.   

Maya Jackson is an actor and photographer, dually based in DC and New York. Her theatre credits include the Broadway revival of Death of A Salesman; Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center; Blues for an Alabama Sky at the McCarter Theatre; Teenage Dick at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Adrienne Kennedy Play Festival, co-produced by the McCarter Theatre Center and Round House Theatre; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Actors Theatre of Louisville; and Kid Prince and Pablo at The Kennedy Center. She also serves as a visual consultant for the Cannonball Festival in collaboration with Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. 

Nancy Robinette first appeared at the Studio in 1978 in The Woolgatherer and soon after in The Seagull and Camino Real, with more recent productions including Souvenir, Frozen, The Play About the Baby, Tribes, and No Sisters. On Broadway, she appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club's Prayer for the French Republic (Outer Critic's Circle nomination) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.  Some of her favorite roles include Fat Men in Skirts at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Well and Ah Wilderness! at Arena Stage, The Little Foxes and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Trip to Bountiful at Ford's Theatre, Stakeout at Godot's at Scena Theatre, Out of the Wild Blue and John at Signature Theatre, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Escape from Happiness at Round House Theatre, The Savannah Disputation at the Old Globe, and Philadelphia Here I Come! at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.  She received the Helen Hayes Tribute for her many years performing in DC-area theatres.