This searing drama follows Sarah Goodwin, a globe-trotting photojournalist, who returns home from the battlefields of Iraq after she’s badly injured while covering a story. When her reporter-boyfriend James makes a pitch for domesticity, Sarah must choose between the thrilling but dangerous life she craves and the physically safe but emotionally perilous life she doesn’t quite understand.
This gritty and compelling story from Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies questions whether certain desires and images can ever really be erased.
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Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends, which also received the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Drama Desk nomination. His other plays include Lunar Park (1982); Found a Peanut (1984); The Model Apartment (1988); Sight Unseen (1992); Collected Stories (1997); God of Vengeance (2000); Brooklyn Boy (2003); Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (2007); and Time Stands Still (2009), which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Mr. Margulies’ plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Theatre Communications Group has published seven volumes of his work. Dinner with Friends was made into an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO, and Collected Stories was presented on PBS. Currently, he is adapting the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides into an HBO series.
Mr. Margulies is the recipient of grants from Creative Artists Public Service, New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He received the OBIE Award for Playwriting, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Award in Literary Arts, the Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Margulies now lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
(As of January 2012)
Susan Fenichell is a freelance director as well as the Artistic Director of Hopeful Monsters, a collaborative performance group. Her directing credits include The Dead Eye Boy (two Drama Desk nominations); Marion Bridge (New York Times Critics’ Choice); the multi award-winning original production The Bacchae: Torn To Pieces (LaMaMa; Seattle and Austin); The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse); Burn This (Huntington Theatre); the original adaptation of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale (Philadelphia Orchestra & Boston Symphony); The Faculty Room (Humana Festival); The Illusion (Chautauqua Institute); and numerous productions at NYU and Juilliard. Operas include The Audition, Dido and Aeneas, Trouble In Tahiti, and The Death of Klinghoffer (Curtis Institute/Kimmel Center). She has directed extensively around the country and internationally, including at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Empty Space, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Santa Fe Rep, The New Harmony Project, Seattle Group Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, Ilkholm Theatre (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ms. Fenichell was previously Associate Artistic Director at Intiman Theatre in Seattle, where she directed numerous productions and created both an innovative staged-reading series and a highly successful experimental theatre lab. She has taught directing and acting around the country, received a TCG Observership grant and two awards from the Princess Grace Foundation, has served on numerous arts commission and awards panels, and is a longstanding member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Her most recent work includes a three-year cycle of pieces for Carnegie Hall, the third of which is currently in development and will perform in May 2011.
(As of January 2012)
Holly Twyford returns to Studio Theatre for Cloud 9. She most recently directed both Mary Kate Olsen is in Love and Edgar and Annabel for Studio 2ndStage, and was last seen on stage at Studio Theatre in the Lab production of Dirt. Other favorite roles at Studio include Evelyn in The Shape of Things, Elsa in Road to Mecca, and Bunny in Desk Set. She has appeared in over 50 productions with many of the area’s theaters including Ford’s Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, and Arena Stage. She has performed regionally in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz, Red Bank, NJ and Milwaukee. Ms. Twyford has been nominated twenty times for a Helen Hayes Award and is a four-time recipient. She received the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence for her portrayal of Anna in Old Times and she is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. She is proud to be a charter member of the Studio Cabinet, Studio Theatre’s new affiliated artist program. She has appeared in several independent films, including John Waters’ Pecker. Television credits include Homicide: Life on the Street and House of Cards. Her credits also include numerous commercials, voiceovers, and educational and training films.
(As of August 2016)
Greg McFadden makes his Studio Theatre debut having previously appeared in Washington at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Volpone. His New York credits include The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway, Timon of Athens and Hamlet at The Public Theatre, When The Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center, In the Footprint with The Civilians, The Voysey Inheritance at The Atlantic Theater Company, Roadkill Confidential at Clubbed Thumb, The Sea and The Late Christopher Bean with TACT, Three-Cornered Moon with The Keen Company, and Badge at The Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. His other regional credits include plays at Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory, The Humana Festival, and George Street Playhouse. On Television, he played Jeremy Larson on Guiding Light and has appeared on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order, Dirty Sexy Money, Cupid, and Conviction. Film credits include Synecdoche New York, Solitary Man, and the upcoming Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
(As of January 2012)
Dan Illian is pleased to be making his Studio Theatre debut. Mr. Illian originated the roles of Jacob in Dead City and Drums in Self Defense at New Georges, and Allen in the US premiere of The Last Supper at La MaMa E.T.C. Other New York credits include Jason in Medea at La MaMa E.T.C (and tour of Turkey), Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard at Salt Theater, and Leo in Summer Play at Clubbed Thumb. Regional credits include Schon and Jack the Ripper in The LuLu Plays at 15 Head, and Claude in An Empty Plate at the Café du Grande Beouf at The Cricket. While a company member at the Guthrie Theater he appeared in numerous productions including The Winter’s Tale (dir. Doug Hughes), The Play’s the Thing (dir. Michael Engler), and A Woman of No Importance (dir. Garland Wright). Film credits include starring roles in Jim, and And/The (Berlin Film Festival). He recently completed production on the film Make Believe.
(As of January 2012)
Laura C. Harris returns to Studio Theatre after appearances as Lauren in the stage version of Kings, Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9, Mandy in Time Stands Still, Gena in Bachelorette, and Lydia in Red Speedo. Other Washington, DC credits include The Heiress at Arena Stage; Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre; Fairview at Woolly Mammoth; Curious Incident…, NSFW, Seminar, Amadeus, Young Robin Hood, and 26 Miles at Round House Theatre; The Flick and Tender Napalm at Signature Theatre; Vicuña at Mosaic Theater; Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre Center; Love and Information, Passion Play, and World Builders at Forum Theatre; Our Class at Theater J; and The Winter’s Tale and The School for Scandal at Folger Theatre. She is a graduate of Middlebury College.
(As of October 2020)
John McDermott’s recent designs in New York include original productions of Asuncion by Jesse Eisenberg, Fisheye by Lucas Kavner, The Belle of Belfast by Nate Edelman, Girls in Trouble by Jonathan Reynolds, Kaspar Hauser by Elizabeth Swados, The Singing Forest by Craig Lucas, Saved or Destroyed by Harry Kondoleon, and American Sligo by Adam Rapp. He has designed 14 plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, six at the Flea Theater, five at the Cherry Lane and others at The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Juilliard, The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, Urban Stages, and Theater for the New City. Other design includes Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters, directed by Bartlett Sher at Intiman Theater in Seattle; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Adrienne Campbell Holt at Yale Dramat; and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille directed by Ted Sod at Bickford Theater. He served as Associate Scene Designer at Seattle Repertory Theater from 1996-2000. Upcoming projects include 3C by David Adjmi at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Recall by Eliza Clark for Colt Coeur, Detour by Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle in Philadelphia, and Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers at The Actors Company Theatre.
(As of January 2012)
Mary Louise Geiger has designed Chimerica, Time Stands Still and Invisible Man (Helen Hayes Award) for Studio Theatre. Upcoming projects include The Crucible at the Cleveland Play House, The Sound of Music at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in Seattle, and the new play Native Gardens at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Her work has been seen on Broadway in The Constant Wife, and most recently in New York with Dael Orlandersmith’s new work Forever at the New York Theatre Workshop. Additional New York credits include shows with Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, The Actors Company Theatre, and Ars Nova. Her design for Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse played St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York and toured around the United States and internationally. Ms. Geiger is Head of Lighting in the Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and trained at the Yale School of Drama.
(As of September 2015)
Ivania Stack previously designed several productions at Studio Theatre including I Wanna F***ing Tear You Apart and Water By The Spoonful among others. Ivania designs for many regional and DC area theatres, including Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre (Resident Artist), Kennedy Center, Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, The Second City, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Olney Theatre Center and Studio Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland and is an Adjunct Lecturer for Georgetown University.
(As of February 2019)
Eric Shimelonis' Studio Theatre productions include Between Riverside and Crazy,The Year of Magical Thinking, Stoop Stories, In the Red and Brown Water, An Iliad, Time Stands Still, The Motherfucker with the Hat, and Torch Song Trilogy. Other recent productions include The Night Alive at Round House Theatre, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Folger Theatre, and Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for which he received a 2015 Helen Hayes Award nomination. Mr. Shimelonis is the recipient of a 2014 Helen Hayes Award for outstanding sound design for his work on Never the Sinner at 1st Stage.
(As of January 2016)
Lauren Halvorsen is in her ninth season as Studio’s Associate Literary Director. Her dramaturgy credits here include Doubt, P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, Admissions, Kings, If I Forget, Vietgone, The Wolves, Skeleton Crew, The Father, Three Sisters, The Hard Problem, Hand to God, Moment, 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, Lauren 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 The Kennedy Center, City Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, First Person Arts Festival, and The Wilma Theater. Lauren is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.
(As of December 2019)
John Keith Hall's DC credits include many productions at Studio Theatre including Bad Jews, Choir Boy, Water by the Spoonful, Tribes, Torch Song Trilogy, 4000 Miles, Sucker Punch, In The Red And Brown Water, The History Boys, Adding Machine: A Musical, and The Road To Mecca; Hir, The Nether, and An Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Soon, SCKBSTD, and West Side Story at Signature Theatre; Sweeney Todd, Mary Poppins, and The Producers at Olney Theatre Center. Regional credits include several seasons as a Resident Stage Manager at The Barter Theatre in Virginia where he supervised over 40 productions, Shadowland Stages in New York, and Virginia Musical Theatre in Virginia Beach. A graduate of Virginia’s Longwood University, Mr. Hall is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association.
(As of September 2017)
Jamila Reddy is the Artistic Apprentice at The Studio Theatre, and is thrilled to be working on Bachelorette. At The Studio Theatre, she served as assistant director on Sucker Punch, Time Stands Still, The Golden Dragon, and The Habit of Art. She is an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BA in both Dramatic Art and Sociology. She directed several productions at the undergraduate level, including the premiere of Kind of Blue, an original play by Kuamel Winston Stewart, and Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. For her contributions to the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC, Jamila received the Richard and Christopher Edward Adler Award for Excellence in Dramatic Art (2010) and the Louise Lamont Award for Excellence (2011).
(As of May 2012)
