Bryony Lavery writes for theatre, film, and radio. Her books include a biography of Tallulah Bankhead and The Woman Writer's Handbook. Ms. Lavery’s play Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Rep, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, and was produced on Broadway where it was nominated for four Tony awards. Studio 2ndStage produced the play in 2007.

Other productions include Her Aching Heart for the Sphinx Theatre Company (Pink Paper Play Of The Year 1992);  A Wedding Story with Soho Theatre Company and Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Stockholm with Frantic Assembly, on tour throughout the UK and at Hampstead Theatre (Wolff Whiting award for Best Play of 2008); Deadpoint, an aerial piece for Matilda Leyser, at the Royal Opera House; and an adaptation of Mary Webb’s Precious Bane for Pentabus Theatre Company, which toured to four stately homes with a cast of eight actors, an 80-strong choir and a live horse. Her play Beautiful Burnout won a Fringe First award, toured the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and had a run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York.

Ms. Lavery’s other recent work includes Kursk with Sound and Fury at The Young Vic and Sydney Opera House, A Christmas Carol at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Cesario for The National Theatre, and an adaptation of The £1000000bank note for BBC Radio 4. She is currently developing 101 Dalmatians for the Chichester Festival and 24 Bishops at The National Theatre Studio; the opera 57Hours in The House Of Culture with John Keane, Peter Wyer, and Phyllida Lloyd; and the feature film, The Invisibles.

Ms. Lavery was an Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop and of her own company Les Oeufs Malades. She taught playwriting at Birmingham University and for two years was Writer-in-Residence for The Unicorn Theatre for Children. She is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

(As of October 2012)

David Muse is in his twelfth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre, where he has directed Cock (the in-person and digital productions), The Children, The Remains, The Effect, The Father, Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, 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. As Studio’s Artistic Director, he has produced 105 productions; established Studio R&D, its new work incubator; significantly increased artist compensation; created The Cabinet, an artist advisory board; and overseen Open Studio, a $20M expansion and upgrade of Studio’s four-theatre complex. Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has directed nine productions, including Richard III, Henry V, Coriolanus, and King Charles III (a co-production with American Conservatory Theater and Seattle Rep). Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Patrick Page's Swansong at the 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, New Dramatists, and The Kennedy Center. David has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A nine-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. David is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.

(As of July 2021)

Holly Twyford recently directed Cloud 9, Mary Kate Olsen is in Love and Edgar and Annabel for Studio 2ndStage, and was 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)

Carolyn Mignini is making her Studio Theatre debut. This year, she performed Off Broadway in Hereafter at Theater St Marks, I Married Wyatt Earp at 59E59, and completed Kindling, a new film which she also co-produced. Broadway highlights include Tintypes (Drama Desk Nomination), Fiddler on the Roof, One Night Stand, and A History of the American Film. Additional Off Broadway credits include Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Middle Ages by A.R. Gurney, and A View from the Bridge at The Berkshire Theatre Festival. Ms. Mignini is also a long-time member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her television credits include The Good Wife, Lights Out, The Practice, Chicago Hope, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, and Picket Fences.

(As of October 2012)

Natalia Payne makes her Washington DC debut in Dirt. Her recent New York stage credits include Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I at Playwrights Horizons, New Jerusalem at Classic Stage Company, Jailbait at Cherry Lane Theater, Aliens with Extraordinary Skills at Women’s Project, Novel at Summer Play Festival at Theatre Row, The Wikipedia Plays at Ars Nova, and deathvariations at 59E59 Theaters.  She has also performed in readings and workshops for Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, The New Group, New York Stage and Film, and the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference.  Regionally, Ms. Payne appeared in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Three Sisters at Yale Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Trouble in Mind at Yale Repertory Theatre, and Memory House at Vineyard Playhouse.  Her television and film credits include Law & Order: SVU, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, The Word, and Crazy Love. Ms. Payne has also narrated numerous audio books. She trained with Soulpepper Theatre Company in her hometown of Toronto and holds a BA in Theatre Studies from Yale University.

(As of October 2012)

Matthew Montelongo was last seen at Studio Theatre in Black Milk, Far East, and Far Away. He has appeared in numerous New York productions including the Broadway revivals of A View from the Bridge (Tony Award Nomination and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play) and The Ritz. Off Broadway, he has been seen in This Backstage Life at Atlantic Theater Company, His Daddy at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Whore at Summer Play Festival, God’s Ear with Vineyard Theatre/New Georges, Five Flights with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Mineola Twins and Arms and the Man at Roundabout Theatre Company, and Tartuffe with Shakespeare in the Park/Public Theater. Regionally, Mr. Montelongo has performed in productions at Hartford TheaterWorks, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Westport Country Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and the Old Globe. He has appeared locally at Woolly Mammoth (Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Ensemble in Vigils), Signature Theatre, and Folger Theatre. He can be seen on television in episodes of Gossip Girl, Law & Order: SVU, All My Children, One Life to Live, The Guiding Light, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

(As of October 2012)

Ro Boddie returns to Studio Theatre for the fourth time, where he previously appeared in Dirt, Three Sisters, and No Sisters. Off-Broadway credits include Socrates at The Public Theater, Appomattox at 59E59 Theaters, and the upcoming production of A Play is a Poem at Atlantic Theater Company. Select regional credits include A Play is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum, Blueprints to Freedom at La Jolla Playhouse, Skeleton Crew at The Old Globe, The Mountaintop at Cleveland Playhouse, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Baltimore Center Stage, The Whipping Man at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Television credits include The Good Wife, Elementary, Person of Interest, and Unforgettable. Ro is an alumnus of University of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

(As of November 2019)