A husband and wife relive the torrid fervor of their marriage in this physically intense, erotically charged duet from one of New Zealand's premier playwrights.
2ndStage is Studio’s playground for emerging artists, offering innovative and thrillingly eclectic programming with shorter rehearsal periods and smaller budgets than our other productions, with a spirit of exuberance and experiment.
Studio Theatre dedicated the 2012-2013 Season to the memory of Jaylee M. Mead, whose generous contribution made its plays possible.
Gary Henderson was born in Geraldine in South Canterbury, New Zealand. His plays have been professionally produced in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Skin Tight won a coveted Fringe First Award at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was subsequently produced in New York, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Home Land, commissioned and produced by Fortune Theatre in Dunedin (2004) and Peninsula, commissioned by the Christchurch Arts Festival and directed by Henderson at Court Theatre (2005), were written in Dunedin while Henderson was in residence at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage. Other commissions include Lines of Fire for Wow! Productions, a site-specific work presented at the Dunedin Railway Station in the 2006 Dunedin Festival of the Arts and Stealing Games for Capital E National Theatre for Children. He is the recipient of the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award and an Adelaide Fringe Award for Excellence.
(As of April 2013)
THE STUDIO THEATRE 2NDSTAGE: The Big Meal. NEW YORK–OFF BROADWAY: Buried Words, NY International Fringe Festival; Mr. Crossover, Sam French Short Play Festival; Mine, Bright Young Things; BillyJoelTookMetotheProm.Com, American Globe Theatre. REGIONAL: No Child..., Weston Playhouse. LOCAL: Apples From the Desert, Theater J. ACADEMIC: The Mistakes Madeline Made, University of California, San Diego (artist-in-residence); The Cocktail Party, Johns Hopkins University (director-in-residence). ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Angels in America (dir. Daniel Kramer, London & UK tour); Compulsion (dir. Oskar Eustis, The Public Theater); The Human Scale (dir. Oskar Eustis, The Public Theater and The Cameri Theater J, Tel Aviv). TRANSLATOR: This Great Sea by Yosef Bar-Yosef; The Admission by Motti Lerner
(As of April 2013)
STUDIO THEATRE: Debut. NEW YORK OFF-BROADWAY: The Fundamentalist, Scandinavian American Theater Company; Stories from the 99% Working Theatre; The Strangest, HERE; The Other Man, Theatre Row: Unreal City, Epiphany Theater; MacBeth, Theatre Row; Carry the Tiger to the Mountain, Pan Asian Rep. LOCAL: Conference of the Birds, Folger Theatre. REGIONAL: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Skin Tight, Know Theater: Taming of the Shrew, Virginia Shakespeare Festival; Doubt, Proof, Hamlet, History of America (abridged), Laramie Project, Mill Mountain Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; A Christmas Carol, Clarence Brown; The Cure at Troy, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; The Merchant of Venice, Milwaukee Rep. FILM: Stephen King’s Survivor Type. AWARDS: Acclaim Award (Skin Tight) League of Cincinnati Theatres Award (Gruesome Playground Injuries).
Emily Townley has appeared at Studio Theatre in Between Riverside and Crazy, Laugh, 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 for Best Actress), Mary in Detroit, Pauline in A Bright New Boise, Lizzie in Mary Stuart, Heidi in Fuddy Meers, and Marilyn in Watbanaland. Locally and regionally, she has appeared in numerous productions for the Folger Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Rep Stage, MetroStage, Washington Stage Guild, Source Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, and Gulfshore Playhouse. She was most recently seen in Bad Dog at Olney Theatre Center and will next perform as Lucinda in the DC premiere of The Mystery of Love & Sex at Signature Theatre. Ms. Townley is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
(As of January 2016)
THE STUDIO THEATRE: Debut. Ms. Bannon is a theatre artist who conceives, write, and original work. NEW YORK: A Man of Wealth and Taste, Drinking Ink-A Portrait in Ten Parts, Cornfield, Puncture, and The Pod Project. LOCAL: Cornfield at Transformer Gallery, as an actor: Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Bay Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Dancer: Doug Varone, Tere O’Connor and Lar Lubovitch (int’l touring). FILM: writer/director of Cornfield (short), currently developing a feature based on Cornfield. AWARDS:3 Princess Grace Awards, New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award,The Martha Hill Prize. TEACHING: SUNY Purchase, Rutgers University, Movement Research. EDUCATION: Acting: Earle Gister, Richard Feldman, Michael Howard; BFA, The Juilliard School.
(As of May 2013)
REGIONAL: Dracula, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Songs for a New World, 1776, Big River, Seussical Wizard of Oz, Forever Plaid. LOCAL: The Drowsy Chaperone, Italian American Reconciliation, The Temperamentals, Enchanted April, Minotaur, A Child Shall Lead Them: The Making of the Night of the Hunter, Reckless, Dreams in the Arms of the Binding Lady, Shakespeare Theatre Gala ’12 (Associate). TEACHING: University of Maryland, College Park. EDUCATION: MFA in Theatre Design, University of Maryland; BS in Theatre Design and Directing, Weber State University.
(As of May 2013)
LOCAL: Canterbury Tales, Pointless Theatre Company; The Show-Off, American Century Theatre; The Seagull, Everything in the Garden, and Gilgamesh, University of Maryland. ASSOCIATE/ASSISTANT DESIGN: Maryland Opera Studio, Theater J, Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre. EDUCATION: MFA, University of Maryland; BA, Florida State University.
(As of May 2013)
James Bigbee Garver's previous designs for Studio include the 2014 production of Cock, as well asThe Hard Problem, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, Moth, Skin Tight, 2-2 Tango, Contractions, Lungs, and assistant design for the Enda Walsh Festival (2011). In Washington, DC, his work has been heard at Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theater J, Chamber Dance Project, and Georgetown University, among others. His Off Broadway credits include work at Theatre Row, Ballet Hispanico at The Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, PS-122, Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y, Joyce SoHo, Japan Society, and Robert Wilson's The Watermill Center. His installation and sound artwork have been on view at three Smithsonian museums (the Hirshhorn, National Museum of American History, and National Museum of Natural History), Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. www.bigbee.org.
(As of January 2021)
Kelsey Hunt is a costume designer based in the DC area. Previous Studio Theatre credits include Bad Jews, Carrie: The Musical, and Edgar & Annabel,. Other credits include Cherokee at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Life Sucks and Body Awareness at Theater J; Slow Falling Bird and In the Red and Brown Water at Georgetown University; As You Like It and Pride & Prejudice at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; Die Fledermaus at the Maryland Opera Studio; and One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Artist’s Collaborative. Ms. Hunt previously served as Resident Costume Designer for Triad Stage and is co-author of Elizabethan Costume Design, Focal Press. Upcoming projects include The Nether at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Stage Kiss at Round House Theatre, and The Sisters Rosensweig at Theater J.
(As of December 2015)