Richard Nelson’s plays have been produced on Broadway, Off Broadway, in the West End, by numerous national theatres across Europe, and at major theatres in Japan, Israel, and Russia. Ten of his plays have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is an Honorary Associate Artist.

The Public Theater commissioned a four-play cycle about the Apple family, which includes That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, and the upcoming Regular Singing.  Mr. Nelson’s other plays include Tynan (Studio Theatre, 2011), Principia Scriptoriae (Studio Theatre, 1989), Farewell to the Theatre, Nikolai and the Others, Frank’s Home, Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award, Best Play), The General From America, New England, Two Shakespearean Actors, and Some Americans Abroad. He has written the musicals Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, James Joyce’s The Dead (Tony, Best Book of a Musical), and My Life with Albertine.

Mr. Nelson has translated numerous plays and co-translated a series of Russian classical plays with the eminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. His screenplays include an adaptation of Ethan Frome, starring Liam Neeson and Patricia Arquette, and Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney. His honors include two Obie Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award.

(As of November 2013)

Serge Seiden directed Studio’s hit production of Bad Jews (which broke Studio box office records) and returned by popular demand in the 2015-2016 season.  Bad Jews was nominated for 4 2015 Helen Hayes Awards including Outstanding Director. Seiden also directed all four plays in the Apple Family Cycle: That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad (2013) and Sorry and Regular Singing (2015).  Seiden is now the Managing Director/Producer of Mosaic Theater Company of DC, the area's only theater devoted to social justice.  Seiden directed Everett Quinton's A Tale of Two Cities at Synetic Theater and Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre Center.  From 1990 to 2015 Seiden held many positions at Studio Theatre including Production Stage Manager, Literary Manager, and Producing Director.  In 2013 he received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director/Resident Musical for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris… at MetroStage.  Other Studio Theatre credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Golden Dragon, Superior Donuts, In the Red and Brown Water, Grey Gardens, and My Children! My Africa!  He also directed Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, which received three Helen Hayes Awards and five Helen Hayes Award nominations including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Resident Play; A New Brain, which received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Resident Musical; and Old Wicked Songs, which received seven Helen Hayes nominations, including Outstanding Director.  Additional Studio credits include The Long Christmas Ride Home, Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Black Milk, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The York Realist, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue Heart, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and A Class Act. For Studio 2ndStage, Mr. Seiden directed Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, All That I Will Ever Be, This Is Our Youth, Ecstasy, Mad Forest, Hot Fudge, Sincerity Forever, and Durang/Durang.  His theatre for young audiences productions at Adventure Theatre MTC—A Little House Christmas and Charlotte’s Web—were both nominated for Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Production/Theatre for Young Audiences. He has directed several readings for the annual Zeitgeist Festival at the Goethe-Institut and Moth for the National New Play Network.   For 20 years Seiden has been a member of the faculty of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, where he trained as an actor and director.   Serge is a graduate of Swarthmore College.

(As of December 2015)

Rick Foucheux appeared at Studio Theatre in The Apple Family Cycle: Sorry, Regular Singing, That Hopey Changey Thing, and Sweet and Sad; Far East; and Take Me Out. He was featured in Signature Theatre's acclaimed revival of Cabaret, and in Freud's Last Session at Theater J and Awake and Sing at the Olney Theatre Center, both directed by Serge Seiden.  Mr. Foucheux is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and also appears regularly at Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Round House Theatre, where he will appear in Spring 2016 with Sarah Marshall in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.  He is a Helen Hayes Award recipient, a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow of the Ten Chimneys Foundation, and teaches acting at George Washington University. 

(As of October 2015)

Ted van Griethuysen returns to Studio for The Father after appearing in Sorry, Regular Singing, That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad (Helen Hayes Award), The Habit of Art, The Walworth Farce, Moonlight, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Invention of Love, A Number, The Steward of Christendom, and The Life of Galileo, a role he also played in London, both productions directed by David Salter. He was recently seen on the West End in three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams. A member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s permanent acting company since 1987, he has appeared in more than 50 productions, including as Philip II in Don Carlos, John of Gaunt in Richard II, the title role in King Lear, Prospero in The Tempest, Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night, also at the McCarter Theatre. He spent twenty-five years in New York, appearing on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s Romulus, The Moon Besieged, and Inadmissible Evidence (Drama Desk Award). In 1968, he and his wife Rebecca Thompson founded the Opposites Company, an acting company based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel. He has taught acting privately in New York and at Columbia University, the University of South Carolina, and Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the recipient of seven Helen Hayes Awards, the Will Award, and the Richard Bauer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Washington Theatre.

(As of April 2017)

Sarah Marshall returns to Studio Theatre for Doubt: A Parable after appearing in Admissions last season. Sarah has the honor of having performed at Studio Theatre more than any other performer in its history. Some of her Studio credits include The Apple Family Cycle, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Prometheus, Betty’s Summer Vacation,  Three Sisters, Miss Margarida’s Way, Sylvia, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Baltimore Waltz, When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, My Sister in this House, Playing for Time, A Taste of Honey, The Visit, and Medea. She has performed at many Washington theatres including Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, Signature Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Sarah has taught acting for 30 years and currently teaches at Georgetown University. 

Elizabeth Pierotti's Studio Theatre credits include The Apple Family Cycle: Sweet and Sad, That Hopey Changey Thing, Sorry, and Regular Singing; The Steward of Christendom; and Silence, Cunning, Exile. Other credits include The Women and The Time of Your Life at Arena Stage; The Grapes of Wrath and Inherit the Wind at Ford’s Theatre; The Glass Menagerie and The How and the Why at 1st Stage; Never Swim Alone at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Well of Horniness, Shaker Heights, The Art of Dining, Little Criminals, and Beyond the Pale at Source Theatre; After the Orgy, The Supper, and Come and Go at Scena Theatre; The Taming of the Shrew at Washington Shakespeare Company; Marathon 33 at Horizons Theatre; Etta Jenks at Fourth Wall Productions; Under a Mantle of Stars at Contemporary Arts Theatre; and Hubris at New Playwrights Theatre. Ms. Pierotti trained at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.

(As of October 2015)

Kimberly Schraf has appeared in a number of Studio Theatre productions in her 30 years as a Washington actor, including all four of the Apple Family plays (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, and Regular Singing), The Women, Skylight, The Bacchae, Frozen, and Crestfall (by Hedda Gabler adaptor Mark O’Rowe). Other area productions include The Laramie Project, Our Town, Sabrina Fair, and The Carpetbagger’s Children at Ford’s Theatre; Ah, Wilderness!, The Women, and Molly Sweeney at Arena Stage; Measure for Pleasure (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Gigli Concert, Freedomland, and Watbanaland at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Show Boat (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Angels in America, Parts I and II at Signature Theatre; The Sisters Rosensweig, After the Fall, Mikveh, and Hannah and Martin at Theater J; The Misanthrope, Better Living, and A Prayer for Owen Meany at Round House Theatre; and Proof, You Can’t Take It With You, Going to Saint Ives, and Light Up the Sky at Everyman Theatre. Her television credits include Homicide: Life on the Street. In the fall, Ms. Schraf will appear in The Diary of Anne Frank at Olney Theatre Center.

(As of April 2016)

Jeremy Webb returned to Studio Theatre for Regular Singing, having played the role of Tim in That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad in 2013 (Helen Hayes Award nomination). His previous DC credits include The Visit at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and both the title role in Don Juan and Victor in Private Lives at Shakespeare Theatre Company. New York credits include The Visit on Broadway/Actor’s Fund, The Glorious Ones at Lincoln Center Theater (Original Cast Recording), Tabletop for The Working Theatre (Drama Desk Award), The Baltimore Waltz at Signature Theatre, Photograph 51 at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Reading Under The Influence at DR2 Theater, and BFF for Women’s Expressive Theatre. His regional credits include productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LA Theatre Works, and Hangar Theatre. His film and television credits include Law and Order (guest star, twice), Law and Order: Criminal Intent (twice), Law and Order: SVU, Guiding Light, and Love Walked In. Mr. Webb is a graduate of The Drama School, The North Carolina School of the Arts.

(As of October 2015)