MOMENT Program | Studio Theatre

LAURA STANCZYK, CSA (Casting) Selected Broadway, off-Broadway and tours include Side Show, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Damn Yankees, Dirty Dancing, The Glorious Ones, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Tryst, Flight, and Urinetown. Other theater includes premieres of Are You There Mcphee; Cotton Club Parade; Harps and Angels; Me, Myself & I; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Golden Age, as well as productions of Master Class, Lisbon Traviata, Shawshank Redemption, and Long Day’s Journey into Night. DC-area casting includes productions at Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Other regional casting includes McCarter, Wilma, Alley, Huntington, Goodman, Pasadena, Milwaukee Rep, Drury Lane, ACT and La Jolla, among others. Nominated for six Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting, and won for production of Follies.

ANTHONY O. BULLOCK (Production Stage Manager) is in his second season as the Resident Stage Manager at Studio Theatre. He has worked internationally on The White Snake by Mary Zimmerman with Goodman Theatre as part of The Wuzhen Theatre Festival in Wuzhen, China. Regionally, he has worked at Classic Stage Company, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Passage Theatre Company, ReVision Theatre, Oklahoma City Repertory, Black Hills Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Children’s Theatre. He holds a BFA in Theatrical Design and Production with an emphasis in Stage Management from Oklahoma City University. Mr. Bullock is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SIVAN BATTAT (Assistant Director) is Studio Theatre’s 2015–2016 Artistic Apprentice, where she serves as Studio’s resident assistant director. This season, she has assistant directed Between Riverside and Crazy, The Apple Family Plays, and Chimerica. Outside of Studio, Ms. Battat has worked with a number of artists including Kim Weild, Lily Whitsitt, Faye Driscoll, Yuri Kordonsky, and Rinde Eckert. She has worked at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, as well as New Haven-based companies Elm Shakespeare and Collective Consciousness Theatre. She has spent time working with various peace-based groups abroad including the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa in South Tel Aviv, and a young artists’ festival in Sderot, Israel. She most recently worked with the Doris Duke Building Bridges Grant to develop a new commission with Leila Buck for the Muslim Women’s Voices Series at Wesleyan University. Ms. Battat spent a semester training at the Moscow Art Theatre School and is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where she received her BA in Theater and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.

AMANDA LANDIS (Assistant Stage Manager) is Studio’s 2015-2016 Stage Management apprentice. This season she has Assistant Stage Managed Chimerica, Bad Jews, and Between Riverside and Crazy. Ms. Landis is a recent graduate of Northwestern University, where she received a BA in theatre arts and emphases in artistic leadership and management and musical theatre performance. She has worked in various capacities with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Project &, Next Theatre Company, Catalogue for Philanthropy, and Rubicon Theatre Company.