TERMINUS Program | Studio Theatre

TERMINUS E W O R ’ O K R

BY MA

TERMINUS STAFF Assistant Director CHELSEA THALER Dialects ZACHARY CAMPION Line Producer JACOB JANSSEN Technical Director for Terminus JEN WORSTER Carpentry BIANCA HAMP Paints ERICH STARKE Electrics CHRISTAL JEREZ & ERIC MCMORRIS

Terminus is produced through special arrangement with Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Studio Theatre is grateful to James Alefantis for his support of this production.

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S U N I M R TE

BY MARK O’ROWE

CAST A NANNA INGVARSSON B KATIE RYAN C DYLAN MYERS

ARTISTIC TEAM

Director TOM STORY Set Designer DEBORAH THOMAS Lighting and Sound Designer ADRIAN ROONEY Costume Designer BRANDEE MATHIES Stage Manager KARA SPARLING

UNDERSTUDIES A DECLAN CASHMAN B AMY LEIGH HORAN C DAVID DUBOV

Terminus will be presented without an intermission.

Beginning December 10, 2014 in Stage 4.

IGHT R W Y PLA MARK O’ROWE is a Dublin-based playwright, screenwriter, and director.

His breakthrough play, Howie the Rookie, premiered at the Bush Theatre in London in 1999. Inspired

by Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy, the gritty, urban western two-hander was praised by The Guardian as “a simple story, brilliantly told”. O’Rowe received the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Irish Times Best New Play Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. O’Rowe’s other plays include From Both Hips, Made in China, and Crestfall, which premiered at the Gate Theatre in 2003. (Studio 2ndStage also produced Crestfall as part of its 2006-2007 season.) His latest play Our Few and Evil Days, a chilling yet deeply human story about the limits of devotion, premiered under his direction at the Abbey Theatre in September 2014 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

In 2007, O’Rowe wrote and directed Terminus for the Abbey Theatre. Lauded by The Guardian as a “feat of storytelling” and deemed destined to “become a modern classic” by the Evening Standard, the production received a Fringe First award when it transferred to the Edinburgh Festival in 2008, and embarked on a major tour through the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia in 2011.

In 2003, O’Rowe wrote his first feature film, Intermission, which starred Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. He next adapted Jonathan Trigell’s novel, Boy A, for Cuba Pictures and Channel 4. Originally written for television, the film was picked up for theatrical release by the Weinstein Company after it received numerous awards, including a Broadcast Award for Best Single Drama, a Broadcasting Guild Award for Best Single Drama and four jury awards at Dinard British Film Festival, including the Golden Hitchcock (Dinard’s top jury prize), which was awarded by a unanimous vote by the festival judges. O’Rowe’s adaptation of Daniel Clay’s 2008 novel Broken, directed by Rufus Norris and starring Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth, opened Cannes Critics’ Week and received Best Independent Feature at the British Independent Film Awards in 2012.

DIRECTOR TOM STORY previously directed Moth for Studio 2ndStage and Private Lives at the Berkshire Theatre Company. His acting credits at Studio Theatre include The Wolfe Twins, POP!, Moonlight, The Pillowman, A Number, Ivanov, and The Invention of Love, among others. DC AREA: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Winter’s Tale, The Government Inspector, and The Merry Wives of Windsor (among others) at Shakespeare Theatre Company; The Book Club Play at Arena Stage; Our Town, A Christmas Carol, and 1776 at Ford’s Theatre; Seminar at Round House Theatre; and many others. OFF BROADWAY: Mint Theater, Town Hall, the York Theater, and Project 400. REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Missouri Repertory Theatre, and Provincetown Repertory Theatre. EDUCATION: Duke University and The Juilliard School, where he trained with Michael Kahn. TRAINING: Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, where he trained with Joy Zinoman.

CAST NANNA INGVARSSON (A) DC AREA: More than 40 productions, including The Amish Project, Factory 449; Richard III, Folger Theater; Boeing-Boeing, Rep Stage; Six Characters …, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Fool for Love, WSC; The Illusion, The Language Archive, One Flea Spare, Angels in America, The Skriker, Forum Theatre; The Green Bird, Three Sisters, Marriage of Figaro, The Oresteia, Constellation Theatre Company; The Marriage of Maria Brown, Greek, Sink the Belgrano!, The Maids, Scena; Woman and Scarecrow, Scenes from the Big Picture, Solas Nua; Man with Bags, Longacre Lea; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Actors Theater of Washington; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Hostage, Keegan Theater; The Rocky Horror Show, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.

AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical for The Rocky Horror Show. OTHER: Boomerang Fund for Artists grant recipient.

KATIE RYAN (B) DC AREA: The Program Assistant, Capital Fringe; Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Source Festival; The Aurora Mainframe, Source Festival; Anniversary, Studio Conservatory Directing Showcase; I Love DC, Theater Alliance; Social Media Expert, Capital Fringe; 50 Guns, Source Festival; Lost in Thought, Source Festival; Miracle on 34th Street, Montgomery Playhouse. INTERNATIONAL: Macbeth, Edinburgh Fringe. TEACHING: Bishop Hendricken High School Summer Theater.

TRAINING: Stanislavski Intensive, St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy. EDUCATION: BA Theater Arts, American University.

DYLAN MYERS (C) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Mojo. DC AREA: Elling, Washington Stage Guild; Henry V, Comedy of Errors (u/s), Folger Theatre; How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, Theatre Alliance; 1001, After the Quake, Rorschach Theatre; Taking Steps, Blood Wedding, The Ramayana, Constellation Theatre Company; Noises Off, The Pitmen Painters, 1st Stage.

ARTIST IC TEAM DEBORAH THOMAS (Set Designer) is in her sixth season as Properties Director at Studio Theatre. STUDIO THEATRE: 4000 Miles (properties design), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (assistant set design). DC AREA: Four seasons at Washington Opera (master carpenter); two seasons at Folger Library Theatre (properties assistant). FILM AND TELEVISION: Three seasons of DC Cupcakes, The Learning Channel (sculptor/sculpture consultation); Dolley Madison, Middlemarch Films (production design); Alexander Hamilton, Middlemarch Films (art director); Boomer Century (assistant production design); Get on the Bus, PBS (art department leadperson); Jamestown, Against All Odds, The Eukanuba Dog Show, The Discovery Channel (set and properties design); America’s Most Wanted, Fox (set and properties design).

ADRIAN ROONEY (Lighting and Sound Designer) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Edgar & Annabel (lighting design), Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love (upcoming, lighting design). STUDIO THEATRE: Torch Song Trilogy (projection design), The Motherfucker with the Hat (projection design), Sucker Punch (projection design). REGIONAL: Discovery on the High Seas: Austin Clark and the Expedition Albatross and Q?rius at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History; Celebration of Flight, IBEX Puppetry at RISD; Miss Richfield: 1981 at Philadelphia’s Society Hill Playhouse; Last Rites at The South Camden Theatre Company.

BRANDEE MATHIES (Costume Designer) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Moth, Contractions, A Beautiful View, Crestfall, Polaroid Stories, This Is Our Youth. STUDIO THEATRE: The Year of Magical Thinking, Stoop Stories, Rimers of Eldritch, A Number, The Syringa Tree, Comic Briefs. DC AREA: Spunk (Assistant Designer), Center Stage; Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sunday in the Park with George (First Hand), Arena Stage; Black Nativity (Assistant Designer), The Kennedy Center.

KARA SPARLING (Stage Manager) DC AREA: Macbeth (Stage Manager, Shakespeare Theater Company Advanced Camp); Walking the City of Silence and Stone (Stage Manager, Forum Theatre); Yentl, Prostate Dialogues, Our Suburb, The Argument, After The Revolution (Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager, Theater J); Scapin, Absolutely! {Perhaps} (Assistant Stage Manager, Constellation Theatre Company); Three Musketeers, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Assistant Stage Manager and Stage Manager, Synetic Theater); 2013 Capital Fringe Festival production and venue staff. EDUCATION: BA in International Studies and Spanish, American University.

EN S L O E T A MARY-KLOVE IS IN 15 BEGINS JUN 3, 20

BY MALLERY AVIDON DIRECTED BY HOLLY TWYFORD

STUDIO THEATRE STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID MUSE

MANAGING DIRECTOR MERIDITH BURKUS

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