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FRIENDS, The people with the highest per capita master dramatist birth rate must surely be the Irish. In the last 20 years, Studio has produced 15 plays from Ireland, a country roughly equivalent in population to the state of Alabama. Northern Ireland doesn’t do too shabby on the theatremaker front, either. And we’re lucky to have one of their exports here at Studio: Belfast-born Associate Artistic Director Matt Torney. This play has long been on Matt’s bucket list, and for good reason. Brian Friel is arguably the finest Irish playwright of recent vintage, and Translations is arguably his finest play. Matt and I both feel that it’s a quintessential Studio play: a great play of language in which we see social forces play out in the lives of everyday people, and a true ensemble drama full of terrific roles for actors. Translations is the most richly characterized of Friel’s famously richly characterized plays. The play’s themes are evergreen—it will feel contemporary as long as countries attempt to impose a new civilization on a subjugated people, and as long as people fall in love across cultural divides. But the play’s central concern, its raison d’etre, feels particularly germane to our current moment. Friel and actor Stephen Rea founded the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980. Its first production was Translations. They founded the company hoping to create, at least briefly, a moment of coming together and of unity during a particularly fractious time. They believed, as I do, that theatre is an art form particularly well-suited to bringing people together, and Friel wrote this play about people speaking across a divide to do just that. When it premiered, Translations was a drama about the past meant to confront issues of the present. Here we are almost 40 years later, breathing life into that play during our own conspicuously divided time, and once again counting on it to bring people together in shared recognition of our humanity. I’m happy that you’re here to share in this special production. YOURS,
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TRANSLATIONS BY BRIAN FRIEL DIRECTOR MATT TORNEY SET DESIGNER DEBRA BOOTH COSTUME DESIGNER WADE LABOISSONNIERE LIGHTING DESIGNER KEITH PARHAM SOUND DESIGNER PALMER HEFFERAN DRAMATURG ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL NEW YORK CASTING LAUREN STANCYZK, CSA PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ALLIE ROY* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER KATE KILBANE* Translations is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Opens March 21, 2018 in the Metheny Theatre
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Manus | MATTHEW ALDWIN McGEE* Sarah | MEGAN GRAVES+ Jimmy Jack | MARTIN GILES* Maire | MOLLY CARDEN* Doalty | JOE MALLON* Bridget | CAROLINE DUBBERLY+ Hugh | BRADLEY ARMACOST* Owen | ERIN GANN* Captain Lancey | JEFF KEOGH* Lieutenant Yolland | CARY DONALDSON* Translations will be presented with one fifteen-minute intermission. SETTING A hedge school in the townland of Baile Beag/Ballybeg, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. August, 1833. NOTE The 1695 Act to Restrain Foreign Education outlawed education in any language other than English and forbade Catholics from serving as teachers in British-controlled Ireland. Irish-language hedge schools developed in response. UNDERSTUDIES Manus | KIERNAN McGOWAN+ Sarah | KIERNAN O’BRIEN+ Jimmy Jack | NED READ+ Maire | McLEAN JESSE+ Doalty | JACK NOVAK+ Bridget | ALEX LEVENSON+ Hugh | MATT DOUGHERTY Owen | BRENDON SCHAEFER+ Lieutenant Yolland | MATT SHEA+ Captain Lancey | BILL WILBURN+ * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Equity Membership Candidate
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NOTE A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG, ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL Set in the 19th century, when the Irish language was under siege from forces within and beyond its borders, Translations premiered in 1980 at another moment of upheaval— Northern Ireland, a decade into the sectarian violence of the Troubles. Catholic playwright Brian Friel and Protestant actor Stephen Rea founded Field Day Theatre to produce plays that could shape the conversation about a new and distinctly Northern Irish identity from within their own culture, looking for what Friel called “some kind of portmanteau” identity that “can embrace the whole island.” For Translations, Field Day’s inaugural production, Friel framed his exploration of identity and culture through language—how we use it, how it connects and divides individuals and cultures, and how it shapes our senses of ourselves in intimate and inchoate ways. It is 1833, as the Irish Ordnance Survey comes to Baile Baeg, a town in the borderlands of what would become Northern Ireland. The Survey, run by the British Army from 18291842, mapped the British territory of the Irish island, redrew borders, clarified taxation, and translated the local place names into the King’s English. But things are changing even before the Royal Engineers arrive. The play is set in a large barn that serves as an informal Irish-language hedge school where a hodgepodge of adult learners takes lessons in writing and math as well as Latin, Greek, and geography. As they wait for the schoolmaster, they gossip about the imminent opening of an Englishlanguage National School established by the British government, rumors of a “sweet smell” in the air that hints of potato blight (it would hit the summer of 1845), and one young woman’s desire to learn English instead of Greek in hopes of moving to America. These forces collide when the schoolmaster’s younger son Owen returns to the hedge school after six years away as an interpreter for the British army, bringing the Irish and English face-to-face. Friel finds an elegant theatrical gesture to dramatize this encounter between languages, cultures, and value systems: The characters speak Irish or English, but the actors only English (along with some Latin and Greek, which remains in the original). Owen’s first act of official translation from English (in English) to Irish (in English) is both comic and poignant. When his younger brother mocks him for letting the British soldiers call him Roland, Owen dismisses him, saying, “It’s the same me.” But as he helps rename the landmarks that defined his home, Owen contends with this easy assumption that names are immaterial, or interchangeable. Friel uses the Anglicization of Irish place names and erosion of its localized education— the cultural moment that sped up the near-erasure of the spoken Irish language—to consider one of the most personal relationships: Who we feel ourselves to be and how we express that sense to others. As the English language continues to shift and absorb new words and classifications (consider the last ten years in gender pronouns), the power of naming yourself, knowing yourself through naming, and integrating that identity into a larger cultural conversation remains as tricky, timely, and absorbing as it was nearly 40 years ago.
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BRIAN FRIEL Brian Friel (1929-2015) is one of Ireland’s most highly regarded playwrights. He was born near Omagh in County Tyrone, and his writing is informed by the lives, stories, and political context of this childhood in rural Northern Ireland. Referred to as the “Irish Chekhov,” Friel set many of his works in the fictional town of Ballybeg (which translates to “small town”) in County Donegal. Focused on ordinary people negotiating family and their sense of home, Friel’s work explores history, culture, and identity in language that is both vibrant and vernacular.
Friel spent two years as a seminarian and later trained as a teacher. He wrote his first play in 1952, and dabbled in radio plays. But it was a six-month sojourn in Minneapolis in 1963 with the Irish director Tyrone Guthrie, who was founding the Guthrie Theatre, that solidified his career as a playwright. Friel wrote Philadelphia, Here I Come! during his trip. It was his first to be set in Ballybeg and follows a young man preparing to leave rural Ireland for America. The play was Friel’s first major success: the Gaiety Theatre produced it in 1965. The production moved to London in 1965 and Broadway in 1966, where it was nominated for six Tony awards. Friel wrote prolifically over the next decades. By the end of his life, he had published two short-story collections, eight adaptions (primarily of Ibsen, Chekhov, and Turgenev), and 24 plays, including The Freedom of the City (1973), Volunteers (1975), Living Quarters (1977), Aristocrats (1979), Faith Healer (1979), The Communication Cord (1982), Making History (1988), Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), The London Vertigo (1991), Wonderful Tennessee (1993), and Molly Sweeney (1994). His plays have been performed extensively in Dublin at the Abbey, Gate, and Olympia theatres, on Broadway and across the US, and in many West End theatres in London. In 1989, BBC Radio devoted a six-play season to his work, the first living playwright to be so distinguished. In 1980 Friel joined Stephen Rea in founding Field Day Theatre, where they first staged Translations. Field Day’s productions and publications offer a creative and nonsectarian lens on Northern Irish history and identity. Field Day also produced Friel’s plays The Communication Cord, Making History, and his adaptation of Three Sisters. Friel’s writing philosophy emphasized exploration rather than political surety. He wrote with an understanding of Ireland, traversing borders, his passion for language, and his grasp of theatre as a political stage. In their obituary, The Irish Times said Friel “challenged the limits of the genre while never losing his ear for dialogue, his sense of humour and irony, or his ability to create deeply affecting characters.” —Julia Maier
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CAST BIOS MATTHEW ALDWIN McGEE (Manus) was last seen at Studio as Riff Raff in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show. Other local credits include Arabian Nights, Urinetown, Scapin, and Taking Steps (Helen Hayes Award, Best Supporting Actor) at Constellation Theatre Company; Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure and The BFG at Imagination Stage; King Charles III, King Henry the IV (parts 1 & 2), Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; as well as Folger Theatre, Adventure Theatre, MTC, Avant Bard, Flying V, and others. Mr. McGee also works as a freelance props and puppet designer and is a graduate of CSU Fresno. MEGAN GRAVES (Sarah) makes her Studio Theatre debut. Recent DC and regional credits include The Great Society and The Little Foxes at Arena Stage; A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Second Shepherd's Play at Folger Theatre; Peter and the Starcatcher at Constellation Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Best Actress); Love and Information, Passion Play, and Clementine in the Lower 9 with Forum Theatre; and performances with Virginia Repertory Theatre, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Imagination Stage, and Adventure Theatre MTC, among others. Ms. Graves is a company member of Only Make Believe and received her BFA in Acting from Shenandoah Conservatory. MARTIN GILES (Jimmy Jack) is an actor and director based in Pittsburgh, PA. He returns to Studio Theatre after playing Leo in The Hard Problem last season. His most recent work includes playing Joseph Stalin in Collaborators for Quantum Theatre, and Pats Bocock in Sive and Capulet in Romeo And Juliet, both for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. He has taught acting and directing at the schools of drama of Point Park University, Ohio University, and Carnegie-Mellon University. MOLLY CARDEN (Maire)’s New York credits include Emotional Creature at Signature Theatre, Please Continue at Ensemble Studio Theater, Downtown Race Riot at New York Stage and Film (Mainstage Production), Cherry Smoke at the Working Theater, and Pressing Matters at the Clurman Theatre. Regional credits include Frankenstein at Denver Center, Emotional Creature at Berkeley Rep, The Night Alive at Guild Hall, On Clover Road at CATF, and The Great Immensity with The Civilians at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Ms. Carden is a proud member of Colt Coeur, the Ensemble Studio Theater, and the 52nd Street Project. She holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
PUBLIC DRAMA: TRANSLATIONS IN 1980 By 1980, when Translations premiered in Northern Ireland, the violent sectarian conflict known as the Troubles had been raging for a decade, fueled by two competing narratives: that of a Catholic minority fighting for civil rights against a repressive foreign power and another of a Protestant majority trying to keep the peace against a violent paramilitary. The Catholic playwright Brian Friel and Protestant actor Stephen Rea founded Field Day Theatre to produce plays that could reshape this conversation and carve out new identity for their native Northern Ireland. Translations, written by Friel and starring Rea, was its inaugural production.
Stephen Rea and Brian Friel, 1980.
“It was in every sense a unique occasion, with loyalists and nationalists, Unionists and SDLP, Northerners and Southerners laying aside their differences to join together in applauding a play by a fellow Derryman and one, moreover, with a theme that is uniquely Irish.” —The Irish Times, 1980
“A play dealing with two disparate cultures could perhaps find no surer test of its impact than with a Derry audience.” —Hibernia, 1980 Field Day Theatre Translations tour, 1980
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DERRY Field Day picked a powerful symbolic setting to kick off their island-wide tour: The Guildhall in Derry/Londonderry. This city with two names—the former generally preferred by nationalists, who favor a united Ireland; the latter by unionists, who favor UK membership—witnessed some of the most brutal violence during the Troubles. The Guildhall was the traditional seat of unionist civic power, and opening night found people from opposing identities witnessing a set of Irish and British characters navigating questions of survival, assimilation, and the stirrings of a hybrid identity so critical to the Field Day project.
JOE MALLON (Doalty) was last seen at Ford's Theatre in Death of a Salesman. Select regional credits include Hamlet at Virginia Shakespeare Festival; Kiss at Woolly Mammoth; Elephant and Piggie at Kennedy Center as well as the first and second international tours; Fiddler on the Roof at Arena Stage; Romeo and Juliet at Folger Theatre; Beauty Queen of Leenane at Round House Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wallenstein, and Coriolanus at Shakespeare Theatre; Shear Madness at Kennedy Center; and The Fantasticks at the Kimmel Center. He will next be seen as Snoopy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Imagination Stage. Mr. Mallon has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and an MFA from University of South Carolina. CAROLINE DUBBERLY (Bridget) returns to Studio Theatre after appearing in The Father. Select regional credits include Baby Screams Miracle at Woolly Mammoth; Top Girls, An Irish Carol, and Next to Normal (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Production) at Keegan Theatre; The Talented Mr. Ripley at Monumental Theatre Company; Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare in the Pub; Blood Wedding at Cara Mia Theatre Company; and Mr. Burns, a postelectric play at Stage West. Ms. Dubberly holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of North Texas. BRADLEY ARMACOST (Hugh) makes his Studio Theatre debut in Translations. Based in Chicago, his credits include multiple appearances with the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He is an Artistic Associate with Provision Theatre and Irish Theatre of Chicago. He has received the Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer at Steppenwolf. Additional Friel productions include Aristocrats, Wonderful Tennessee, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Television credits include The Exorcist, Empire, Chicago Fire, Mind Games, Missing Persons, Untouchables and Early Edition. Film credits include Patriot, Warren, The Company, Barbershop 2, Repetition, and Eight Men Out. Mr. Armacost appears as a narrator with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
ERIN GANN (Owen) has appeared Off Broadway in productions including I’m Not The Stranger You Think I Am at Theatre for One, Ping Pong at The Public Theater, Scenes from a Marriage at New York Theatre Workshop, The Vaults at New Georges, We Are Proud to Present… and Stars at Soho Rep., Apple Cove at The Women’s Project, The Aliens at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Cherry Orchard at Atlantic Theatre Company. His film credits include the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker and he has appeared in BrainDead (CBS), Alpha House (Amazon), and Law & Order (NBC). Mr. Gann holds a BFA in acting from The Juilliard School. JEFF KEOGH (Captain Lancey) makes his Studio Theatre debut. Regional credits include As You Like It and Mary Stuart at Folger Theatre; Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; and Hamlet and Macbeth at Round Table Theatre Company. Mr. Keogh holds an MFA from the Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. CARY DONALDSON (Lieutenant Yolland) has appeared on Broadway in Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Off Broadway in The Winter’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice (The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Timon of Athens (The Public Theater), The Rivals and Major Barbara (The Pearl Theatre Company), The Old Boy (Keen Company), and Hamlet (Waterwell). Regionally, Mr. Donaldson has performed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, and Georgia Shakespeare. His television credits include Blue Bloods, Elementary, and The History Channel's The Men Who Built America. Mr. Donaldson received his BA from Wake Forest University and his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program.
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Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Alliance Theatre, Papermill Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, and Pasadena Playhouse. His tours include Disney’s High School Musical (US, Australia, Spain, West End) and White Christmas. Additionally, Mr. Laboissonniere has published two volumes of Blueprints of Fashion. He holds a degree from the Yale School of Drama. KEITH PARHAM (Lighting Designer) returns to Studio Theatre, where he previously designed Hand to God and The Father. He designed Therese Raquin on Broadway for Roundabout Theatre Company. His Off Broadway credits include Man From Nebraska at Second Stage; The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois and Between Riverside and Crazy at Atlantic Theater Company; The Model Apartment at Primary Stages; Tribes, Mistakes Were Made, and Red Light Winter at Barrow Street Theatre; Stop the Virgens with Karen O at St. Ann's Warehouse and Sydney Opera House; Ivanov and Three Sisters at CSC; A Minister's Wife at Lincoln Center Theatre; and Adding Machine: A Musical at Minetta Lane. Recent regional credits include Father Comes Home from the Wars, The Wolves, and Uncle Vanya at the Goodman Theatre; Wild Goose Dreams at La Jolla Playhouse; Carousel at Arena Stage; and The Edge of Our Bodies, Gentle, Music Hall, and The Anyway Cabaret at TUTA Theatre. International work includes Homebody/ Kabul at National Theatre of Belgrade in Serbia. He is the recipient of an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award. PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) returns to Studio Theatre after previously designing Moment, Sorry, Regular Singing, Bad Jews, and Edgar & Annabel. Other DC credits include Baby Screams Miracle (Helen Hayes nomination), Guards at the Taj (Helen Hayes nomination), Women Laughing Alone With Salad, and Cherokee at Woolly Mammoth; Urinetown, Equus (Helen Hayes nomination), Absolutely! {Perhaps}, and 36 Views at Constellation Theatre Company; and Everything Is Illuminated, The Call, and Yentl at Theater J. Select Off Broadway credits include Charm and School Girls at MCC; Orange Julius (Henry Hewes nomination) at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; The Death of the Last Black Man… at Signature Theatre; Friend Art at Second Stage; Samara and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Henry Hewes nomination) at Soho Rep; and Important Hats of the Twentieth Century at Manhattan Theatre Club. Select regional credits include Henry V and Henry IV, Part One at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Romance Novels for Dummies at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Tiger Style! at Alliance Theatre and Huntington Theatre; peerless at Marin Theatre Company; and Twelfth Night at Baltimore Center Stage. She has her MFA from Yale School of Drama. ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL (Dramaturg) is Studio Theatre’s Literary Director where she has dramaturged the world premieres of No Sisters, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart, Animal, Laugh, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses as well as productions of Curve of Departure, The Effect, Wig Out!, Straight White Men, Cloud 9, Hedda Gabler, Constellations, Jumpers for Goalposts, Bad Jews (twice), The Apple Family Plays, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She also served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 new, contemporary, and classic plays there, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, Rinne Groff, The Civilians, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Jordan Harrison, and John Belluso. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of eight editions of plays through Studio. Ms. Hansel holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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LAURA STANCZYK (New York Casting) previously cast I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart and Moment for Studio Theatre. Her Broadway, Off Broadway, and tour credits 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, Cripple of Inishmaan, Tryst, Flight, and Urinetown. She has also cast the premieres of 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, Broadway Three Generations, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Shawshank Redemption, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Ms. Stanczyk has received six Artios Award nominations for Excellence in Casting and recieved one for Eric Schaeffer's production of Follies. ALLIE ROY (Production Stage Manager) returns to Studio Theatre after stage managing Curve of Departure this winter. Other Studio credits include Straight White Men, Murder Ballad, Silence! The Musical, and the world premiere of Animal for the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Regional credits include the world premieres of Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing and Diner, West Side Story, and Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre; the world premiere of After the War, When January Feels Like Summer, and Ulysses on Bottles at Mosaic Theater Company; and The Originalist at Arena Stage. Up next, Ms. Roy will be assistant stage manager for The Scottsboro Boys at Signature Theatre. Ms. Roy is an alumna of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. KATE KILBANE (Assistant Stage Manager) makes her Studio Theatre debut. She recently stage managed The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Theater J along with twelve other productions. Other DC area credits include Unexplored Interior, the inaugural production at Mosaic Theater; and American Utopias, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and Arias with a Twist at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. As assistant stage manager, she worked on The Tempest Free for All at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; thirteen productions at Ford’s Theatre, including The Laramie Project, Fly, and Parade; and four productions as second assistant stage manager at The Kennedy Center including Follies and Ragtime. NANCY KREBS (Dialect/Vocal Coach) returns to Studio Theatre, where she previously served as Dialect/Vocal Coach for Constellations (Helen Hayes Award winning production), Animal (world premiere), The Habit of Art (American premiere), and The Enda Walsh Festival: The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce. She has been the Resident Dialect/Vocal Coach for the Annapolis Shakespeare Company for the past five years, coaching over 35 productions during her tenure. Her most recent credits are The Glass Menagerie, Blithe Spirit, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing, Alice and the Book of Wonderland, The Tempest, and Richard III. Ms. Krebs has served in this capacity for hundreds of professional productions in the region since 1994, working with other notable companies as Theater J, Baltimore Center Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, and Rep Stage in Columbia. Ms. Krebs teaches the Lessac Voice and Body Training at the Baltimore School for the Arts, operates her own voice studio The Voiceworks, is an accomplished musician/ singer/songwriter, and belongs to AEA, AFTRA, SAG, and VASTA. MANNA-SYMONE MIDDLEBROOKS (Assistant Director) is Studio's Artistic Apprentice this season. Her directing credits include Assistant Director for Studio's productions of The Wolves, Curve of Departure, and Skeleton Crew; Broken Glass at Theater J; Scarred for Life at American University; and The Ruiners: A Modern Romance at Keegan Theatre. Ms. Middlebrooks holds a BA in Theatre Arts and Literature from American University and is an alumna of The British American Drama Academy.
ABOUT STUDIO THEATRE Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, aiming to foster a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond. Studio’s Main Series is the core of our programming, offering a repertoire of provocative new and contemporary writing from around the world and inventive stagings of contemporary classics. Studio X is our home for particularly innovative, immersive, or experimental projects. Throughout the Theatre’s 39-year history, the quality of its work has been recognized by sustained community support as well as with 363 nominations and 68 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in professional theatre.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bobbi Terkowitz, Chair Teresa Schwartz, Vice-Chair Jean Heilman Grier, Secretary Jon Danforth, Treasurer Robert Batarla Susan Butler Carl Cole Dr. Mark Epstein Mark Foster Navroz Gandhi Jinny Goldstein Susan Gordon Hal Jones Martin Klepper Katy Kunzer Rosenzweig Albert Lauber Stan Marcuss Renee Matalon
Herb Milstein Fenner Milton Larry Naake James Nozar Jamie Pate Steve Skalet Jerome Sowalsky Robert Tracy Jonathan Tycko Adrian Washington Amy Weinberg EX-OFFICIO Meridith Burkus David Muse HONORARY BOARD Jan Carol Berris Irene Harriet Blum, Chair Emeritus Vincent Brown Morris J. Chalick, M.D. Barbara Smith Coleman*
Virginia R. Crawford* Liz Cullen John G. Guffey Warren Graves S. Ross Hechinger E. C. Michael Higgins Jaylee M. Mead, Chair Emeritus* Russell Metheny Harold F. Nelson Nancy Linn Patton Marshall E. Purnell Gerald M. Rosberg, Chair Emeritus Joan Searby Victor Shargai Henry F. von Eichel* Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director * In Memoriam
LEADERSHIP DAVID MUSE (Artistic Director) is in his eighth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre, where he has directed The Effect, The Father, Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, Cock, 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. Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has directed eight productions, including Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, and last season’s King Charles III (a co-production of ACT and Seattle Rep). Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theater Alliance, and Swansong for 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, Ford’s Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Mr. Muse has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. An eight-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. Mr. Muse is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama. MERIDITH BURKUS (Managing Director) joined Studio Theatre in May 2014, bringing ten years of arts management experience to the position—encompassing theatre, music, film, and public media. Most recently, Ms. Burkus held the position of Director of External Relations at StoryCorps, the Peabody Award-winning radio program and national oral history project, working to optimize StoryCorps’ impact on a national scale. Under her leadership, StoryCorps increased its operating budget by 25% and launched several new initiatives and recording locations across the country. She previously held positions in marketing, public relations, and development with several New York City organizations, including five seasons at The Public Theater as Director of Individual Giving. At The Public, she significantly increased annual contributions to various programs and initiatives such as Shakespeare in the Park, Public Lab, Joe’s Pub, and the Under the Radar Festival, in addition to being a key player in the successful completion of the recent $40 million capital campaign to renovate The Public’s historic home on Lafayette Street. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music.
TRANSLATIONS STAFF Assistant Director MANNA-SYMONE MIDDLEBROOKS Assistant Lighting Designer YANNICK GODTS Associate Sound Designer EMILY AUCIELLO Assistant Stage Manager VICKIE MORALES Sound Board Operator/Programmer JENN NICHOLS Production Assistant JUDE RODRIGUEZ Light Board Operator/Programmer APRIL KELLI Research Assistant JENNIFER SLEDGE
For additional members of the production staff, please see the full staff listing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Studio Theatre is grateful to Bruce Cohen and Mark Tushnet & Elizabeth Alexander for their additional support of Translations as members of the Artistic Director's Circle. Studio Theatre would like to thank Róise Goan, Christine Torney, James Grieve, Nick Lee, Dr. Stan Lombardo, Dr. Sarah Brown Ferrario, Paul Meier, and Barbara Carswell. Scenic painter Leila Spolter dedicates her work on this show to Myra Spolter, who loved the performing arts and travel. Studio Theatre Production would like to thank Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, and Folger Theatre for their support in creating the world of Translations.
Translations is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author's rights and actionable under United States Copyright law, for more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
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STUDIO STAFF LEADERSHIP
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID MUSE MANAGING DIRECTOR MERIDITH BURKUS PRODUCTION MANAGER JOSH ESCAJEDA GENERAL MANAGER ELISABETH BAYER DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT JERALYNN MILLER
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT LAURA SCIALDONE MANAGEMENT APPRENTICE McKENZIE MILLICAN BUSINESS APPRENTICE CHLOE ANDERSON SENIOR FACILITIES MANAGER KIERAN KELLY EVENTS APPRENTICE RUTH STANLEY
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EDUCATION MANAGER & REGISTRAR STACY D’ANGELO EDUCATION AND OPERATIONS ASSISTANT JOE GRAF EDUCATION APPRENTICE SAMANTHA SHAFFNER DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM AND TEACHER TRAINING JOY ZINOMAN INSTRUCTORS CAROL ARTHUR, NANCY BANNON, DIANA BRADLEY, ZACH CAMPION, JACQUELINE CHENAULT, ELENA DAY, KATE DEBELACK, DENISE DIGGS, GEORGE FULGINITI-SHAKAR, JULIE GARNER, ROBB HUNTER, PEG NICHOLS, NANCY PARIS, MADELEINE BURKE PITT, DEBORAH RILEY, SERGE SEIDEN, COLETTE YGLESIAS SILVER, MATTHEW VAKY, ANDERSON WELLS, JOY ZINOMAN
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