Studio Theatre

CASTING CALL: Studio Theatre is looking for a local DMV area actor to play the role of Blaze in our upcoming production of Aurora Real De Asua's WIPEOUT direct by Danilo Gambini. Equity and Non-Equity performers are welcome to send materials.

BLAZE - Male, 18 to 26 years old, All ethnicities.

Description: A Californian surf-bro. Someone you would at first read as someone who doesn’t worry about “real life” responsibilities, but then you learn has had to deal with severe hardships and carries profound and transcendental wisdom about life.

Please your resume and headshot to [email protected] by Friday, September 13.

🏠 It's the start of a new season, with the first performance of OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME. Get ready to be mesmerized by the powerful storytelling of Casey Jay Andrews. Gather around a doll house and get lost in an intimate tale about sanctuary, belonging and loneliness.

🎟 Tickets for this limited engagement are extremely limited, secure your seat today >> studiotheatre.org/oh-my-heart-oh-my-home

🏠 You've never seen a show quite like this before. Join Edinburgh Fringe First-winning storyteller Casey Jay Andrews as she weaves a delicate fable about the capacity a place has for holding a feeling.

🎟Performances for this three week limited engagement start tomorrow >> studiotheatre.org/oh-my-heart-oh-my-home

📸 Late Cut Media

🪑 We are thrilled to produce our first Dave Harris play with EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.

Dave Harris is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter from West Philly. Selected plays include "Tambo & Bones" (LA Drama Critics Award "Best New Play", TimeOut London "Best Plays of 2023,"), "Exception to the Rule", and "Everybody Black". His first feature film, "Summertime", premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released in 2021. Selected honors include: the 2023 Horton Foote Prize, the Ollie Award, The Lorraine Hansberry Award and Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, The International Commendation for The Bruntwood Prize, the Venturous Fellowship, and a Cave Canem poetry fellowship, amongst others. Dave has written feature and television projects for AMC ("Interview With A Vampire"), Netflix, Amazon ("The Fortress of Solitude"), and FX, amongst others. His first full-length collection of poetry, "Patricide", was published by Button Poetry.

🎟 See Dave's work come to life on stage beginning September 18 >> studiotheatre.org/exception-to-the-rule

With our 2024-2025 season just a few weeks away, we wanted to look back at our incredible 2023-2024 season. Thank you to all the artists on stage and off who made this season possible!

📸: ESPEJOS: CLEAN; FAT HAM; LOVE, LOVE, LOVE; AT THE WEDDING; PROBLEMS BETWEEN SISTERS by Margot Schulman

📸: THE COLORED MUSEUM by Teresa Castracane

🏠 Meet Casey Jay Andrews; the writer, designer, and performer of OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME.

Casey Jay Andrews is a multi-award winning writer, theatre-maker and designer.

In 2018 Casey Jay won a Fringe First for her play "The Archive of Educated Hearts" which was housed within an intricate design installation. It has since travelled around the UK, to the Adelaide Fringe Festival and The Soho Playhouse New York.

Outside of making her own storytelling work Casey Jay is Senior Designer at Punchdrunk Enrichment, and prior to this she was Assistant Head of Design on Punchdrunk International’s "The Burnt City."

Casey has been making work for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2012, beginning with HookHitch Theatre and Lion House Theatre, and in more recent years venturing into solo storytelling projects such as: “The Wild Unfeeling World” and “A Place That Belongs to Monsters”.

🎟 Don't miss your chance to be entranced in Casey's powerful storytelling, secure your tickets today >> studiotheatre.org/oh-my-heart-oh-my-home

🪑 School is in session! We kicked off our 2024-2025 season yesterday with the first rehearsal of EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.

🎟This gut-punch of a comedy begins performances September 18, secure your seat today >> studiotheatre.org/exception-to-the-rule

🪮 THE COLORED MUSEUM ran its last exhibit yesterday, and played its finale performance. Congratulations to the cast, crew, and creative team on a phenomenal run, and thank you for all your hard work bringing these exhibits to life!

Featuring
Woman 1 | Ayanna Bria Bakari
Woman 2 | Kelli Blackwell
Woman 3 | Iris Beaumier
Man 1 (July 3 - August 11) | Matthew Elijah Webb
Man 1 (August 14 - 18) | Henian Boone
Man 2 | William Oliver Watkins
Girl | Ruth Benson
Drummer | Jabari Exum

Directed by Psalmayene 24
Assistant Director | Ashley Mapley-Brittle
Environmental Designer | Natsu Onoda Power
Costume Designer | Moyenda Kulemeka
Lighting Designer | Jesse Belsky
Sound Designer/Composition | Matthew M. Nielson
Projection Design | Kelly Colburn
Music Consultant | William Knowles
Props Designer | Amy Kellett
Intimacy Coordinator | Sierra Young
Choreographer | Tony Thomas
Dramaturg | Adrien-Alice Hansel
Production Stage Manager | John Keith Hall
Assistant Stage Manager (July 3 - 28)| Stephen Bubniak
Assistant Stage Manager (July 31 - August 18) | Rebecca Talisman
Casting | Geoff Josselson, CSA

📸 Teresa Castracane

Get ready for the last Instagram Takeover of our season. Ayanna Bria Bakari (Woman 1 in THE COLORED MUSEUM) will be taking over our Instagram tomorrow Saturday, August 17 to give you a look at her two show day!

Follow on Instagram for all of the exclusive backstage content!

🪮 It's your last chance to stop by THE COLORED MUSEUM. The show MUST CLOSE this Sunday, August 18!

🎟 Only six performances remain of this "must-see" (MD Theatre Guide) production, don't wait secure your tickets today >> studiotheatre.org/the-colored-museum

🪑 Join us during our 2024-2025 season for EXCEPTION TO THE RULE, Dave Harris's gut-punch of a comedy about how a racialized public school system fails its students by design, who gets the chance to escape it, and what they must leave behind to do so.

🎟 Tickets to this new play just went on sale, secure your seats today >> studiotheatre.org/exception-to-the-rule

Our 2024-2025 season is here! Meet the cast of EXCEPTION TO THE RULE, Dave Harris's gut-punch of a comedy that interrogates how a racialized public school system fails its students by design, who gets the chance to escape it, and what they must leave behind to do so.

Six Black students at the city’s worst high school wait out Friday detention, but no one can figure out how “College Bound Erika” ended up stuck here too. The rules are simple: a teacher has to sign their form before anyone can leave the room. But no adults have made it yet, so the teens fill their time by flirting, fighting, and forming plans for the long weekend ahead—until a more sinister probability comes into view.

Miranda Haymon makes their Studio debut directing this thrilling new play >> studiotheatre.org/exception-to-the-rule

It's time for another takeover! Matthew Elijah Webb (Man 1 in THE COLORED MUSEUM) will be taking over our Instagram tomorrow Saturday, August 10 to give you a behind the scenes look at his two show day.

Be sure to follow on Instagram so you don't miss any of this exclusive backstage content!

Come work at Studio! We're currently hiring House Managers to assist our Front of House team.

Learn more about this position >> studiotheatre.org/workwithus

🪮 Here's something to smile about, THE COLORED MUSEUM has great availability for performances August 14-18.

🎟 Stop by and see this "must-see" (MD Theatre Guide) show before it closes on August 18 >> studiotheatre.org/the-colored-museum

📸 Teresa Castracane

🪮 Time is running out to catch our production of THE COLORED MUSEUM. There are only 13 performances left!

🎟 Performances are selling out fast, secure your tickets before they're gone >> studiotheatre.org/the-colored-museum

📸 Teresa Castracane

🎉 We want to thank everyone who joined us last Friday for Black Out Night of THE COLORED MUSEUM.

Keep an eye out on our social media for information about upcoming Black Out Night performances.

🎉 It's go time! Tickets are now on sale for the first three shows of our 2024-2025 season. Buy early to ensure your first choice of seats on your preferred date.

🎟 Secure your seats to OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME; EXCEPTION TO THE RULE; and SUMMER, 1976 today >>studiotheatre.org/buy/tickets/24-25-landing-page

Since it premiered in the 1980s, THE COLORED MUSEUM has quickly become an American Classic. During this time playwright George C. Wolfe has given numerous interviews about the play.

Here is a compilation of some of his interviews which served as a guidepost for our production >> studiotheatre.org/george-c-wolfe-on-tcm

🪮 Time is running out to catch our "impressive revival" (The Washington Post) of THE COLORED MUSEUM.

🎟 Secure your tickets to this "must-see" (MD Theatre Guide) production >> studiotheatre.org/the-colored-museum

Set and environmental designer Natsu Onoda Power has curated an installation to heighten the audience’s experience of George C. Wolfe’s play, THE COLORED MUSEUM, offering a provocative taste of the experience to come.

Learn more about the exhibits you will encounter at the show >> studiotheatre.org/exhibit

🪮 THE COLORED MUSEUM could not happen without our wonderful understudies!

Thank you Tymetrias, Madison, Sophia, and Henian for your time, talent, and dedication to this production!

🎉 Our 2024-2025 season is right around the corner. Now is the perfect time to secure your seat to all six exhilarating productions with a season subscriber.

🎟 Subscribe today and get ready for a season full of the unexpected >> studiotheatre.org/subscribe

The collision of themes and audiences was and remains the core of what playwright George C. Wolfe’s aimed with THE COLORED MUSEUM. Learn more about the dangerous tension between the two in this featured writing by dramaturg Adrien-Alice Hansel >> studiotheatre.org/dangerous-tension

🏠 One of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival's most powerful shows comes to Studio. Don't miss OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME. The award-winning one-women show about sanctuary, belonging, and loneliness.

Tickets to this special event are currently on sale exclusively to subscribers, and can be included in a Create Your Own Package.

🎟 Subscribe today and be one of the first to secure tickets to this intimate tale of family and home >> studiotheatre.org/subscribe

📅 Time is running out to visit THE COLORED MUSEUM. The show closes in one month.

🎟 Tickets are in limited supply, reserve your tickets before the show sells out >> studiotheatre.org/the-colored-museum