Jez Butterworth is one of the most prominent British playwrights and screenwriters working today . Born in London, Butterworth studied at Saint John’s College division of Cambridge University. His first play, Mojo, earned him the Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, and George Devine Awards for outstanding new play. Following the play’s success, Butterworth wrote and directed a film adaptation of Mojo, released in 1996. He has also written the screenplays for Birthday Girl, The Last Legion, and the recently released Fair Game (co-written with his brother John-Henry Butterworth). His other plays include Huge, The Winterling, The Night Heron, Parlour Song, and the smash London hit Jerusalem (recently named the number two play in The Times “Top Twenty Plays of the Decade”). In 2007, Butterworth received the E.M. Foster Award, which provides British and Irish writers grants to travel and work in the United States. He currently lives with his family on a pig farm in Somerset, England.

(As of December 2010)

THE STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Mojo, tempOdyssey, Seconds of Pleasure, Finding the Sun, The Galileo Project, Deadbeat, Forever and Ever, The Love of Karlovna, Oxygen; Polaroid Stories (Co-Director), autobahn (Assistant Director). LOCAL: Roundheads and Peakheads, The Trial (Director/Adaptor), The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, 1984 (Director/Adapter), Catalyst Theater; Run Through an Unquiet Mind (Co-Director/Co-Writer), Rootstock Collective; Twelve Angry Men, Keegan Theatre; Spinoza's Solitude, Theater J.

(As of June 2012)

LOCAL: The Mikado, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sweeney Todd, Pride and Prejudice, A Comedy of Errors, Montgomery Blair High School. FILM: My One and Only, xXx State of the Union, The Visiting. TRAINING: The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory’s Young Actors' Ensemble, Round House Theatre's Heroes.

(As of December 2010)

THE STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Mojo.  THE STUDIO THEATRE: The Habit of Art. REGIONAL: You for Me for You (upcoming) Ma-Yi Theatre/Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.  LOCAL: Birds of a Feather, Hub Theatre; Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Keegan Theatre; Mulan, Peter and Wendy (upcoming), Imagination Stage. AWARDS: Two Helen Hayes Award nominations (Ensemble). EDUCATION:  Auburn University; The Catholic University of America. 

(As of June 2012)

THE STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: All That I Will Ever Be. LOCAL: Cat's Cradle, Longacre Lea; It's Lonely Out In Space, Source Festival; The Ramayana, Constellation Theatre Company; Mauritius, The Bay Theatre; Five Flights, Theater Alliance; Marat/Sade, Forum Theatre; Made in China, Solas Nua; Dead City, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Rough Magic, Rorschach Theatre; The Clockmaker, The Hub Theatre. TOURS: Of Mice and Men, Keegan Theatre (national tour of Ireland). OTHER: Company Member, The Hub Theatre.

(As of December 2010)

LOCAL: Fever/Dream, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, Angels In America: Perestroika, Amazons and Their Men, Forum Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, Edward III, Titus Andronicus, Washington Shakespeare Company; Christmas Carol 1941, Arena Stage; Intimate Apparel, African Continuum Theatre; The True History of Coca-Cola In Mexico, Gala Hispanic Theatre; Gretty Good Time, Theater Alliance; The Inspector General, Journeymen Theater; The Dybbuk, Synetic Theater; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Actors' Theatre of Washington. EDUCATION: Middlebury College, B.A. in Theatre and Sociology.

(As of December 2010)

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.

(As of December 2014)

Scot McKenzie returns to The Studio Theatre having previously appeared as Mickey in Mojo, Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and Keith in Betty’s Summer Vacation. As Producing Artistic Director for Capital Fringe, Mr. McKenzie co-wrote and appeared in Hoodoo at The Shop and Run Through the Unquiet Mind at the National Museum of the American Indian. Other local credits include 1984 and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble) with Catalyst Theater; Cardenio Found with Taffety Punk; Caucasian Chalk Circle with Open Circle Theatre; Shakespeare’s R&J, Macbeth, She Stoops to Conquer, and Othello at the Folger Theatre; Rhinoceros with Rorschach Theatre; and Knoyugogh, Rough & Lively, and The Two-Character Play at the Little Globe Theater. His regional credits include Henry IV Part 1, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the American Shakespeare Center. He is a recipient of the Theater Lobby’s Mary C. Goldwater Award for Excellence in Acting. Mr. McKenzie’s film credits include The Snowflake Crusade, Five Lines, The Kumbio Takedown, and Irretrievable Loss of Heat. He has written and directed multiple short films and is currently in post-production on Plita & Chiclu.

(As of November 2012)

Luciana Stecconi’s previous designs for Studio Theatre include The Effect, Cloud 9, Hedda Gabler, Bad Jews, An Iliad, Lungs, The History of Kisses, In the Red and Brown Water, The Year of Magical Thinking, Amnesia Curiosa, Souvenir, Contractions, and Crestfall, among others. She has designed for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Mosaic Theater, Theater J, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Georgetown University, Catholic University, American University, Imagination Stage, and many more. She’s the Assistant Professor in Scenic Design at Emerson College. Stecconi holds an MFA in design from Brandeis University and is a member of USA Local 829.

(As of December 2018)

Frank Labovitz returns to Studio Theatre where he has previously designed Wig Out!, having previously designed Cloud 9, Silence! the Musical, Laugh, Torch Song Trilogy, and Dirt. His other design credits include The Threepenny Opera and Dreamgirls for Signature Theatre, NSFW and Ordinary Days for Round House Theatre, Guards at the Taj and The Totalitarians for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and The Tale of The Allergist's Wife and The Religion Thing for Theater J. Mr. Labovitz is a company member of Pointless Theatre, where his designs include Gimme a Band, Gimme a Banana and Doctor Caligari. Mr. Labovitz received his MFA in costume design from The University of Maryland.

(As of April 2018)

John Burkland returns to The Studio Theatre, where he has designed Souvenir and multiple Studio 2ndStage productions, including The Big Meal, Mojo, Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, A Beautiful View, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Frozen, TempOdyssey, and All That I Will Ever Be. He has also designed locally for Theater Alliance, Longacre Lea, MetroStage, The Bay Theater, Washington Shakespeare Company, Rorschach Theater, and the Kennedy Center. New York credits include productions at  Lincoln Center Institute, La MaMa, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Manhattan Music and Movement Center, Sonnet Repertory, HB Playwrights Studio, Guggenheim Arts in Process, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Skirball Center, the New York Fringe Festival, and Summer Play Festival. Regionally, Mr. Burkland has designed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Opera Tampa, Bellingham Theater Guild, Actors Theater of Atlanta, Andrea Dance, Big Apple Circus To Go, and The Dance Gallery.  He is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts.

(As of October 2012)

LOCAL: Beauty of the Father, Lucido, The True History of Coca Cola in Mexico, Boleros and Blues, Tu Ternura Molotov, Fuego Flamenco II, III, IV, Latino Negro, Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, Gala Hispanic Thetare; Ain’t Misbehavin’, Olney Theatre Center; Roundheads and Peakheads, The Trial, Catalyst Theatre Company; Fallen from Proust, Signature Theatre; Redhand Guitar (workshop), 33 Variations (workshop), Arena Stage; Los Ijos de Limbo, Snapshots from a Greyhound, Capital  Fringe Festival; Source Festival One Acts and Full Lengths, Source Theatre.  OTHER: Artistic Associate and Founding Member, Constellation Theatre Company.

(As of December 2010)

THE STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. NEW YORK: Romeo and Juliet, The Metropolitan Opera (upcoming). REGIONAL: Macbeth, Two River Theatre; The Three Musketeers, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. LOCAL: Macbeth and Cyrano, Folger Theatre; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Signature Theatre. AWARDS: S.A.F.D 2010 Swashbuckler of the Year. INSTRUCTOR: North Carolina School of the Arts, Summer Session. EDUCATION: North Carolina School of the Arts.

(As of December 2010)a

THE STUDIO THEATRE: American Buffalo, Moonlight, Shining City, A Number, among others LOCAL:  Travels with my Aunt, Rep Stage; The Millionairess, Da, Olney Theatre Center; My Fair Lady, Signature Theatre.  AWARDS: Kennedy Center Top Teaching Artist (2005), Gold Medallion (2006). INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor, Chair: Theatre Arts, McDaniel College, MD.  MEMBERSHIP: AEA, AFTRA, SAG, VASTA.   EDUCATION:  NYU Tisch School of the Arts, M.F.A.

(As of December 2010)