Carrie is lonely. Carrie is angry. Carrie will fit in. Whatever it costs.
New blood courses through this contemporary rock musical, based on Stephen King’s haunting story of teen angst, religious fervor, and the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. As Carrie navigates the harsh realities of high school bullying and her overprotective mother, a new and violent power is unleashed inside her—and she’ll use it.
2ndStage is Studio’s playground for emerging artists, offering innovative and thrillingly eclectic programming with shorter rehearsal periods and smaller budgets than our other productions, with a spirit of exuberance and experiment.
Runtime: 2 hours, including a 10-minute intermission.
Environmental Warnings: This production of Carrie contains adult content, partial nudity, the use of herbal cigarettes, haze, fog, and loud sound effects.
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Michael Gore received Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Song for his work in the movie Fame, for which he also won a Golden Globe for Best Song, and was nominated for a Grammy. His other movie credits include the scores for Terms of Endearment (Best Score Oscar nomination) and Pretty in Pink in 1986, and he was a major contributor to the musical underscore for Broadcast News. Other scores include Defending Your Life, Mr. Wonderful, The Butcher’s Wife, and Superstar. With lyricist Lynn Ahrens, he wrote two original songs for the movie Camp. Artists including Whitney Houston (multi-platinum song “All the Man I Need”), Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle and LL Cool J have performed his compositions. He produced the CD of The King and I starring Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley, which was number one on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Album chart for 17 weeks and remained in the top ten for almost a year. As the album’s producer, he was nominated for a Grammy and won The Billboard Award for Top Crossover Recording. In addition to executive producing ABC’s acclaimed 3-hour special event telefilm of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick, Jr., he produced all the music for the film and its soundtrack recording. As a solo recording artist, he composed and performed “October Moon” for Song Without Words II for Windham Hill.
(As of August 2013)
Dean Pitchford was born and raised in Hawaii and graduated from Yale. He began his performing career off- and on-Broadway (Godspell; Pippin) before turning to songwriting, screenwriting, and directing. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards (winning Best Song for “Fame,” co-written with Michael Gore), three Golden Globes (winning for “Fame”), seven Grammys and two Tonys. His songs—recorded by such artists as Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Cher, Peter Allen, LL Cool J, Kenny Loggins, Hugh Jackman, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, and Martina McBride—have sold over 70 million records. The musical stage adaptation (co-written with Walter Bobbie) of his original screenplay for Footloose ran for more than seven hundred performances on Broadway and is now being seen all over the world. Pitchford’s young adult novels, The Big One-Oh, Captain Nobody, and Nickel Bay Nick, were published by Putnam/Penguin. His performances of the audiobook recordings for The Big One-Oh and Captain Nobody were nominated for Grammy Awards.
(As of August 2013)
Lawrence D. Cohen's first feature script was his adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel, Carrie (1976). His screenplay for the classic Brian de Palma film earned him an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. After beginning his career as a film/theatre critic and essayist for a number of leading periodicals, he worked as an assistant to famed Broadway director-choreographer Michael Bennett on the latter’s Tony Award-winning Twigs, as well as the musical Seesaw. While working for film and TV producer David Susskind, he discovered the script of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and went on to become production executive of the 1975 Martin Scorsese film. Continuing his relationship with Stephen King in 1980, he wrote the 4-hour teleplay of It which USA Today called “the scariest movie ever made for TV.” It and his subsequent adaptation of King's The Tommyknockers (1993) became two of the network's highest-rated miniseries. In 2007, he was reunited with the Master of Horror with his adaptation of “The End of the Whole Mess” for TNT’s “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” anthology series. The script was nominated for Best Drama by the Writers Guild of America.
(As of August 2013)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, POP!, Passing Strange, Fucking A, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Reefer Madness: The Musical! (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical), Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Terrorism, The Who’s Tommy, Polaroid Stories, Nocturne, Wonderland Alice, The Wild Party, Kerouac, HAIR (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical), Goblin Market, 2-2 Tango, Alfred and Victoria: A Life, Road. AWARDS: 2008 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Director (Reefer Madness: The Musical!); 1998 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Director (HAIR); 1999 Mayor’s Arts Award.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plimoth Players. LOCAL: Fuga Mundi (upcoming workshop), Center Stage; Supplication, Strangers on a Train, Source Festival; Ladies No Bare Feet, Tia Nina; Camp Rock, Adventure Theatre-MTC Academy. EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Artistic Fellow, Shakespeare Theatre.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Assassins, Huntington Theatre. LOCAL: Parade, Next to Normal, Kensington Arts Theatre. TELEVISION: House of Horrors: Kidnapped, Investigation Discovery. AWARDS: 2012 WATCH Award, Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical (Next to Normal). TRAINING: Overtures, Signature Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA Acting, Boston University.
(As of July 2014)
BROADWAY: Falsettos (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Los Angeles Ovation Award), Company (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, PBS Great Performances), Hairspray, Big, Nine. OFF BROADWAY: 1,000 Words Come to Mind, Normal, Forbidden Broadway. REGIONAL: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Master Class, Grey Gardens, A Little Night Music, 33 Variations, Dinner With Friends, A Streetcar Named Desire. FILM: Life With Mikey. TELEVISION: Law & Order, One Life to Live.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ragtime, Beauty and the Beast. LOCAL: Fiddler on the Roof (upcoming), Arena Stage; Cabaret (upcoming), Gypsy (Helen Hayes nomination), Spin, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu, Signature Theatre; Grease, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Olney Theatre Center; Cabaret (Helen Hayes nomination), Sunshine Boys, Spring Awakening, Keegan Theatre; Bat Boy, 1st Stage; Nunsense, Cinderella, Hairspray, Toby’s Dinner Theatre. EDUCATION: BM, Catholic University.
(As of July 2014)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. OFF BROADWAY: The Flea Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Big Intimacy Group, Essential Theatre Group, The New York International Fringe Festival. LOCAL: The Impressionable Players, Capital Fringe. EDUCATION: University of Maryland.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: High School Musical, Blood Brothers, MWV Theatre Company. LOCAL: HAIR, Keegan Theatre; Tick, Tick...Boom!, Red Branch Theatre; Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre. AWARDS: 2014 WATCH Award, Outstanding Featured Actress (Ragtime). TRAINING: Overtures, Signature Theatre. EDUCATION: The University of the Arts.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Carrie: The Musical, West Side Story, Les Miserables. TELEVISION: American Juniors, American Idol. EDUCATION: University of Delaware, Organic Acting Academy.
(As of July 2014)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Jerry Springer: The Opera. STUDIO THEATRE: Grey Gardens. REGIONAL: Totem Pole Playhouse. LOCAL: The Phantom Tollbooth (national tour), Kennedy Center; Grease (national tour), Phoenix Entertainment; Delilah, Artscentric; The Wild Party, Teatro101; A Christmas Carol, Ford’s Theatre; Beaches, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu, Hairspray, Chess, Revenge of the Understudies, Signature Theatre; Shakespeare Gala; Washington Savoyards; Keegan Theatre; Toby’s Dinner Theatre. EDUCATION: The American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York.
(As of July 2014)
LOCAL: Ford’s Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Adventure Theatre-MTC, Rep Stage, Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Keegan Theatre, UrbanArias, Kennedy Center. TELEVISION: Investigation Discovery. AWARDS: 2014 Helen Hayes Award, 2014 Howard County Rising Star Award Finalist. TEACHING: Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC. EDUCATION: University of Maryland.
(As of July 2014)
BROADWAY: Mamma Mia! (national tour). REGIONAL: A Little Night Music, The Sound of Music, Peach State Summer Theatre. UNIVERSITY: Spring Awakening, All Shook Up. EDUCATION: BA Musical Theatre and Dance, James Madison University.
(As of July 2014)
LOCAL: Keegan Theatre, The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Spring Awakening, Cabaret, August: Osage County, National Pastime, Keegan Theatre. LOCAL: Aida, Children of Eden, Into the Woods, Vienna Youth Players. UNIVERSITY: Parade, The Yale Dramatic Association, Yale University. EDUCATION: Theatre Studies, Yale University, Class of 2017.
(As of July 2014)
LOCAL: The Little Mermaid (upcoming), Olney Theatre Center; Dames at Sea, Sisters of Swing, Infinity Theatre Company; Happy Days, Cinderella, CATS, Toby’s Dinner Theatre; Frank Loesser Revue, Marvin Hamlisch Revue, Kennedy Center. UNIVERSITY: The Drowsy Chaperone, Godspell. EDUCATION: Catholic University, Towson University.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Oklahoma, HONK! Jr., Pittsburgh Playhouse. LOCAL: Parade, On the Town, Theatre Lab. AWARDS: Signature Idol 2012. TRAINING: Overtures, Signature Theatre. EDUCATION: Rising Junior, BFA, Musical Theatre, Point Park University.
(As of July 2014)
STUDIO THEATRE: Invisible Man. OFF BROADWAY: Room on Fire, Sage Theater. LOCAL: Hair, Keegan Theatre; Dying City, Really Really, Signature Theatre; Blithe Spirit, The Italian-American Reconciliation, Bat Boy, 1st Stage; FUE, New Musical Foundation; Marry Me a Little, Nevermore, Peter Pan, Creative Cauldron. EDUCATION: BFA Acting, Ithaca College.
(As of July 2014)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. OFF BROADWAY: Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. LOCAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Adventure Theatre MTC, Toby’s Dinner Theatre, ArtsCentric, QuackenSteele Theatre Company. AWARDS: Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical. EDUCATION: BM Voice, James Madison University.
(As of July 2014)
REGIONAL: Spamalot, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Media Theatre. LOCAL: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Chorus Line (Helen Hayes Award), Olney Theatre Center. EDUCATION: BFA Musical Theater, University of Florida.
(As of July 2014)
Darius Smith is pleased to return to Studio Theatre, where he served as music director on Carrie the Musical. His New York theatre credits include Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds Off Broadway and his original song cycle Songs in the Key of Chocolate at 54 Below. His local work as a music director includes productions of Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Once on This Island at Olney Theatre Center, Dreamgirls at Signature Theatre as Associate Music Director, and Glimpses of the Moon at MetroStage, among others. As a composer/lyricist, he has provided music and lyrics for The Snowy Day at Adventure Theatre MTC (Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding TYA Production) and U.G.L.Y. at The Kennedy Center. His upcoming projects include Petit Rouge at Adventure Theatre MTC and Soon at Signature Theatre.
(As of December 2014)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Batboy. STUDIO THEATRE: A Class Act, A New Brain. NEW YORK: Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds, NY Musical Theatre Festival. REGIONAL: Mel Tillis, La Jolla Playhouse, Jefferson Performing Arts, Singapore Repertory, Olympics. LOCAL: Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Metro Stage, Arena Stage, Adventure Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Center Stage, Round House, Strathmore, Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera.
(As of July 2014)
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)
Kelsey Hunt is a costume designer based in the DC area. Previous Studio Theatre credits include Bad Jews, Carrie: The Musical, Edgar & Annabel, and Skin Tight. Other credits include Cherokee at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Life Sucks and Body Awareness at Theater J; Slow Falling Bird and In the Red and Brown Water at Georgetown University; As You Like It and Pride & Prejudice at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; Die Fledermaus at the Maryland Opera Studio; and One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Artist’s Collaborative. Ms. Hunt previously served as Resident Costume Designer for Triad Stage and is co-author of Elizabethan Costume Design, Focal Press. Upcoming projects include The Nether at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Stage Kiss at Round House Theatre, and The Sisters Rosensweig at Theater J.
(As of December 2015)
NEW YORK: PTP/NYC. REGIONAL: Yale Repertory Theatre, Triad Stage, Perseverance Theatre, NJPAC, Connecticut College. HONORS: S&R Washington Award, Stanley McCandless Scholarship. TEACHING: Washington College. EDUCATION: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, Middlebury College.
(As of July 2014)
Adam W. Johnson, a DC-based sound designer and engineer, returns to Studio after designing and mixing Carrie the Musical for 2ndStage. Locally, he has designed Los empeños de una casa and Puro Tango 2 at GALA Hispanic Theatre, as well as F@#king Up Everything for the New Musical Foundation. Other designs include Always... Patsy Cline at Stoneham Theatre, Aesop’s Network for the BTF PLAYS! program at Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Metamorphoses at Live Arts. He was the Associate Sound Designer for The Love of the Nightingale with Tom Teasley at Constellation Theatre, and has assisted John Gromada on productions at Ford’s Theatre including Fly and The Laramie Project. Mr. Johnson works as a staff audio engineer at Arena Stage, where his engineering credits include The Mountaintop, The Music Man, and the world premiere of Pullman Porter Blues. He is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia.
(As of March 2015)
LOCAL: In Time of Roses, Triumph of Disruption, UMD. LOCAL: Richard III, NextStop Theatre Co.; Meena’s Dream, Forum Theatre; Anything Goes, A Little House Christmas, Adventure Theatre-MTC; NEW YORK: The Hunters, Cherry Lane Theatre; As You Like It, Atlantic Theatre Co./NYU; EDUCATION: MFA Lighting Design, University of Maryland.
(As of July 2014)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Moth (Stage Manager), Edgar & Annabel (Assistant Stage Manager), Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (ASM). STUDIO THEATRE: The Night Watcher, Red Speedo, Bachelorette, Sucker Punch, Time Stands Still, The Golden Dragon, The Habit of Art (Assistant Stage Manager). DC AREA: Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds (Assistant Stage Manager, Folger Theatre); Under the Canopy, Young Spectaculars (Stage Manager, Arts on the Horizon); The Wedding Dress (Stage Manager, Spooky Action Theater); Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden (Stage Manager, Adventure Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Assistant Stage Manager, Olney Theatre Center). EDUCATION: BA in English, History, and Theatre, Vanderbilt University.
(As of April 2014)
