Mallery Avidon's play O Guru Guru Guru, or why I don't want to go to yoga class with you was part of Actors Theater of Louisville's 35th Humana Festival of New American Plays and Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love premiered at the The Flea Theater in NYC. Her play queerSpawn had its premiere with a Collection of Shiny Objects at HERE Arts Center. Her work has also been produced by Pavement Group and Target Margin Theater, among others. Avidon is an alumna of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, a Sundance/Ucross playwriting fellow, and a dramaturge for the company Saint Genet. She is currently working on TL;DR, an opera with the composer Jeff Aaron Bryant and will be in Residence at Williams College Summer Theater Lab in August to workshop her new play Gilded Girls. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and she holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Brown University.

(As of June 2015)

Holly Twyford returns to Studio Theatre for Cloud 9. She most recently directed both Mary Kate Olsen is in Love and Edgar and Annabel for Studio 2ndStage, and was last seen on stage at Studio Theatre in the Lab production of Dirt. Other favorite roles at Studio include Evelyn in The Shape of Things, Elsa in Road to Mecca, and Bunny in Desk Set. She has appeared in over 50 productions with many of the area’s theaters including Ford’s Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, and Arena Stage. She has performed regionally in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz, Red Bank, NJ and Milwaukee. Ms. Twyford has been nominated twenty times for a Helen Hayes Award and is a four-time recipient.  She received the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence for her portrayal of Anna in Old Times and she is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.  She is proud to be a charter member of the Studio Cabinet, Studio Theatre’s new affiliated artist program. She has appeared in several independent films, including John Waters’ Pecker. Television credits include Homicide: Life on the Street and House of Cards.  Her credits also include numerous commercials, voiceovers, and educational and training films.

(As of August 2016)

STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Terminus (Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play). DC AREA: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea and I Love DC, Theater Alliance; The Program Assistant and Social Media Expert, Capital Fringe; 50 Guns, Lost in Thought, The Aurora Mainframe, and Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Source Festival; Anniversary, Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory Directing Showcase; 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

(As of May 2015)

DC AREA: The Typographer’s Dream and A Man, His Wife, and His Hat, The Hub Theatre; One Man, Two Guvnors and Suite Surrender, 1st Stage; Neverwhere and after the quake, Rorschach Theatre; Awake and Sing!, Olney Theatre Center; The Love of the Nightingale, Constellation Theatre Company; Lobster Alice, Flying V Theatre; Pol Pot & Associates, LLP, Longacre Lea; Biography, Marathon ‘33, and On the Waterfront, American Century Theater; Qualities of Starlight, Source Festival; Richard III, NextStop Theatre Company; Juno and the Paycock and Richard III, WSC Avant Bard; Julius Caesar, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. EDUCATION: MA in Theater Education, Catholic University of America.

(As of May 2015)

REGIONAL: Richard III and The History of Tom Jones, Reduxion Theatre; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park; Le Rossignol, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and The Turn of the Screw, Oklahoma Opera Theatre; Amahl and the Night Visitors and Hansel and Gretel, Cimarron Opera. DC AREA: Carousel and The Little Mermaid, Olney Theatre Center; Into the Woods and Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island, NextStop Theatre; Sunny & Licorice, Arts on the Horizon; As You Like It, HalfMad Theatre. EDUCATION: BM Vocal Performance, University of Oklahoma.

(As of May 2015)

Sara Dabney Tisdale was recently seen in Bad Jews at Studio Theatre. Her other credits include The T Party at Forum Theatre; Yentl at Theater J; The Minotaur at Rorschach Theatre; A Little Trick at Quotidian Theatre Company; National Smoke Signal Day, Northern Indiana Wildlife Preserve, and The Old Grey Devil at The Source Festival; SubUrbia at LiveArts Charlottesville; The Scarlet Letter with WAMU Public Radio and Lean and Hungry Theater; POP! with Studio 2ndStage; and Pippin at the Edinburgh International Fringe. Ms. Tisdale has understudied roles and performed in workshops and staged readings with various local companies including Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J, The Inkwell, Field Trip Theatre, Artists’ Bloc, and The American Shakespeare Center. Ms. Tisdale is a graduate of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and holds a BA in English, Religious Studies, and Drama from the University of Virginia.

(As of May 2015)

REGIONAL: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Hudson Theatre; Neighbors, Mixed Blood Theatre. DC AREA: Moon Bitch, DC Arts. INTERNATIONAL: I Like it to be a Play/Every Afternoon, Edinburgh Fringe. EDUCATION: BFA, Howard University; MFA, California Institute of the Arts.

(As of May 2015)

ACADEMIC: Arcadia, Catch Me If You Can, Lord of the Flies, Miss Saigon, Walt Whitman High School; Ghost Bike, Northwestern University National High School Institute. INTERNATIONAL: Spring Awakening, Ophiuchus Rising Company, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: The Rocky Horror Show. ACADEMIC: Rent, Next to Normal, Hair, Act Two @ Levine School of Music. TELEVISION: Outlaw, NBC.

(As of May 2015)

DC AREA: Scrooge!, Sandy Spring Theater Group; Seussical, Kensington Arts Theater 2nd Stage. ACADEMIC: Arcadia, Catch Me If You Can, Lord of the Flies, Whitman Drama; Bat Boy, Stagedoor Manor. FILM: Twice Upon a Time (short), Warning: Take Only as Directed (short). TRAINING: Adventure Theatre-MTC Academy, Stagedoor Manor, Imagination Stage.

(As of May 2015)

REGIONAL: Into the Woods, Junior Theatre Festival. DC AREA: Turandot, Hansel and Gretel, and The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me at Washington National Opera; Into the Woods, Adventure Theatre MTC; The Red Mill, The Mikado, H.M.S Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Sorcerer, Trial by Jury, Victorian Lyric Opera Company. ACADEMIC: Into the Woods Jr., Aladdin Jr., Beauty and the Beast Jr., Takoma Park Middle School. FILM AND TELEVISION: “Evil Twins”, Investigation Discoveries; PSA for FEMA.

(As of May 2015)

DC AREA: Snow Angel, Round House Theatre; The Merchant of Venice, Lumina Studio Theatre. ACADEMIC: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Kind of Alaska, Annie, Northwood High School.

(As of May 2015)