FBI trainee Clarice Starling has to track down notorious serial killer Buffalo Bill before he claims another innocent victim. Time’s running out, and the brilliant cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter may hold the truth—if Clarice plays his dangerous game of quid pro quo. A raunchy spoof of the 1991 Oscar-winning film, Silence! The Musical—which shattered NYC Fringe Festival box office records and ran for more than 500 performances Off-Broadway—features gleefully vulgar songs, non-stop zingers, and a singing chorus of tap-dancing lambs.
Runtime: This performance will run approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission.
Environmental Warning: This production contains gunshots, haze, and intermittent use of strobe lights.
Hunter Bell earned a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical, an OBIE Award, a Drama League nomination, and a GLAAD Media nomination for the original Broadway musical [title of show]. Other credits include the books for Silence! The Musical (Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Musical, Outstanding Musical NY Fringe Festival), Found (Atlantic Theater, Drama Desk Nomination for Best Book), Now.Here.This. (Vineyard Theatre), Bellobration! (Ringling Bros. Circus), Villains Tonight! (Disney Cruise Lines), Julie Andrews’ The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed), and the upcoming Other World. He is a co-creator of the web series the [title of show] show and has developed television with ABC Studios and Cherry-Wind Productions. He is a proud graduate and distinguished alumnus of Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild, and a MacDowell Fellow.
(As of July 2015)
With Al Kaplan, created Silence! The Musical, a stage version of The Silence of the Lambs that has played in London, New York City, and Los Angeles, as well as the YouTube channel Legolambs, which features musicalizations of various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies such as Conan the Barbarian, Predator, and Commando. Jon and Al also co-wrote and scored the film Zombeavers (2014). They composed the music for G4’s cartoon series Code Monkeys, arranged Andy Samberg’s “Lonely Island Medley” for the MTV Movies Awards, and scored the Syfy Channel original films Piranhaconda and Dinocroc vs. Supergator.
(As of July 2015)
With Jon Kaplan, created Silence! The Musical, a stage version of The Silence of the Lambs that has played in London, New York City, and Los Angeles, as well as the YouTube channel Legolambs, which features musicalizations of various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies such as Conan the Barbarian, Predator, and Commando. Jon and Al also co-wrote and scored the film Zombeavers (2014). They composed the music for G4’s cartoon series Code Monkeys, arranged Andy Samberg’s “Lonely Island Medley” for the MTV Movies Awards, and scored the Syfy Channel original films Piranhaconda and Dinocroc vs. Supergator.
(As of July 2015)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. DC AREA: Man of La Mancha, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Boys From Syracuse, Free For All Revivals of Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale, Associate Director for Henry IV (directed by Michael Kahn) and As You Like It (directed by Michael Attenborough), Shakespeare Theatre Company; I Am My Own Wife, Signature Theatre; Penny, Washington National Opera; operas for Urban Arias and the In-Series; and productions for The University of Maryland and Catholic University. INTERNATIONAL: 2013 Finalist for the European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria). AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award for Best Director of a Musical. TEACHING: Washington National Opera Young Artists Program. EDUCATION: Northwestern University.
(As of July 2015)
NEW YORK: Adding Machine: A Musical (Movement Director), The Act at 54 Below, NY Musical Theatre Festival, Musical Theatre Factory. REGIONAL: House Theatre of Chicago, Ravinia Festival, Writers Theatre, American Theater Company/About Face Theatre, First Stage, The Music Theatre Company (Jeff Nomination for Outstanding Choreography – PIPPIN); choreography for new work by Billy Corgan. TELEVISION: “Gentleman’s Rule,” PBS; Music Video: Jess Godwin, Janelle Kroll. EDUCATION: Northwestern University.
(As of July 2015)
STUDIO THEATRE: Adding Machine: A Musical. STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Passing Strange, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, POP!. TOURS: Smokey Joe's Cafe (Europe & Korea). DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center (Associate Artistic Director), Ford's Theatre, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, The Kennedy Center, Toby's Dinner Theatre. AWARDS: 2008 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Director, nine Helen Hayes nominations. OTHER: Compositions include Home (for the re-opening of the ATLAS), Big Nate (Samuel French), and music for the Helen Hayes Awards and the Summer Hummer.
(As of July 2015)
BROADWAY: original companies of Cry-Baby and In My Life. NEW YORK: Kathy Griffin in Perez Hilton Saves the Universe!, Ronnie in .22 Caliber Mouth (dir. Diane Paulus), Coral in Glimpses of the Moon. REGIONAL: The Great American Mousical at Goodspeed (dir. Julie Andrews), Company at Bucks County Playhouse (dir. Hunter Foster). TELEVISION/FILM: Glee, The Big C, Submissions Only, A Gifted Man, Admission, The Jimmy Show, A Case of You, creator of the new web series OTP: One True Pairing (Season 1 available on YouTube).
(As of July 2015)
BROADWAY: Big Fish, The House of Blue Leaves. TOURS: South Pacific, Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. OFF BROADWAY: Giant (Public Theater), Queen of the Mist (Transport Group), Yank! (York), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Godspell. REGIONAL: Holiday Inn, Carousel, Goodspeed Opera House; South Pacific, Spamalot, The Muny; Robin and the Seven Hoods, The Old Globe; The Immigrant, Westport Country Playhouse; South Pacific, Paper Mill Playhouse; The Full Monty, Theatre Aspen; Chess, Arvada Center; Floyd Collins, Actors’ Playhouse. DC AREA: Carousel, Olney Theatre Center; Assassins, The Gospel According to Fishman, Signature Theatre. TELEVISION: Elementary. AWARDS: Henry Award, 2 Carbonell Awards.
(As of July 2015)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Terminus (director), Moth (director), POP!. STUDIO THEATRE: The Wolfe Twins, The Invention of Love, A Number, The Pillowman. DC AREA: Affiliated Artist at Shakespeare Theatre Company, where credits include Design for Living, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Major Barbara, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Round House Theatre, The Hub, and Ford’s Theatre. REGIONAL: Seattle Rep, Missouri Rep, Provincetown Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, and eleven seasons at The Berkshire Theatre Festival, where he recently directed Design for Living. EDUCATION/TRAINING: Duke University, The Juilliard School, Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.
(As of July 2015)
REGIONAL: National Tour of BIG NATE the Musical, Adventure Theatre MTC. DC AREA: Avenue Q, Olney Theatre Center; Holly Bass Presents: Flock 01, National Museum of African Art; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Skin of Our Teeth, Once in This Island, Big Love, Lucky Stiff, The Unmentionables, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Rent, Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center; Brigadoon, AIDA, Hairspray, The Wiz, Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theater. TRAINING: Lisa Carrier Baker, KenYatta Rogers, Susan Hoffman. EDUCATION: AA in Theatre Performance from Montgomery College, Rockville Campus; BA in Theatre (in progress) from The University of Maryland.
(As of July 2015)
STUDIO THEATRE: Murder Ballad (Narrator u/s). NEW YORK: Shamrock City (workshop), Irish Arts Center. REGIONAL: I’ll Be Seeing You, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra; Paul Bunyan and Pals, West Virginia Symphony; American Songbook Hall of Fame Concert, Palladium Theater, Indiana. DC AREA: Children of Eden, The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: BA Musical Theater, American University.
(As of July 2015)
DC AREA: The Full Monty (Helen Hayes nomination, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), RENT, Working, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, National Pastime, Keegan Theatre; The Secret Garden, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Into the Woods, NextStop Theatre Company; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Creative Cauldron; The Last Five Years, 1st Stage & Limelight Theatre; The Rocky Horror Show, Savoyards; Celebrate Broadway, The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: BA Theater Arts, Dickinson College.
REGIONAL: A Chorus Line, Godspell, Singin’ in the Rain, Roman Holiday, Miss Saigon, The Muny; Thoroughly Modern Millie, McLeod Playhouse. DC AREA: Jacques Brel… (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical), Creative Cauldron; Bat Boy (Helen Hayes nomination for Best Ensemble), 1st Stage; Les Misérables, Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia. EDUCATION: MM, Washington University in St. Louis; BM, St. Olaf College. UPCOMING: Caps for Sale, Adventure Theatre.
(As of July 2015)
REGIONAL: 42nd Street and Oklahoma, Allenberry Playhouse. DC AREA: Carousel and Sweet Charity, The Catholic University of America. TRAINING: Capital Area School for the Arts. EDUCATION: BM in Musical Theatre, The Catholic University of America.
(As of July 2015)
REGIONAL: Gypsy, James & The Giant Peach, Hangar Theatre; Les Miserables, Weathervane Playhouse; The Sound of Music, Pittsburgh Musical Theater; The Rocky Horror Show, Greensburg Palace Theater; The Fantasticks, Rabbit Hole, Actor’s Guild of Lexington. DC AREA: Elmer Gantry, Cloak & Dagger, Revenge of the Understudies 2014, Signature Theatre; The Whale, Rep Stage; Sinbad: The Untold Tale, Wiley & The Hairy Man, Imagination Stage. EDUCATION: BFA Point Park University.
REGIONAL: The Producers (ensemble), Fiddler on the Roof (fiddler), VA Rep; Night Beats & Deck the Halls (dancer), Busch Gardens Williamsburg. DC AREA: Legally Blonde (ensemble), Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia; Avenue Q (Rod), Silhouette Stages; 2007 Gene Kelly Award Scholarship Winner. TRAINING: 2014 Overtures at Signature Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA Musical Theatre from Point Park University.
(As of July 2015)
Jason Sherwood returns to Studio Theatre for Wig Out! after previously designing Choir Boy. Mr. Sherwood recently designed the stage adaptation of Frozen for Disney Creative Entertainment. His Off Broadway design for the new musical The View UpStairs was honored with Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. Other recent credits include designs for Saturday Night Live, New York Theatre Workshop, the Old Globe, Signature Theatre, Denver Center, 5th Avenue Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, the Alliance, Studio Theatre, Ford’s Theater, and Kansas City Rep. He is an NYU graduate, a repeat guest artist at Yale, a Henry Hewes Design Award nominee, and was named a “Designer to Watch” by LiveDesign Magazine.
(As of July 2017)
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)
Andrew Cissna returns to Studio Theatre after designing Murder Ballad, Silence! The Musical, and I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart. Regional credits include Jitney at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Noises Off and Harvey at Milwaukee Rep, Seminar at PlayMakers Repertory Company, and Noises Off at Perseverance Theatre. Recent DC credits include Gem of the Ocean and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Round House Theatre, Heisenberg and John at Signature Theatre, Me Jane at Kennedy Center TYA, and Copenhagen at Theatre J. Andrew holds a BFA from UNC School of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Maryland.
(As of February 2019)
DC AREA: Cabaret, Kid Victory, Diner, Elmer Gantry, Sunday in the Park with George, Cloak and Dagger, Beaches, Crossing, Brother Wolf, Signature Theatre. ASSISTANT DESIGN: Tobacco Road, Jelly's Last Jam. BROADWAY ENGINEER: Hair (tour). NATIONAL TOUR ENGINEER: Sister Act, Mary Poppins, Hair, the Color Purple, Go Diego Go Live!. REGIONAL ENGINEER: A Christmas Carol, Next To Normal, I Dream, Class of 3000, Smart Cookie, Sleuth, Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel, Degas' Little Dance, Sophisticated Ladies, Gem of The Ocean/Radio Golf, Seussical, In The Red and Brown Water, Curvy Widow, The Women of Brewster Place. EDUCATION: University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 2006 (Sound Design). (As of July 2015)
STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Terminus, Edgar & Annabel, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love (lighting design). STUDIO THEATRE: Torch Song Trilogy (projection design), The Motherfucker with the Hat (projection design), Sucker Punch (projection design). DC AREA: Truth the Musical, THEARC Theater (lighting design); Discovery on the High Seas: Austin Clark and the Expedition Albatross and Q?rius at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. REGIONAL: Celebration of Flight, IBEX Puppetry at RISD; Miss Richfield: 1981 at Philadelphia’s Society Hill Playhouse; Last Rites at The South Camden Theatre Company.
(As of May 2015)
Allie Roy returns to Studio after last stage managing If I Forget. Other Studio credits include Translations, Curve of Departure, Straight White Men, Murder Ballad, Silence! The Musical, and the world premiere of Animal for the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Regional credits include West Side Story in concert with the NSO as well as Love, Factually at The Kennedy Center; the world premieres of Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing and Diner as well as The Scottsboro Boys, West Side Story, and Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre; the world premiere of After the War as well as When January Feels Like Summer and Ulysses on Bottles at Mosaic Theater Company; and The Originalist at Arena Stage. Upcoming regional projects include Grand Hotel at Signature Theatre and Describe the Night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
(As of January 2019)
