A is a teacher attempting to rescue her former pupil from a back-street abortion. B is a young woman who falls from a construction crane and in love with a demon made of worms. C is a homicidal sociopath who sells his soul to the Devil for an angelic voice heard only by his victims. A grotesque and brutal feast of language, Terminus is a supernatural vision from Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe (Crestfall). Dark, unrelenting, and gorgeously wrought, O’Rowe’s dizzying language illuminates the quietest fears and most intimate desires of its three characters in interlocking monologues.
Runtime: This will run approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with no intermission.
Environmental Warning: This production contains haze and strobe light effects.
Studio Theatre is grateful to
James Alefantis
for his support of this production.
Mark O'Rowe was born in Dublin in 1970 and grew up in Tallaght. His hugely successful play Howie the Rookie won the George Devine Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and an Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best New Play in 1999. The Abbey Theatre's 2007 production of Terminus went on to win an Edinburgh Fringe First in 2008. He was appointed joint writer-in-association at the Abbey for the 2004 centenary. Mark O'Rowe was also the recipient of an IFTA Award for his screenplay for John Crowley's film Intermission in 2003, and further collaborated with Crowley on the BAFTA-winning Boy A in 2007. He lives in Dublin.
(As of July 2014)
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)
DC AREA: More than 40 productions, including The Amish Project, Factory 449; Richard III, Folger Theater; Boeing-Boeing, Rep Stage; Six Characters …, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Fool for Love, WSC; The Illusion, The Language Archive, One Flea Spare, Angels in America, The Skriker, Forum Theatre; The Green Bird, Three Sisters, Marriage of Figaro, The Oresteia, Constellation Theatre Company; The Marriage of Maria Brown, Greek, Sink the Belgrano!, The Maids, Scena; Woman and Scarecrow, Scenes from the Big Picture, Solas Nua; Man with Bags, Longacre Lea; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Actors Theater of Washington; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Hostage, Keegan Theater; The Rocky Horror Show, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical for The Rocky Horror Show. OTHER: Boomerang Fund for Artists grant recipient.
(As of December 2014)
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)
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)
is in her sixth season as Properties Director at Studio Theatre. STUDIO THEATRE: 4000 Miles (properties design), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (assistant set design). DC AREA: Four seasons at Washington Opera (master carpenter); two seasons at Folger Library Theatre (properties assistant). FILM AND TELEVISION: Three seasons of DC Cupcakes, The Learning Channel (sculptor/sculpture consultation); Dolley Madison, Middlemarch Films (production design); Alexander Hamilton, Middlemarch Films (art director); Boomer Century (assistant production design); Get on the Bus, PBS (art department leadperson); Jamestown, Against All Odds, The Eukanuba Dog Show, The Discovery Channel (set and properties design); America’s Most Wanted, Fox (set and properties design).
(As of December 2014)
Brandee Mathies has been Studio’s Costume Shop Manager since 1994. He has designed MotherStruck, This Is Our Youth, The Year of Magical Thinking, Stoop Stories, Rimers of Eldritch, A Number, The Syringa Tree, and Comic Briefs for Studio Theatre, as well as Moth, Contractions, A Beautiful View, Crestfall, and Polaroid Stories for Studio 2ndStage. DC area credits include Satchmo at the Waldorf at Mosaic Theater Co (Costume Designer); Anything Goes and Spunk (Assistant Designer) at Howard University; The Wiz at Duke Ellington School of the Arts (Costume Designer); Blues for an Alabama Sky and Sunday in the Park with George (First Hand) at Arena Stage; and Black Nativity (Assistant Designer) at The Kennedy Center.
(As of September 2016)
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)
DC AREA: Macbeth (Stage Manager, Shakespeare Theater Company Advanced Camp); Walking the City of Silence and Stone (Stage Manager, Forum Theatre); Yentl, Prostate Dialogues, Our Suburb, The Argument, After The Revolution (Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager, Theater J); Scapin, Absolutely! {Perhaps} (Assistant Stage Manager, Constellation Theatre Company); Three Musketeers, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Assistant Stage Manager and Stage Manager, Synetic Theater); 2013 Capital Fringe Festival production and venue staff. EDUCATION: BA in International Studies and Spanish, American University.
(As of December 2014)
