Ten years after their historic wedding, Kevin and Theo host a dinner for their families. In their gorgeously renovated condo, they talk philosophy, overcook lasagna…and reveal the truth of their seemingly perfect relationship. A comedy about the tragedy of loving, starring Maulik Pancholy (Weeds, 30 Rock, Star Trek: Discovery).
Runtime: The Remains will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Environmental Warning: The Remains contains sudden loud noises.
The Remains is generously underwritten
by Albert Lauber and Craig Hoffman.
Additional support provided by Studio R&D,
Studio’s new works initiative.
Ken Urban’s plays include The Remains, A Guide for the Homesick, Nibbler, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His plays have been produced in New York at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 59E59 Theatres, The Summer Play Festival at The Public, and Studio 42. His work has also been produced at Theatre503 in London, Huntington Theatre Company and SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, and at First Floor Theater in Chicago. He has developed new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company, Theatre @ Boston Court, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Donmar Warehouse (London), and The Civilians R&D Group. His play Nibbler was off-Broadway in New York in February 2017, while A Guide for the Homesick (winner of Independent Reviewers of New England’s Best New Play award) received its world premiere at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston in October 2017. Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. Ken is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and an Affiliated Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. He wrote the screenplay for feature-film adaptation of The Happy Sad, which screened internationally at over 25 film festivals, and is now available on iTunes, Hulu, and Amazon. His TV pilot about the National Security Agency called The Art of Listening was optioned by ITV Studios (UK). His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service in the United States and Methuen in the United Kingdom and Europe, and they have been featured in numerous monologue anthologies.
(As of May 2018)
David Muse is in his ninth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre, where he has directed The Remains, The Effect, The Father, Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, Cock, Tribes, The Real Thing, An Iliad, Dirt, Bachelorette, The Habit of Art, Venus in Fur, Circle Mirror Transformation, reasons to be pretty, Blackbird, Frozen, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has directed nine productions, including Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, and King Charles III (a co-production of ACT and Seattle Rep). Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theater Alliance, and Swansong for New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theatres, including New York Theatre Workshop, Geva Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. David has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A nine-time Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction, he is a recipient of the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. David is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.
(As of April 2019)
Maulik Pancholy appeared on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play opposite Matthew Broderick and Martin Short. Select Off-Broadway credits include David Rabe’s Good For Otto (with Ed Harris) and Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan & Lemon, both at The New Group. The Remains marks his third world premiere with playwright Ken Urban, having performed in the New York productions of The Awake and The Happy Sad. Select regional credits includes the title role of Kate in the all-male Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Theatre Company, as well as productions at Yale Rep, The Goodman, and Chicago’s Court Theatre. Films include 27 Dresses, Hitch, Friends with Money, and several independents. Television credits include Jonathan on NBC’s Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning 30 Rock; Sanjay on the Showtime award-winning series Weeds; Neal on NBC’s Whitney; the title voice of Sanjay on Nickelodeon’s Sanjay & Craig; and the voice of Baljeet on Disney’s Phineas & Ferb. Numerous recurring and guest stars include Friends From College, Star Trek: Discovery, Elementary, Web Therapy, The Good Wife, The Comeback, Law & Order: CI, and The Sopranos. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama alongside director David Muse.
(As of April 2018)
Glenn Fitzgerald makes his Studio Theatre debut. His Off Broadway credits include world premieres of Jon Robin Baitz’s Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord, and Melissa James Gibson’s THIS. He's also appeared in innovative productions of classic plays such as Hedda Gabler (directed by Ivo van Hove), Ivanov and Hamlet (directed by Austin Pendleton), and most recently Othello directed by Sam Gold at New York Theatre Workshop. His regional credits include the world premiere of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses at Yale Rep and The Importance of Being Earnest at Williamstown Theater Festival (directed by David Hyde Pierce).Television credits include series regular Brian Darling on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, recurring roles on Six Feet Under and The Good Cop, and guest starring roles on Billions, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Homicide. His film work includes Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, David O. Russell’s cult classic Flirting with Disaster, Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forester, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, A Price Above Rubies, Series 7, The Believer, Tully, and Buffalo Soldiers. He was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his work in Lobby Hero.
(As of April 2018)
Greg Mullavey has appeared in over 100 theatre productions. His Broadway credits include Romantic Comedy (opposite Mia Farrow), Rumors, and the Broadway National Tour of The Sisters Rosensweig. Recent Off Broadway credits include Precious Little Talent, the title role in Titus Andronicus at the West End, and Clever Little Lies opposite Marlo Thomas at the Westside. Some favorite regional credits are The Price at The Guthrie, the title role in King Lear at OKC’s Center, The Cherry Orchard opposite Alfred Molina at The Odyssey in Los Angeles, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Los Angeles’s Road Theatre. A regular on four television series and many films from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to The Desperate, Mr. Mullavey is best known as Tom Hartman on the late 1970s hit show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He is the recipient of 6 Dramalogue Awards and Best Actor at The Iowa Short Film Festival. He has been teaching at SUNY Purchase and teaches privately at the Working Actor Workshop in New York. He studied for many years with Lee Strasberg, Robert "Bobby" Lewis, Sanford Meisner's disciples, and Eric Morris. He is a graduate of the Theatre Of Arts Conservatory and holds a BA from Hobart College.
(As of April 2018)
Naomi Jacobson returns to Studio Theatre after appearing in The Remains last season. She is a Shakespeare Theatre Company Affiliated Artist and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company member. Off Broadway, she performed in Scenes from an Execution at Atlantic Theater Company. Select regional credits include The Guardsman at The Kennedy Center, Pericles at the Goodman Theatre, The Real Inspector Hound and The Critic at the Guthrie Theater, and Shakespeare In Love at Baltimore Center Stage and Cincinnati Playhouse. She’s performed locally at Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Wolf Trap, and most recently in the one-woman show Becoming Dr. Ruth at Theater J. Television and film credits include Homicide (NBC) and Her Father’s Eyes (A&E). Naomi is a recipient of the inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, the Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts, three Helen Hayes Awards, and a DC Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.
(As of April 2019)
Danielle Skraastad was seen on Broadway in All My Sons. Off Broadway credits include Lisa Kron's In the Wake at The Public, Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… in a co-production between The Public and Signature Theatre, The Mound Builders at Signature Theatre, and The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons. Select regional credits include Project Dawn at People's Light, Hurricane Diane at Two River Theater, and Becky Shaw at The Wilma Theater (Barrymore Award: Best Ensemble). Ms. Skraastad's film work includes Michael Clayton, 27 Dresses, The Business of Story, Hard Sell, and the upcoming horror movie Being. Television credits include Fringe, Mercy, Law and Order: SVU. She holds an MFA in Acting from NYU.
(As of April 2018)
Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Literary Director at Studio, where she has dramaturged the world premieres of Queen of Basel, The Remains, No Sisters, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart, Animal, Laugh, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses as well as productions of Cry It Out,Translations, Curve of Departure, The Effect, Wig Out!, Straight White Men, Cloud 9, Hedda Gabler, Constellations, Jumpers for Goalposts, Bad Jews (twice), The Apple Family Plays, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She also served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 new, contemporary, and classic plays there, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, Rinne Groff, The Civilians, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Jordan Harrison, and John Belluso. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of eight editions of plays through Studio. Adrien-Alice holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
(As of April 2019)
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks is Studio's Artistic Apprentice this season. Her directing credits include Assistant Director for Studio's productions of Translations, The Wolves, Curve of Departure, and Skeleton Crew; Broken Glass at Theater J; Scarred for Life at American University; and The Ruiners: A Modern Romance at Keegan Theatre. Ms. Middlebrooks holds a BA in Theatre Arts and Literature from American University and is an alumna of The British American Drama Academy.
(As of April 2018)
Jesse Belsky previously designed P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, The Remains, The Effect, Three Sisters, No Sisters, and Animal at Studio Theatre. Regional credits include The Magic Play at Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, and Actors Theatre of Louisville; Lydia and Rough Crossing at Yale Repertory Theatre; and The Year of Magical Thinking at PlayMakers Repertory Company. DC designs include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Ford’s Theatre; J.Q.A. and The Year of Magical Thinking at Arena Stage; Oslo, Handbagged and Book of Will at Round House Theatre; The Mystery of Love & Sex at Signature Theatre; Henry IV P1, Winter’s Tale, Sense & Sensibility, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Folger Theatre; Labour of Love, The Invisible Hand and The Magic Play at Olney Theatre Center. Jesse holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and he has taught lighting design at Connecticut College and UNC Greensboro.
(As of December 2019)
Wilson Chin previously designed Tribes at the Studio. His designs of world premieres include Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall on Broadway, Julia Cho’s Aubergine at Berkeley Rep, Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play at Playwrights Horizons, Samuel Hunter’s Lewiston at Long Wharf, Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams at La Jolla Playhouse and Public Theater, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living at Manhattan Theatre Club, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over at Steppenwolf and LCT3, and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap at Seattle Rep. Mr. Chin’s opera designs include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. Most recently, he designed Spike Lee’s latest film Pass Over.
(As of April 2018)
Victoria J. Morales has worked on Skeleton Crew, Translations, and The Wolves during her time as the Stage Management Apprentice at Studio Theatre. Other credits include A Christmas Carol, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill and The Glass Menagerie at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (where she was a Stage Management Resident), stage managing Anne of Green Gables for The Oberlin Summer Theatre Festival, and Tuxedo Junction for Birmingham Children’s Theatre. Ms. Morales is a three time Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival nominee for stage management. She holds a BA in Theatre with a focus in Stage Management from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
(As of April 2018)
Matthew M. Nielson recently designed and composed original music for Occupied Territories at 59E59 and Where Words Once Were at Lincoln Center. Other recent designs include the world premiere of Astoria, Parts I and II with Portland Center Stage; The Magic Play at Olney Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; The Book of Will at Round House Theatre; Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage; Shakespeare In Love at Baltimore Center Stage; and Treasure Island at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Film and television credits include The Magicians, Stranger Things, Those Who Wait, NBC Sports, UFC on FOX, The Hero Effect, Epic Drive-In, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Delivery.com. Mr. Nielson has received several Helen Hayes and film festival awards.
(As of April 2018)
Justin Schmitz previously designed I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart for Studio Theatre. DC credits include productions at The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Theater J, Round House Theatre, Forum Theatre, Imagination Stage, Rorschach, WSC Avant Bard, Constellation Theatre, Keegan, UMD, Gallaudet University, and Catholic University. Regional credits include The Dixon Place Theater in NYC, Chautauqua Theater Company, Triad Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, iCan House, North Carolina Black Theater, Woodbury Theatre, Actors Guild of Parkersburg WV, and The Pump House - WI. Upcoming projects include TRAYF at Theater J and the 2018 Chautauqua Institution Season. He is a 2018 Helen Hayes Award nominee for his work on The Wild Party at Constellation Theatre Company, and was previously nominated in 2017 for I Call My Brothers at Forum Theatre. He has received full design fellowships at The Kennedy Center with the Kenan Institute, The Orchard Project through The Kennedy Center, and Chautauqua Theatre Company. He holds an MFA from UNCSA and a BA from UW-La Crosse.
(As of April 2018)
Ásta Bennie Hostetter’s recent designs include Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons), Porto (WP Theater), The Wolves (Lincoln Center), The Rape of The Sabine Women….(Playwrights Realm), Fulfillment Center (Manhattan Theatre Club), John (Signature Theatre), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons), The Terrifying (Abrons Arts Center), 10 out of 12 and Generations (Soho Rep). Regional credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), El Coquí Espectacular (Two River Theatre), and The Mystery of Love and Sex (Signature Theatre).
(As of April 2018)
Madison Bahr's Studio Theatre productions include Queen of Basel, The Remains, Moment, Murder Ballad, Chimerica, and The Torch Song Trilogy. Other regional credits include Cabaret at Olney Theatre Center; Billy Elliot: The Musical at Signature Theatre; Charlotte’s Web and The Little Mermaid at Imagination Stage; Kiss and Guards at the Taj at Woolly Mammoth; Our Suburb at Theater J; ReEntry, Next Fall, and Glengarry Glen Ross at Round House Theatre; and In The Heart Of America at Rep Stage. Madison holds a BA in Theatre with a focus in Stage Management from the University of Maryland (College Park).
(As of October 2019)