Winter indoor soccer. Saturdays. Over quad stretches and squats, a team of young women prepares to defend the Wolves’ undefeated record, their banter spilling from tampons to genocide to the pressures of preparing for their adult lives. With an ear for the bravado and empathy of the teenage years, The Wolves explores the violence and teamwork of sports and adolescence, following a pack of 16-year-old girls who turn into warriors on the field. An acclaimed play from a new voice, Studio-commissioned writer Sarah DeLappe.
Runtime: This performance will run approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission.
Environmental Warning: This production will feature strobe-like effects. The Wolves will be in Stage 4 which is general admission seating.
The Wolves is generously underwritten
by Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber.
Sarah DeLappe's play The Wolves (Playwrights Realm, New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Great Plains Theater Conference) was a recipient of the American Playwriting Foundation’s inaugural Relentless Award and a finalist for the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Sarah has been a resident artist at Sitka Fellows Program and SPACE on Ryder Farm. An alum of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, she is currently a member of the Ars Nova Play Group and the New Georges Audrey Residency. Sarah has received an EST/Sloan commission and a spot on The Kilroys' 2015 List. Sarah is working toward her MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College.
(As of December 2018)
Marti Lyons returns to Studio, where she directed The Wolves last season. Lyons recently directed Witch by Jen Silverman, which is currently playing at Writers Theatre in Chicago. She also directed Botticelli in the Fire at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Native Gardens at Victory Gardens Theater, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? at Court Theater, Shakespeare in Love at Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Twelfth Night at Montana Shakespeare, Short Shakes! Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and The City of Conversation at Northlight Theatre Company. She directed Wondrous Strange for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Title and Deed at Lookingglass Theatre, and she received the 2015 Maggio directing fellowship at The Goodman Theater. Next, Lyons will direct Short Shakes! Macbeth at Chicago Shakespeare, How to Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla for The Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, and Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee at Victory Gardens Theater. Lyons is a proud member of SDC.
(As of December 2018)
Lindsley Howard makes her Studio Theatre debut. She was most recently seen in The Trojan Women at The Flea in New York (Drama Desk Nominee: Best Adaptation). Select New York and regional credits include work with Soho Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Playwright’s Realm, and The Lark. Ms. Howard holds a BFA in Acting from St. Edwards University in Austin, TX.
(As of January 2018)
Chrissy Rose makes her Studio Theatre debut in The Wolves. New York and regional credits include Othello at Classic Stage Company, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents at Geva Theatre Center, and a workshop of the new play Malefactions at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Ms. Rose holds an MFA from Columbia University.
(As of January 2018)
Sara Turner makes her Studio Theatre debut in The Wolves.. Regional credits include Wondrous Strange in the 40th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre (directed by Marti Lyons); A Christmas Carol, The Diamond Trade, Maybe One Day He Will Get Divorced, and Trudy, Carolyn, Martha, and Regina Travel to Outer Space and Have a Pretty Terrible Time There at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other credits include Columbinus, Romeo and Juliet, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Ms. Turner holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
(As of January 2018)
Jane Bernhard makes her Studio Theatre debut in The Wolves. Regional credits include Only Anne at Goodspeed Opera House, On the Town at Barrington Stage Company, The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Carrie The Musical at Peregrine Theatre Ensemble, and The Little Mermaid at Red Mountain Theatre Company. She has a recurring role in the Amazon Prime series A Billion to One. Other television credits include the Amazon pilot Single and both Diabolical and Shadow of Doubt on Discovery ID. Ms. Bernhard holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Boston Conservatory.
(As of January 2018)
Merissa Czyz makes her Studio Theatre debut in The Wolves.. Off Broadway credits include Appropriate at Signature Theatre, Kentucky at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and workshops at MCC, Theatre Row, and The Lark. She was in the national tour of HAIR. Regional credits include HAIR at Sacramento Music Circus and Animal Crackers at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston. She was in High Maintenance on HBO. She has a supporting role in the film Yes, God, Yes which recently won Best Short at the St. Louis Film Festival. Ms. Czyz is a member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Katie Kleiger returns to Studio Theatre after performing in The Effect earlier this season. Off Broadway credits include Ring Twice for Miranda at New York City Center, and The Fall at Soho Playhouse. Other DC credits include The Book of Will and Miss Bennet at Round House Theatre; the premiere of the new play Home, Again at the Kennedy Center; and A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. She has also worked regionally with the Guthrie Theater on such projects as Juno and the Paycock, Christmas Carol, and Blue Stockings. Ms. Kleiger holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.
(As of January 2018)
Maryn Shaw makes her Studio Theatre debut with The Wolves. Off Broadway credits include The Skin of Our Teeth at Theater for a New Audience. Select regional credits include Twelfth Night, The Book of Will, and Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Love’s Labour’s Lost at The Acting Company/HVSF; and Clybourne Park and Pinkalicious: The Musical at The Hangar Theatre. Ms. Shaw is also a classically trained violinist and opera singer, and holds degrees from the Fordham University Theatre Program and Interlochen Arts Academy.
(As of January 2018)
Shanta Parasuraman recently appeared as #8 in The Wolves at Studio Theatre. Other productions include the national tours of The Buddy Holly Story and Remarkably Normal, Outside of Eden at the New Ohio Theatre, Yentl at Theatre J, and Not Enuf Lifetimes with The Welders. Shanta received a BA in Theatre/Drama and Telecommunications from Indiana University and was an Allen Lee Hughes Artistic Development Fellow at Arena Stage.
(As of October 2019)
Gabby Beans makes her Studio Theatre debut with The Wolves. Off Broadway credits include After the Dark at La MaMa ETC; The Rape of Lucrece with New York Shakespeare Exchange; and workshops with Primary Stages, Sheen Center, and the Drama League. Regional credits include Curse of the Starving Class, Far Away, and Blue Ridge at Williamstown Theater Festival. She was featured in I Love You, But I Lied on LMN, and will appear in the upcoming season of House of Cards on Netflix. Ms. Beans holds an MA in acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
(As of January 2018)
Anne Bowles returns to Studio Theatre after appearing in Fat Pig and This Is How It Goes. Broadway credits include Inherit the Wind, reasons to be pretty, and Collected Stories. Select regional credits include Twist Your Dickens at The Kennedy Center, Picnic at Baltimore Center Stage, Elizabeth the Queen at Folger Theatre, The Last Schwartz at Theater J, Bell Book and Candle at Triad Stage, The Heiress and Steel Magnolias at Pioneer Theatre, Of Mice and Men at Cincinnati Playhouse and St. Louis Rep, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Columbinus at Round House Theatre, The Matchmaker at Ford's Theatre, and The Laramie Project and Monster at Olney Theatre. Television credits include House of Cards, The Good Wife, and Turn. Ms. Bowles holds a BA in Drama from Catholic University.
(As of January 2018)
Debra Booth is Director of Design at Studio Theatre, where she has designed If I Forget, Translations, The Wolves, The Father, The Hard Problem, Moment, Constellations, The Apple Family Cycle, Jumpers for Goalposts, Belleville, Cock, Edgar & Annabel, Bachelorette, Moonlight, Blackbird, My Children! My Africa!, The Pillowman, and many others. Her international work includes premiere opera Marco Polo (Tan Dun/Martha Clarke) in Munich, Hong Kong, and New York. Regionally, Debra’s credits include Small Mouth Sounds at Round House Theatre; Richard III, The Collection, and The Lover at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; Marisol at Hartford Stage and The Public Theatre; Trying, The Illusion, and Happy Days at Portland Stage Company; the New York premiere of Angels in America at The Juilliard School; Broken Glass at Philadelphia Theatre Company (Barrymore Award nomination); and Moon for the Misbegotten at Yale Repertory Theatre. Debra is the recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
(As of October 2019)
Stephanie Paul was recently Body Percussion and Movement Choreographer of The Royale at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and City Theatre. Additional credits include Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, In The Red and Brown Water at Northwestern University, Learning Curve by Albany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects. Ms. Paul is an Artistic Associate of Chicago Dance Crash and has taught and choreographed for the dance programs of Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University. Next, she will be choreographing the world premiere musical The Last Stop at Market Street at Chicago Children’s Theatre. Ms. Paul is a 2017 3Arts Make-A-Wave Grantee.
(As of January 2018)
Mikhail Fiksel is a designer, composer, musician, and a DJ. Recent credits include The Treasurer and A Life at Playwrights Horizons, The Old Man and The Old Moon at City Theatre, Tiger Style at La Jolla Playhouse, Learning Curve by Albany Park Theatre Project and Third Rail Projects, The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window and 2666 at The Goodman Theatre and other projects with Manhattan Theatre Club, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, The Geffen Playhouse and Victory Gardens. Film work includes scores for The Wise Kids (2011), Alien Brides (2013), and Glitch (2015). He is a recipient of two Lucille Lortel Awards and Drama Desk Nominations, multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards, The Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, and is a member of TSDCA and USA.
(As of January 2018)
Paul Toben is based in Chicago, where he recently designed The Mystery of Love and Sex at Writer’s Theatre, Electra at Court Theatre, The Firebirds Take the Field at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and Cry it Out and The Book of Will at Northlight Theatre. At Actors Theatre of Louisville, he has designed Angels in America, Circle Mirror Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, Wondrous Strange, The Roommate, and many others, including five seasons of the Humana Festival. Other regional credits include NSFW at Round House Theatre; Silent Sky, Triangle, and Upright Grand at TheatreWorks; Fly by Night, Medea, and School for Wives at Dallas Theater Center; The Who and The What at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; the New York, regional, and international premieres of Daddy Long Legs; and designs at Denver Center Theatre, Magic Theatre, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
(As of January 2018)
Sarah Cubbage designed costumes for The Wolves at Studio Theatre last season. Other recent projects include Crazy for You at Lincoln Center (Susan Stroman, dir.) and Beauty & The Beast at Disney Creative Entertainment/Disney Cruise Lines. Off Broadway credits include Soho Rep, Theatre for the New City, Aquila Theatre Company, Urban Stages, Ohio Theatre, and Atlantic Stage 2. Regional credits include Studio Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Center Stage, Rep Stage, Syracuse Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Northern Stage, Premiere Stages, and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey. Associate/Assistant Broadway design work includes Fish in the Dark, A Delicate Balance, It’s Only a Play, This is Our Youth, Bullets Over Broadway, and Big Fish. Film credits include A Clerk’s Tale (James Franco, dir.), So Over You (Karen Odyniec, dir.), Half the Perfect World (Cynthia Arzaga Fredette, dir.). Dance credits include Dark Lark (BAM, Kate Weare Company) and The Radio Show (Bessie Award, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion). Cubbage holds an MFA from New York University and is a member of USA 829.
(As of December 2018)
Manya Makoski Puppione is currently the women’s soccer assistant coach at University of Maryland, while also working as a personal and small group trainer. She is a former professional soccer player, having played in the United States and in Europe. Ms. Puppione is also a former member of the youth national team, winning an Under-19 Women’s World Cup in 2002. She holds an MBA from University of New Haven and a BA in Journalism & Mass Communications from Arizona State University.
(As of January 2018)
Amanda Landis returns to Studio Theatre after assistant stage managing Chimerica, Bad Jews, Between Riverside and Crazy, Moment, Hand to God, and Hedda Gabler, as well as stage managing readings of No Sisters, KURSK, and The Boy Became Momentarily Lost, Then Was Found. Other DC area credits include stage managing The Smartest Girl in the World at Imagination Stage, In the Heights at Gala Hispanic Theatre, Peter and the Starcatcher at Constellation Theatre Company, and assistant stage managing An Octoroon and Kiss both at Woolly Mammoth. She has also worked with Signature Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Fingerlakes Musical Theatre Festival, and others. Ms. Landis holds a BA from Northwestern University and is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association.
(As of January 2018)
Lauren Halvorsen is in her ninth season as Studio’s Associate Literary Director. Her dramaturgy credits here include Doubt, P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, Admissions, Kings, If I Forget, Vietgone, The Wolves, Skeleton Crew, The Father, Three Sisters, The Hard Problem, Hand to God, Moment, Between Riverside and Crazy, Chimerica, The Wolfe Twins, Belleville, Water by the Spoonful, Tribes, The Real Thing, The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Aliens, Bachelorette, The Big Meal, and Time Stands Still. Previously, Lauren spent three seasons as Literary Manager of The Alley Theatre. She was the Artistic Associate of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory for six years and has worked in various artistic capacities for The Kennedy Center, City Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, First Person Arts Festival, and The Wilma Theater. Lauren is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.
(As of December 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)
Rachael Danielle Albert is making her Studio Theatre debut. New York credits include The Roads to Home at Primary Stages, Maize & Blue on Broadway, and The Last Word at the New York Musical Festival. Regional credits include Native Gardens, A Raisin in the Sun, Watch on the Rhine, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, and T he City of Conversation at Arena Stage; Bright Star (pre-Broadway) at the Kennedy Center; Souvenir at New London Barn Playhouse; Up Here, Ether Dome, and Peer Gynt at La Jolla Playhouse; Rich Girl at The Old Globe; and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Stage 773. Ms. Albert received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and BFA from the University of Michigan. She is a founding member of Ubuntu Theater Project and a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association.
(As of January 2018)
LOCAL: Fever/Dream, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, Angels In America: Perestroika, Amazons and Their Men, Forum Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, Edward III, Titus Andronicus, Washington Shakespeare Company; Christmas Carol 1941, Arena Stage; Intimate Apparel, African Continuum Theatre; The True History of Coca-Cola In Mexico, Gala Hispanic Theatre; Gretty Good Time, Theater Alliance; The Inspector General, Journeymen Theater; The Dybbuk, Synetic Theater; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Actors' Theatre of Washington. EDUCATION: Middlebury College, B.A. in Theatre and Sociology.
(As of December 2010)
