Angie, an actor, has just landed her weirdest gig yet: improvising scenes with active-duty cops, helping to train them to respond to people in acute mental crisis. But when the backstage tensions and workplace hijinks begin to pull focus from the training’s actual goal—to save lives—Angie tries making things a little more real. Funny and compassionate, this world premiere looks at the intricacies of empathy and asks what it costs to pretend to be someone else.
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Environment Warnings: This production of The Scenarios includes the use of herbal tobacco.
The Scenarios is generously underwritten by Joan and David Maxwell.
Matthew Capodicasa's (he/him) plays include Next/Life, All the People You’ve Been, The City in the City in the City, You Remind Me of You, Frelmetsch the Maneater, and The City Of. His work has been presented or developed at Primary Stages, Great Plains Theatre Conference, BLUEBARN Theatre, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and the Capital Fringe Festival, among others. He is a recipient of a Judith Champion Launch Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, a winner of the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, and a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Heideman Award. Film and television: projects in development with Anonymous Content, Protozoa Pictures, 3311, Wattpad, Morning Moon, Space Bandit, and Video House. You can also hear him nerd out on various podcasts from the Glass Cannon Network. BFA, NYU/Tisch; MFA, Fordham. Graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School. He currently teaches at NYU.
Tiffany Nichole Greene is a recent Obie Award recipient (Direction) and three-time New York Times Critic’s Pick who is thrilled to be in DC working with Studio Theatre. Recent credits include Mrs. Harrison at Portland Center Stage, the world premiere
of Dominique Morisseau’s Bad Kreyòl at Signature Theatre Company (NYT Critic’s Pick), the world premiere of Kristen Adele Calhoun’s Black Cypress Bayou at the Geffen Playhouse, the world premiere of York Walker’s Covenant at Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT Critic’s Pick, Obie Award for Direction), Jonathan Larson’s Rent at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hamilton (National Tour Resident Director), the world premiere of Steph Del Rosso’s 53% Of at Second Stage; Invincible—The Musical at The Wallis Annenberg (working alongside Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo), Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders at the Goodman Theatre, and Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiations and Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember? with Octopus Theatricals (NYT Critic’s Pick). She is a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, a Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, and a member of SDC. She holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep. tiffanynicholegreene.com
Sarin Monae West is honestly just happy to be here as an actor, writer, and mentor/teaching artist making their Studio Theatre debut. Sarin was most recently seen in the world-premiere musical Medea: Re-versed (Medea) directed by Nathan Winklestein with Red Bull Theater/BEDLAM — album available everywhere—, By The Queen directed by Shana Cooper at The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Dear Ex directed by Miranda Haymon at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Merry Wives directed by Saheem Ali at Shakespeare in the Park, and on Broadway in The Skin of Our Teeth directed by Lileana Blaine-Cruz. TV credits includeThe Equalizer (CBS), Evil (CBS/Paramount+), and And Just Like That and The Other Two (MAX). Sarin has an MFA from NYUGrad Acting. On social media @sarinmonae (Instagram).
Joey Collins is making his Studio Theatre debut. His Broadway credits include The Glass Menagerie, The Lonesome West, and Rock ’n’ Roll. He was in the Broadway tour of To Kill a Mockingbird. His Off Broadway credits include Bug at Barrow Street Theatre; Galileo, 1599, and The Good Soul of Setzuan at Irondale Ensemble Project; Vieux Carré at Pearl Theatre Company; Antigone Project at Women’s Project; and others. He has been a player at many regional theatres such as ACT, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and more. He can be seen in the movie There Is a Monster. He received a Berkie Award for playing Jerry in At Home at the Zoo at Berkshire Theatre Festival. joeycollins.net. On social media @mrjoeycollins (Instagram, Bluesky).
Keeley Miller (she/her) is an actor and creative consultant based in NYC. She is a Company Member of Mercury Store, a new play lab based in Brooklyn, NY. She can be seen in episodes of Elsbeth (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC) and FBI: Most Wanted (CBS). Keeley was recently seen alongside Anne Hathaway in the film Mothers’ Instinct. Keeley studied at The Moscow Art Theatre and holds her MFA from NYU Graduate Acting. keeley-miller.com.
Joel Ashur is an actor and writer. His theatre credits include Good Bones at Studio Theatre, Tempestuous Elements at Arena Stage, Sister Act at North Carolina Theatre, Confederates and Bars and Measures at Mosaic Theater Company, Nollywood Dreams at Round House Theatre, Sweat at Fulton Theatre, and A Friend of a Friend at Capital Repertory Theatre. He can also be seen on screen in The Good Lord Bird and Carry Me Home: A Remember America Film.
Alyssa Keegan (they/them) is an actor, mental health coach, dancer, and visual artist. Some of their theatre credits include Contractions at Studio Theatre; Come From Away at Ford’s Theatre; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actress), How I Learned to Drive, and Becky Shaw at Round House Theater; Gloria, Botticelli in the Fire, and Shipwreck at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Vanity Fair at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Digging Up Dessa at The Kennedy Center; Richard III at Folger Theatre; and Working with the Labor Heritage Foundation in honor of laborers during the pandemic. AK can also be seen in television episodes of Law & Order: SVU and New Amsterdam (NBC) and Bull (CBS). They are also the voice of Reagan Somerset in K.F. Breene’s bestselling book series Demon Days, Vampire Nights. You can see them next in Twelfth Night at Folger Theatre.
Edmée - Marie Faal is an artist and theatre maker in the Washington DC area. She is a graduate of American University’s Theatre Performance Program and the British American Drama Academy. As the 2019 Allen Lee Hughes Community Engagement and Outreach intern, she was trained to co-instruct Voices of Now, Arena Stage’s devised theater for social change program. Her local credits include Exception to the Rule (understudy) at Studio Theatre; Metamorphoses (understudy) at Folger Theatre; Orlando at Constellation Theatre Company; and Balloonacy, Aquarium, P.Nokio, and Corduroy at Imagination Stage. edmeemariefaal.com. On social media @edmee.marie (Instagram and TikTok).
Zach Brewster-Geisz returns to Studio after understudying for If I Forget. Local theatrical work includes The Outsider (Helen Hayes nomination) at The Keegan Theatre; The Chosen at 1st Stage; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Avant Bard Theatre; Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven at Rorschach Theatre; East of Eden and Richard III at NextStop Theatre Company; Grand Concourse and The Explorers Club at Prologue Theatre; A Raisin in the Sun and Romeo and Juliet at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; Assassins at Pallas Theatre Collective; The Tempest, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory; and A Bright Room Called Day at Nu Sass. Television work includes We Own This City on HBO and Lady in the Lake on Apple TV+. He is on the faculty at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. www.ZachBG.com
Fabiolla da Silva is an actor, deviser, and teaching artist. Recent credits include Valor, Agravio, y Mujer (The Reading Room Festival 2025) at Folger Theatre; Macbeth and La Salpêtrière (Helen Hayes [HH] nomination) with Taffety Punk Theatre Company; Webster’s Bitch at The Keegan Theatre; The Last Match (HH Nomination) at 1st Stage; World Builders and The Revolutionists (HH Award) with Prologue Theatre; and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. She holds a BA in Theater Performance from James Madison University. fabiolladasilva.com
Prince Bajon (he/him) is a first-generation Cameroonian-American actor from the DMV and a graduating senior in the Acting BFA program at Howard University. His recent credits include Thank You for Sharing at The Kennedy Center and Silence is Violence: Wish Me Well at Young Playwrights Theater. Outside of acting, he enjoys reading, watching films and television, and spending time with friends and family. He credits his faith as a guiding force in his artistic journey. princebajon.com. On social media @princebajon (Instagram).
Afsoon Pajoufar is a New York-based designer of stage and environment for play, opera, and live performances who previously worked at Studio on English. Recent works include Wish You Were Here at South Coast Repertory; Cyrano de Bergerac at Pasadena Playhouse; Fuente Ovejuna at Theatre For A New Audience; Adoration at Beth Morrison Projects/LA Opera; Out of Character at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Molière’s Dom Juan at the Fisher Center at Bard SummerScape; English at Barrington Stage Company; Lady M at HeartBeat Opera; MC NIŊ[MORNING//MOURNING] at PROTOTYPE; Word. Sound. Power at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and Paper Pianos at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Internationally, her work has taken her to Alte Münze in Berlin and Schauspiel Köln in Cologne. She is a proud member of USA 829. afsoonpajoufar.com
Moyenda Kulemeka has worked at Studio Theatre previously on The Colored Museum, Good Bones, and John Proctor is the Villain. Regionally, she has worked on Tiny Beautiful Things at Baltimore Center Stage; Selling Kabul, Daphne’s Dive, and Detroit ’67 at Signature Theatre; Jump at Everyman Theatre; Radio Golf at Round House Theatre; Gloria: A Life and Intimate Apparel at Theater J; Dance Nation at Olney Theatre Center; Bars and Measures, In His Hands, Marys Seacole, and Fabulation, Or The Re-Education Of Undine at Mosaic Theater Company; Mlima’s Tale, The Phlebotomist, and The Brothers Size at 1st Stage; A Chorus Within Her at Theater Alliance; Cinderella at Synetic Theater; and La Tía Julia Y El Escribidor, Exquisita Agonía, and En el Tiempo de las Mariposas at GALA Hispanic Theatre. She received her B.A. at the University of Maryland and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, IATSE.
Alberto Segarra previously worked at Studio on Espejos: Clean and Tender Age. Recent credits include The Lehman Trilogy at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Constellations at Constellation Theatre Company, The Garbologist at Theater Alliance, Business Ideas at Alliance Theatre, What the Constitution Means to Me at Cleveland Play House, Romeo & Juliet at Folger Theatre, Camelot at Village Theatre, and Jane Eyre at The Alley Theatre. Other credits include The Honey Trap (Helen Hayes Award) at Solas Nua, The Joy That Carries You (Helen Hayes nomination) at Olney Theatre Center, Passing Strange at Signature Theatre, Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award) at Theater Alliance, Look Both Ways (Helen Hayes nomination) at The Kennedy Center, The Great Leap at Portland Center Stage, and The Three Musketeers at Cleveland Play House. Upcoming projects include Your Name Means Dream at Theater J and Andy Warhol in Iran at Mosaic Theater Company. Alberto is a USA829 member. albertosegarra.com.
Noel Nichols; Daniela Hart; Bailey Trierweiler are UptownWorks, a collaborative design team specializing in theater, film, podcasts, installations, and other media. Select sound design highlights include Problems Between Sisters at Studio Theatre, Grandiloquent at the Lucille Lortelle Theatre, Franklinland and Las Borinqueñas at Ensemble Studio Theatre, I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter at Denver Center (DCPA), Blood of the Lamb at 59E59, Dangerous Days at Miami New Drama, Murder on the Orient Express at Syracuse Stage, FIVE: The Parody Musical at Theatre 555, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill and Fires in the Mirror at Baltimore Center Stage, Avaaz at South Coast Repertory and DCPA, Which Way To The Stage at Signature Theatre (DC), Black Odyssey at Classic Stage Company, and already there at The REACH at The Kennedy Center. This design was led by Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com), and Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com). Noel, Daniela, and Bailey received their MFAs in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.
Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Literary Director at Studio, where she has dramaturged the world premieres of Problems Between Sisters, Good Bones, John Proctor is the Villain, I Hate it Here, Queen of Basel, Red Speedo, and Lungs, among others, as well as productions of Summer, 1976; Exception to the Rule; The Colored Museum; Fat Ham; Fun Home; English; Curve of Departure; Wig Out!; and New Electric Ballroom; among many others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons as a member of and then running the Literary Department at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and its Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of 12 editions of plays through Studio. Adrien-Alice holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
Leigh Robinette previously worked at Studio Theatre on Summer, 1976; Exception to the Rule; Love, Love, Love; and English. Off Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen. DC credits include The Winter’sTale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Folger Theatre; Incendiary, There’s Always the Hudson, Describe the Night, Gloria, Botticelli in the Fire, Familiar, The Arsonists, and An Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Holiday, Change Agent, The Originalist, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, and Mother Courage and Her Children at Arena Stage; Love Sick and The Jewish Queen Lear with Theater J; and The Second City’s Love, Factually at The Kennedy Center. She has also worked with Capital Concerts, Live Nation, the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY. She is a graduate of Boston University.
“A Mental Health Solution to a Mental Health Crisis:”
De-Escalation Trainings for Police Officers
Setting the Scene: Matthew Capodicasa
Mental Illness, Violence, and Police Interactions: An Overview
“Making the invisible visible for a little while:” An Interview with Matthew Capodicasa