In addition to our previously announced lineup, Co-Founders of the Orange Girls Michelle Hand and Meghan Baker will star in:
The Half-Life of Marie Curie
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Nancy Bell
Starring Michelle Hand* and Meghan Baker
April 3-19, 2026
“Michelle and I have both found an artistic home at STLAS over the years, so we’re thrilled to join hands to co-produce Gunderson’s moving play as part of their ‘Female Lead’ season,” says Baker. “The story of these two accomplished, ground-breaking and very human women aligns beautifully with Orange Girls’ mission and we’re excited to bring it to St. Louis audiences next spring.”
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign” Jewish temptress and a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, at her summer home in England. THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows, and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.
The rest of our 2025-26 season:
In Search Of Intelligent Life In The Universe
by Jane Wagner, Starring Michelle Hand*,
Directed by Wayne Salomon
November 7-23, 2025
A Doll’s House Part 2
by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Kelley Weber
Starring Julie Layton and Michael James Reed*.
February 6-22, 2026
12th Annual LaBute New Theater Festival
July 10-26, 2026
*Member Actors’ Equity Assoc
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The Orange Girls theatre company was founded by Meghan Baker, Michelle Hand and Brooke Edwards to give the talented female actors, directors, and designers of St. Louis an opportunity to find artistically challenging work and to encourage audiences to broaden their definition of the roles women play on stage and in the world. Orange Girls bring together actors, directors, and designers of all genders work together to create performances that garner a whole new audience for women’s contributions to the theatrical arts.
ABOUT ST. LOUIS ACTORS’ STUDIO St. Louis Actors’ Studio is one of the leading professional theatres in the St. Louis. area, producing a multi-show season of plays at our 97-seat Gaslight Theatre. STLAS collaborates with renown director, screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute to produce the LaBute New Theater Festival each July in St. Louis and in New York City. The festival is a one-act play competition for emerging professionals and high-school writers. ##
360 N. Boyle Ave. • St. Louis, MO 63108 • 314.458.2978 PH • www.stlas.org
• 314.458.2978 PH • www.stlas.org
The Gaslight Theater
358 N. Boyle Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.458.2978