Jen Furlong returns to WSG to reprise the role of Loveday in the Victorian Ladies’ play series. Prior to the VLDC, her previous credits include An Enemy of the People at Greenbriar Valley Theatre opposite Stuart Margolin and plays at Round House Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Rep Stage, Everyman Theatre, Theatre IV, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, American Century Theatre and Circus Millennia. Jen is the author of the bestselling YA supernatural adventures Hidden City and Tattooed Angel, the middle grade series Meredith’s World and picture book Mrs. Cheesely Loves Cheese. She co-wrote the yet-to-premiere theatrical circus Circus of Night with Neil Gaiman.

Laura Giannarelli is a Stage Guild founding company member who has performed in more than 40 WSG productions including The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective, Major Barbara, Gulf View Drive, and See Rock City in recent seasons. She directed this season’s Shaw’s Shorts, last year’s season opener Dorothy’s Dictionary, and previously, The Good Doctor, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Widowers’ Houses and Candida.

Maddie Baylor is a recent college graduate who is making her D.C. theatre debut in Escape From the Asylum. Maddie attended the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she earned a degree in both English literature and theatre. At her alma mater, she performed in Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, The Play That Goes Wrong and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. More recently, she has been dabbling in musical theatre, in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, and a musically-equipped version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. When Maddie is not working onstage, she is immersing herself in other positions within the theatre world and this past fall, worked at Ford’s Theatre as the personal assistant to Scott Bakula, during their production of Mister Lincoln.

Steven Carpenter performed most recently in last season’s The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective, and prior to that with WSG, Ben Butler, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Bloomsday, Hard Times, Pygmalion, and The Philanderer (Helen Hayes Award nomination) along with numerous others. His directing credits include this season’s Faithless, as well as An Unbuilt Life, Major Barbara, Sam & Dede, Resolving Hedda, Red Herring, Opus, and The Underpants, among others. Other area productions include God of Carnage at Compass Rose, The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage, The Price and ART at Bay Theatre, Barrymore, Hysteria, and Trumbo for Rep Stage, and The Chosen at Theater J. He received a Helen Hayes nomination for his production of Thief River at Theatre Alliance and was a recipient of the Mary Goldwater Award for Directing. A third Helen Hayes nomination came for providing the onstage sound effects for the Guild’s It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.