Players Studio

EJ (she/her) is a DC-based theatre artist.  A graduate of Belmont University with a BFA in Theatre Directing, EJ is overjoyed to return for her third summer as the lead teacher of our Acting Studio and Players Studio Day Camps!  In addition to our Day Camps, EJ is a school-year director and teacher for our elementary school classes and productions – most recently directing Atalanta by playwright-in-residence Judith Walsh White.

EJ’s love of teaching began while she was still in undergrad when she spent three years teaching with Nashville Children’s Theater. She works in the DMV area as a Stage Manager and Assistant Director, most recently with Shakespeare Opera Theatre and Lorton Workhouse.  EJ also teaches with Next Stop Theatre’s Stars on Stage program.

Of all the artists, EJ loves working with young artists the most.  Their imaginations are vast, and they are excited to learn and explore!  Her highest goal in the classroom is to build confidence, foster creativity, and create a safe and inclusive space.  She believes that theatre can inspire hope by exploring stories, bringing joy, and creating friendships.  She is a lover of physical comedy, creative drama, and, of course, Greek mythology!

Hana (she/her) is a recent undergraduate from Muhlenberg College and alumna of Traveling Players. This will be her fifth summer as a teaching artist for our Day Camps! Hana holds a BA from Muhlenberg College, where she majored in Theatre with a minor in Creative Writing/Journalism. While at Muhlenberg, she performed in numerous departmental theatre and dance productions and choreographed for departmental student dance concerts. Additionally, attended and performed at the American College Dance Association’s (ACDA) 2023 and 2024 conferences and the 2024 Women in Dance Leadership conference. Recently, she’s performed with the Allentown Public Theatre and in Muhlenberg’s production of Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, playing a Somebody. Her last choreographic work was created for her school’s Reset: New Dances 2025, titled What’s Behind the Radio? It will be featured at the Flair Dance Festival in Collingswood, NJ this June. Hana is drawn to physical and fun approaches to theatre technique.

Hana is thrilled to return to Traveling Players and looks forward to creating more art with young theatre makers.

DC-based educator and playwright, Judith Walsh White (she/her), is a student of ancient myth.  She has written twelve plays based on world mythology, including eleven commissioned by Traveling Players as their Playwright-in-Residence: Pandora’s Fire, Perseus and the Rock Star, Monkey King, Atum’s Eye, Ariadne’s Thread: the Adventures of Theseus and the Minotaur, Persephone, Atalanta, Heracles, Eros & Psyche, Orpheus & Eurydice, and Arachne.  Two of these were subsequently published by Theatrefolk, and have since received performances in Australia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, the UK, and Gibraltar, as well as throughout the US.

Judith is an award-winning teacher, playwright, poet, director, and actor specializing in ensemble-guided playwriting and work with young artists.  Profiled in The Washingtonian in 1987 as one of DC’s ten best teachers, Judith taught drama and speech for over 20 years at the Holton-Arms School, where she trained Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.  She mentored teachers through the Center for Inspired Teaching.  She was a finalist for poetry in the 2012 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing competition in New Orleans.  As an actor, her range has included Off-Broadway to dinner theatre.  She did graduate work at Oberlin, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), and as a Northwestern University Fellow.