Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Literary Director of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, where she oversees the expansion of their international and new play programming. Her previous work includes seven seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival. She served as production dramaturg on roughly fifty plays at Actors and coedited eight anthologies of plays. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.