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“Of course, you never know what something is like until you really experience it, but I knew a lot about Studio. . . . In large part I knew what I was getting into,” Muse says. Of Zinoman’s longtime staff, now his, he says, “Sometimes people are eager to try something new. Sometimes you do butt up against some idea of ‘That’s not the way we do it here.’­ ”

He adds, “I’ve been sort of living through a season as Studio is used to putting things together — and then we come together and talk about ideas of how things might be different.”

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Muse puts his stamp on Studio’s next season. It will feature two world premieres — “more newness, I think, than Studio’s seen in the past,” he notes.

Studio’s 2011-12 roster:

l “The Habit of Art” (Sept. 7-Oct. 16) by British playwright Alan Bennett (“The History Boys”), in its U.S. premiere, which Muse will direct. It’s a play-within-a-play about the relationship between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten. Ted van Griethuysen will star as Auden.

l “The Golden Dragon” (Nov. 2-Dec. 11) by German dramatist Roland Schim­mel­pfen­nig (translation by David Tushingham) takes place in an Asian restaurant in a European city and is, says Muse, a glimpse of “globalization on a micro-scale.”

l “Time Stands Still” (Jan. 4-Feb. 12, 2012) by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, a recent New York hit, examines the life of a female photojournalist sidelined after she’s injured covering a war.

l “Sucker Punch” (Feb. 29-April 8, 2012) by British writer Roy Williams is set during the 1980s London race riots and explores the relationship between two young boxers of Jamaican descent.

l “Bachelorette” (May 23-July 1, 2012) by up-and-coming playwright Leslye Headland won strong reviews off-Broadway last July. It’s a knife-edged comedy about young women partying and talking hurtful trash the night before a friend’s wedding.

Beyond the theater’s subscription series, Muse has added a Lab Series, which next fall will offer the world premiere of “Lungs” (Sept. 28-Oct. 16) by British writer Duncan Macmillan. Muse calls it a “chamber drama,” set in America.

Studio’s experimental 2ndStage troupe showcasing young professionals will premiere “Astro Boy and the God of Comics” (Feb. 15-March 11, 2012), written and directed by Natsu Onoda Power of Georgetown University’s theater department, riffing on the 1960s animation series; “The Big Meal” (April 18-May 13, 2012) by Dan LeFranc, in which eight actors portray five generations of a family; and the satiric-historic rock musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” (July 11-Aug. 5, 2012), a recent New York show by Alex Timbers, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman.

Horwitz is a freelance writer.