I have the following menu hierarchy: 

Who We Are
Directors
Staff
Alan (not displayed)
Bob (not displayed)
Chris (not displayed)
Partners
What We Do
Facts & Stats

The Staff page has links to Bios, and on each Bio page I want to display its parent menu; that is, on each of the Alan, Bob, and Chris pages, I want to display the parent menu of Directors, Staff, and Partners menu items.

To display the top-level menu (Who We Are, What We Do, Facts & Stats) I use: 

<dnn:NAV runat="server" id="dnnNAV" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" IndicateChildren="false" ControlOrientation="Horizontal" CSSControl="navlist">
<CustomAttributes>
<dnn:CustomAttribute Name="RenderMode" Value="UnorderedList" />
</CustomAttributes>
</dnn:NAV>
And for the second-level menu (Directors, Staff, Partners) I use:

<dnn:NAV runat="server" id="dnnSUBNAV" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" IndicateChildren="false" ControlOrientation="Horizontal" CSSControl="navlist" Level="Same">
<CustomAttributes>
<dnn:CustomAttribute Name="RenderMode" Value="UnorderedList" />
</CustomAttributes>
</dnn:NAV>
So the only difference really is that I added Level="Same" for the second-level menu. But I can't figure out how display the second-level menu, on the third-level pages (the bios - note that on the bio pages themselves I don't display the third-level menu items). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can do this with Coding Staff Menu Box module. It 's possible to set up parent page if you use it as a module. Another good thing that this is a free module. Download and enjoy!

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did you figured it out,... I am facing same situation, I'm already using 'DNNMenuNavigationProvider' , I dont want to change that, can't this be done with DNNMenuNavigationProvider???