Recipient of the
2012 American Theatre Wing
National Theatre Company Award

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Press

Mystery/Science Theater
Two new productions examine the search for truth

Review of Galileo by Sherilyn Forrester in the September 13 Tucson Weekly

Science confronts the Pope in Galileo

Review of Galileo by Chuck Graham on September 11 in Let The Show Begin! at TucsonStage.com

Galileo, a centuries-old story, speaks to us today

Review of Galileo by Kathleen Allen to appear in the September 13 Arizona Daily Star

Truth is central to Rogue Theatre’s Galileo, and its season

Preview of Galileo by Kathleen Allen to appear in the September 6 Arizona Daily Star

Read others’ reviews of The Rogue Theatre, or write your own review on TripAdvisor!

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Direction

	Cynthia Meier (Director) is Co-Founder and Managing and Associate Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre where she has adapted and directed James Joyce’s The Dead, Kafka’s Metamorphosis and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age, and directed King Lear, Bach at Leipzig, Celia, A Slave, The White Snake, Miss Julie, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot, Jerusalem, Betrayal, Arcadia, Richard III, Journey to the West, The Winter’s Tale, Shipwrecked!, New-Found-Land, Old Times, The Tempest, Naga Mandala, The Four of Us, Othello, Animal Farm, Orlando, Happy Days, The Good Woman of Setzuan, The Fever and The Cherry Orchard. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of Arizona. She is co-founder of Bloodhut Productions, a company performing original monologues and comedy improvisation, which toured throughout the western United States. She also directed The Seagull (featuring Ken Ruta) for Tucson Art Theatre, and she directed Talia Shire in Sister Mendelssohn and Edward Herrmann in Beloved Brahms for Chamber Music Plus Southwest. Cynthia received the Mac Award for Best Director, Drama for Richard III in 2013, and for Arcadia in 2014. She has been nominated for seven Mac Awards for Best Actress from the Arizona Daily Star, and in 2008, she received the Mac Award for Best Actress for her performance of Stevie in Edward Albee’s The Goat at The Rogue Theatre. Cynthia Meier’s direction of Galileo is supported in part by a generous gift from John & Joyce Ambruster.

Notes from the Director

When we at The Rogue explore the extraordinary masterpieces of world literature as we do, often one line will haunt me throughout the rehearsals and run of a production.  Sometimes that line will extend in my memory and philosophical ruminations long beyond the run of the play. Such is the case with Hamlet’s “The readiness is all” and Thornton Wilder’s magnificent final words of The Bridge of San Luis Rey: “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” In the final pages of Brecht’s Galileo, Galileo tells his one-time student, Andrea: “The practice of science would seem to call for valor.” This is a striking statement for a man who recanted his teachings and discoveries in order to escape torture and death. One could call Galileo a coward. Yet he tells his student to be courageous. What does he mean by this? Why does science call for great courage? What other practices call for courage? Galileo succumbed to the pressure of the Church—the power that wanted to keep the status quo in spite of considerable new evidence amassing about the nature of the Universe. Science, it seems to me, is a search for the truth. All those childhood questions—What makes the wind blow? Why are trees green? How many stars are there?—are asked because we long for true answers about the nature of things. The continual discoveries of science uncover more and more each day. And yet, as we grow older, many of us are afraid to look at these answers. Like the courtiers surrounding Prince Cosimo de Medici who refuse to look through Galileo’s telescope, we refuse to learn the truth because it might upset our ideas about the way things are and the way we live our lives. Brecht takes many liberties with Galileo, although the overall events of Galileo’s life are accurate in the play. Brecht uses Galileo to illuminate his own beliefs about Marxism and social systems, but he gives Galileo a voice that rings true for the great scientist. In the play, when Galileo intimates to another scholar that a researcher should not be concerned where the truth leads, we wonder how much responsibility a scientist should have. Is it wise to always tell the truth? “The practice of science would seem to call for valor.” That’s definitely a line that keeps me awake at night. Perhaps all truth-seekers need courage. Today, we may need it more than ever. Cynthia Meier, Director director@theroguetheatre.org

 

Playwright

	Bertolt Brecht (Playwright) was born in 1898 in Bavaria, and studied medicine at Munich before writing his first plays. In 1928, he wrote the satirical The Threepenny Opera with the composer Kurt Weill, and shortly thereafter he developed his theory of epic theatre. With the rise of the Nazis, he went into exile in Scandinavia, where he married long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel and wrote Mother Courage and Her Children on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland. During his eight years in the United States and Switzerland, he wrote some of his most famous plays, Galileo, The Good Woman of Sezuan, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. In 1949 he returned to East Germany, where he established the Berliner Ensemble with Weigel. The Ensemble became the most famous German touring theatre of the postwar era. Brecht dedicated himself to directing his plays and developing the talents of the next generation of young directors and dramaturgs. Brecht died in 1956, and Weigel continued to run the Berliner Ensemble until her death in 1971.

Patrick Baliani, John Keeney, Matt Walley, Claire De La Vergne, Tyler West

Joseph McGrath as Galileo, Hunter Hnat as Andrea and Holly Griffith as Virginia

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Cast (in order of appearance)
Galileo		Joseph McGrath*+
Young Andrea		Owen Saunders
Mrs. Sarti		Kathryn Kellner Brown*
Ludovico		Ryan Parker Knox*+
Curator		John Keeney
Virginia		Holly Griffith+
Sagredo		Aaron Shand*+
Matti		Matt Walley+
Senators		Claire de la Vergne, Patrick Baliani
Artisans		Bryn Booth+, Tyler West
The Doge		Hunter Hnat+
Philosopher		Leah Taylor
Federzoni		Patrick Baliani
Prince Cosima de Medici		Bryn Booth+
Lord Chamberlain		John Keeney
Elderly Lady		Tyler West
Lady of the Court		Claire de la Vergne
Mathematician		Ryan Parker Knox*+
Fat Prelate		Tyler West
Monks		Hunter Hnat+, Aaron Shand*+
Scholars		Patrick Baliani, Claire de la Vergne, Leah Taylor
Old Cardinal		Matt Walley+
Christopher Clavius		John Keeney
Little Monk		Bryn Booth+
Secretaries		Claire de la Vergne, Tyler West
Party Guests		Patrick Baliani, Hunter Hnat+, Kathryn Kellner Brown, Leah Taylor
Cardinal Bellarmin		Aaron Shand*+
Cardinal Barberini/Pope Urban VIII		John Keeney
Cardinal Inquisitor		Matt Walley+
Andrea, as an adult		Hunter Hnat+
Ballad Singer		Ryan Parker Knox*+
Ballad Singer's Wife		Claire de la Vergne
Spinner		Tyler West
Cobbler's Boy		Bryn Booth+
Peasant Woman		Kathryn Kellner Brown*
Child		Owen Saunders
Wretched Extras		Patrick Baliani, Aaron Shand*+
The King of Hungary		John Keeney
Rich Couple		Leah Taylor, Matt Walley+
Galileo Puppet		Bryn Booth+, Holly Griffith+, Hunter Hnat+
Informer		Aaron Shand*+
Rector		Leah Taylor
Pope Dressers		Patrick Baliani, Claire de la Vergne, Tyler West
Town Crier		Tyler West
Official		Patrick Baliani
Children		Bryn Booth+, Claire de la Vergne, Owen Saunders, Tyler West
Customs Officer		Ryan Parker Knox*+
Boy		Leah Taylor
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States + Member of The Rogue Resident Acting Ensemble

 

	Patrick Baliani (Federzoni & others) is a playwright, essayist, translator, and professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arizona Honors College. His plays include three works commissioned and produced by The Rogue Theatre: Dante’s Purgatorio, Boccaccio’s The Decameron, and the translation and adaptation of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. Purgatorio will have its international premiere in December at the Dalhousie Arts Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where The Decameron was produced as well. In May, Artifact Dance Project will choreograph and produce the premiere of his play, Monologue of a Muted Man. Patrick’s other plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Phoenix. Playwriting honors include the National Repertory Theatre Foundation National Play Award, the Arizona Commission on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the Tucson/Pima Art Council Playwriting Fellowship, and the Arizona Theatre Company Genesis New Play Award. He has acted with The Rogue Theatre, Tucson Art Theatre, Tucson Fringe, Theatre 3, and Third Street Kids. Patrick is the theatre columnist and a features writer for The Desert Leaf. Patrick Baliani’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from anonymous donors.
Bryn Booth (Little Monk & others) is a graduate from the BFA Acting program at the University of Arizona. She was most recently seen as Mag in The Scoundrel & Scamp’s production of Lovers. This is Bryn’s second season as a resident ensemble member with The Rogue Theatre where she has performed as Regan (King Lear), Rose of Sharon (The Grapes of Wrath), Sybil (A House of Pomegranates), and Lady Macduff (Macbeth). Other credits include Gowdie Blackmun in The Love Talker with the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (Tucson Shakespeare in the Park), and Bianca in Othello (Arizona Repertory Theatre). In recent years, she had the wonderful pleasure of undertsudying with Arizona Theatre Company in their productions of Romeo & Juliet as Lady Montague and Lady Capulet, and Of Mice and Men as Curley’s Wife. Bryn is ecstatic to spend another season at The Rogue creating beautiful performances with talented artists. Bryn Booth’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Stacy & Susan Litvak.
	Claire De La Vergne (Ballad Singer’s Wife & others) is ecstatic to be performing with The Rogue for the first time! She graduated from the University of Arizona with her BA in Theatre Arts and has been training with The Bennett TheatreLab and Conservatory for the past 3 years. Upcoming performances include Much Ado About Nothing with The Rogue, and Blood Wedding with The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre. Claire would like to thank her parents for believing in her endlessly and for their unwavering love and support. Claire De La Vergne’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Karen DeLay & Bill Sandel.
Holly Griffith (Virginia & others) is a 5th year member of the Acting Ensemble at The Rogue. Favorite productions include Three Tall Women, Celia, A Slave, A House of Pomegranates, Macbeth, The White Snake, Uncle Vanya, Angels in America Part One, By the Bog of Cats, Hamlet, and Arcadia. She also serves as a Box Officer and Co-Producer of the John & Joyce Ambruster Play-Reading Series at The Rogue. Holly holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Arizona, serves as an Artistic Associate and Director at The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre, and has a fierce interest in the history, culture, and literary tradition of Ireland. Holly Griffith’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Shawn Burke.
	Hunter Hnat (Andrea & others) is thrilled to be starting his first season at The Rogue Theatre as a member of the Ensemble. In his debut season last year he was seen in King Lear, Bach at Leipzig and the summer's A House of Pomegranates. He also took part in The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre's production of Salomé. Other credits include Arizona Theatre Company's Romeo and Juliet as well as The Importance of Being Earnest. He is a U of A alumnus with his BFA in Musical Theatre class of 2015. He would like to thank his family and friends for their unending support. Enjoy the show! Hunter Hnat’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Clayton Shirk.
John Keeney (Cardinal Barberini & others)is a multidisciplinary artist, active in the theater, music, and visual arts communities in Chicago in the 80s and 90s of the last century. Since then, he’s worked primarily as a teacher, writing and directing plays for his students in grades one through eight, and as ever, composing and playing music, and making art. A recent arrival to Tucson, he composed and performed the musical component of Scoundrel & Scamp Theater’s debut production, Two Plays for Lost Souls, and appeared as Bernard in their Studio Series production of Mickle Maher’s There Is a Happiness That Morning Is this past April. John Keeney’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Todd Hansen.
	Kathryn Kellner Brown (Mrs. Sarti & others) was last seen at The Rogue Theatre as Marquesa Dona Maria in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, as well as Gertrude in Hamlet, Gertrude in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Lady Croom in Arcadia, Queen Margaret in Richard III, Paulina in A Winter’s Tale, Prince of Morocco in Merchant of Venice, Dawn in Jerusalum, Mrs. Ivimey in Lady In The Looking Glass, Mrs. Baines in Major Barbara, and in The Rogue Theatre’s staged play reading series. At Arizona Theatre Company she appeared in King Charles III, at Southwest Shakespeare, Queen Eleanor in King John, at The Invisible Theatre, Rosanne in Brilliant Traces, and Teacher in Defying Gravity, She has appeared in the films Vanishing Point, Mad House, and Desperado. She has studied at Royal National Theatre Studio, London, and holds a BFA from University of Arizona. Kathryn is also the director of The Human Communication Studio. Kathryn Kellner Brown’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Joan Warfield.
Ryan Parker Knox (Ludovico & others) begins this season, his 7th in The Rogue’s acting ensemble, with Galileo being his 31st company production. Audiences will remember him from Arcadia (2014 Mac Award winner for drama), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Uncle Vanya (2016 Mac Award winner for comedy), Jerusalem, and most recently King Lear, among others. Ryan hails from South Dakota, but spent over a decade in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and surrounding regions where her appeared in over 90 productions. He received his BFA with an Acting Emphasis from the University of South Dakota in 1999. Ryan would like to thank the patrons and board of The Rogue for their never-ending support of art and of artists, and would like to thank his dearest loved ones for always having his back. Here’s to another inspired season of creativity and imagination! Ryan Parker Knox’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Maura Brackett.
	Joseph McGrath (Galileo) is Co-Founder and Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre and has appeared in King Lear, Bach at Leipzig, Celia, A Slave, Macbeth, Penelope, The White Snake, Angels in America Part One, Tales of the Jazz Age, Miss Julie, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot, Jerusalem, Awake and Sing, Arcadia, Measure for Measure, Richard III, The Night Heron, Journey to the West, The Winter’s Tale, The New Electric Ballroom, Shipwrecked!, Major Barbara, New-Found-Land, Old Times, The Tempest, Ghosts, Naga Mandala, Othello, Krapp’s Last Tape, A Delicate Balance (2009 Mac Award for Best Actor), Animal Farm, Orlando, Happy Days, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Red Noses, The Goat, The Cherry Orchard, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Endymion, The Dead, and The Fever. Joe is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama and has toured with John Houseman’s Acting Company. He has performed with the Utah Shakespearean Festival and has been a frequent performer with Ballet Tucson appearing in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and for seventeen years as Herr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker. He has also performed with Arizona Theatre Company, Arizona Opera, and Arizona Onstage. Joe owns, with his wife Regina Gagliano, Sonora Theatre Works, which produces theatrical scenery and draperies. Joseph McGrath’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Sheldon Trubatch & Katharina Phillips.
Owen Saunders (Young Andrea & others) is a young actor born in Tucson, Arizona. He started acting around eleven years old when his parents signed him up for a class at Live Theatre Workshop. He is known for his roles of Ronald, a Boston Cop in the Live Theatre Workshop original Cloudy, With A Chance Of Zombies, Thomas in the Arizona Rose Theatre original After Dark, and his most recent role as Sheamusin Murder On The Orphan Express at the Arizona Rose Theatre. Owen also enjoys skateboarding, hanging out with friends, and staying at home with his two brothers. Today, he is an 8th grade student at Paulo Freire Freedom School, and is still pursuing his passion for the theatre. Owen Saunders’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Norma Davenport. .
	Aaron Shand (Sagredo & others) is thrilled to begin his first season as a member of The Rogue Theatre’s resident acting ensemble, after having appeared last season as Noah Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Duke of Albany in King Lear. Born and raised in Tucson, he received his B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Arizona, performing for the Arizona Repertory Theatre in Bus Stop, The Miracle Worker and Romeo & Juliet. He also spent a season with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, performing in The Cherry Orchard, State of the Union and A Christmas Carol. Aaron would like to thank his wife and two sons for sacrificing their evenings together so he can continue to pursue his passion. Aaron Shand’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Chantal & Brock McCaman.
Leah Taylor (Boy & others) holds an MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. A Tucson native, she has worked in Tucson’s theatre community as an actor, stage manager, assistant director, and dramaturg. Most recently she appeared in Scoundrel & Scamp’s productions of Mr. Burns and A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney and served as Assistant Director for Scoundrel & Scamp’s Two Plays for Lost Souls. Before that she served as Stage Manager during The Rogue Theatre’s 2011–2015 seasons. Leah is thrilled to be joining the Rogues onstage for this production. Leah Taylor’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Kristi Lewis.
	Matt Walley (Matti & others) is a member of The Rogue Theatre acting ensemble and was most recently seen as Edmund in King Lear and Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath. He has enjoyed previous roles at The Rogue in Bach at Leipzig, Macbeth, Richard III, Journey to the West, The Winter’s Tale, Shipwrecked!, As I Lay Dying and Major Barbara. Last year, as an Artist in Residence at The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre, Walley co-created and performed in Oaf. Matt is on the board of The Tucson Fringe Festival and also The Shakespeare Forum in New York City. His company, Theatre 3, created new work for Live Theatre Workshop’s late night series Etcetera including Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Mixtape. He graduated from Dell’Arte International in 2009 with an MFA in Physical Ensemble Theatre. He has also performed with The Pinnacle Peak Pistoleros and their Wild West Stunt Shows, Stories that Soar!, and Live Theatre Workshop. Matt Walley’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Paul Winick & Ronda Lustman.
Tyler West (Spinner & others) is happy to be making his debut with The Rogue Theatre. Tyler recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.F.A. degree in Acting, where he was a part of the Arizona Repertory Theatre and played in various of their productions. This past year Tyler also created his own one man show titled Abeyance and has been traveling it around the country to various Fringe Festivals. Tyler West’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Norma Davenport.

Music

	Jake Sorgen (Music Direction and Composer) is an Artistic Associate and Resident Music Director at The Rogue. Since 2014 Jake has composed, performed and/or arranged music for nearly 25 productions at The Rogue. Jake is a composer/improviser/musician originally from Woodstock, New York. He performs solo and in music and interdisciplinary ensembles around the world with musicians, writers, actors, and dancers. As the 2018 “Maverick Prodigy”, Jake debuted 2 new works for text and music and 2 new works for guitar, double bass, and drum set at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York. His recorded output includes 4 albums of lyrical songs, the most recent, American/English was released in May 2018. Jake currently studies guitar and composition with Robert Windbiel and has previously studied improvisation with violist Mary Oliver and dancer Katie Duck and performed and studied with members of the Instant Composers Pool and the Creative Music Studio in the Netherlands and New York. Jake Sorgen’s music direction is supported in part by a generous gift from Sally Krusing.

Music Director’s Notes

Brecht’s Galileo has as much to say—if not more so—about Brecht’s Germany of the mid-20th century as it does about the real Galileo’s Italy. Portions of the play were rewritten after the United States’ use of the atomic bomb; some English translations still include a completely unveiled line of dialogue: “Take care when you travel through Germany with the truth under your coat.” The overall design of this production is where we’ve really dug into this duality, with music played largely on upright piano while the costumes and scenic design hint more towards 16th and 17th century Italy. Musically I find myself in very good company, drawing from Bach’s Prelude to the Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor and Hanns Eisler’s score for the original production of Galileo along with originally composed motifs peppered throughout. The Preshow will feature arrangements of these works as well as Schubert’s Ave Maria, further emphasizing the play’s more obvious duality: science vs. religion. —Jake Sorgen, Music Director and Composer

The cast of Galileo

Joe McGrath, Aaron Shand and John Keeney

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Designers
Costume Design		Cynthia Meier
Costume design is supported in part by a generous gift from Ann & Nils Hasselmo
Scenic Design		Joseph McGrath
Scenic design is supported in part by a generous gift from Pat & John Hemann
Lighting Design		Deanna Fitzgerald*
Lighting design is supported in part by a generous gift from Karinn Hamill-Rothe
Production Staff
Stage Manager		Shannon Wallace
Assistant Director		Matt Walley
Scenic Artist		Amy Novelli
Mask Maker		Aaron Cromie
Puppet Maker		Matt Cotten
Set Construction		Joseph McGrath & Christopher Johnson
Props		Christopher Johnson, John Keeney, Joseph McGrath, Cynthia Meier & Shannon Wallace
Costume Construction		Cynthia Meier, Susan Meier, Nanalee Raphael, Zoreh Saunders & Barbara Tanzillo
Associate Lighting Designer		Shannon Wallace
Master Electrician		Peter Bleasby
Electricians		Tori Mays, Mack Woods & Megan Mahoney
House Manager		Susan Collinet
Assistant House Managers		Paul Winick & Susan Tiss
Box Office Manager		Thomas Wentzel
Box Office Assistants		Kara Clauser, Shannon Elias, Holly Griffith & Rebekah Thimlar
Program Advertising		Paul Winick
Poster, Program & Website		Thomas Wentzel
*Represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

 

	Deanna Fitzgerald (Lighting Design) is a professional Lighting Designer and member of United Scenic Artists, as well as an Associate Professor and head of lighting design and technology at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the theatre program and the Director of Graduate Studies. Her lighting design credits include a range of theatre, dance, opera, circus-themed entertainment, puppets, architectural lighting and more. She is a registered yoga and meditation teacher and conducts classes and workshops focused on using these and other “quietive” practices to enrich creative processes. Some of Deanna’s career highlights include the lighting designs for STOMP OUT LOUD, the Las Vegas version of the internationally acclaimed STOMP, for whom she also toured for 6 years as lighting director; Cirque Mechanics: Boom Town, which toured for 2 years with an off-Broadway appearance at The New Victory Theatre; and Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo US Tour. Deanna has been smitten with her Rogue family since 2014 when she designed their extraordinary creation Jerusalem, and has since designed Waiting for Godot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Miss Julie, Bridge of San Luis Rey, Tales from the Jazz Age, Uncle Vanya, Penelope, Macbeth, Celia A Slave, Bach at Leipzig and Three Tall Women. She is grateful for every moment she gets to spend making things with them and for ME Peter Bleasby and Associate LD Shannon Wallace whose collaborations make that possible. Deanna Fitzgerald’s lighting design is supported in part by a generous gift from Karinn Hamill-Rothe.
Shannon Wallace (Stage Manager) is excited for her third year as Resident Stage Manager with The Rogue Theatre. She served as stage manager for Angels in America, A House of Pomegranates, and The Grapes of Wrath. She also worked on The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Uncle Vanya, Penelope, Macbeth, Celia, A Slave, Bach at Leipzig, Three Tall Women and King Lear as stage manager as well as associate lighting designer. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, focusing on both stage management and lighting design. During her time in school she worked on over 25 productions with Arizona Repertory Theatre. She has also worked for Arizona Theatre Company, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival serving on both stage management teams and company & events management teams. She is grateful to be working full-time as a theater artist in her hometown. Shannon Wallace’s stage management is supported in part by a generous gift from John & Diane Wilson.
	Aaron Cromie (Mask Maker) has created 33 original masks for this production of Galileo, using oil portraits from the Renaissance as inspiration. Aaron has created masks for several productions at The Rogue including Macbeth, Hayavadana, Naga Mandala, and Red Noses. Aaron is a Philadelphia based, multidisciplinary theatre artist who has collaborated with Arden Theatre Company, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Mum Puppettheatre, The Studio Theatre, Wilma Theater, Lantern Theater, and Shakespeare Theatre among others. He is a graduate of The College of New Jersey and The Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
Matt Cotten (Puppet Maker) has created all of the large puppets featured in The Rogue Theatre, as well as last year’s snake puppets in The White Snake. Matt is the Artistic Director of Puppets Amongus for which he writes, fabricates and performs. His passion for puppetry grew out of his rich history as a visual and performing artist. He is one of the original artistic directors of Tucson's famous All Souls Procession. He is also a painter and for more than ten years taught painting and drawing at the University of Arizona.
	Peter Bleasby (Master Electrician) lit his first show at 13. Professionally, he was with BBC-TV for several years, and was an assistant to UK lighting designer Richard Pilbrow during the inaugural production of the National Theatre (Hamlet, directed by Olivier.) He transferred to architectural lighting, but maintained his theatre interests by lighting many shows on both sides of the Atlantic. When the Rogue established itself at the Historic “Y” in 2009, he volunteered for the initial season, returning in 2013 with  lighting designer Don Fox, and later working with Deanna Fitzgerald. He devised the installation of the permanent wiring system that enables lighting teams to devote more time to the creative process. For the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation he directs the technical and logistical aspects of fundraisers, including the fashion show Moda Provocateur.
Susan Collinet (House Manager) earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Arizona in 2008. Decades before returning to college as a non-traditional student, Susan spent twenty years in amateur theater, mostly on the East coast, as well as in Brussels, Belgium in the American Theater of Brussels, and the Theatre de Chenois in Waterloo. She has worked in such positions as a volunteer bi-lingual guide in the Children’s Museum of Brussels, the Bursar of a Naturopathic Medical school in Tempe, Arizona, an entrepreneur with two “Susan’s of Scottsdale” hotel gift shops in Scottsdale, Arizona, and as the volunteer assistant Director of Development of the Arizona Aids Project in Phoenix. Susan continues to work on collections of poetry and non-fiction. Her writing has won awards from Sandscript Magazine, the John Hearst Poetry Contest, the Salem College for Women’s Center for Writing, and was published in a Norton Anthology of Student’s Writing. In addition to being House Manager, Susan serves on the Board of Directors and acts as Volunteer Coordinator for the Rogue.

Joseph McGrath as Galileo

Photo by Tim Fuller

Our Thanks
Tim Fuller		Tucson Weekly
Chuck Graham		Patrick Baliani
Arizona Daily Star		Shawn Burke
Jerry James		Our Advertisers
Chris Babbie, Location Sound		Kathryn Kellner Brown
The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre
University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film and Television
Student tickets are sponsored in part by generous donations from Todd Hansen and Pat & John Hemann

Owen Saunders as Young Andrea and Joseph McGrath as Galileo

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Performance Schedule for Galileo

Location: The Rogue Theatre at The Historic Y, 300 East University Boulevard
Click here for information on free off-street parking

Performance run time of Galileo is two hours and twenty minutes, including one 10-minute intermission.
Run time does not include the music preshow beginning 15 minutes before curtain, or post-show discussion.

Thursday, September 6, 2018, 7:30 pm DISCOUNT PREVIEW
Friday, September 7, 2018, 7:30 pm DISCOUNT PREVIEW SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 8, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee
Saturday, September 8, 2018, 7:30 pm OPENING NIGHT
Sunday, September 9, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT

Thursday, September 13, 2018, 7:30 pm
Friday, September 14, 2018, 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 15, 2018, 2:00 pm
Saturday, September 15, 2018, 7:30 pm
Sunday, September 16, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT

Thursday, September 20, 2018, 7:30 pm
Friday, September 21, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 22, 2018, 2:00 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 22, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Sunday, September 23, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT