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'There are nineteen cows in the field...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher

The theatricality of a bare-bones set, effective lighting and cast members who are storytellers, scene pieces, prop masters and multiple characters with only a change of a hat, if that, is just thrilling.
—Arizona Daily Star

Wonderfully directed, strikingly acted, beautifully lit and produced. Equally enlightening and mesmerizing to watch.
—Tom Martin, Audience Member

This was powerful and captivating.
—Sharon Dely, Audience Member

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Simon Stephens
based on the novel by Mark Haddon

PRODUCTION SPONSOR:
JOAN COOK, IN MEMORY OF DOUG COOK

Directed by Cynthia Meier
Music Direction and Original Composition by Jake Sorgen

November 1–18, 2018

Thursday–Saturday 7:30 P.M., Saturday & Sunday 2:00 P.M.

Discussion with the cast and director follows all performances

Performance Schedule

The Rogue Theatre at The Historic Y
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In a rushing, shifting theatrical style, the story is told
of a brilliant 15-year-old boy with autism and his amateur investigation of the killing of a dog.
He discovers a family secret and takes matters into his own hands,
and eventually succeeds in his advanced math exam.

 

'What have you done?'  Samantha Cormier as Mrs. Shears and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

What have you done?
Samantha Cormier as Mrs. Shears and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Holly Griffith as Judy

Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Holly Griffith as Judy

Train going.

Train going.

'I mean we're not that different...'  Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

I mean we’re not that different...
Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Supporting Materials

Free Open Talk:
“The Making and Staging of an Adaptation”

Saturday, October 27, 2:00 P.M.

Joseph McGrath, Director Joseph McGrath, Director Joseph McGrath, Director

On Saturday, October 27th, 2018, Cynthia Meier, Joseph McGrath and Patty Gallagher talked about the adaptation from the novel and our staging of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Listen to a podcast of the open talk.

For more background on the play, check out Jerry James’ essay
“The Curious Incident of the Title of the Play: Christopher Boone and Sherlock Holmes”

This open talk was supported in part by a generous gift from Pat & John Danloe.

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Press

Ensemble Storytelling Bring Emotion and Experience to Life in Curious Incident

Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by China Young on November 8 in Taming of the Review at TamingOfTheReview.com

Hnat awesome in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Chuck Graham on November 8 in Let The Show Begin! at TucsonStage.com

Curious reveals a world most of us don’t know

Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Kathleen Allen to appear in the November 8 Arizona Daily Star

Rogue brings Curious bestseller to life

Preview of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Kathleen Allen in the November 1 Arizona Daily Star

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

 

Direction

Cynthia Meier, Director

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 Galileo, 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 The Curious Incident is supported in part by a generous gift from Karen DeLay & Bill Sandel.

Notes from the Director

The title of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes from a Sherlock Holmes story, Silver Blaze, in which a case is solved because Holmes notes that a dog did not bark on the night of the murder. The dog didn’t bark because it knew the murderer. Novelist Mark Haddon takes this single line to begin an adventure story about a unique teen-aged boy.

I first read the novel of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time about ten years ago and fell in love with the characters and especially the way Christopher Boone, the central figure, thought. I was fortunate to see the production of the play on Broadway in 2015, which was full of wonderful performances as well as laser lights and projections. I brought the script home to Joe who read it and loved it, too.

We love good adaptations of novels at The Rogue. We love good regular plays, too, but it’s often wonderful to experience the narrative voice in a theatre—to hear a story told, not just through dialogue, but also through the delicious language of narration. Every year of our 14-year history, we’ve produced a narrative piece of theatre—an adaptation.

One of the very few stage directions in our script is “All actors remain onstage unless prescribed otherwise.” We decided to take that stage direction to heart, and create a live chorus—echoing and enhancing Christopher Boone’s thoughts and experiences. There are no laser lights and projections in our production, although we have a beautiful lighting design created by the ever-resourceful Deanna Fitzgerald.

To complete the story of this play, we are depending on two very important (and I would say fundamental) aspects of the theatre: a nimble ensemble of actors and your vivid imagination.

Thank you for being here.

Cynthia Meier, Director
director@theroguetheatre.org

Author and Adaptor

Mark Haddon (Author)

Mark Haddon (Author) is an English novelist and illustrator. He wrote the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2003. Primarily a children’s or young adult writer (some of his other titles include Gilbert’s Gobstopper and Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars),Haddon won the British Whitbread Book Award in the category of novels rather than children’s books for The Curious Incident. It was the first book that Haddon intentionally wrote for an adult audience.

Simon Stephens (Adaptor) is an English playwright. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. He is the inaugural Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre Company, Chicago, where four of his plays, Harper Regan, Motortown, Wastwater, and Birdland had their U.S. premieres. His writing is widely performed throughout Europe, and he is one of the most performed English-language writers in Germany.

Simon Stephens (Adaptor)

 

You're Christopher, aren't you?  Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Kathryn Kellner Brown as Mrs. Alexander

You’re Christopher, aren’t you?
Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Kathryn Kellner Brown as Mrs. Alexander

'...talk to other people from Mission Control...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher

...talk to other people from Mission Control...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher

'All the iron in your body...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher

All the iron in your body...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher

'With someone called Jean...'  Ryan Parker Knox as Ed, Holly Griffith as Judy and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

With someone called Jean...
Ryan Parker Knox as Ed, Holly Griffith as Judy and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Photos by Tim Fuller

Cast

Christopher Hunter Hnat+                                    
Siobhan Patty Gallagher*+
Ed Ryan Parker Knox*+
Judy Holly Griffith+
Voice One/Mrs. Shears (and others) Samantha Cormier
Voice Two/Roger Shears (and others) Matt Walley+
Voice Three/Policeman (and others) James Conway
Voice Four/Rev. Peters (and others) Joseph McGrath*+
Voice Five/No. 40 (and others) Bryn Booth+
Voice Six/Mrs. Alexander (and others) Kathryn Kellner Brown*
  *Member of Actors’ Equity Association,
the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
+ Member of The Rogue Resident Acting Ensemble
Hunter Hnat (Christopher)

Hunter Hnat (Christopher) is grateful to begin his first season as a member of The Rogue Resident Acting Ensemble. You may have seen him in previous Rogue productions as Andrea in Galileo; Oswald in King Lear; Steindorff in Bach at Leipzig; and Ensemble for A House of Pomegranates. He has also been a part of The Rogue's staged reading of No Exit as the Valet and Cloud 9 as Joshua. Other credits include Jokanaan in Salomé (The Scoundrel & Scamp); Ensemble and Romeo U/S in Romeo and Juliet (Arizona Theatre Company); Boyfriend in How the House Burned Down (Live Theatre Workshop) as well as several other workshops and readings. He is a U of A alumnus with his BFA in Musical Theatre class of 2015. Enjoy the show!
Hunter Hnat’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Shawn Burke.

 

Patty Gallagher (Siobhan) is a Rogue ensemble member. She is Professor of Theatre Arts at University of California Santa Cruz where she teaches movement, mask, Balinese dance, and clown traditions. With The Rogue, she was last seen as the Fool in King Lear. She has performed the roles of B in Three Tall Women, the White Snake in The White Snake, Mrs. Kilbride in By the Bog of Cats, Rosencrantz in Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Mabel in The Lady in the Looking Glass, Madame Moiselle in Dante’s Purgatorio, Hannah Jarvis in Arcadia, Kali in Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana), Red Peter in Kafka’s Monkey, Mrs. Samsa in Metamorphosis, Monkey King in Journey to the West, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Player 1 in Shipwrecked!, Alibech in The Decameron, Ariel in The Tempest, Rani in Naga Mandala, Emilia in Othello, the Player in Act Without Words, Orlando in Orlando, Sonnerie and Scarron in Red Noses, Winnie in Happy Days, Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard and Shen Te in The Good Woman of Setzuan. She has worked with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, The New Pickle Circus, Ripe Time Theatre, Two River Theatre, Teatro Cronopio and Grupo Malayerba. She has performed, choreographed and directed workshops in Asia, South America, Europe, and the U.S. In 2006 she was Fulbright Scholar in Quito, Ecuador. In 2014 she was awarded the Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at UCSC’s Porter College. She holds a doctorate in Theatre from University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 2002 to 2010, she was Director in Residence at Circus Center San Francisco.
Patty Gallagher’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Sally Krusing.

Patty Gallagher (Siobhan)
Ryan Parker Knox (Ed)

Ryan Parker Knox (Ed) continues this season, his 7th in The Rogue’s acting ensemble, with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time being his 32nd 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, King Lear, and most recently Galileo, among others. Ryan hails from South Dakota, but spent over a decade in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and surrounding regions where he 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 Bill & Barbara Dantzler.

Holly Griffith (Judy) is a 5th year member of the Acting Ensemble at The Rogue. Favorite productions include Galileo, 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 where she now teaches in the department of Theatre, Film, & Television. She also serves as Artistic Associate and Director at the Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre. “I would like to dedicate my work on Curious Incident to my parents Ed & Anne Griffith, and to my brother Luke Griffith.”
Holly Griffith’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Ed & Nancy Landes.

 

Holly Griffith (Judy)
Samantha Cormier (Voice One/Mrs. Shears & others)

Samantha Cormier (Voice One/Mrs. Shears & others) is absolutely thrilled for her inaugural performance with The Rogue Theatre. She holds an M.F.A in Performing Arts from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) and a B.F.A in Directing/Theatre Production from the University of Arizona. She has performed and directed in theatres from New York to Savannah to your favorite theatres in Tucson including The Gaslight Theatre, The Gaslight Music Hall, Live Theatre Workshop and Arizona Onstage Productions. Favorite roles include: Babette ([sic]), Princess Fiona (Shrek), Corrie (Barefoot in the Park), Winnifred (Once Upon a Mattress), Columbia (The Rocky Horror Show [MAC Award nomination, Best Actress], and Frankie (Voice of the Prairie)[MAC Award Winner, Best Actress]. She has been a theatre instructor for over 12 years including Stagedoor Manor In New York. Samantha would like to dedicate her performance to all the truth seekers in the world; may they light the path of justice.
Samantha Cormier’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Robert & Rhonda Fleming.

 

Matt Walley (Voice Two/Roger Shears & others) is a member of The Rogue Theatre acting ensemble and was most recently seen as Matti & others in Galileo, 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 Todd Hansen.

 

Matt Walley (Voice Two/Roger Shears & others)
James Conway (Voice Three/Policeman & others)

James Conway (Voice Three/Policeman & others) is very pleased to be making his Rogue Theatre debut in this production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. James grew up in Tucson, and earned his BFA in acting from the University of Arizona in 2012. Since then he has performed in theatre, film and television in Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, and most recently Ohio. Favorite past credits include Orlando in As You Like It with Arizona Repertory Theatre, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Southwest Shakespeare, and one (long) line on the CBS television show the Bold and the Beautiful.
James Conway’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from John & Joyce Ambruster.

 

Joseph McGrath (Voice Four/Rev. Peters & others) is Co-Founder and Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre and has appeared in Galileo, 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 Els Duvigneau & Stu Salasche.

Joseph McGrath (Voice Four/Rev. Peters & others)
Bryn Booth (Voice Five/No. 40 & others)

Bryn Booth (Voice Five/No. 40 & others) is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Arizona. She was most recently seen as Little Monk & others in The Rogue’s production of Galileo. 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 Mag in Lovers and 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 Clay Shirk.

 

Kathryn Kellner Brown (Voice Six/Mrs. Alexander & others) was last seen at The Rogue Theatre as Mrs. Sarti & others in Galileo, as well as Marquesa Dona Maria in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 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 Kristi Lewis.

Kathryn Kellner Brown (Voice Six/Mrs. Alexander & others)

'I used to have dreams...'  Patty Gallagher as Siobhan, Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Holly Griffith as Judy

I used to have dreams...
Patty Gallagher as Siobhan, Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Holly Griffith as Judy

Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Rob, yeah, it's Nigel...   Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Joseph McGrath as Policeman

Rob, yeah, it’s Nigel...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Joseph McGrath as Policeman

'I waited for nine more minutes...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher

I waited for nine more minutes...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Photos by Tim Fuller

Preshow Music

Jake Sorgen

Jake Sorgen (Music Direction)

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 two new works for text and music and two 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

There's a curious thing about the music in Curious Incident...but not only will the mystery reveal itself early in the production, it will—we hope—be quite rewarding when it does! As opposed to most other productions where my time is spent seeking out and practicing music or composing new material, for this project I had the unique opportunity to utilize the ensemble of actors as my sketchpad and guitar strings. All of the sounds and even occasional music you'll hear are made by the actors themselves. This play changes locale, time, and mood without warning so often, providing us an opportunity to engage the entire cast throughout much of the play as sound-makers.

The pre-show will begin with variations on a theme entitled "Judy's Lullaby" which appears in several forms throughout the play. Next as an homage to Christopher Boone's love of mathematics, you'll hear a piece that plays with the Pythagorean tuning system developed by the great mathematician rooted in the division and formation of different ratios of notes as a method of composing music.

—Jake Sorgen, Music Director and Composer

'Is this London?'  Bryn Booth as Lady in the Street and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Is this London?
Bryn Booth as Lady in the Street and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Train coming.

Train coming.

'--I was finding Toby. He's my pet rat.  --Bloody Nora!'  Samantha Cormier, Bryn Booth, Joseph McGrath, Kathryn Kellner Brown, James Conway, Ryan Parker Knox, Matt Walley, Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Holly Griffith and Patty Gallagher

—I was finding Toby. He's my pet rat.   —Bloody Nora!
Samantha Cormier, Bryn Booth, Joseph McGrath, Kathryn Kellner Brown, James Conway,
Ryan Parker Knox, Matt Walley, Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Holly Griffith and Patty Gallagher

'There are nineteen cows in the field...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Is this train going to Willsden...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

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Designers

Costume Design Cynthia Meier

Costume design is supported in part by a generous gift from Ellen Bodow

Scenic Design Joseph McGrath

Scenic design is supported in part by a generous gift from Gay Miller

Lighting Design Deanna Fitzgerald*

Lighting design is supported in part by a generous gift from Phil & Kay Korn

 

Production Staff

Stage Manager Shannon Wallace
Assistant Director Holly Griffith
Scenic Artist Amy Novelli
Set Construction Joseph McGrath &
Christopher Johnson
Props Christopher Johnson,
Joseph McGrath, Cynthia Meier
& Christopher Johnson
Master Electrician Peter Bleasby
Associate Lighting Designer Shannon Wallace
Math Encore Lighting Effects Designers Connor Greene & Brian Graham
Electricians Tori Mays, Connor Greene,
Mandy Spartz, Mack Woods,
Amber Rudnick & Ren Geiselhart
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
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)

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 six years as lighting director; Cirque Mechanics: Boom Town, which toured for two 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,Three Tall Women, King Lear and Galileo. 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 Phil & Kay Korn.

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, King Lear and Galileo 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 Paul Winick & Ronda Lustman.

Shannon Wallace (Stage Manager)
Peter Bleasby, Master Electrician

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.

Susan Collinet, House Manager

'I like looking up at the sky...'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

I like looking up at the sky...
Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

'And this one is Nuclear Power...'  Holly Griffith as Judy, Matt Walley as Roger Shears and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

And this one is Nuclear Power...
Holly Griffith as Judy, Matt Walley as Roger Shears and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

'Her name is Sandy.'  Ryan Parker Knox as Ed, Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Holly Griffith as Judy

Her name is Sandy.
Ryan Parker Knox as Ed, Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Holly Griffith as Judy

'Does that mean I can do anything?'  Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

Does that mean I can do anything?
Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Our Thanks

Tim Fuller
Tucson Weekly
Chuck Graham
Patrick Baliani
Arizona Daily Star
Shawn Burke
Jerry James
Our Advertisers
University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film and Television
Student tickets are sponsored in part by generous donations from
Stu Salasche & Els Duvigneau and Nancy Peterson & David Becker

'Math encore: 'Which is the same term...'

Which is the same term...

Confetti!

Confetti!

The cast and crew of The Curious Incident

The cast and crew of The Curious Incident
Front row: James Conway, Samantha Cormier, Penelope, Patty Gallagher, Bryn Booth,
Shannon Wallace (Stage Manager) and Hunter Hnat.
Back row: Holly Griffith, Kathryn Kellner Brown, Matt Walley, Joseph McGrath, Ryan Parker Knox,
Christopher Johnson (General Manager), Susan Collinet (House Manager) and Cynthia Meier (Director).

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

Ticket Exchanges and Questions

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Tickets may be rescheduled up to 24 hours before a performance, pending availability.

Please let us know if you will be unable to attend, so that we may make use of your seats for sold-out performances.

 

Performance Schedule for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Location: The Rogue Theatre at The Historic Y, 300 East University Boulevard
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Performance run time of The Curious Incident is two hours and ten minutes, including one 10-minute intermission.
Run time does not include the music preshow beginning 15 minutes before curtain, or post-show discussion.

Thursday, November 1, 2018, 7:30 pm DISCOUNT PREVIEW
Friday, November 2, 2018, 7:30 pm DISCOUNT PREVIEW
Saturday, November 3, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee
Saturday, November 3, 2018, 7:30 pm OPENING NIGHT
Sunday, November 4, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT

Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:30 pm
Friday, November 9, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2:00 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, November 10, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Sunday, November 11, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Friday, November 16, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, November 17, 2018, 2:00 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, November 17, 2018, 7:30 pm SOLD OUT
Sunday, November 18, 2018, 2:00 pm matinee SOLD OUT

 

Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

Hunter Hnat as Christopher and Patty Gallagher as Siobhan

Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Holly Griffith as Judy and Ryan Parker Knox as Ed

Hunter Hnat as Christopher, Holly Griffith as Judy and Ryan Parker Knox as Ed

Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Ryan Parker Knox as Ed and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Holly Griffith as Judy and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Holly Griffith as Judy and Hunter Hnat as Christopher

Photos by Tim Fuller

 

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