Cast                         

Musicians

Production Staff

Designers

Our Thanks

Jill Baker (First God/Boy) is delighted to make her Tucson debut with The Rogue Theatre. She came to Tucson from Chicago where she co-wrote, directed and performed Mary Shelley and Her Monsters. She spent the previous year as Artist in Residence at the Berkshire Theatre Festival where she taught playwrighting and acting to elementary school students while touring a production of Strange Waves. Other productions with the Berkshire Theatre Festival include The Father, Peter Pan, and Arabian Nights. She graduated with her BFA in Theatre Performance from Missouri State University. Much love to doggy Jackson and hubby Andrew.

Nick Bravin (Second God/Husband) is a graduate of Stanford University and Columbia Law School, a two-time member of the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team, and a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Nick studied acting in New York City at the New Actors Workshop (founded by Mike Nichols, Paul Sills, and George Morrison). Recently, in New York City, Nick originated the part of Gregg in Running and appeared in The Crucible and The Merchant of Venice. He has also appeared in several independent films and numerous television and radio programs, as well as fashion spreads in magazines such as Vanity Fair (cover), Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire.

Leanné Whitewolf Charlton (Third God/Wife) received her theatre and dance education from Northwestern College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Some of her favorite Midwestern roles include Aunt Ev in The Miracle Worker, Lucy Seward in Braham Stoker’s Dracula and The Player in Pippin. She has studied with The Milwaukee Ballet as well as the internationally renowned Afro-modern dance company Ko- Thi. Her Arizona credits include the role of Helga Ten Dorp in Deathtrap with the Tucson Theatre Ensemble, Hattie Dealing in Laundry and Bourbon with The Studio for Actors, Linda Waterman in Fiction for Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, and Indian Maid and Echo for Endymion with The Rogue Theatre. Leanné is grateful for another opportunity to share in The Rogue’s vision. She is especially thankful to Dixie, Lakota and the founding members of The Florence Players who bless every performance from the other side. She lives with her large four-legged family and her unbelievably supportive husband, Russ, and would like to dedicate this performance to Francis Wade Charlton, her father-in-law, who passed last November.

Jeremy Ellwood (Unemployed Man) is extremely thrilled to be on this show with such an excellent cast. He recently moved to Tucson from Michigan, where he studied theatre performance, dance performance, and lighting design. He is excited to be back onstage rather than behind it for the first time after six years. His former acting credits include The Trial, The Real Inspector Hound, The Odyssey, and Measure for Measure, among many others. This is his first with The Rogue Theatre and he has been enjoying the process with them immensely.

Patty Gallagher (Shen Te) is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at University of California Santa Cruz where she directs courses in physical theatre, mask performance, Balinese dance, and clown traditions. She is Director in Residence for the Clown Conservatory, a year-round training program of the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. She holds a doctorate in Theatre and Drama from University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has performed clown and buffoon with Teatro Cronopio and studied in Laboratorio Grupo Malayerba. She has worked with the New Pickle Circus, Fool Time Circus, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, San Francisco Circus and the Weird Sisters Ensemble. She has performed and directed workshops in Asia, South America, Europe, and the U.S., and recently was a Fulbright Scholar in Quito, Ecuador. She is a founding member of Local Hero, a physical theatre ensemble.

Roxanne Harley (Mrs. Mi Tzu/Old Whore) began her performance career in Michigan as a dancer and performed with Milton Berle in summer shows. She returned to the stage 10 years ago. Most recently she appeared as Gertrude in LTW Etceteras’ production of Hamlet. This is her third play with The Rogue Theatre; she was previously in The Balcony and The Dead. She has performed with Wilde Playhouse, Nathalia Stage Ensemble, Pima Community College, Blood Hut Productions, Old Pueblo Playwrights and V-Day productions. Her play Dancing Around Love was produced at Pima Community College and was selected for performance at the 1998 Region VIII Kennedy Center Competition. She also performs stand up comedy at higher education conferences, sharing her experiences as a former director of community college counseling.

Carolyn Hokin (Niece) is a sophomore at the University of Arizona studying Spanish, music, and nursing, and is more than thrilled to be a part of the Rogue Theatre’s production of The Good Woman of Setzuan. She got her start performing at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, where she sang such coveted solo pieces as Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Gabriel Fauré’s Pie Jesu. Some of her favorite roles during her four-year sojourn at the BASIS High School include the lovely Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Director of The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged). Carolyn has most recently performed with The Rogue Theatre in The Dead and Endymion. She is also a member of Tucson’s popular improv troupe Not Burned Out Just Unscrewed.

Art Jacobson (Grandfather/Old Man) began his acting career as a child actor in Chicago radio. In college, he played John Adams in a summer-long production of The Common Glory. He wrote and acted in radio dramas produced by the Broadcasting Service of the University of Michigan and came home to Chicago as a production director at NBC’s affiliate, WMAQ. Subsequently, he taught philosophy at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Tucson audiences have seen him in readers’ theatre performances of No Exit and The Critics, as the Rabbi in Borderlands Theater production of Vilna’s Got a Golem, and in The Rogue Theatre’s The Balcony, The Dead and Endymion. He’s delighted to be part of The Good Woman of Setzuan.

Avis Judd (Sister-in-Law/Old Woman) is thrilled to be back on stage after a two year hiatus. Avis received her theatre degree from Northwestern University. Favorite roles include Olga in The Three Sisters, Fury in the English language premier of Héléne Cixious’ The Perjured City, or the Awakening of the Furies; Faith in Invisible Theatre’s production of Kindertransport, Emilia in Othello; and the title role in a one woman show, which she adapted and directed, about Bahá’í heroine Martha Root. Avis feels privileged to work with such a talented ensemble, and thanks her husband, Michael, and daughter, Sophia, for their loving support and encouragement.

Joseph McGrath (Yang Sun) is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama. He has toured with John Houseman’s Acting Company, appearing in Pericles, Tartuffe, Twelfth Night, and The Country Wife. At the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Joe appeared in Hamlet, Henry IV: Part I, and Much Ado About Nothing. In New York City, he directed Rough Magic: A Shakespeare Quartet. In Tucson, he is a frequent performer with Ballet Tucson appearing as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a Stepsister in Cinderella, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, VanHelsing in Dracula and, perennially, as Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker. He has also performed with Arizona Theatre Company, Arizona Opera, Tucson Art Theatre, Arizona OnStage, Green Thursday, Damesrocket Theatre, and Old Pueblo Playwrights in such roles as Trigorin in The Seagull, Sam Byck in Assassins, John in Oleanna, Weeping Willow Walter in Threepenny Opera, and This Rock in Anger Box. Joe is the Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre, for which he directed The Balcony, Endymion, and The Maids, performed The Fever, and performed in The Dead and Endymion. Joe is also a scenic designer and owns Sonora Theatre Works with his wife Regina Gagliano, producing theatrical scenery and draperies.

James Mousigian (Shu Fu) is honored to be back in Tucson with the Rogue Theater and its delightful ensemble for his return to the stage. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, and resident of Oakland, CA, James has created performances and installations in the Bay Area, in Budapest, Hungary and with a cultural exchange in Nogales, Mexico. While a student at the University of Arizona, James performed the poetry of Donald Hall, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Kenneth Koch, and later performed and made video art in the downtown Tucson art community at Dinnerware, Club Congress, and TCCC. He dedicates this performance to his favorite production, his three-year-old son, Felix.

Arlene Naughton (Mrs. Shin) most recently played the Horse in The Balcony, Mary Jane in The Dead, Venus in Endymion, and Madame in The Maids, all for The Rogue Theatre. Her Arizona credits include Nunsense (Flagstaff Festival of the Arts), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Serendipity Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Gaslight Theatre), and Wigged Out! (Stray Theatre Company). Arlene also toured with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan and performed in Lady Audley’s Secret (Imperial Hotel) and I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (Derby Dinner Playhouse). She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and works at Cottonwood de Tucson.

James Naughton (Nephew) is a Tucson native. He holds a masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Arizona, and works full-time as a licensed independent substance abuse counselor, and professional counselor at a local inpatient treatment facility. Naughton has been cast in a 15 minute short of Tea For Three at the Wilde Playhouse, has participated in many script readings with Old Pueblo Playwrights, was seen at The Temple of Music and Art in the staged reading of Circle Jerk, and most recently performed as Mr. Corley in The Dead with The Rogue Theatre.

Roger Owen (Carpenter/Policeman) began performing locally in the mid-1960s. He’s worked with Arizona Civic Theatre (now ATC), U of A, Playbox and many others. In 1979, he played Mitch in Streetcar Named Desire in Key West (with Tennessee Williams involved in rehearsals). Favorite classical roles include Macbeth, Oberon and Toby Belch in Invisible Theatre’s 1970s outdoor summer productions at La Placita, and Aphrodite/Old Nurse/Theseus in Hippolytus, also at IT. Roger took a “sabbatical” between Jerry in Albee’s Zoo Story (1981) and Frank in Shanley’s Dirty Story at Live Theatre Workshop (2006) to play the father role to his favorite co-productions, Sean and Kate. Most recently, he appeared as John Lambert in Visitor’s Guide to Arivaca and as Michael the Archangel in A Tucson Pastorela at Borderlands Theatre.

Roberta Streicher (Mrs. Yang) appeared last March in The Rogue Theatre’s production of The Dead as Miss Kate. Roberta is honored to be chosen to play Mrs. Yang in this company of actors. She was seen last spring in Live Theatre Workshop’s Arsenic and Old Lace, and narrating for Thom Lewis’ dance production, Appearance and Apocrypha. Roberta will also be appearing with Live Theatre Workshop’s May 2007 production of Bell, Book and Candle. Roberta has a BFA from Goodman Memorial Theatre, has studied in New York City with Tamara Daykarhanova, was in the director’s unit of the Actors Studio, and has taught at Juilliard School of Music and Pima Community College.

Martie van der Voort (Wong) Martie van der Voort has been performing as a musician and actor for a long, long time. A psychotherapist by day, a performer by night, she’s trying to get more sleep. Musically, she’s the soloist for the Pet Cemetery of Tucson, and wrote and performed the music for Holiday Memories with Beowulf Alley Theatre. She’s performed locally with Itch Productions, the Wilde Playhouse, Old Pueblo Playwrights, the Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed comedy improv troupe, V-Day, Bloodhut Productions, Borderlands Theatre, Bloody Unicorn Theatre Company, and Arizona Onstage. With The Rogue Theatre she has played in The Balcony, The Dead, and now The Good Woman of Setzuan. She gives a thousand thankful kisses to her partner Lauren for supporting this theatre passion with such love.

Preshow music is provided by Summer Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble, the performance wing of the Tucson, Arizona-based Summer Thunder Music Club, dedicated to performing, enjoying, and sharing Asian traditional music with the Tucson community. The Ensemble has performed at the 17th Street Farmer’s Market, the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, the Tucson Children’s Museum, Tucson Botanical Gardens, and other local venues. The Ensemble is directed by Paul Amiel, who has performed as a musician for The Rogue Theatre’s The Dead and Endymion. Ensemble members performing the Preshow are Paul Amiel (dizi, xiao, guqin), Andrew Wilt (erhu), Ping Zhou (yangqin), Ting-Hui Lee (guzheng) and Yi Chen (vocals).