Cynthia Meier (Director) is Co-Founder and Managing & Associate Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre and holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of Arizona. She has directed 33 of The Rogue’s 70 productions to date including Galileo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Bach at Leipzig, The White Snake, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, Betrayal, Naga Mandala, and The Four of Us for which she received Arizona Daily Star Mac Award nominations as Best Director, as well as Arcadia and Richard III for which she won Mac Awards for Direction. Cynthia has created stage adaptations for The Rogue of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Virginia Woolf’s The Lady in the Looking Glass, James Joyce’s The Dead, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age, and (along with Holly Griffith) The Rogue’s upcoming production of Moby Dick. She has also clipped and pruned all ten plays by Shakespeare which The Rogue has produced. 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 has also been nominated for eight 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 Long Day’s Journey Into Night is supported in part by a generous gift from Betsey Parlato & David Zucker.

Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888-1953) was an American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey into Night (produced posthumously in 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943) and The Iceman Cometh (1946). O’Neill was born into the theatre. His father, James O’Neill, was a successful touring actor in the last quarter of the 19th century whose most famous role was that of the Count of Monte Cristo in a stage adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel. His mother, Ella, accompanied her husband back and forth across the country, settling down only briefly for the birth of her first son, James, Jr., and of Eugene.

Cast

Holly Griffith (Cathleen) is a 6th year member of the Resident Acting Ensemble at The Rogue. Favorite productions include Middletown, Much Ado About Nothing, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Three Tall Women, Celia A Slave, A House of Pomegranates, The White Snake, Uncle Vanya, Angels in America, By the Bog of Cats and Hamlet. 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, and maintains a fierce interest in the culture and literary tradition of Ireland.
Holly Griffith’s performance is supported in part by a generous gift from Clay Shirk.

Hunter Hnat (Edmund Tyrone) is grateful to be in his second season as a member of The Rogue Resident Acting Ensemble. You may have seen him in previous Rogue productions as the Mechanic in Middletown, Ezekiel Cheever in The Crucible, Son of Three Blind Queens (and others) in The Secret in the Wings, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 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 readings of The Illusion, No Exit, and Cloud 9. 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 John & Diane Wilson.

Ryan Parker Knox (Jamie Tyrone) continues this season, his 7th in The Rogue’s Resident Acting Ensemble, with Long Day’s Journey Into Night being his 37th 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, Galileo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Much Ado About Nothing, The Secret in the Wings, The Crucible, and most recently Middletown, 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 generous gifts from Sally Krusing and Bill & Barb Dantzler.

Theresa McElwee (Mary Tyrone) has appeared on Broadway in the Tony-award winning productions of The Heidi Chronicles and I’m Not Rappaport, and at Lincoln Center in Northeast Local. Off-Broadway credits include, the Obie-award winning Jeffrey at the Minetta Lane, Hyde in Hollywood at Playwrights’ Horizons and for PBS American Playhouse, Portfolio at Manhattan Punchline, Macbeth at Shelter Theatre Company, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at Provincetown Playhouse (where many of Eugene O’Neill’s early works were produced), Much Ado About Nothing (for Emperical Rogue at the cell), Spike Heels (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and The House of Yes (Magellan Theatre). Regional work includes Edith Stein (GeVa Theatre), Spike Heels (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Social Security (Burt Reynolds’ Jupiter Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Playmakers Rep). Theresa holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, VASTA and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. She teaches Voice and Speech at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, HB Studio and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Theresa is so grateful for the opportunity to work on this great play with these great artists.
Theresa’s performance is supported in part by generous gifts from Andy & Cammie Watson and Ward & Judy Wallingford.

Joseph McGrath (James Tyrone) is Co-Founder and Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre and has appeared in The Crucible, The Secret in the Wings, Galileo (2018 Mac Award for Best Actor), 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 Meg & Peter Hovell.

Music

Preshow Music

Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 – Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 “Raindrop Prelude” – Frédéric Chopin
Ave Maria (Piano Solo) – Franz Schubert (1797–1828), arr. by Russell Ronnebaum (b. 1986)
Music video at: www.RRonnebaum.com/watch

Show Music

Prelude in A Major Op. 28, No. 7 – Chopin
Prelude in B minor Op. 28, No. 6 – Chopin
Nocturne in F minor Op. 55, No. 1 – Chopin
Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 “Raindrop Prelude” – Chopin
Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1850)
Ave Maria  – Franz Schubert
“In Dreams” from Songs of Travel – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Waltz in A minor, Op. Posth. – Chopin
“Whither Must I Wander?” from Songs of Travel – R. Vaughan Williams
Ave Maria – Bach/Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Prelude in E minor Op. 28, No. 4 – Chopin

        Pianist              Russell Ronnebaum
Music is supported in part by a generous gift from Marianne Leedy.

Russell Ronnebaum (Music Director, Pianist) is most excited to be serving as The Rogue Theatre’s newly appointed Director of Music and Resident Composer. Russell holds a Master of Music degree in collaborative piano from the University of Arizona where he studied under Dr. Paula Fan. He currently serves as the assistant director of music at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Oro Valley, as well as the staff accompanist for the Tucson Masterworks Chorale. As a classically trained pianist, Russell has performed with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Artifact Dance Company, Arizona Repertory Theatre, and as a concerto soloist with the Tucson Masterworks Chorale. Russell made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2016 performing the music of composer Dan Forrest. Past credits include The Rogue’s 2019 production of Much Ado About Nothing (Music Director, Pianist, and Composer) and The Secret in the Wings (Vocal Director). Recent composition commissions and premieres include music for voice, choir, piano, string orchestra, and dance. Recordings, sheet music, and upcoming concert dates can be found at www.RRonnebaum.com.

Designers

Costume design is supported in part by a generous gift from Sally Krusing

Scenic design is supported in part by a generous gift from Marianne Leedy

Lighting design is supported in part by a generous gift from Stu Salasche & Els Duvigneau

Production Staff

Deanna Fitzgerald (Lighting Designer) is a professional Lighting Designer and member of United Scenic Artists, as well as a Professor and head of lighting design and technology at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as the Associate Director for theatre programs 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, Galileo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Secret in the Wings and The Crucible. She is grateful for every moment she gets to spend making things with them and for ME Peter Bleasby and the returning Associate LD Megan Coy whose collaborations make that possible.

Megan Coy (Resident Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to her hometown to stage manage for The Rogue Theatre! Her first Rogue production was this summer’s Middletown. She spent the last five years working in marketing, stage management, and lighting design at The Magik Theatre in San Antonio, TX. Prior to settling in San Antonio, Megan was the stage manager and lighting director on the first North American tour of Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live! She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, training in stage management, lighting design, and dramaturgy. She has worked with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alpine Theatre Project, and local theater and dance companies in Tucson and San Antonio. Megan is a proud mom to Eleanor and wants to thank Casey for his constant love and support.
Megan Coy’s stage management is supported in part by a generous gift from Andy & Cammie Watson.

Amy Novelli (Scenic Artist) is originally from Ohio and Pennsylvania, where she received her Cum Laude BFA from the Columbus (Ohio) College of Art & Design in 1987 and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1994. Amy Beth Novelli’s work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin Germany, Portland OR, Pittsburgh, Scottsdale and Tucson Arizona, Santa Fe New Mexico as well as several cities in Ohio, Wyoming, Utah and Oregon. Her painting “High Desert” was purchased for the permanent collection of the Wyoming State Museum from the Governor’s Award Exhibition in 2015. Novelli has lived in New York City where she worked as a sculptor for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Studio as well as New Orleans and Berlin.  She has worked as the Carnegie, Warhol and Dubois (Wyoming) Museums and taught at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Her work as lead painter for Larson Company’s Christmas and Easter Windows for Marshal-Fields Department Stores in Chicago and Minneapolis painting the Alice in Wonderland theme won the 1999 “Best Windows in the Country” award. Amy held the position of Charge Scenic Artist for four years at the Arizona Theatre Company, supervised four Public Art Projects with High School Youth for the Tucson Pima Arts Council and since 2015 Amy has completed 5 large scale murals in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Arizona and Washington. She continues to paint as a Charge Artist/Scenic Painter for the Rogue Theatre, UA Repertory Theatre, Arizona Broadway Theatre.  Her fine art work has been exhibited at several Tucson Galleries and recently at the Tucson International Airport, Mission Coffee Imports and forthcoming at Tucson Audubon Society  Agua Caliente Gallery. Amy Novelli has been living in Tucson since 1996.  In addition to her scenic design/painting and fine art projects, Novelli gentles wild BLM horses for adoption through the Mustang Heritage Foundations TIP Program and is an avid rider and wilderness adventurer.
Amy Novelli’s scenic art is supported in part by a generous gift from Paul Winick & Ronda Lustman.

Nanalee Raphael (Costume Manager) has known from age 5 that she would work in theatre. Of course, she thought it would be as an actor, not as someone who flings fabric around. She feels blessed that she has always been employed in costuming, for both professional and academic theatres, and has never had to have a "day job". Until moving to Tucson in 1995, she was peripatetic in her work situations, desiring to work with theatres all over the country. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee but was lured by the bright lights of Chicago and so moved there to teach at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Following her husband to central Illinois, she then wangled a position at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she created a successful costume rental program. She then gave up all that greenery to come to Tucson to teach and design at the University of Arizona. She has worked as a costume designer, costume director and/or draper in professional theatres in Michigan, (Hope Summer Repertory, Holland), Wisconsin (American Players Theatre, Spring Green), Illinois (Goodman, Wisdom Bridge, and Steppenwolf, Chicago), New York (The Public, NYC), Arizona (ART & ATC, Tucson), at Shakespeare Festivals in Vermont and New Jersey, and California (The Old Globe, San Diego). She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Costume Design and Technology from Syracuse University. She is one of the "Pionering Seven", the first group of women to study full-time at Dartmouth College.

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.

Our Thanks