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...the Latin
origin of rogue is rogare which means “to ask”...
MISSION AND VISION
Our mission is to create the highest quality theatre
possible,
challenging, stretching, and invigorating our community.
We emphasize
LANGUAGE
by placing primary value on quality language and literature
ENSEMBLE
by developing performers who seek continuous improvement
and creating an academy for training ourselves and emerging theatre
artists
CHALLENGING IDEAS
by presenting plays which offer complex and provocative points
of view
related to important social, political, and personal issues
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
President: Norma Davenport
Vice President: Judith Wallingford
Secretary: Ellen Bodow
Treasurer: Thomas Wentzel
Esther Blue Almazan
Carol Elliott
Ann Hasselmo
Nils Hasselmo
Joseph McGrath
Cynthia Meier
David Morden
Nancy Reeder
Dawn Sellers
John Sellers
Aaron Sosa
Ward Wallingford
Jim Wilson
STAFF
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Joseph
McGrath, Artistic Director
Joe McGrath is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, where
he studied with Michael Kahn and Michael Langham. A member of
Actors’ Equity Association, 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 as Horatio in Hamlet,
Glendower in Henry IV, Part I, and Borachio in 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, and This Rock in Anger Box.
For The Rogue Theatre, Joe authored and directed Immortal
Longings, directed Our Town, Red Noses,
The Maids (winner of the Arizona Daily Star
2007 Mac Award for Best Play), The Balcony and Endymion,
and performed in Othello, Krapp’s Last Tape,
A Delicate Balance (winner of the Arizona Daily Star
2009 Mac Award for Best Actor), Animal Farm, Orlando,
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Happy Days,
The Goat, The Cherry Orchard, The Good Woman of Setzuan,
The Dead and The Fever. Joe is also a scenic
designer and owns, with his wife Regina Gagliano, Sonora
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| Cynthia
Meier, Managing and Associate Artistic Director
Cynthia Meier is a Faculty member in Speech at Pima Community
College and 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 and was published
by St. Martin’s Press. Cynthia directed Othello,
Animal Farm, Orlando, Happy Days,
The Cherry Orchard, The Good Woman of Setzuan,
The Dead and The Fever for The Rogue Theatre
and The Seagull (featuring Ken Ruta) for Tucson Art Theatre.
For Chamber Music Plus Southwest, she has directed Talia Shire
in Sister Mendelssohn and Edward Herrmann in Beloved
Brahms. Cynthia performed in Not I, Our Town,
A Delicate Balance, Immortal Longings, Six
Characters in Search of an Author, Red Noses,
The Goat (Best Actress, Arizona Daily Star 2008
Mac Award), The Maids, Endymion and The
Balcony (The Rogue Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Arizona Repertory Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire
(Arizona Theatre Company), Blithe Spirit, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Of Thee I Sing (Michigan
Repertory Theatre), Romeo & Juliet and Chicago
Milagro (Borderlands Theatre), Top Girls (Damesrocket
Theatre), A Namib Spring (by Patrick Baliani, winner
of the 1999 National Play Award), A Nightingale, Smirnova’s
Birthday, The Midnight Caller, The Ballad of
the Sad Cafe (Tucson Art Theatre), and A Maid’s
Tragedy (directed by Domini Blythe of the Royal Shakespeare
Company). In 2000, Cynthia was awarded the Tucson YWCA Woman on
the Move Award.
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Harlan Hokin,
Musical Director
Harlan Hokin has performed extensively as a solo singer and director
with many international early music ensembles including Sequentia
and P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova), and did a stint with the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival many long years ago. He earned a doctorate
in historical performance practice from Stanford, and has taught
at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz. Harlan is an active workshop teacher
and writer on topics of interest to singers and early music performers,
and teaches music theory and literature at Pima Community College.
He has served the Rogue as music director since its inception,
and acted as vocal director for Arizona Onstage’s production
of Assassins. He is currently serving on the Board of
Directors of the Arizona Early Music Society, and is the father
of two nearly perfect former children.
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| Patty
Gallagher, Artistic Associate
Patty Gallagher is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at University
of California Santa Cruz where she teaches movement, mask, Balinese
dance, and clown traditions. With The Rogue Theatre she performed
the roles of Shen Te in The Good Woman of Setzuan, Ranevskaya
in The Cherry Orchard, Winnie in Happy Days
(most recently for Rogue’s tour to Bangalore, India), Sonnerie
and Scarron in Red Noses, Orlando in Orlando,
the Player in Act Without Words and Emilia in Othello.
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. She holds a doctorate in Theatre from
University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is Director in Residence
for the Clown Conservatory, San Francisco Circus Center.
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David
Morden, Artistic Associate
David Morden has directed The Rogue Theatre’s production
of The Goat (2008 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award), Six
Characters in Search of an Author and Krapp’s Last
Tape, Not I and Act Without Words. David
has appeared with The Rogue Theatre as Brabantio and Montano in
Othello, Editor Webb in Our Town, in
the ensembles of Animal Farm and Orlando, as
Harry in A Delicate Balance, Madame
Pace in Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Pope
in Red Noses, Yephikhov in The Cherry Orchard,
The Man in the Silver Dress in the preshow to The Maids
and Glaucus in Endymion. He has acted locally with Arizona
Onstage Productions (Assassins), Arizona Opera (The
Threepenny Opera), Actors Theatre (The Bible: The Complete
Word of God (Abridged)) and Green Thursday Theatre Project
(Anger Box, Rain), of which he was a co-founder.
David has directed productions with Green Thursday (Shakespeare’s
R&J, White Garden), Oasis Chamber Opera (Sing
to Love), DreamerGirl Productions (The Dreamer Examines
His Pillow) and Arts For All (The Apple Tree).
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Thomas
Wentzel, Business Manager
Thomas Wentzel is a Scientific Programmer for the National Solar
Observatory and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of
Arizona. Previously he has worked as a Data Manager for several
prevention programs in the Arizona Cancer Center and the Mel and
Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health. He has served
on the Board of the Tucson Men’s Cooperative, editing its
newsletter for five years, and on the Executive Committee of Sons
of Orpheus—The Male Choir of Tucson. He has sung with Furry
Day Singers and Sons of Orpheus, and has performed with Tucson
Art Theatre in Viktor Slavkin’s Cerceau and Clifford
Odets’ Waiting for Lefty. Thomas designed and built
The Rogue Theatre Web site, has created The Rogue’s posters
and programs and has served as Webmaster, Business Manager and
Treasurer since the Rogue’s inception.
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Susan
Collinet, Volunteer Coordinator
Susan Collinet received her A.A. Degree from Pima Community
College in 2005, and her B.A. in Creative Writing and English
Literature from the University of Arizona in 2008. 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 the
American Theater of Brussels and the Theatre de Chenois of Waterloo,
Belgium. She has worked in such positions as volunteer bi-lingual
guide in the Children’s Museum of Brussels, Bursor of a
Naturopathic Medical school in Tempe, Arizona, and volunteer assistant
Director of Development of the Arizona Aids Project in Phoenix.
Susan is currently peddling a manuscript of poetry for publication
and continually working on collections of creative nonfiction
and fiction. Her writing has won awards from Sandscript Magazine,
the John Hearst Poetry Contest, and the Salem College for Women’s
Center for Writing, and will be published in the 2010 Norton Anthology
of Student’s Writing. Susan is thrilled to be part of the
award-winning “new and emerged” Rogue Theatre, this
unique organization of talent and dedication that continues to
provide thought-provoking and quality performances to a rapidly
growing community of literary theatre lovers.
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Nic Adams,
Assistant to the Director
Nic has appeared with The Rogue Theatre in Othello,
Orlando and Six Characters in Search of an Author
and with the Now Theatre in This Property is Condemned
and The Zoo Story , both “Rogue After Curfew”
productions. A theatre student at the University of Arizona, Nic
performed in the Arizona Repertory Theatre’s productions
of Titus Andronicus and Candide.
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Clint Bryson,
Resident Lighting Designer
Clint has designed lights for The Rogue Theatre’s productions
of The Balcony, The Dead, Endymion,
The Cherry Orchard, Happy Days, The Goat,
Red Noses, Six Characters in Search of an Author,
Orlando, Immortal Longings, Animal Farm,
A Delicate Balance, Our Town, Krapp’s
Last Tape, Not I, Act Without Words and
Othello. Other lighting design credits include As
Bees in Honey Drown and Golf Game for Borderlands,
Woman in Black for Beowulf Alley, and The Seagull
for Tucson Art Theatre. Clint is currently the Shop Foreman, Production
Technical Director and Marketing Director for Catalina Foothills
Theatre Department where he designs and coordinates the construction
of all scenery. He is also a member of Rhino Staging Services,
and a regular participant in Arizona Theatre Company’s Summer
on Stage program where he designs and builds the scenery as well
as teaches production classes. Clint thoroughly enjoys the passion
and integrity that The Rogue brings to their productions and looks
forward to playing his part in their creative journeys.
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