Cynthia Meier
Co-Founder, Managing and Associate Artistic Director
& Resident Acting Ensemble
Cynthia Meier 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. For The Rogue Theatre, Cynthia adapted The Left Hand of Darkness, directed and adapted Mrs Dalloway, Moby Dick, The Lady in the Looking Glass, Metamorphosis and The Dead, and directed An Iliad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sweat, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Secret in the Wings, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Galileo, King Lear, Bach at Leipzig, Celia, A Slave, The White Snake, Miss Julie, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot, Jerusalem, Arcadia, Betrayal, Richard III, Journey to the West, The Winter’s Tale, Shipwrecked!, New-Found-Land, Old Times, The Tempest, Naga Mandala, Othello, Animal Farm, Orlando, Happy Days, The Cherry Orchard, The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Fever. She directed The Seagull (featuring Ken Ruta) for Tucson Art Theatre. For Chamber Music Plus Southwest, she directed Talia Shire in Sister Mendelssohn and Edward Herrmann in Beloved Brahms. For the Rogue, Cynthia has performed in Under Milk Wood, Heartbreak House, Babette’s Feast, Great Expectations, Death of a Salesman, The Awakening, The Oresteia, A View from the Bridge, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Blithe Spirit, The Crucible, Three Tall Women, The Grapes of Wrath, A House of Pomegranates, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, Angels in America Part One, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, By the Bog of Cats, The Lady in the Looking Glass, Awake and Sing, Dante’s Purgatorio, Measure for Measure, Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana), Mother Courage and Her Children, The Night Heron, The New Electric Ballroom, As I Lay Dying, Major Barbara, The Real Inspector Hound, The Decameron, Ghosts, 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.