Patty Gallagher
Artistic Associate
Patty Gallagher is Professor of Theatre Arts at University of California Santa Cruz where she teaches movement, mask, Balinese dance, clown traditions and Shakespeare. With The Rogue, she was last seen as The Poet in An Iliad. Other roles at The Rogue include: Morta, The Severer in Moby Dick, Allerleira in The Secret in the Wings, Siobhan in Curious Incident, Fool in King Lear, 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 was recently named an Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. She has also worked with The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, The Jewel, EnActe, The New Pickle Circus, Ripe Time Theatre, Two River Theatre, RangaShankara, Jagriti, Teatro Cronopio and Grupo Malayerba. She has performed, choreographed and directed workshops in Asia, South America, Europe, and the US. She served as a Fulbright Scholar in Quito, Ecuador, and in 2014 she was awarded a Chair in Creative Studies at UCSC’s Porter College. She holds a doctorate in Theatre from University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BS from the University of Arizona. From 2002 to 2010, she was Director in Residence at Circus Center San Francisco.