Late Night Theatre SPECIAL THANKS 2007-2008 SEASON H.Bart McGeehon, Jesse Andow, Tom Galli, Emily Hare, Alan Hoyt, Cliff Bieberly, Earle Ernst Lab Theatre Shane “Ocean” Price, Rand Wilson, Mike Kasper, Sandra Finney FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF Staff Theatre Manager: Marty Myers Box Office Staff: Ashley Gagabi, Stefannye Slaughter, David Capone, Keith Ordonez, Elise Sanders Publicity Director: John Oglevee Publicity Assistant: Marcus K K Lee Web Assistant: Erin Sim Graphic Designer: Brett T. Botbyl Photographer: Stacy Stout Kennedy Theatre House Manager: Kyle Klapatauskas Lab Theatre House Managers: Jeremy J Dowd, Jorik Loeffler Department Office Staff: Tana Marin, Lori Ann Chun Department Chair: Gregg Lizenbery Director of Theatre: W. Dennis Carroll FRONT OF HOUSE INFORMATION SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE Please silence all pagers, phones and digital watches. No photography or video recording is permitted. For large print programs, Assistive Listening Devices, a campus security escort or any other accessibility requests please contact the House manager or call the DIRECTED BY Kennedy Theatre Box Office at 956-7655 (voice/text). BRETT T. BOTBYL Please refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in the theatre. Also, smoking is not permitted within 20 feet of the Kennedy Theatre building.

Visit us on the web at: http://www.hawaii.edu/kennedy Late NIght Theatre Managing Director Kat Pleviak EARLE ERNST LAB THEATRE Publicity/Designer Brett T. Botbyl * Info Liaison Jessica Nakamura Sep 22, 28 , 29 at 11:00 pm Dance Liaison Gwen Arbaugh Wrap-Up Coord. Mikaela Brady Sep 23 at 8 pm Photographer Stacy Stout * LN Reading Theatre Stacy Stout Post-show Rap

Join us for the MERCURY Wrap-Up discussion on Monday 10/1 at 5:30pm, Department of Theatre and Dance • College of Arts and Humanities Kennedy Theatre - Upper Lanai http://www.myspace.com/latenighttheatre www.hawaii.edu/kennedy CAST WRITERS Terry Bisson THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT Terry Bisson is the author of seven novels including Talking Man, a World Fantasy Award by Terry Bisson nominee. His most recent novel is Dear Abbey (PS Publishing, 2003). Bisson’s short MAN IN BLACK...... Brad Larson fiction has appeared in Omni, Playboy, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Fantasy & OTHER MAN IN BLACK...... Marcus A Lee Science Fiction, Harper’s, etc. Bears Discover Fire swept every honor in the SF field in 1990-91, including both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the Theodore Sturgeon Short PROPAGATION OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM Fiction Award from the University of Kansas. In 2001, macs won the Locus and Nebula by James Patrick Kelly awards in the US, and France’s Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He is now working on a time SPACEMAN...... Ryan Wuestewald travel novel. It will be published in 1966 when it would have made a difference. IMAGINARY WIFE...... Hannah Schauer Galli James PAtrick Kelly PUTO: 10 minutes from a play-in-progress Mr. Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, by Ricardo Bracho reviews, poetry, one-act and full-length plays, audioplays and planetarium shows. He has PUTO...... Carlo Barbasa authored nine novels, including Planet of Whispers (1984), Freedom Beach with John OVID/SMILES...... Mark Hill Kessel (1985), Look into the Sun (1989), and Wildlife (1994). Although primarily known for BEES KNEES...... Hannah Schauer Galli his science fiction, his work also includes mainstream, fantasy, and horror. He has won the Hugo award twice and has been a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula. His short stories BREAKAWAY BACKDOWN have appeared in numerous “Best of the Year” collections over the past twenty-three by James Patrick Kelly years. His work has been reprinted in sixteen countries. He has also written five audio- CLEO...... Michelle Hurtubise plays that have been produced by Scifi.com’s Seeing Ear Theater. MERCURY will be performed without an intermission. RICARDO BRACHO Ricardo A. Bracho moves between Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in search of the best Mexican market. His work has been produced, workshopped and staged read in ARTISTIC STAFF those cities as well as Providence, RI; Athens, OH; Valdez, Alaska and now Hawaii. He’s Director: Brett T. Botbyl won some awards, gotten some commissions and had great residencies. He is the author Assistant Director: Stacy Stout of the plays The Sweetest Hangover, Fed Up, Sissy, Querido, A to B, The Dweller, Tone Memory, Ni Madre, Mexican Psychotic and Horror Movie. He is currently working on a Lighting Designer: Abel Coelho full-length version of Puto as well as When The Chunt Comes, both set in Los Angeles. Sound Designer: Jesse Andow PUTO Photographs by: Emmanuel Briseno, Dino Dinco Director’s Notes PRODUCTION STAFF I was a rather strange child. I had x-ray vision and believed in Santa until the 7th grade. Stage Manager: Stacy Stout Mine was a world of fantasy and magic and high adventure. So it should be no surprise Assistant Stage Manager: Luke Cheng that my adult world view keeps one eye on this mad planet while the other watches out for Projection Operator: Elizabeth Harwood something else. It’s popular these days to debunk the mystery out of life. I choose instead to believe in the ghosts, aliens, magic and Bigfeet that lurk just beyond what we can see. Sound Board Operator: Rhiannon McCullough These are talented actors, gifted creators and technicians bringing to life the words of Lab Theatre Technical Director: Justin DeLand some truly amazing wiriters. Open your mind and get set for provocative, twisted and Stage Crew: Donald Quilinquin wonderfully bent reality. There’s no pause button, so hold on tight! Poster Design: Brett T. Botbyl “Impossible things happen.” - Spaceman