ST. EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY THEATER ARTS STAFF AND FACULTY Dean, School of Humanities...... Father Louis T. Brusatti Artistic Director/Assistant Professor ...... David M. Long Managing Director ...... Michelle S. Polgar Area Coordinator/Assistant Professor ...... Ev Lunning Jr. Director of Musical Theater ...... Michael McKelvey Administrative Coordinator ...... Angela Flowers Costume Shop Manager/Adjunct Instructor ...... T'Cie Mancuso byBertolt Brecht Technical Director ...... Joe Carpenter Master Electrician ...... Austin Sheffield translatedby Costume Technical Specialist ...... Michelle Heath Assistant Professor ...... Sheila Gordon Adjunct Instructors ...... Brooks Barr MICHELLE S. POLGAR Tara Cooper DIRECTOR Bhagirit Crow Kathy Dunn Hamrick Bill McMillin CHASE STAGGS ALLIE TOWELL David Nancarrow SCENIC DESIGN MAKE-UP AND HAIR DESIGN Margita Pencevova STEPHEN PRUITT MIRIAM JURGENSEN Jo Ann Schatz LIGHTING DESIGN PROJECTION DESIGN Gary M. van der Wege SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE SHANNON K. BISHOP** SPECIAL THANKS COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Austin Lyric Opera PHILLIP OWEN Austin Shakespeare DAVID STAHL* ORIGINAL MUSIC Father Louis T. Brusatti DAVID STOKEY* AND SOUND DESIGN Carol Caruthers MICHAEL MILLER* HBMG Foundation EQUITY GUESTS Sister Donna Jurick, SND Ladies of Charity/Lakeway Thrift Store Christopher Lovelace MEDIA SPONSORS President George E. Martin Bill McMillin Dr. Innes Mitchell Pioneer Theatre Company CHRONICLE St. Edward's University Marketing Office - SiiMrttttrrn, + Texas State University Theatre Department UT-Austin Department of Theatre and Dance 90<5 Zach Theatre < k u t AUSTIN TEXAS

The Life of is presented through special with Samuel French, Ltd. 45 West 25th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010 info@samuelfrench .com November12-22,2009 The Company Production Staff David Stahl * Assistant Director ...... Sarah Burkhalter Andrea Sarti , as a boy/A boy ...... Ben Roberts Fight Choreographer ...... David Long Vocal Coach ...... Sheila Gordon Signora Sarti , Andrea 's mother/Peasant/Puppeteer ...... Evangeline Jimenez ** Dramaturgical Consultant ...... Dr. Innes Mitchell Ludovico Marsili/Peasant/Puppeteer/The Official ...... Duncan Coe ** Stage Management Mentor ...... Bill McMillin* Chancellor Priuli/Clavius/Clerk #2/Peasant/Puppeteer/Vanni ...... Elliott Dooley ** Assistant Technical Director ...... Scott Guthrie Virginia , Galileo 's daughter ...... Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie ** Student Assistant to the Technical Director ...... George Marsolek Sagredo , Galileo 's friend/Cardinal Barberini , later Pope ...... Michael Miller * Assistant to the Master Electrician ...... Kris Carpenter Senator/Guard/Peasant/Puppeteer/Cosimo de Medici, older/Dresser .. Kaleb Dwors ky** Properties Master ...... Rachel Magee Senator/First Monk/Peasant/Puppeteer/Rector ...... Kel Sanders ** Properties Lead Assistant ...... Brooke Friesen Senator/Second Monk/A Man at the Ball/Peasant/ Properties Design and Construction ...... Breanna Batson, Annie Bond, Laura Burgess, Puppeteer/Guarding Monk ...... David Cameron Allen ** Marrett Hanes, Danielle Ploeger, Megan Pardy, Erica Salazaar, Kel Sanders Assistant Stage Managers ...... Jessica Anigma , Rhiann Janak, Meredith Montgomery, Chamberlain/Astronomer/Clerk #1/Peasant/Puppeteer/Crier ...... Andrew Butler ** Tyler Mount, Johnny Joe Trillayes Cosimo , the Grand Duke de Medici, as a boy/A girl ...... Amelia Long Stage Crew ...... Students of THAR 1330 Mathematician/Andrea (older) ...... Christopher Smith ** Assistant to the Master Electrician/Board Operator ...... Jackie Longoria Philosopher/Very Old Cardinal/Cardinal Bellarmin/Peasant/ Assistant to the Sound Designer/Board Operator ...... Zorica Simic Puppeteer/A Man/Border Guard ...... Nathan Brockett** Sound Department Staff ...... Christopher Smith Federzoni , the lens grinder/Peasant/Puppeteer ...... Austin Rausch ** Scene Shop Staff ...... Katie Andries , Casandra Castillo, Joseph Leudecke , George Marsolek, Candice Rogers , Carli Werner Fulganzio , the Little Monk ...... Jarrett King ** Costume Shop Staff . ... . Kera Blay, Jordan Campbell , Eileen Chaffer, Reetah Gonzalez , The Cardinal Inquisitor ...... David Stokey * Aidan Liller, Meredith Montgomery , Helen Ralowicz A Woman at the Ball/Peasant/Puppeteer/Dresser/Peasant ...... Avery Ferguson ** Box Office Staff ...... Shannon Bishop , Alyssa Johnson , Jon Wayne Martin, Kel Sanders , Christopher Smith Setting: Italy, 1609-1637 , with echoes to present day. House Manager ...... Lauren Prater House Crew ...... Katie Comardo , Liana Hinajosa , Christina Smith, THERE WILL BE ONE 10-MINUTE INTERMISSION. Angela Stokes-Wickersham Head Dresser ...... Eileen Chaffer * Member, Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional Dressers ...... Kera Blay, Brian Brown, April Linton, Kaylee Nelson actors and stage managers in the United States Laundry ...... Kass Ortiz, Erica Porter ** Equity Member Candidate Costume Crew ...... Rebecca Bernstein, Devon Brownlow , Eileen Chaffer, Kaleb Dworsky, Kimberly Gates, Jackie Harper, Lauren Hayes, Kari Strunk and the students of THAR 1331 ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 Scenic Crew ...... Nicholas Campagna, Chad Duda, Avery Ferguson, actors and stage managers in the United States . Equity seeks to advance, Drew Kimball , Lynn Lapham, Austin Lowery, promote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our Candace Rogers, Bonnie Sturdivant , Jacob Trussell , Roy Varney society. Equi ty negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide and the students of THAR 1330 range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of Make-up/Hair Crew ...... Kyle Houseworth, Melanie Vasquez, Carli Werner ACTORS' the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organ ization of Lighting Crew ...... Duncan Coe, Michael Davis , Erin Flemming , E·QLJITY performing arts union s. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. Estevan Labrada, Jon Wayne Martin , Lainey Murphy , Jacob Trussell, A6SoC1An oN 191J www.actorsequity.org Andrew Zimmer and the students of THAR 1330 and THAR 3323 Galileo's story has been held up as a classic illustration of the long history of disputes Notes on the Play between science and the church. In this sense, history has cast a poor light on the Ital­ All men by nature desire knowledge. ian scientist, for Galileo never presumed a conflict between religion and science - not even with regard to his defense of the Copernican system. He felt strongly that one could - Aristotle, Metaphysics be religious and a scientist, and that God made the world and gave man the capacity to Aristotle understand and explore it. He believed that proof could sway rational men to accept Greek philosopher and scientist. Born 384 BCE, died 322 BCE. radical ideas. Studied under the great philospher Plato. After Plato's death, Aristotle es­ tablished his own school in Athens, The Lyceum, in 335 BCE. Over the For Brecht, writing in 1938, the choice to examine Galileo's life was an exercise in exam­ next 12 years, he wrote treatises on subjects including the soul, physics, ining abuse of political power in many forms - Naziisrn, fascism and Stalinism, among metaphysics, ethics and poetics. These treatises become the foundation for all others. As he revised the play several times between 1938 and 1947, it also took on the subsequent scholarly debate and knoweldge in these fields. Brecht developed added role of a message against providing scientific progress to the wrong hands - his his own dramaturgy in part as a reaction to concepts Aristotle introduced in The chilling call in response to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Is also served as Poetics regarding the role of drama in society. a manifesto for his Marxist beliefs. To achieve this end, Brecht took liberties with historical fact. Ptolomey · . Greek astronomer and geographer. Born around 85 in Egypt, died 165. This is not to say that the Roman Catholic church functions solely as a metaphor in this Using Aristotle's assertion that the earth stands at the center of the universe and all other play. The church in Galileo's time was certainly rife with abuses, and the Holy Inquis_ition, objects revolve around the earth, Ptolomy set out to create a mathematical decription of which ultimately squelched his voice, cornrnited horrible acts in the name of preventmg or the universe. His theory stood for 1400 years. obsuring any threats to an already shaky Church system. In 1600, only nine years before Galileo turned his telescope to the skies, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus Giaordano Bruno was burnt alive at the stake because he supported the Copernican helio­ Polish scholar, rnaternatician and astronomer. 1473-1543. centric view that the earth revolved around the sun. In 1543 he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ( On the Revolution of The Celestial Spheres), which set out a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric Galileo and Pope Urban VIII solar system, in which all planets revolve around the sun, and all the bodies of the In 1632 Galileo's friend Cardinal Maffeo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII. Barberini universe move in circular motions. The book was a critical influence on the European was an open-minded man of science and culture and an admirer of Galileo. Soon after Scientific Revolution. the ,Pope's inauguration, Galileo traveled to Rome to ask Barberini's permission to pub­ lish his Copernican theory. The Pope agreed, as long as Galileo published his theory as a Galileo Galilei hypothesis and not as fact. Galileo finished his masterpiece, Dialogue Concerning the Two Mathematician and astronomer. Born February 15, 1564, in Pisa; died in 1642 outside ChiefWorld Systems, on Christmas 1629. Concerned that his book reach a wide audience, of . Galileo had three children by Marina Gamba, whom he never maried. The Galileo wrote in Italian, not Latin, and used the entertaining, popular style of a dialogue oldest was his daughter Virginia, who, along with her sister Livia, entered a convent in between three characters, Salviati (Galileo's alter ego), Sagredo (a referee), and Sirnplicio 1614. Virginia was to be a great supporter of her father, and they maintained an active (Aristotle's advocate). In order to obtain the approval of the church, Galileo was obliged correspondence (see Sobel, Dava. Galileo'sDaughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith to close the dialogue with a statement by Urban VIII. In his book, Galileo put the views and Love. New York: Walker and Company, 1999). of the Pope into the mouth of the fool, Sirnplicio, who represented the Aristotelian view of the universe sanctioned by the church. Galileo's old friend viewed his role as a comic Galileo's contributions to science include: foil in the Dialogue as an impertinence and a grievous insult. Subsequently Barbarini • Invented the pulse meter while a student at the University of Pisa-later was the foun­ sanctioned Galileo's heresy trial by the Holy Inquisition in 1633. dation for the mechanism used in the clock. • Contributed research on the Law of Falling Bodies, challenging the Aristotelian view Only in1992 did a Papal Commission finally reconsider the church's handling of the that heavy objects fall faster than light ones. . Pope John Paul II expressed formal regret that the Galileo affair had contrib­ • Adapted and vastly improved a telescope first created in Hoiland by Dutch spectacle uted to a tragic and mutual misunderstanding between religion and science. Nearly 400 maker Hans Lippershey. Galileo increased its power from three to 30 times, creating the years later, the debate continues in various forms - as evidence by the push in Texas for first astronomical telescope. a more God-centered social studies curriculum, or a Kansas decree that creationism must be taught in public schools, or the ongoing political challenges to stern cell research. The • Using his new telescope, discoved the moon had mountains and valleys and was not a effect is.staggering: According to researcher Chris Mahoney, in a recent study only half of smooth orb as Aristotle had suggested. the adult populace knows the earth orbits the sun once per year. • Also with the telescope, over the course of several days in January of 1610, discovered the moons of Jupiter. This discovery called into question the Ptolorneic theory of the universe which was based on the teaching of Aristotle. Contibutors: Dr. Innes Mitchell and Michelle Polgar Cameron appared in Dracula as Dr. Seward, MMNT in Cyrano de Bergerac and The Three The Company Our Town as Editor Webb, and Pippin as Sisters. He also appeared as the bartender in Luis. Cameron has received such awards as Ah, Wlderness! Special thanks to his family DAVID STAHL (Galileo Galilei) is a pro­ with Friends (B. Iden Payne/Critics ' Table), As best supporting actor, best actor in a leading for their love and support. fessional actor liv­ Bees in Honey Drown (B. Iden Payne/Critics' role, and award for excellence in the study of ing and working in Table), The Good Doctor, The Young Man from the performing arts at Episcopal High School. KALEB DWORSKY '12 (Senator/Guard! Austin. He received Atlanta (B. Iden Payne), and Down Along the Peasant/Puppeteer/Cosimo de Medici (grown)/ his BFA from South­ Brazos (B. Iden Payne/Critics' Table) at the NATHAN BROCKETT '11 (Philosopher! Dresser) is excited to be in his first show on western University Austin Playhouse/State Theater; Love! Valour! Very Old Cardinal/Cardinal Bellarmin/ the MMNT stage! He would like to thank in Georgetown and Compassion! (B. Iden Payne) and Shear Mad­ Peasant/Puppeteer/A Man/Border Guard) is a his parents for their continued support, his MFA from the ness (Critics' Table) at Zachary Scott Theater; third-year acting student . He feels grateful to Michelle for her hard work, and the cast of University of Texas The Grapes of Wrath, Chicago (B. Iden Payne/ be sharing the experience of this show with The , who have made the show at Austin. He is a Critics' Table), Night of the Iguana (B. Iden this cast and crew. Recently Nathan appeared a great experience. member of the Board Payne/Critics' Table), and Into the Woods in SummerStock Austin's Production of of Directors and Acting Company of Aus­ (Critics ' Table) at MMNT; and A Midsummer Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet AVERY FERGUSON '11 (Woman at tin Playhouse where he has played roles such Night's Dream and Twelfth Night at Austin Street. He has been seen in previous MMNT the Ball/Peasant/Puppeteer/Dresser/Peasant) as David Frost in Frost/Nixon, Phillipe in Shakespeare. TV credits include: NBC's Fri­ productions including Three Sisters (Solyony) makes her MMNT debut with this Heroes, Nixon in The Dead Presidents Club, day Night Lights and Fox's Prison Break. Film and bobraushenbergamerica (Wilson) . He production. Previous credits include: Far Henry in Travesties, Bernard in Arcadia, credits include: Master of the Game and Fall would like to thank all of his inspiring peers Away, Betty's Summer Vacation, The Flu Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Elliot in to Grace. David is a proud St. Edward 's alum, and mentors. Season (Austin Community College), Night Private Lives, Bernard in House and Garden, a founding company member of The Austin of the Living Dead (Weird City Theater), Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons, Playhouse, and a member of Actors' Equity. ANDREW BUTLER '11 (Chamberlain! and The Red Balloon (Tongue and Groove Felix in The Odd Couple, and Henry Drum­ Astronomer/Clerk #I/Peasant/Puppeteer/Crier) Theater). Thanks to friends and family mond in Inherit the Wind among others. He MICHAEL MILLER (Sagredo!Barberini) is happy to perform in the MMNT once for their support and Michelle for this has also appeared in The Glass Menagerie, This production again! Andrew has been an active member great opportunity. Nightswim, A Christmas Carol, Mrs. War­ marks Michael's re­ of the St. Edward's Transit Theatre Troupe ren's Profession,Art, Prides Crossing, Henry V, turn to the stage after since its founding, and has performed EVANGELINE JIMENEZ '10 (Mrs. Richard III, and The Merry Wives of Wind­ many years. Previous around Austin in both Frontera Pest's long Sarti/Peasant/Puppeteer) is excited and sad sor, among others. David toured with the Austin credits in­ and short fringe. He most recently performed that this is her last year at St. Edward's. She Greater Tuna Company's production of The clud~ Judas in F~~ at MMNT in The Three Sisters as Kulygin. has appeared in The Pajama Game, Cyrano Foreigner as Jaston Williams' understudy Rain's Corpus Christi; He would like to thank his parents for their de Bergerac, Three Sisters, On the Town, and as a dresser for A Tuna Christmas. Cur­ Dan in Closer and unyielding support and Michelle and David Death and the King's Horseman, and Ring rently, David is a lecturer in the Department Peachy in Last Night Long for this wonderful experience! 'Round the Moon. She would like to thank of Theatre and Dance at Texas State Univer­ of Ballyhoo (Zach her friends, Michelle for the opportunity to sity in San Marcos. Theatre); Tesla in Rude Mechanical's Re­ DUNCAN COE '10 (Ludovico Marsili! work on this show, and the incredible cast quiem for Tesla;James in The Collection (Sub­ Peasant/Puppeteer/The Official) is excited and crew who brought this stellar vision to DAVID STOKEY (The Cardinal Inquisitor) terranean Theatre); Einstein in Picasso at the to return to the arena. Previous life. Above all, she would like to thank her was last seen on the Lapin Agile (The State Theatre); Dracula in appearances on the MMNT stage include parents, the unwavering paragons she looks MMNT stage as Vic­ Dracula, Richard III in Wars of the Roses & bobrauschenbergamerica, Cyrano de Bergerac, up to, for being indescribably supportive tor Emmanuel/Poche Larabee in Sherlock Holmes (Public Domain). Kneeling Down at Noon, Durang!Durang, and encouraging. in A Flea In Her Ear He received a BFA in Theatre from Texas and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2008 (B. Iden Payne/Austin State University and an MFA in Acting from he co-wrote and performed in Sad, Sad, Sad JARRETT KING '09 (Fulganzio, the Little Critics Table). Some UT Austin. at the NYC International Fringe Festival. Monk) is grateful to have the opportunity of David's favorite re­ He would like to thank Elena and Nick for to return to his alma mater. His past work gional credits include: DAVID CAMERON ALLEN '13 their love. at MMNT includes roles in , The Night Hank Wil­ (Senator/Second Monk/Man at the Balli Parade, Full Circle (B. Iden Payne Award liams Died, House Peasant/Puppeteer/Guarding Monk) makes ELLIOTT DOOLEY '10 (Chancellor nomination), Death and the King's Horseman, and Garden (Critics' Table), Rumors, Private his MMNT debut with The Life of Galileo. Priuli!Clavius!Clerk #2/Peasant!Puppeteerl Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Pajama Game. Lives (B. Iden Payne/Critics' Table), Dinner Prior to attending St. Edward's University, Signor Vanni) appeared last season at Most recently, he was the voice of Audrey II in SummerStock Austin's production of character, The Pumpkin King. Aside from RACHEL MAGEE (Properties Master) is Wilderness!and The Pajama Game. In Austin, Little Shop of Horrors. Jarrett holds a BA in acting, his other talent s include make-up currently the Properties Master for Austin Susan designed The Bat for Austin Lyric Theater Arts and a minor in English Writing design and execution, costume design and Lyric Opera. She has worked professionally Opera and The Grapes of Wrath, Jesus Christ and Rhetoric. He thanks Michelle for her construction, and studio art. After earning for several companies in Austin, including Superstar, Present Laughter, Urinetowne, brave vision and never-ending wisdom. his degree at St. Edward's University, he Properties Master for the State Theatre and Aida, Cabaret and many others at Zach hopes to get his master's in Acting or Design Austin Musical Theater, Scenic Designer for Theatre; The Music Man, My Favorite Year, AMELIA LONG (Cosimo, the Grand in London. Austin Shakespeare, and Scenic Artist for Seven Bridesfor Seven Brothers, Annie Get Your Duke de Medici/A Girl) This is Amelia's Tuna, Sweetwood Productions, and Texas Gun, The Secret Garden and Crazy For You third appearance at MMNT. She was BEN ROBERTS (Young Andrea/A Boy) Ex. Prior to moving to Austin, her credits for Zilker Theatre Productions; and several seen as Young Antigone in Antigone and is thrilled to join the cast and crew of The include building and providing props for original works for Ballet Austin. Favorite The Bloody Child in Macbeth. She would Life of Galileo as Andrea. Ben recently made Opera Northern Ireland and Castleward regional engagements include Denver Center like to thank Michelle for this wonderful his theatrical debut in the Zilker Hillside Opera, and building props and large-scal e Theatre Company, the Alabama Shakespeare opportunity and her Mom, Dad, and sister Theatre 2009 production of The Music Man puppets for the Lyric Theatre and the Ulster Festival, Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City for their loving support. as Winthrop Paroo. Prior to this he provided Theatre Company. At St. Edward's, Rachel and Milwakee's Opera Theatre. In voice-over narration for the Barton Springs assists and supervises the students who New York, Susuan designed for New York STEFFANIE NGO-HATCH IE '10 Audio Tour as part of the City of Austin's are assigned to prop MMNT shows, City Opera and numerous off-Broadway {Virginia) will be graduating in May with Watershed Protection project. Ben spends often designing and workshopping the productions. Susan is a graduate of Carnegie her BA in Theater Arts with a performance his freetime , playing Nintendo DS prop builds. Mellon Univeristy and the Yale School of emphasis. Along with her theater training, and drawing his favorite superheroes. Drama, and is a 23-year member of United Steffanie is also a voice student of Michael ALLIE TOWELL '09 (Make-up/Hair Scenic Artists, Local 829. McKelvey. She was last seen as Phil's Girl in KEL SANDERS '11 (Senator/First Monk! Design) returns to MMNT after graduating bobrauschenbergamerica. Her other theater Peasant/Puppeteer/Rector) makes his third last spring. She last desgined hair and STEPHEN PRUITT (Lighting Design) is credits include Orestes (Iphigenia) with appearance in an MMNT production. You make-up for Cyrano de Bergerac. While at a former aerospace engineer who decided Cambiare Productions, The Fantasticks may recognize him from last season's Cyrano MMNT, Allie served on the make-up crew it was better to be a scientist working in (Luisa) with Austin Playhouse , and several de Bergerac and The Pajama Game. He has for Parade and On the Town, assisted the the arts, rather than an artist working in shows at MMNT, including Cyrano de also appeared in Oklahoma! (SummerStock costume designer for SummerStockAustin's science. Over the past 12 years in Austin, he Bergerac (Food Seller/Sister Claire), Three Austin) and The Real Inspector Hound 2007 season and worked in the costume has done photography, lighting, scenic and Sisters (Irina), and Full Circle (Translator/ (Transit Theatre Troupe, for which he is shop. She would like to thank Jeff and her event design for a mix of local and national Rock Singer). Steffanie has also been producing director). He would like to thank family and friends for always encouraging groups including Cirque du Soleil, the Rude a choral member and soloist of the Michelle, his friends and family, Shannon and believing in her. Mechanicals, Salvage Vanguard Theater, St. Edward's Omni Singers, Madrigal and Phil. Trouble Puppet Theater, Spank, Ballet East, Choir, and was the soprano soloist in the St. PHILLIP OWEN (Original Music and Aztlan and Tapestry Dance Companies, and Edward's University Music Department 's CHRISTOPHER SMITH '10 Sound Design) recently assisted on the has received multiple awards nominations performance of Faure's Requiem last spring. (Mathematician/Andrea (older)) is a sound design/composition for A Steady for both his scenic and lighting work. His She would like to thank Michelle for her Theater Arts major planning to graduate Rain on Broadway. Austin credits include previous designs for MMNT have included beautiful direction and allowing her to be in May. Christopher has appeared in Vaudeville Vanya, Americamisfit, and A sets for Cloud 9 and Cyrano de Bergerac, as part of this great production. She would also several shows at the MMNT, including Midsummer Night's Dream. He has worked well as lighting for bobrauschenbergamerica, like to thank the cast and crew for being bobrauschenbergamerica as Phil the as performer and designer for the transient Metamorphoses, Macbeth, Death and the such great collaborators and artists and her Trucker, The Pajama Game as Joe, Cyrano theatre company, TENT, in Oh, Sweet King's Horseman, Honk and Antigone. In family for their love. de Bergerac as Christian, Cloud 9 as Betty/ Captain and KG: Life in a Tin Can in addition to designing for others, Stephen also Gerry, On the Town in the Chorus, and Portland, Maine. He currently works as the creates performance art and theater. His most AUSTIN RAUSCH '12 (Federzonil Death and the King's Horseman as HRH Lead Sound Engineer at the Alley Theatre recent project, a workshop production titled Peasant/Puppeteer) This is Austin's first the Prince. He has also been fortunate in Houston. In May of this year, he received TBA received the "best of" designation at performance on the MMNT stage. Recently, enough to work on productions with an MFA from Yale School of Drama. He is FronteraFest 2009 and was expanded to full he has been seen in The City Theatre's SummerStock Austin and Transit Theatre happy to be back among friends at MMNT. scale insanity at the Blue Theater in October. production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Troupe. For Michelle's enduring faith and Stephen can be contacted through his web Wardrobe as Mr. T umnus. In addition to guidance as well as the support of his friends SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE (Costume site, www.fluxiondesigns.com. conventional plays, he is employed at the and family, he is infinitely grateful. Design) has designed previous MMNT House of Torment, working as an icon productions including Amadeus, Ah, CHASE STAGGS (Scenic Design) returns They then produced Skylight (1995), Amy's View (1997), and She would like to thank everyone who con­ to MMNT where he most recently designed together. In 1930 he collaborated with com­ (1998). He has also adapted tributed time and energy to this production The Pajama Game. Chase has designed for poser Hanns Eisner onThe Measure Taken. Chekhov's Platonov and Ivanov, Schnitzler 's and Robi, Ari, Kaitlin and Didi for their the stage since 1988 and is an art designer Brecht's plays reflected a strong Marxist in­ La Ronde (), and Brecht's unwavering support. and set decorator for film and television. terpretation of society, and when Adolf Hit­ Mother Courage and Her Children for the He trained as a painter, working in oil ler gained power in 1933, Brecht was forced theatre. More recent plays include My Zinc and acrylic, and as a sculptor, sculpting to flee from Germany. While living in exile, Bed, first staged at the Royal Court The­ Truth is the child an assemblage of found objects as well as he wrote anti-Nazi plays such as The Round­ ater, London, in September 2000, and The of time. It is not the working in traditional mediums. Chase has heads and The Peakheads and Fear and Mis­ Breath of Life (2002). designed costumes, lights , sound, special ery of the Third Reich. These were followed (2003) opened at the Royal National The­ prisoner of authority. effects and puppets, acted in numerous by Galileo (1939, revised in 1945), Mother atre in January 2004. His play, Stuff Hap­ productions and is a singer-songwriter. Courage and Her Children (1939), The Good pens (2005), was premiered at the National - . The Life of Galileo. Chase holds a degree in graphic arts from Person of Szechuan (1941), The Resistible Rise in 2005. In addition to theater, Hare has the Art Institute of Houston. of Arturo Ui (1941) and The Caucausian a written and directed for film. His book, Chalk Circle (1943). Still in exile, Brecht ar­ Obedience, Struggle and Revolt (2005), is a Costume images by Susan Branch Towne. SHANNON K. BISHOP '11 (Production ~ived in the United States in 1941 and set­ collection of lectures about politics and art. Stage Manager) is proud to be the production tled in Hollywood. There he contributed to His most recent plays are stage manager of The Life of Galileo. This is writing the film, Hangman Also Die (1943). (2006) and (2008), and the her second role as PSM at MMNT following In 1947, under investigation by the U.S. screenplay for the film of The Corrections, With17 years ofexperience The Pajama Game. She is also the MMNT House of Un-American Activities Commit­ based on the novel by Jonathan Franzen. and3Chronicle "Best OfAustin" box office manager as well as the managing tee (HUAC) as a possible communist, Bre­ Hare was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow director of the St. Edward's student organi­ cht left America for East Germany. In 1949 of the Royal Society of Literature. He cur­ awardsunder his belt ... zation Transit Theatre Troupe. Shannon is he founded the Berliner Ensemble which rently resides in London. His papers were pursuing a degree in Theater Arts and hopes became the country's most famous theater acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities l;lll'l'Z Ill.All' IS 'l'IIE to travel the country to work under differ­ company. Brecht wrote only one new play, Research Center at The University of Texas 1 ent theater companies upon graduation. She The Days of the Commune (1949) thereafter. at Austin in 1993. 1 ()S'l'l~ll l)IJl)E! would like to thank her ASM team on the He was in rehearsal for a German produc­ show for their excellent work, and her Dad tion of The Life of Glaileo when he died on MICHELLE S. POLGAR (Director, Getyour message toover and Kel for their constant support. August 14, 1956. MMNT Managing Director) returns to the director's chair after directing Cyrano 1501egalpostinglocations BERTOLT BRECHT (Playwright) was DAVID HARE (Playwright), British actor, de Bergerac for MMNT last season (Aus­ foronly $60 per week! born in Augsburg, director and playwright David Hare was tin Critics' Table Award for Outstanding Germany in 1898. born in 1947 in West Sussex, England. A Direction, Outstanding Production of a Havea flyeror poster? He studied philoso­ Cambridge graduate, Hare co-founded Drama). Local directing credits include phy and medicine Portable Theatre Company. His first play, A Christmas Carol, The Woman In Black Thenhave it ... at the University of , was produced in London in 1970 at (Austin Critics' Table nomination), Proof Munich before be­ the Hampstead Theatre Club. He served as and The Glass Menagerie (Austin Critics' ing drafted as medi­ Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court The­ Table nomination) for the State Theatre and cal orderly during atre in London in 1970-1971 and Resident Sherlock Holmes for The Public Domain. the First World War. Dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse in Michelle holds theatrical credits spanning He returned to his 1973. In 1975, Hare co-founded Joint Stock more than 20 years in theatrical produc­ studies after the war but became gradually Theatre Group with David Aukin and Max tion and management from theaters includ­ more interested in literature and theater Stafford-Clark. In 1977 he held a U.S./ ing Children's Theatre of Charlotte, CPCC His first play, , was produced in 1922. U.K. Bicentennial Fellowship. Hare's plays Summer Theatre , The Cleveland Playhouse, This was followed by , include Knuckle (1974), Fanshen (1975), The State Theatre , Austin Shakespeare, UT­ jungle of the Cities (1923) and A Man's a (1978), : A Fleet Street Com­ Austin and others. Michelle holds an MA ~ Man (1926). In 1927 Brecht collaborated edy (1985), The Secret Rapture (1988), the from the University of Texas, a BA from the ~ with the composer Kurt Weill to produce trilogy (1990), Murmuring University of North Carolina and atten ded the musical play, The Little Mahagonny. judges (1991) and (1993), the North Carolina School of the Arts. (512) 554-4034 MARY MOODY NORTHEN DEAN'S CLUB ($500 to $999) Barbara Ray Karen Bowen '86 Elizabeth Y. Rice Thomas Moe and Cass Grange Dal Sanders Jay Hume Belinda Sandoval THEATRE Kimberly Livingston Dr. Marilyn Schultz Florence Mayne David Smith SOCIETY William J. McMillin '79 Charles Strunk Steven Weinberg THE HILLTOP CLUB ($250 to $499) Timothy Wright '91 Through Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University Theater Arts majors work Anonymous Ronald Young alongside professional actors, designers and directors in the creation of dynamic artistic work. Edna and Gary Blomquist '98 Our students enjoy unparalleled pre-professional training and an opportunity to earn points Jean Marie Byers CONTRIBUTOR ($50 to $119) Ronald Egelhoff John Adams toward membership in the Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and Fidelity Investments Robert Apthorpe stage managers in the United States - all within the context of the university's nationally Charles Gembinski Jr. Peter Austin recognized liberal arts education. Michael Guerra '83 Tara Battani '00 Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy T. Mills Karl Biggs Our program is made possible in part by the generous contributions of the Mary Moody Richard Orton Marta Cantu MLA '02 Northen Theatre Society membership. Society contributions allow MMNT to provide Michelle and Robi Polgar Joe Carpenter Tracy Sherman '81 Kelley Coblentz-Bautch students with resources for hands-on learn ing and to provide audiences with the rich William Smith Helene L. Caudill production values that keep you returning to our performances year after year. Each year, Anne Westdyke Brother Richard P. Daly, CSC '61 Theatre Society members contribute more than $20,000 to student scholarships, allowing Father Rick Wilkinson , CSC Barbara Day Matthew Doak us to maintain our commitment to educate a diverse group of Theater Arts students, THE 1885 CLUB ($120 to $249) Michael M. Dorn regardless of their financial situation. Anonymous Michael Downer Richard and Kelly Bautch Phil and Pam Friday As a member of the society you'll enjoy a number of exciting benefits, including invitations Peter Beilharz Laurie Friedman-Fannin '79 to special performances and opportunities to get involved with the Theater Arts program Mary Blackstock Jerome Garvey Charles Browne Theresa Garza and our students on a deeper level. Your gift may be designated to scholarships, production Richard Campbell Karen Gibson support or capital improvements, or you may make an unrestricted gift. Charles B. Cannon Sheila Marie Gordon Maria Caswell Paul Grubb We sincerely hope you will join the Theatre Society or continue as a member by making a Kathlyn Dailey '78 Mary Helton gift to the Mary Moody Northen Theatre today. We also invite you to encourage your friends Alejandro Diaz Jr. Loretta Hughes and associates to join. 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