Cynthia Meier

Cynthia Meier, PhD is Co-Founder and Managing & Associate Artistic Director for The Rogue Theatre. She has directed 34 of The Rogue’s 71 productions to date including Shakespeare's Othello, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and King Lear. She received the Arizona Daily Star Mac Award for her direction of Arcadia and Richard III. Cynthia has created stage adaptations for The Rogue of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (with Holly Griffith), Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Virginia Woolf’s The Lady in the Looking Glass, James Joyce’s The Dead, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age. She has also clipped and pruned all ten plays by Shakespeare which The Rogue has produced so far. Cynthia has been nominated for eight Mac Awards for Best Actress from the Arizona Daily Star, and in 2008, she received the Mac Award for Best Actress for her performance of Stevie in Edward Albee’s The Goat at The Rogue Theatre.