Friday, September 18th, 2020 @ 8pm

Our September Late Night with Scoundrels is sponsored by an anonymous donor and the generous contributions of our Scoundrel Society Members.

A Late Night cabaret experience - sixty minutes of the best variety that Tucson has to offer - talent that cannot be stopped by a pandemic! Late Night with Scoundrels shares the many skills and talents the artists our community possess in this unique experience with the Tucson Community and beyond.

Acting! Song! Dance! Standup!
The Physical. The Metaphysical!

Now something completely different for your Friday night.

Late Night With Scoundrels will be a casual event, STREAMED LIVE VIA YouTube.

Tickets are $5,
Food and drink will be BYOB.

Scoundrel Society Members are free!

CLAIRE HANCOCK- Two Trains (Co-Founder)

Two Trains

Claire Hancock is a choreographer, dancer and interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the intersection of abstract forms and narratives. Many of her original works are focused on telling old stories in new ways through conventional and unconventional venues, immersive audience experiences, and on film/new media. 

She holds a Master of Arts degree in European Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England, and earned both a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Arizona. Claire danced professionally with ODC/San Francisco and River North Dance Company in Chicago. Additional featured solo performances include those with Broadway veterans Ben Vereen and Liz Callaway. She performs regularly as an actress with the Rogue Theatre and is a Qualified Fletcher Pilates® teacher.

Miss Hancock has been a guest teacher and choreographer for organizations including the Limón Institute, Broadway Theatre Project, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Arizona Theatre Company, Arizona Opera, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, True Concord: Voices and Orchestra, Arts Express, and Broadway in Tucson. She has served as rehearsal assistant for Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes and End of Time, as well as George Balanchine’s Serenade and The Four Temperaments, reporting to Leslie Peck and Elyse Borne, repetiteurs for the Balanchine Trust. Claire is a repetiteur for several of the late choreographer David Berkey’s works including his signature piece, Sentinel, which she has staged for Vassar College in New York, the New Mexico Dance Institute, and the University of Arizona.

She co-founded Artifact Dance Project with colleague Ashley Bowman, a professional dance company dedicated to dance, live music, and film. Recently she has been developing and creating new work with composer Vincent Calianno for a new company, Two Trains, which focuses on producing works for new media and the stage and will debut in 2020 with L’ASTRONOME, an opera in nine parts . 

For more information, visit clairehancock.com.

VINCENT CALIANNO- Two Trains (Co-Founder)

Inspired by the renegade eloquence of the American vernacular, the music of composer Vincent Calianno (b. 1979) “blurs the boundaries between fine art and popular culture” (VICE), through kaleidoscopic colorings, muscular rhythms, extreme stasis and motion, while curiously investigating new musical possibilities through new practices and obsolescent technologies. His musical catalogue for the concert hall, theatre, cinema and new media explores the interplay between live instruments, electronics, and visual media.

Calianno’s music has been commissioned and performed internationally by ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Thalea String Quartet, JACK Quartet, Nouveau Classical Project, Ensemble Mise-en, Jennifer Koh, John Pickford Richards, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, American Composers Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Iowa State Symphony, New York University Symphony, Artifact Dance Project, and others. 

His awards include the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize (The Facts and Dreams of the World According to Michael Jackson), the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award (A History of the String Quartet in its Natural Habitat), the Sarah Award for best new podcast (Voices of the Revolution), the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute (against COLORADO), and the Howard Hanson Prize (Beckett). In addition, he was an Alan Menken Fellow, and Banff Centre Fellow.

New projects include a new miniature for solo violin, Ashliner, for violinist Jennifer Koh and L’Astronome, a large-scale opera for film as part of Two Trains 2020/21 season.  Recent highlights include the Thalea String Quartet premiere of A History of the String Quartet in its Natural Habitat, and A Painted Devil, a new work for dance the Artifact Dance Project.   

In addition to composing for the concert hall, has an active career in scoring for film and new media. His commercial credits include music for Adecco, Morgan Stanley, and AlixPartners advertising campaigns, as well as short and feature-length films, industrials, and dramatic podcasts. His interest in scoring for early cinema has led him to compose new scores for La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (for viola and electronics), and Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari (for low strings).

In 2019, Calianno co-founded Two Trains with choreographer Claire Hancock. Two Trains is a hybrid music-theatre-dance project focused on abstract and inventive storytelling through the combined expressions of imagery and sound. Their first project, L’Astronome, is a nine-part opera that combines movement, text, and sound through the medium of cinema, and is set to premiere in Fall of 2020.

Calianno holds degrees in composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music, University of Illinois, and New York University. His teachers have included Livingston Gearhart, John Luther Adams, Lewis Nielson, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Zack Browning, and Mark Suozzo.

For more information visit droplid.com.

GABRIELLA DE BREQUET

Gabriella has been seen on The Scoundrel and Scamp stage in The Little Prince (Ensemble/Flower) Salomé, (Salomé) Mr. Burns (Jenny), The Love Talker (The Red Head), and This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Beatrix). She has also been seen locally at The Rogue Theatre in Arcadia (Thomasina), Jerusalem (Tanya), Dante’s Purgatorio (Angel), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pepita) as well as The Invisible Theatre in Now and Then (Abby). Last season Gabriella worked with Arizona Theatre Company on The Music Man in both Tucson and Phoenix serving as the Youth Supervisor for the child actors. Gabriella is the proud Co-Founder of Taming of the Review, a local female-led community-oriented theatre reviewer collective. For more information visit tamingofthereview.com.

Barkley Harper

Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Barkley Harper has performed in venues throughout the United States. She has performed in Off-Broadway musicals in New York City, while studying privately with the legendary acting coach, Susan Batson, who says Barkley is, “on her way to becoming a household name.”With her effervescent demeanor, Barkley has impressed directors and producers alike with her uncanny ability to portray raw and edgy characters in dramas as well as light-hearted characters in comedies. In the past year and half, she has amassed over a dozen credits, including multiple award winning films throughout the globe.