Scoundrel & Scamp Staff
Bryan Rafael Falcón
Artistic & Managing Director
Bryan is an award-winning director (MFA Directing, Western Illinois, 2001) and tech entrepreneur with a passion for both education and building and scaling successful organizations.
At the S&S Bryan has directed Brontë, Ada and the Engine, It is Magic, Cloud Tectonics, Blood Wedding, My Life in Sports, Two Plays for Lost Souls: The Love Talker & The Yellow Wallpaper, Oscar Wilde's Salomé, There is a Happiness That Morning Is (Best Play, 2018 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award) and A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, for which he won the 2017 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award for Best Director.
Bryan served as Artistic Director for two Indiana-based theatre companies, New World Arts and the Backporch Theatre Company. He served as a director and set designer for numerous shows, including The Carthaginians, Lysistrata, Cloud Tectonics, Night Mother, Bug, Marisol, Love Letters, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet.
In Tucson, Bryan has directed at The Rogue Theatre, including The New Electric Ballroom and Awake and Sing. He was recognized as Best Director (2012 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award) for the show The Night Heron.
Bryan serves co-director to Tucson Meet Yourself, a folklife festival that is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023 .
Betsy Labiner
Director of EDUcation & Director of Development
Betsy Labiner holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Arizona; her dissertation focuses on English drama from the 16th and 17th centuries. Betsy has over a decade of experience in education at both the K-12 and university level, and is a passionate advocate for education in the humanities and arts in the classroom as well as in the community. Along with her academic work in stories, drama, and the arts, Betsy is devoted to the development of performing arts, increasing access to and inclusivity in the arts, and fostering community engagement with local theaters.
Raulie A. Martinez
Associate Producer / Resident Lighting Designer
Raulie is thrilled to be a part of the Scoundrel & Scamp family as both Resident Lighting Designer and Associate Producer. He studied theatre production & lighting design for four years at the University of Arizona.
Some past S&S designs have included A Wrinkle in Time, Brontë, Mary’s Wedding, Babel, The Little Prince, Cloud Tectonics, Every Brilliant Thing, Cloud Soup, and Lovers: Part One. Raulie has also designed Die Fleidermaus and The Magic Flute with The UA Opera Theatre; Young Frankenstein. Catch Me if You Can, Bandstand, and Anastasia with Arts Express Theatre;The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan with CYT Tucson; and Oklahoma! as well as Boeing Boeing with Arizona Repertory Theatre. He has also worked with other companies such as Ballet Tucson, Art.If.Act. Dance, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and The Rogue Theatre.
Apart from designing, Raulie has also directed Faustus: That Damned Woman, as an S&S MainStage production, as well as Before the German’s Here, Ruleta Rusa, and The Invention of Love as Staged Readings. He also co-adapted Pooh, an original stage production based off A.A Milne’s beloved stories!
Raulie would like to not only thank the Scoundrel & Scamp for the great opportunities they provide to local artists, but also his wonderful fiancé Hunter and the many people that have supported him.
Annika Maher
Resident Stage Manager
Annika received her BFA in Theatre Production/Design with an emphasis in Stage Management from the University of Arizona in 2020. Some of her previous stage management credits include: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (SM), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (SM), Sinkers: An Original Work of Physical Theatre (SM), The Addams Family (ASM), and Sister Act (ASM). Annika would like to thank everyone at Scoundrel & Scamp for being so amazing to work with. Lastly, she wants to thank her parents, family, friends, and Zac for their constant love and support.
Leigh Moyer
Resident Mouse Manager
Leigh joined The Scoundrel & Scamp team in their 2017 inaugural season and is excited to be a part of the theatre’s creative team, crafting a space that lights up and delights imagination.
She is an artist for fun, a writer professionally, and a helper compulsively. Leigh is a passionate activist and Tucson enthusiast and enjoys doing the work that makes Tucson and the world a better place for everyone. She is a proud pet parent, a planner, and possibly the worst vegan ever.
Leigh got a BA in History with a minor in Linguistics from the University of Arizona. So far that has mostly garnered her friends and colleagues stories about the War of 1812 they never wanted to hear.
Zachary Austin
Resident Teaching Artist
Zachary Austin is a born-and-raised Tucson local and can be found enjoying good company and basking in the entertainment Tucson has to offer. He began his foray into Tucson theatre after graduation from the University of Arizona in 2020.
Zac is very honored and excited to be taking on the role of Mephistopheles in the S&S production of Faustus: That Damned Woman this fall. Some of his past credits include Ensemble in Citizen: An American Lyric and Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night. Beyond acting, he was also the magic coordinator for the University of Arizona’s production of Pippin.
Marty Lueking
Scenic Project MAnager and Facilities Host
Marty is a new resident of Tucson and is excited and blessed to be living in such a wonderful and beautiful area. He started working in stage while going to college in the early eighties.
As a stagehand, he provided technical support for a local musical theater group in San Bernardino, CA. As a stage technician, he developed skills in lighting control, lighting design, sound board operation and stage grip duties. Marty is looking forward to new challenges and working side-by-side with fellow theatre associates to provide an exceptional work experience. He says the Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre staff are wonderfully gifted and skilled and he is truly happy and blessed to be a part of this wonderful organization.
Scoundrel & Scamp Board
Elizabeth Falcón (President)
Shawn Burke (VP/President)
Clay Shirk (Secretary/Treasurer)
Kerryn Negus
Tyler Meier
Melanie Carvalho
Bryan Rafael Falcón
Wolfe Bowart
Artistic Associate
Physical theatre playwright and performer Wolfe Bowart is devoted to creating and presenting theatre productions that engage cross-generational audiences in theatrical experiences that evoke thought, wonder, and laughter.
Under the banner of his company SpoonTree Productions, Bowart performs and tours internationally his original works The Shneedles, LaLaLuna, Letter’s End and The Man the Sea Saw. The company is a two-time Australian Helpmann Award nominee – in 2010, Letter’s End was nominated in the category of Best Touring Production following a national Australian tour encompassing 70 venues, and in 2012 The Man the Sea Saw was nominated in the category of Best Visual/ Physical Theatre Production. Bowart's productions have been seen in 20 countries worldwide. Highlights include seasons of LaLaLuna and Letter's End at the London International Mime Festival, the leading festival for contemporary visual theater, and a national tour of France.
"An enchantingly loony dreamscape ... Wolfe Bowart specializes in a magical realism.' - The Australian
Philip G. Bennett
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
Philip is the founder and Artistic Director of the Bennett TheatreLab & Conservatory; graduate of the American Stanislavsky Theatre (AST) where he served as Assistant Artistic Director, teacher and actor to Moscow Art Theatre émigré director, Sonia Moore. Phil made his New York debut as Lopachin in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard with AST where he was a resident company actor for several years. He returned to his native home of San Francisco in 1976 and founded the San Francisco Theatre Academy with its exploratory studio the Bennett TheatreLab.
As a permanent resident of Tucson, Arizona he is celebrating his 51st anniversary as a teacher of the Stanislavsky System of Acting, and has appeared with the Rogue Theatre, Borderlands Theatre and the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre company.
Bennett is a recipient of the prestigious Hollywood Dramalogue Award for best Direction, and co-author with Stephanie Daventry French of Experiencing Stanislavsky Today: Routledge Academic Publishers, and The Living Actor, a Video Textbook on the Bennett TheatreLab Channel, YouTube. Website: www.BennettTheatreLab.com
Lisa Aimee Sturz
Artistic Associate
Lisa is the Owner and Artistic Director of Red Herring Puppets. She has an MFA in puppetry from UCLA and over 40 years of experience building, performing, and directing puppetry for film & television, theatre, museums, educational institutions, and special events.