Created with director Robert Allen, it took place at the Experimental Media Performance Lab at UC Irvine, a brand-new high-tech black-box space in the just-opened Contemporary Arts Center. There's a story about it here with some early rehearsal pix. And a lot more information over on our project website.

Huge thanks are owed to everyone who has helped to make this show possible since its inception eight years ago. Galileo in America has been supported by: the University of California, Irvine, the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, the Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, and the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades as well as contributions from individual donors, among whom we would like especially to thank: Elizabeth Curtis, Joan Starr, Christel Dillbohner, Justine Moore, Ravi Narasimhan, Zeph Bender, Clair Allen, Lothar Schmitz, and all our anonymous angels: you know who you are!

For production and technical support without which this project could never have taken wing, we are deeply grateful to: Keith Bangs and his crew, John Crawford, Jason Valdry, Lonnie Alcaraz, Mike Hooker, BC Keller, Luke Hegel-Cantarella, Toby Weiner, Ron Cargile, Don Hill, David Walker, Lesly Martin, and Miles Coolidge. We would also like to thank the members of the Columbia Theater Cooperative who helped to initiate this project: Aïda Croal, Angie Fie, Justine Moore, Anson Mount, Jennifer Plante, and Andrew Welsh; as well as Joseph Byrd, Melina Bielefelt, and Tracey A. Leigh

Galileo in America was part of "By & About Brecht": a mini festival. The Drama and Studio Art departments at UC Irvine teamed up to present a pair of works created and inspired by the seminal German playwright and theorist Bretolt Brecht.Galileo in America leads off, to be followed in April by a production of Brecht's powerful play Mother Courage and Her Children. The "By & About Brecht" festival is a timely theatrical confrontation with our national disquiet over the realities of war, the price of success, and the erosion of civil liberties.