Meet The Boss

photo credit: Michael Christopher

Dana Galagan - Jo Cabot (female cast)

Dana was last seen onstage at Tacoma Little Theatre in CALIFORNIA SUITE as Millie and Beth.  Other roles include a bunch of boring women in your typical theatre fare.

Dana is employed at her family’s business, Vino Aquino, (Tacoma’s only family owned Winery) in inside sales and marketing.  Vino Aquino was recently voted Tacoma’s Best Winery by readers of the Tacoma Weekly.

Dana has loved the idea of acting ever since she played “Mary” at the age of 5 in a friend’s Sunday school Nativity Pageant and felt compelled to consider how weary Mary would be after traveling so far on a donkey. What would her facial expression be?  Her posture?  How could she maintain her beatific glow when the world had put such enormous pressure on her?  (A question that would be asked repeatedly in women’s magazines through the 30’s 40’s and 50’s). 

Dana had a subsequent theatrical hiatus that would last many years but that didn't stop her from performing in an unlikely series of events - namely singing like a man. First was in high school when she competed against two boys in an Elvis Presley sing-alike contest and WON and then later when KISW radio featured her on the air as a likely contender to replace Bon Scott as lead singer for AC/DC and had her sing “Highway to Hell” for the entire Pacific Northwest.

This is not Dana’s first time as a dog.  During her teens, she met up with a group of unusual misfits who called themselves “The Dogs.” They enjoyed Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, and shocking strangers with their bizarre antics, but were themselves quite harmless. She was not only made an honorary “Dogette”, but was given the moniker “Baby Ice Dog” as she was the youngest in the group.

The character that Dana plays in Reservoir Dogs, Jo Cabot, may be a hard core killer, but Dana herself has never killed a man.  Although – in her 20’s, after an argument with her roommate who just happened to be a former boyfriend, she watched as her parakeet perched on his finger and chirped happily just before the roommate dove into a large plate of fish and chips.  During their visit the parakeet had pooped on his finger without his knowledge and the bird poop somehow ended up on his mustache.  She watched in fascination, trying to figure how to best tell him he was wearing bird poop when suddenly he licked his mustache and ate the bird poop.  Horrified, she quickly weighed the pros and cons of either letting him know, or letting it go.  She chose the latter, and the ex-boyfriend/roommate did die – 30 years later.  Although she questions the real cause of death, she chooses not to believe he died because she let him eat the bird poop, but we may never know.

photo credit: Kate Paterno-Lick

Tim Shute - Joe Cabot (male cast)
Tim has been seen on South Sound stages as a hostage, an asshole Naval Lieutenant Colonel and a very famous British detective. 
He would tell you more about himself but then he would have to kill you.