Three women in three different times wrestle with their identity, the conflict between science and religion, and what it means to be their fathers’ daughters. In Renaissance Italy, Celeste Galilei lives under house arrest with her elderly father Galileo, the disgraced astronomer who was imprisoned for defying the Pope but yearns to secretly publish one last book. In a small town in Texas, creationist author and TV pundit Robert Snow is at a loss when his ten-year-old daughter Haley’s newfound passion for science begins to pull her away from the Biblical teachings of her upbringing. And in Swift Trail Junction, Arizona, home of the Vatican Observatory’s U.S. outpost, pregnant New York sculptor Cassie Willows arrives to find that her estranged father, world-renowned astrophysicist Jasper Willows, has gone missing. As the three stories move towards their point of convergence, the destinies of each become inextricably bound with the others, linked through time by love, family, grief, faith, the search for identity, and the wonder of the stars.

“'Mathematics is the language in which God has created the universe,' the production’s program quotes Galileo, and that’s the territory Willett claims as her own: the convergences and clashes of science and religion as each tries to understand the shape and reason (if there is one) of the infinite.” --Oregon Arts Watch

"A complex, century-jumping narrative [that] wears a love of learning on its sleeve . . . scrupulously shaped.” --The Oregonian

“DEAR GALILEO is a promising new work, smart and sensitive.” --Portland Mercury

"It’s a potent, important idea, and Willett’s smart concept and attractive characters display real potential . . . a scientifically, dramatically, and emotionally intelligent play.” --Willamette Week