Senior theater & directing major Alex Natario was excited last spring semester when he was cast as the antagonist, Mr. Shears, in the University of New Hampshire (UNH) theater department’s production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time;” a 2012 play that follows the story of a 15-year-old autistic boy Christopher Boone as his investigation into the killing of a dog leads him on a journey of self-discovery.