Avye is an artist working in both the visual and performance realms. Some of her favorite things include: old family photos, cacti, projections, Hubble imagery, blue glass, Wanda Jackson, potato chips, the sun, furry creatures, LEDs, and abandoned buildings.
Greg Allen is founder of the Neo-Futurists and creator of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) as well as over three dozen other original performances. He teaches playwriting and performance at University of Chicago, DePaul, Columbia College, Walter Payton College Prep, and in residencies at university and theater programs across North America. His next endeavor is directing/adapting Eugene O'Neill's preposterous nine-act, five-hour play Strange Interlude at the Goodman Theater.
Travis Anderson is Minneapolis-based editorial photographer who plays jazz piano with his trio but is secretly trying to break into Hollywood as a director while writing the orchestral score to the film he co-directed with Paul Danhauser called Feeding Randy.
Steven Antenucci is the Executive Director of Theatre in the Round Players in Minneapolis.
Melodie Bahan is the Director of Communications at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Prior to joining the Guthrie in 2000, she spent 10 years in New York, where she served as the president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women and worked for a number of elected officials and political candidates.
Paul Barnes is the Producing Director of Great River Shakespeare Festival and a freelance director who makes his home in Ashland, Oregon. Regional directing credits include productions at the Folger Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, Indiana Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, the Commonweal Theatre, American Players Theatre, and the Oregon, Alabama, California, Idaho, Orlando, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals.
Jeff Bartlett has been working with the performing arts in the Twin Cities since the mid-1970’s. He was the Founding Artistic Director of the Southern Theater, a post he held until 2008. He is also an award-winning lighting designer specializing in alternative theater and dance.
Alan M. Berks is a Minneapolis-based writer whose plays have been seen in New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and around the Twin Cities. He helped create Thirst Theater a while back. Now, he’s the editor of this here magazine. He’s also written Almost Exactly Like Us, How to Cheat, 3 Parts Dead, Goats, and more.
Sonya Berlovitz worked as a costume designer for Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1980–2008). Her work has also been seen at American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, New Victory Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company, Stuart Pimsler Dance Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, and many others. In 2007, her designs for The Miser were presented at the Prague Quadrennial.
Candace Bilyk is a composer, classical violist, and native Minnesotan. Her most recent work, the score for The Awakening (commissioned jointly by Savage Umbrella and 3AM Productions), has been described as "dark, complex, and thorny" (TC Daily Planet). Her playing can be heard on the soundtrack of Jason Schumacher's new film The Telephone Game later this summer.
Cristeta Boarini is a proud Chicagoan who is currently studying Comparative Literature/Journalism at the University of Minnesota. A fervent lover of the arts, Cristeta enjoys reading, writing, playing violin, and taking full advantage of the MIA's free admission.
Playwrights Center producing artistic director Polly Carl, Ph.D. oversees a quarter-million-dollar fellowship and residency program and curates an annual season of new play readings. Carl also manages ongoing collaborations with Twin Cities and national theater companies and playwrights, launched an American-Japanese playwright exchange with Tokyo International Theater Festival, and regularly consults on the creation of new play programs for leading arts institutions.
Chris Carlson has improvised for over 15 years at stages including Brave New Workshop and guest appearances at Second City. Chris teaches improv at the Guthrie where he is also the lead teaching artist for corporate programing. He is also founder of NarrativePros, a practicing immigration attorney, and adjunct faculty at Hamline law school.
Joe Chvala is the founder and artistic director of Flying Foot Forum, a percussive dance/theater company. He also directs, choreographs, writes and composes music for the theater.
Roy M. Close was a critic for the Minneapolis Star (1971-80) and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press (1981-92). Since coming in from the Dark Side, he has written a lot of plays of varying length, including Lies, Lies, Lies (The Truth About Newspapers), and, with Bill Semans, Exit Strategy. In his day job, he is Director of Resource Development at Artspace Projects.
Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director, nonprofit administration consultant, and the Program Director of the newly formed Minnesota Theater Alliance. She also serves on the Minneapolis Arts Commission and the board of directors for Live Action Set. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. Last summer, she headed off to Eureka, CA for a one-month residency with Cornerstone Theater's Summer Institute.
Scot Covey is a journeyman marketing contractor. He was Marketing Director at Theatre de la Jeune Lune and now works with Bedlam, Skewed Visions, and Dominique Serrand and Steve Epp. He has also done marketing and messaging for at least nine political campaigns since 2004.
Hal Cropp is now in his 17th season with the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, Minn., where he currently serves as artistic director. He holds a BA in theater from Brown, an MBA from Santa Clara University and an MFA in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver
Clark A. Cruikshank's first unpaid gig was in fifth grade, when he played the best-fed orphan in the workhouse, in a production of Oliver. He was seventeen in 19hm-hm-hm (a very good year), when he snagged his first paying gig. He has been a member of the Minnesota theater community since 1990.
Zach Curtis is starting his fourth season as the Artistic Director of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse in Bemidji, MN. In a previous life, he did the same job for Fifty Foot Penguin Theater in Minneapolis.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.
Andrew Troth performs in School for Scandal playing at Burnsville Performing Arts Center this month.
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