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.
Linda Sue Anderson thought that live theatre was the greatest thing she'd ever seen when she saw the local high school production of The Miracle Worker. She was in sixth grade at the time. She sees no reason to change her mind now.
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.
Brian Beatty's writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications. He’s performed locally at the 331 Club, Bedlam Theatre, Brave New Workshop, Fitzgerald Theater, Nomad World Pub, Soap Factory, Walker Art Center and the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis.
Brian Beatty's writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications. He’s performed locally at the 331 Club, Bedlam Theatre, Brave New Workshop, Fitzgerald Theater, Nomad World Pub, Soap Factory, Walker Art Center and the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis.
Heidi Berg is a freelance performer who has worked with many great companies, and a few mediocre ones, in the Twin Cities. She is also the owner of Xtended Run Apparel, a custom silk-screening company which started when she and her husband thought, "I wish smaller theater companies had better, or any, swag. I'd wear an -insert company name- t-shirt." Also, and this is just between us girls now, she is a person of interest in many strange events of late.
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.
Jill Bernard has been performing with ComedySportz-Twin Cities since 1993, and is also a founding member of HUGE Theater. Her one-woman improv piece, Drum Machine, has been featured at the Chicago Improv Festival, the Toronto Improv Jamboree, the Miami Improv Festival, Philadelphia Improv Festival, and the ComedySportz National Tournament, among others.
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 the host and managing editor for Culture Queue, an arts and culture radio program at the University of Minnesota's Radio K. A double major in journalism and film studies, Cristeta is an honors student who also studies French and comparative literature.
John Bueche is a multi-pronged theatrical designer, writer, director and leader of Bedlam Theatre in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Beth Burns is now the executive director of Lutheran Music Program. She served as director of national and regional touring, and later education programming, at the Guthrie Theater from 1998-2006. She is on the board of MN Citizens for the Arts and the newly-formed MN Music Coalition.
Isaac Butler is a writer and director and recent transplant from Brooklyn, NY. His websites are Parabasis and Stagegrade and his writing has appeared in American Theatre, NYMag's Vulture Blog, Buzzine, and several other places. He is currently pursuing a creative nonfiction MFA at the University of Minnesota.
Michèle Campbell is a high school French teacher, writer, and
performer. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hamline
University and believes that doing a show for the 2010 Fringe was the
most fun she's ever had on summer vacation. She thinks you look
fantastic today and would love it if you'd visit her website:
voixdemichele.com
emilyrschmidt: I made a batch of iced coffee. I cleaned under my bed. I organized my desktop. I've had 4 shots of espresso. And now...I write. #mnfringe
stenchen_: @ollie_dunk was on my way home but ended walking past the DofE and lending my support to the #MNPL cup final
maxthemuppet: First read-through is tonight!! #mnfringe http://t.co/UOjEaUYn
