Jeune Lune building sold

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The Board of Directors of Theatre de la Jeune Lune has signed a purchase agreement for the building at 105 North 1st Street. Details of the deal are not yet being publicized, but the sale will allow the company to pay off all of their existing debt. Archival materials documenting the company's thirty-year history will be donated to the Performing Arts Archive at the University of Minnesota, where items will be accessible to all. There will be a "Jeune Lune Community Rummage Sale" the weekend of November 15 and 16, with 30 years of memorabilia available for sale.

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Leah Cooper

Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director, nonprofit administration consultant, co-founder of this here Web site, co-artistic director of Wonderlust Productions, and the Executive Director of the Minnesota Theater Alliance. She is also on the board of directors for Live Action Set and the California Institute of Contemporary Arts. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. Up next, she is directing Shooting Star at Park Square Theatre and writing a play for Wonderlust's Adoption Play Project.