MN Fringe Festival
1995-2002 Masque Theatre, Rochester, MN
Actor, Director, Playwright, Company Member, Dramaturg
-performed puppetry, storytelling, mime, and street theatre at various venues in southeast Minnesota
-director of the Mime troupe and head of the Mime program
-performed in over 25 main stage roles, including Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
-directed and adapted various projects, including Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper
1996-2002, 2006 Minnesota Renaissance Festival, Shakopee, MN
Street and Stage Entertainer
-wrote, developed, and performed comic adaptations of myths and fairy tales, including the ancient Norse Eddas and Moliere’s The Flying Doctor
-helped earn the company a special “Gem” award for street improvisation
2004-2008 Maximum Verbosity, Minneapolis, MN
Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer, Founder
-wrote and directed the slapstick musical Lokasenna (2004 Fringe Festival)
-wrote and directed the verse tragedy Camelot is Crumbling (2005 Fringe Festival)
-wrote and directed the mime show Warrior Needs Food, Badly (2006 FoolFest)
-wrote and directed the political sketch comedy All Rights Reserved: A Libertarian Rage (2008 Kansas City and Minnesota Fringe Festivals)
-wrote and directed the solo show Descendant of Dragons (2007 Iowa and Minnesota Fringe Festivals; bestselling show in its venue in the latter, awarded with a coveted Encore slot)
2005-2008 Other
-director of “Fortune’s Fools,” a youth troupe at the Rochester Civic Theatre
-reviewer for the Ivey Awards, Minnesota Fringe, and Twin Cities Daily Planet
-production assistant and stage manager for Holly Davis Productions, a religious theatre company
-co-founder and Chair of the Rockstar Storytellers, a collective of bestselling solo performers
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Primary telephone: (952) 926-6728
Web site: Maximum Verbosity
-studied Decroux-based mime from Kari Margolis (co-founder of the Margolis-Brown Performance Company), Mikael Rudolph, and extensively from Steve Budas (both Marcea-trained mimes)
-clowning workshops from Jon Ferguson and Swiss master Pierre Byland
-studied Commedia Dell’Arte from Luverne Seiffert and Dominique Serrand, both
company members at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, a Lecoq-based physical theatre
Puppetry, Improvisation, Lecoq-based Clowning, Decroux-based Mime, Mask Construction and Performance, Tae Kwon Doe (Red Belt), Tai Chi Chuan, Gymnastics, Juggling, Fencing, Stage Combat, Commedia Dell’Arte, Poetry Composition and Performance
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.
Erin Denman performs in Hamlet playing at The People’s Center Theatre this month.
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jgulden: Would love to see @ChildrensTheatr team up with @MNOpera or @mn_orchestra for some adapted, English versions of kid-friendly operas. #mnpl
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Pangea_PanLab: HOT review of Teo Castellanos' "NE 2nd Avenue" in the Star Tribune: http://bit.ly/cWEgw7 tonight & tomorrow only #mnpl
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