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.
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Featured artists on MinnesotaPlaylist.com home page
NewsIn our ongoing quest to show off all the fabulous talent in this state, we've added a "Featured artist" section...read the story -
Video trailers to promote books - could there be work for theater people in this?
NewsSusannah Schouweiler shared a link this morning to Sabrina Jaszi's blog post, "Watch Before Reading: Art-House Book Trailers," which descibes...read the story -
Minneapolis announces new arts award program
NewsThe Minneapolis Arts Commission has announced a new award program to recognize contributions to public art in the community by...read the story -
World Theatre Day message by Augusto Boal
NewsAll human societies are “spectacular*” in their daily life and produce “spectacles” at special moments. They are “...
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Dance Portrait Project with artist Sean Smuda
NewsFrom the Southern Theater's Dance Community News email newsletter:The Dance Portrait Project continues. Its goal is to capture the...
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The next great crisis, according to Mike Daisey
NewsMike Daisey, whose monologue, "How Theater Failed America" caused a stir at last year's National Performing Arts Convention has...read the story -
Public testimony tonight on how to spend Heritage Fund
NewsGot an opinion on how the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund should be spent? Then tonight's the night to blow...read the story -
As Madison Rep goes under, one last criticism from a critic
NewsThe "dialogue" between struggling arts organizations and struggling media continues across the country. Laura Collins-Hughes describes the latest sand throwing...read the story -
Sweet Honey in the Rock bring a whirlwind of concerts and workshops to Twin Cities
NewsExcerpted from an article by Lydia Howell in TC Daily Planet
On February 18th, first lady Michelle Obama invited six...
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