Catch Norah Long singing with the Plymouth Concert Band and Nautilus Music-Theater this month! (photo: Eric Berg)
Our Teaching Artists and Staff are involved in a wide range of professional projects outside of their work with Upstream Arts. Each month, we post opportunities to see their performances, exhibitions, and other events around the Twin Cities and beyond. Click on the links below to learn more.
Jessica Finney is directing a new short play, Pepperoni or Peace: A General’s Last Choice, by a young playwright named Manny for the Chicago Avenue Project’s performance of Easy as Pie on May 12 (7pm) and 13 (4pm & 7pm) at Pillsbury House Theatre. Since 1996, the Chicago Avenue Project brings together the Twin Cities’ best adult playwrights, actors, and directors who volunteer to work one-on-one with neighborhood youth on the creation and production of original plays.
Charles Fraser is the lead teaching artist for Mother Goose on the Loose and Mental Floss at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin. Participating students will perform short vingettes and improvisational scenes at the Phipps on May 3. He also continues to perform in The Diary of Anne Frank at Park Square Theatre. The production closes May 15.
Dylan Fresco is performing in a new short play, Vector, for the Chicago Avenue Project’s performance of Easy as Pie on May 12 (7pm) and 13 (4pm & 7pm) at Pillsbury House Theatre. Since 1996, the Chicago Avenue Project brings together the Twin Cities’ best adult playwrights, actors, and directors who volunteer to work one-on-one with neighborhood youth on the creation and production of original plays.
Matt Guidry is directing a new short play, Ferocious Beasts, for the Chicago Avenue Project’s performance of Easy as Pie on May 12 (7pm) and 13 (4pm & 7pm) at Pillsbury House Theatre. Since 1996, the Chicago Avenue Project brings together the Twin Cities’ best adult playwrights, actors, and directors who volunteer to work one-on-one with neighborhood youth on the creation and production of original plays. In Ferocious Beasts, a bull named Toro wreaks havoc in an upscale restaurant and has a showdown with mythical hunter, Orion.
Norah Long will be singing standards (including “Come Fly with Me,” “Someone to Watch over Me,” and “Kiss Her Now”) with the Plymouth Concert Band on May 3, 8pm, at Wayzata High School Auditorium. She also will perform with Nautilus Music-Theater in a workshop (including public readings) for the opera trilogy Winesburg, Ohio as part of Nautilus’ Rough Cuts on May 12 & 13, 7:30pm.
Don Mabley-Allen will be performing in Karen Sherman’s One with Others at The Chocolate Factory in New York City from May 28-31. One with Others is a group dance/performance project that considers biography, choice, and communication. It uses choreography, handyman arts, and text to explore legacy, what we hand down to one another or lure each other into. It considers how dance and language are taught to us by others, yet ways we mark our individuality in the world.
Lindsey Samples is performing in Tracing Fault Lines with Mad Munchkin Productions at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre from May 23-31. This exciting new company-created work uses puppetry, mask, movement, and original music to explore natural disasters, man-made disasters, and interpersonal tragedies.