Walking Shadow Theatre Company

Minneapolis-Based Theater Company

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Walking Shadow’s 2026-2027 season

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We’re excited to announce Walking Shadow’s 2026-2027 Season! Join us for these three amazing theatrical events:

Open
by Crystal Skillman
directed by Bryan Grosso & Amy Rummenie
performed by Allison Vincent

Jan 9 – 31, 2027
at the Hive Collaborative

Open unfolds like a live magic show, but what seems like an entertaining performance soon becomes a deep, heartfelt story about love, loss, and the power of belief. A single performer known only as “The Magician” invites the audience into her world of tricks and illusions, but behind every sleight of hand is a deeply human journey to save the woman she loves. Equal parts enchanting and emotional, Open uses the wonder of magic as a metaphor for hope, courage, and confronting life’s impossible moments.

“It’s an important time to tell this very real, human, magical, beautiful story of a relationship.”

— Jill Schafer, Cherry and Spoon

The Odyssey
adapted by Charlie Bethel
directed by Amy Rummenie
performed by John Heimbuch

Mar 12 – Apr 11, 2027
at the Black Forest Inn

Voyage across land and sea as Odysseus survives shipwrecks, monsters, goddesses, ghosts, and angry suitors in his quest to return to the arms of his loving wife.

Acclaimed solo storyteller John Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s adaptation of Homer’s famous tale in an accessible 90-minute performance.

Friends & Lovers
by John Heimbuch
directed by Kassy Skoretz

June 5 – 27, 2027
at Crane Theater

When partners Avery and Quinn attend a fan convention together, they quickly discover a new romantic spark… with other people. As these relationships blossom, everyone’s priorities begin to change. When new love starts, how do you make room for what’s most important?

Friends & Lovers is a geeky new polyamorous Rom-Com by Walking Shadow’s Artistic Director John Heimbuch.

Season Tickets Now On Sale

Purchase a season ticket for access to all three productions in our 2026-2027 season:

  • OPEN by Crystal Skillman (January 9 – 31, 2027)
  • THE ODYSSEY by Charlie Bethel (March 12 – April 11, 2027)
  • FRIENDS & LOVERS by John Heimbuch (June 5 – 27, 2027)

Tickets are good for any performance, pending availability. You will not need to select your performance dates at the time of purchase. All seating is general admission.

PURCHASE SEASON TICKETS

ZEROLANDS Auditions – Feb 3, 2025

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AUDITION NOTICE

Walking Shadow Theatre Company is hiring actors for our upcoming immersive drama Zerolands, a play with puzzles, currently in development. We are accepting video audition submissions through February 3, with in-person callbacks February 5-9. Rehearsals will start in mid-February, for an anticipated opening in April 2025.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Zerolands is a cross between theater and escape room. It is a live, scripted performance with actors; it’s also an immersive, interactive experience for a small audience who function as a main character, exploring a detailed environment and solving large-scale, hands-on puzzles.

Zerolands is an adventure story inspired by dimension-jumping children’s literature such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Brothers Lionheart,  or The Neverending Story (to name just a few).

Zerolands is a collaboration between writer/puppeteer Liz Hara, writer/director John Heimbuch, and puzzle/environment designer David Pisa.

To learn more about this type of theatrical event, please visit the show pages and walkthroughs of our previous Plays with Puzzles: 1926 Pleasant, Saboteur, or Cabal

ABOUT THE JOB

Zerolands is currently in development, with an anticipated opening date in April 2025, although that schedule could shift depending on the development process. We are hiring actors to join this process starting in February, ideally for a 6-month commitment to the production. We are also seeking performers to join the production once the show is open, to alternate these roles with the opening cast.

We are accepting video audition materials for the following roles through February 3, 2025:

  • Min (20s-30s, any race or gender) – a graduate student, suddenly teaching Professor Lee’s seminar class on Children’s Literature. An over-eager book nerd. Wrote their graduate thesis on Zerolands, a famous book.
  • Professor Lee (40s+, any race, woman or non-binary) – a professor of Children’s Literature, grieving their recently-deceased spouse. Arch and guarded. Believes the Zerolands might actually be real.

LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC performers are especially encouraged to apply.

Ideal candidates will be experienced with some combination of puppetry, immersive theatre, children’s literature, and escape-room style puzzles.

Zerolands is an immersive theatrical experience for only 10 audience members at a time. Actors perform scripted scenes, some with each other and some directly addressing the audience, and some with puppet-based characters. Between the scripted scenes actors remain in the environment with the audience, are expected to maintain their character, and manage audience engagement with the puzzles, puppets, and physical environment as necessary.  Actors may also do some light crew work during the performance. (For example, Actor 1 may adjust some props in one space while Actor 2 engages with the audience elsewhere. There is a Stage Manager who handles most of this.)

Rehearsals and performances are at 2010 Hennepin Ave E, Minneapolis MN 55413.

REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

In-person rehearsals will begin in mid-February 2025. The rehearsal schedule will be based upon cast and crew availability, with a possible mix of daytime and evening rehearsals.

Typical performance schedule will be Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm, with occasional Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays at 7:30pm. We very occasionally get requests for custom (daytime) performance times for private groups.

We expect to hire additional cast members to alternate these roles at some point after opening.

We expect at least a 6-month run (through August 2025). We do not expect all actors to be available for every performance. We know people will want to take time off here or there for various reasons. That’s why we’ll have more than one actor learn each role.

IDEAL APPLICANT QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with performance, and also games, immersive art, or puzzles.
  • Experience with hand-held puppetry.
  • Ability to stay in character while leading the audience through a series of environments without breaks, for 90-100 minutes at a time.
  • Ability to read an audience and understand what they need and how best to assist them with puzzle-solving.
  • Some previous crew, stage management, or technical theatre experience.
  • Must have good performance availability through August 2025.

COMPENSATION

Compensation is $18/hour, with a 3-hour minimum for any performance or in-person rehearsal call, and a 2-hour minimum for any Zoom rehearsal call. Time spent at home memorizing is paid at the same rate, with no minimum call. Paid as employee (with taxes taken out, with workers comp insurance). Pay is non-negotiable. This is a non-union position.

Hours will vary per week depending on rehearsal, development, and construction schedules, as well as audience demand.

CONTENT ADVISORY

Zerolands contains flashing lights, dim environments, video screens and projection, sudden loud sounds, and references to grief, death, and self-harm. Zerolands is about a children’s book, but it is a play for adults.

RESPIRATORY VIRUS POLICY

We have shifted from a COVID-specific policy to a “respiratory virus” policy to account for respiratory viruses such as influenza, Norovirus, COVID-19 and RSV.

Artists and audiences who are experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness should stay home.

All Walking Shadow workers should be “up to date” on their annual vaccines, and remain up to date as those guidelines are updated. The current description of “up to date” for COVID is at: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

There are too many variables and individual circumstances for us to confirm that an artist is “up to date” on COVID or any other disease, and we don’t need to know the details of your personal health. Also, we recognize that employees may request an exemption to a workplace vaccination requirement as an accommodation. So we only ask that you recognize this vaccination requirement and will follow it according to your personal circumstances.

Performers may be masked or unmasked at their discretion. Audience masking will be encouraged but not required; we will have masks available for performers and audiences.

Zerolands is an immersive experience in a small space. Actors and performers will be sharing the same area. Social distancing is not possible. Audience capacity is limited to 10 people.

Zerolands involves touching objects and surfaces. You will be handling things that people in your audience are also handling.

This policy is subject to change depending on the current local rate of infection.

TO APPLY

Please send the following items to director John Heimbuch at [email protected] by Monday, February 3, 2025:

  • Acting resume
  • Headshot
  • Video audition of you reading from either the Min Side or the Professor Lee Side.
  • 45-60 second video of you reading from a classic piece of YA literature (Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz are both excellent free choices) directly to the camera as a bedtime story.
  • In your email, please include a summary of any relevant Puppetry, Puzzle, Escape Room, or Immersive Theater experience.

We expect that callbacks and interviews will be scheduled individually from February 5 – 9, 2025 with qualified applicants. Callback auditions will include a puppetry element, as well as reading(s) from the script. A full draft of the current script will be sent to actors prior to callbacks.

Please email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

2024-2025 Season Auditions

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Walking Shadow Theatre Company
2024-2025 Season Auditions

September 8 – 11, 2024

Walking Shadow Theatre Company is having general auditions for our 2024-2025 season. We are hiring 6 actors for each of these upcoming productions:

WITCH

Witch by Jen Silverman, directed by Cody R. Braudt & Amy Rummenie. Rehearsals will begin the week of Feb 17. WITCH runs March 22 – April 13, 2025 (14 performances) at Open Eye Theatre.

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch” and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her – and then returns again – unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive riff on a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

Roles:

  • Elizabeth Sawyer (F 50+) Just about done with all of this, with people, with everything. May just give up. Or set the world on fire.
  • Scratch (M 20s-40s) The devil. Well, a devil. Trying really hard to be a devil.
  • Sir Arthur Banks (M 50s-60s) A wealthy and powerful man.
  • Cuddy Banks (M 20s-30s) Sir Arthur’s son, painfully shy, a Morris dancer. He is secretly in love with Frank (also in hate)
  • Frank Thorney (M 20s-30s) A confident and successful young man, charming and ruthless. His ambition knows no bounds
  • Winnifred (F 20s-30s) Sir Arthur’s servant, resigned and pragmatic, secretly married to Frank.

Cuddy and Frank engage in extensive stage combat. WITCH will work with Intimacy Director Alli St. John and Fight Director Annie Enneking.

Cuddy does perform a Morris dance. We will work with a Morris Choreographer for this scene.

Content advisory: WITCH contains adult language, violence, death, the Devil, selling souls to the Devil, medieval gender and class bias, and descriptions of witchcraft. But no actual witches.

MAE WEST AND THE TRIAL OF SEX

Mae West and the Trial of Sex by John Heimbuch, directed by Allison Vincent. Rehearsals will begin the week of April 28. MAE WEST… runs May 31 – June 22, 2025 (14 performances) at Crane Theater.

Extra! Extra! Provocative Playwright Mae West Runs Afoul of Broadway Censors, Her Popular Play SEX Raided for Obscenity. Tammany Hall claims it was necessary to prevent West’s new homosexual drama, THE DRAG, from corrupting the youth of New York. The sultry starlet faces time in the slammer if she doesn’t amend her immoral ways and stop SEX at once!

Mae West and the Trial of Sex draws from court documents, newspapers, and West’s own plays to explore the overt sexuality and curious queerness of her rise to fame, in this world premiere production by Artistic Director John Heimbuch.

Roles:

  • Mae West (F 34, but only admits to 27) A Broadway actress/playwright with a Brooklyn accent. Self-assured, wisecracking, sex-positive, and tough. Not yet a movie star. Actors who do not look exactly like Mae West are encouraged to audition for the role of Mae West.
  • The Ensemble (any age or gender) These five performers play friends, family, actors, lawyers, drag queens, gangsters, police, politicians, prisoners, professionals, and the public.

This is a new play, and the script is being developed over the coming year. We will hire an Intimacy Director, Drag Consultant, or other advisors as needed.

Content advisory: MAE WEST… contains adult language, outdated LGBTQIA+ terminology, and references to sexuality. This play is still in development so this advisory may be incomplete.

For both plays, actors of all ages, races, and genders are encouraged to apply.

Trans and non-binary performers are encouraged to apply.

We can currently only hire non-Equity actors.

AUDITIONS

The first round of auditions will be held in person from September 8-11 (or via video submission, if needed).

Invited callbacks will be held in person on September 15-16. Alternative callback options may be available.

Please provide/prepare:

  • A short monologue that shows off your strengths (about 2 minutes long)
  • An up-to-date acting headshot and resume, highlighting relevant experience
  • Your known availability and conflicts through June 2025.
  • Links to your website, acting reel, or previous works are encouraged.

Each audition will take about 5 minutes. We will not be reading sides at these auditions.

Audition times are:

  • Sunday, Sept 8: 2:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Tuesday, Sept 10: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Wednesday, Sept 11: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm (if needed)

To schedule an audition, please register here.

Select all times you are available, then we’ll contact you to confirm your audition time.
Auditions will be held at:

Children’s Theatre Company
2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis

If you have general questions about the company or the audition process, please email [email protected]. All scheduling requests should go through the online form.

If you are unable to attend in-person auditions, you are welcome to send a video monologue audition to [email protected] through Weds, September 11. Please include your headshot, resume, acting reel (if you have one), and known conflicts.

For more information on Walking Shadow Theatre Company and our past productions, visit:  www.walkingshadow.org

COMPENSATION

Compensation is $18/hour, with a 3-hour minimum for any performance or in-person rehearsal call, and a 2-hour minimum for any Zoom rehearsal call. A limited amount of memorization time outside of rehearsal will be paid at the same rate. Paid as employee (with taxes taken out, with workers comp insurance). Pay is non-negotiable. These are non-union positions.

COVID PROTOCOLS

All Walking Shadow workers must be “up to date” on their COVID vaccination, and remain up to date as those guidelines are updated. The description of “up do date” is at:

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

OR employees must request an exemption to this vaccination requirement as an accommodation.

Each production will be performed in-person in 80-100 seat theatres. The actors will be unmasked during the performance.

Audience masking will be optional, and masks will be available upon request.

We are not currently requiring testing. Our COVID policy is subject to change depending on the current local rate of infection. We will provide tests should they be required.

We will not have understudies for these productions. In the case of performer illness or injury, we will work with the actors and venue to reschedule or cancel any performances that might be impacted.

If you have any questions, please contact us!

Auditions for Zerolands – a new Play with Puzzles

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AUDITION NOTICE

Walking Shadow Theatre Company is hiring actors for our upcoming immersive drama Zerolands, a play with puzzles. We are accepting video audition submissions through September 10, with in-person callbacks September 11-13. Rehearsals will start October 2, for an anticipated opening in November.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Zerolands is a cross between theater and escape room. It is a live, scripted performance with actors; it’s also an immersive, interactive experience for a small audience who function as a main character, exploring a detailed environment and solving large-scale, hands-on puzzles.

Zerolands is an adventure story inspired by dimension-jumping children’s literature such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Brothers Lionheart, Coraline, or The Neverending Story (to name just a few).

Zerolands is being created by writer/puppeteer Liz Hara, director John Heimbuch, and puzzle/environment designer David Pisa.

To learn more about this type of theatrical event, please visit the show pages and walkthroughs of our previous Plays with Puzzles: 1926 Pleasant, Saboteur, or Cabal

ABOUT THE JOB

Zerolands is currently in development, with an anticipated opening date in November, although that schedule could shift depending on the development process. We are hiring two initial actors to join this process starting on October 2, for a 6-month commitment to the production. Additional performers will be hired once the show is open to alternate these roles with the initial development cast.

We are accepting video audition materials for the following roles through September 8, 2023:

  • Min (20s-30s, any race or gender) – a graduate student, suddenly teaching Professor Lee’s seminar class on Children’s Literature. An over-eager book nerd. Wrote their graduate thesis on Zerolands, a famous book.
  • Professor Lee (40s+, any race or gender) – a professor of Children’s Literature, grieving their recently-deceased spouse. Arch and guarded. Believes Zerolands might actually be real.

LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC performers are especially encouraged to apply.

Ideal candidates will be experienced with some combination of puppetry, immersive theatre, children’s literature, and escape-room style puzzles.

Zerolands is an immersive theatrical experience for only 10 audience members at a time. Actors perform scripted scenes, some with each other and some directly addressing the audience, and some with puppet-based characters. Between the scripted scenes actors remain in the environment with the audience, are expected to maintain their character, and manage audience engagement with the puzzles, puppets, and physical environment as necessary.  Actors may also do some light crew work during the performance. (For example, Actor 1 may adjust some props in one space while Actor 2 engages with the audience elsewhere. There is a Stage Manager who handles most of this.)

Rehearsals and performances are at 2010 Hennepin Ave E, Minneapolis MN 55413.

REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

In-person rehearsals begin on October 2. There may be a reading via Zoom prior to this date. The rehearsal schedule will be based upon cast and crew availability, with a possible mix of daytime and evening rehearsals.

Typical performance schedule will be Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm, with occasional Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays at 7:30pm. We very occasionally get requests for custom (daytime) performance times for private groups.

We expect to hire additional cast members to alternate these roles with the developmental cast at some point after opening.

We expect at least a 6-month run (through April 2024). We do not expect all actors to be available for every performance week. We know people will want to take a week off here or there for various reasons. That’s why we’ll have more than one actor learn each role.

IDEAL APPLICANT QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with performance, and also games, immersive art, or puzzles.
  • Experience with hand-held puppetry.
  • Ability to stay in character while leading the audience through a series of environments without breaks, for 90-100 minutes at a time.
  • Ability to read an audience and understand what they need and how best to assist them with puzzle-solving.
  • Some previous crew, stage management, or technical theatre experience.
  • Must have good performance availability through April 2024.

COMPENSATION

Compensation is $18/hour, with a 3-hour minimum for any performance or in-person rehearsal call, and a 2-hour minimum for any Zoom rehearsal call. Time spent at home memorizing is paid at the same rate, with no minimum call. Paid as employee (with taxes taken out, with workers comp insurance). Pay is non-negotiable. This is a non-union position.

CONTENT ADVISORY

Zerolands contains flashing lights, dim environments, video screens and projection, sudden loud sounds, and references to grief and loss. Zerolands is about a children’s book, but it is a play for adults.

COVID Policy

All Walking Shadow workers must be fully vaccinated with at least one booster shot, or request an exemption as an accommodation.

Zerolands is an immersive experience in a small space. Actors and performers will be sharing the same area. Social distancing is not possible, but audience capacity is limited to 10 people.

We will not be asking audience members for proof of vaccination.

When the local COVID-19 hospital admission level is Medium or High (per the CDC Covid Data Tracker), we will require the audience to wear masks. When the local COVID-19 hospital admission level is Low, audience masks are encouraged but not required. We will not require actors to wear masks.

Zerolands involves touching objects and surfaces. You will be handling things that people in your audience are also handling. The CDC considers the risk of COVID transmission via surfaces low compared with droplet transmission and airborne transmission.

Our COVID policy is subject to change as the pandemic continues.

TO APPLY

Please send the following items to director John Heimbuch at [email protected] by Sunday, September 10, 2023:

  • Acting resume
  • Headshot
  • Video audition of a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue of your choice.
  • 45-60 second video of you reading from a classic piece of YA literature (Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz are both excellent free choices) directly to the camera as a bedtime story.
  • In your email, please include a summary of any relevant Puppetry, Puzzle, Escape Room, or Immersive Theater experience.

Callbacks and interviews will be scheduled individually from September 11-13 with qualified applicants.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Walking Shadow’s 19th Anniversary Fundraiser Gala

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16th Anniversary Party and FundraiserJoin Walking Shadow on Monday, June 5 from 6-9pm at Minneapolis Cider Company for our Annual Gala Fundraiser!

Enjoy bountiful food, live music, our amazing silent auction, ping pong, and local cider, cocktails, cannabis-infused sparkling beverages, and non-alcoholic drinks while supporting independent theatre in the Twin Cities.

We’re thrilled to once again celebrate Walking Shadow’s artistic impact on the Twin Cities at the return of this annual event!

LIVE MUSIC: SYCAMORE GAP

Folk music trio Sycamore Gap were featured musicians at Walking Shadow’s March production of Feast. Sycamore Gap is Sarah Heller (bass), Gabriel Heller (mandolin, vocals) and Amber Bathke (flute, whistle, bodhran). Their albums The Witch & Mary and Bowness to Wallsend are available here.

LIVE MUSIC: JAY YOUNG

Jay Young is one of the Twin Cities’ ‘first call’ bassists. He is a freelance performer and educator involved in a vast array of projects, working with national and international artists. He has performed at the Guthrie Theater, Ordway Center, Illusion, and Penumbra Theatre. Jay has also been a featured performer at the Lincoln Center, Juilliard School, Boston Symphony Hall, The Blue Note, Umbra (Italy), Espoo (Finland), and Tejo (Portugal). He has shared the stage with Ray Brown, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, T.S. Monk, Grover Washington Jr., Dave Brubeck, Ron Carter, Buster Williams, Bobby Lyle, Eddie Daniels, the Minnesota Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Phil Upchurch, Jennifer Holiday, Harry Connick Jr., Jay Leno, Paul Bollenbeck, Reverend Al Green, Bobby McFerrin, Jefferson Starship, Carole King, and Ray Charles, Kevin Mahogany, Joe Lovano, Ernie Watts, Tim Ries, Sony Holland, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, and many others.

LOCATION

Minneapolis Cider Company
701 Southeast 9th Street Minneapolis, MN 55414

Minneapolis Cider is a craft cidery and taproom nestled in the Marcy Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis, dedicated to making craft ciders from 100% real fruit.

In addition to cider, the drink menu includes wine, cocktails, cannabis-infused sparkling beverages, and non-alcoholic drinks.

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

All proceeds from this fundraiser will support Walking Shadow in making entertaining, thought-provoking, relevant theater. Specifically, donations will go directly towards production costs for our upcoming production of Red Speedo.

Walking Shadow Theatre Company is a 501c3 charitable organization (#20-2923433).

Although the fundraiser is over, but you can still make a donation.

The artists behind Feast

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Feast – Digital Playbill

Isabel Nelson as Grendel's Mother in Feast by Megan Gogerty
Isabel Nelson as the host of Feast, photo by John Heimbuch for Walking Shadow Theatre Company.

Feast by Megan Gogerty, directed by Allison Vincent, and performed by Isabel Nelson is being produced by Walking Shadow Theatre Company in conjunction with the Black Forest Inn from March 3 – April 1, 2023.

Tickets and show information are available at the show page.

Megan Gogerty (Playwright)

Megan (she/her) is a playwright and comedian. A recipient of the Cloris Leachman Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry premiered at Actors Express in Atlanta and was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her short play Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening is published in the anthology The Best American Short Plays of 2015 by Applause Books. Other plays include: FEAST. (Riverside Theatre); Housebroken (Riverside Theatre, Hollins University); Save Me, Dolly Parton (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre; named among Best Plays in Atlanta by Creative Loafing). Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting and standup comedy at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University. Find her online at www.megangogerty.com.

Allison Vincent (née Witham) (Director)

Allison (she/her) is an award-winning performer, director, writer, deviser, and educator.  With Walking Shadow, she was an actor in 21 Extremely Bad Breakups and Open. She has been honored to collaborate with companies and theaters across the Twin Cities, including Four Humors, Frank Theatre, Guthrie Theater, History Theater, The Illusion, Jon Ferguson Theater, Mainly Me, Sod House, Strike Theatre, Transatlantic Love Affair, and WLDRNSS.  In addition to performing, Allison is a co-artistic director and founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair, a teaching artist at the Guthrie Theater and the Loft Literary Center, a 2022 Naked Stages Fellow, and has collaborated as a writer on over twenty produced scripts.  As a director, Allison’s productions of WHOOSH: The Civil War Mythology of Michael Hickey and His Perilous Precipitation Over St. Anthony Falls received Golden Lanyards in the 2022 MN Fringe for “Artist Pick” and “Fringe with Benefits Member Pick,” 2019’s Edith Gets High received “Venue Pick” in the MN Fringe, and 2018’s A Morbid History of Sons and Daughters received the encore slot at the Twin Cities Horror Festival.

Isabel Nelson (Performer)

Isabel (she/they) is a performer, director, and theatre creator in the Twin Cities. She is a graduate of Macalester College (Theater and Religious Studies), completed two full years of training at the Lecoq-based London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA), and is currently pursuing her MDiv in Theology and the Arts at United Theological Seminary. She served as founding Artistic Director of award-winning physical theater ensemble Transatlantic Love Affair (TLA) from 2010 until 2021, and remains a core company member. With TLA, Isabel conceived and directed Ballad of the Pale Fisherman (2012 Ivey Award for Emotional Impact), Red Resurrected, Emilie/Eurydice, The Devout, and After the Fires, and performed and collaborated on four additional original works. Other directing credits include work with Black Dirt Theater, Macalester College, and Theater Unbound. As a performer, she has worked with the Children’s Theatre Company, Live Action Set, Jon Ferguson Theatre, and Four Humors, among others. Isabel has been honored with an Emerging Artist Ivey (2012), and the National Theater Conference’s Outstanding Emerging Professional Award (2015). She is mother to two beautiful children.

Richard Graham (Sound Designer)

Richard (he/him) is a freelance sound and lighting designer and the sound supervisor at Park Square Theatre. He is excited to be making his Walking Shadow debut with Feast. Recent: MN Opera: Cold Air Rises (mix engineer); Park Square: The Snowy Day, Fire in the New World, The Humans (supervisor), Rocky Horror (assistant lighting designer); Artistry: Shrek (mix engineer); OffLeash Area: Mulier Dierum (sound supervisor); Theater Mu: Man of God, Peerless, Hot Asian Doctor Husband (operator); Mixed Blood: Interstate (A2). Upcoming: Ethnic Dance Theatre: Reflections on the Danube (mix engineer); Mu: Again (mix engineer). Richard is a member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. More at richardgraham.net.

Bryan Grosso (Assistant Director)

For Walking Shadow, Bryan (he/him) previously appeared as Big Stone in Eurydice, and was the Performance Consultant for Open. He currently works as an elementary theatre teacher in St Paul, and has appeared as an actor with Hennepin Theatre Trust, Theatre Pro Rata, Pig Iron theatre, and others.

Brian Hirt (Stage Manager)

Brian (he/they) is ecstatic to return to work with Walking Shadow Theatre Company after stage managing for Open and The Ugly One. Most recent credits include last summer’s musical spectacular Hair Ball! at Open Eye Figure Theatre and The Magic Flute with Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Vol. 2 that toured northern MN. Other works include The Beldenville Troll and A Prelude to Faust also at Open Eye. They are a graduate of the U of MN – Twin Cities with a B.A. in Theatre Arts specializing in Stage Management.

Gina Musto (Dramaturg)

Gina is a writer and dramaturg based in Minneapolis, and a graduate from Augsburg University in their MFA program for Creative Writing. Her thesis play at Augsburg, State of Abstinence (formerly titled Indiana), was a finalist for the National Queer Theater reading series in 2018. She has worked as a dramaturg on shows such as Nina Simon: Four Women (Park Square), The Highwaymen (History Theatre), The Co-Op Wars (New Leaf Play Development) and Orlando (Theatre Pro Rata). 

Whittney Streeter (Special Prop Designer)

Whittney (she/her) is an illustrator and crafter. She previously created special props for Walking Shadow’s production of Cabal, and designed publicity illustrations for Hatchet Lady, The Whale, and after the quake. She makes posters for bands and theater companies, album artwork, web design, comics, book illustrations, as well as working on, showing, and selling her own work. More at msstreeter.com.

Scott Keever (Dinner Music, alternating)

Scott is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist who combines an American roots sound with styles as far ranging as Celtic, Balkan and jazz. As a soloist, he has opened for Pat Donohue, and in the MN region, has performed at the American Swedish Institute, Celtic Junction, Chateau St. Croix, The Veranda Lounge, The Minnesota Centennial Showboat, and the Weisman Art Museum. Tracks from his 2018 solo album have been played on KBEM 88.5FM. In addition to his solo performances, Scott plays guitar, tambura and percussion for Orkestar Bez Ime, an award-winning Twin Cities band that specializes in Eastern European Dance Music. He has also performed as a guitarist for a number of Twin Cities ensembles, including The Sweet Colleens (Celtic/Americana). In 2013, Scott was a contributing performer for Natalie Nowytski’s album “Amerikana”, alongside Jim Parker, Adam Kiesling and Peter Ostroushko. In 2017, he produced and performed on Michael Matheny’s posthumous album “El Dorado”.  Learn more at scottkeever.com

Sycamore Gap (Dinner Music, alternating)

Sycamore Gap is Sarah Heller (bass), Gabe Heller (mandolin, vocals) and Amber Bathke (flute, whistle, bodhran). Their albums The Witch & Mary and Bowness to Wallsend are available at sycamoregap.bandcamp.com.

 

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