Feast – Digital Playbill
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.