Alumni and Artistic Director Ellen Fenster is the assistant director
for Dollhouse
at the Guthrie Theater. Using Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece as a
springboard, award-winning playwright Rebecca Gilman has crafted a bold
and insightful adaptation that transports the classic play into 21st
century suburbia.
Guthrie
Theater
May 22nd - July 11th, 2010
SHERLOCK
HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY
Alumna Sarah Holmberg will
be designing the props for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of
the Jersey Lily
at Park Square Theatre. During a small matter of blackmail and missing
jewels, Watson pines for Lily Langtry, Holmes chases the infernal
Moriarty, and Oscar Wilde gets some of his best lines. The wit and
wisdom of Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and even William Shakespeare
combine to offer up a delightful escapade that includes seduction and
secrets, lies and lilies, mistresses and mayhem.
Park Square
Theatre
June 4th - July 3rd, 2010
THE MYSTERY OF
IRMA VEP
Alumni Eli Schlatter
and PeterRusk are working as
scenery and stagecrew interns on The Mystery of Irma Vep
at the Jungle Theater. A sympathetic werewolf, a vampire and an
Egyptian princess brought to life when her tomb is opened make this a
comedy that has everything! Don’t miss an outrageous evening
of murder and mayhem with this loving tribute to Victorian melodrama.
Jungle Theater
June 8th - August 1st, 2010
FANCINESS
vs. THE VOID
Directed by Samantha
Johns with scenic design from South High Technical
Director Lois Rhomberg,
in Fanciness vs. the Void
we find our heroes floating aimlessly through the ocean in a small
shanty boat after a mysterious apocalyptic event. A story of humanity
lost and found, improbable romance, and fish singing country music.
CatFish
Open Eye Figure Theater
June 10th - June 13th, 2010
East Coast Tour
June 18th - July 4th, 2010
A STREETCAR
NAMED DESIRE
Alumni Emily Gunyou
Halaas is understudying the role of Stella in the Guthrie
Theater's production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Guthrie
Theater
July 3rd - August 29th, 2010
SWEENEY
TODD
Former South
High student Ben
Swenson-Klatt appears in Young Artists Initiative's
production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street. The intimacy of the Gremlin
Theater space will make this an even more chilling theater experience.
Young Artists
Initiative
Gremlin Theater
July 8th - July 18th, 2010
WIZARD OF OZ
Directed by alumni Hannah
Steblay, the Masquers' production of Wizard of Oz
also stars alumni Jordon
Johnson and Kelsey
McMahon.
Masquers
Community Theatre Company
Forest Lake High School Auditorium
July 9th - August 1st, 2010
FOR SPORT'S SAKE
Alumni Karis Sloss choreographs For Sport's Sake, an epic new dance set to the "hoariest chestnuts of sporting song".
Eclectic Edge Ensemble Ritz Theater July 16th - July 18th, 2010
SEE
YOU NEXT TUESDAY
He thinks he's an enlightened guy, but she's a
radical in the making. He's in way over his head, yet there's something
about her... In a romance destined to fail spectacularly, language can
be a bitch. Alumni Brian
Balcom directs Walking Shadow's production of See You Next Tuesday,
an original comedy by Steven Moulds, for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Alumni Sarah Holmberg stage manages.
Minnesota
Fringe Festival 2010
Mixed Blood Theater
August 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 14th
A STANDING
LONG JUMP
Alumni Brian Balcom
will also be directing the New Theatre Group's production of A Standing Long Jump
by Mat Smart at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, with alumni Sarah Holmberg designing props. Some people fall in love
at first sight. Others fall in love like a slow, bloody surrender. This
is a play abotu when to leap, when not to, and how a stranger at a
coffee shop could be the person who knows you best.
Minnesota
Fringe Festival 2010
Theatre in the Round
August 6th, 8th, 11th, 12th, and 14th
COMMUNOPOLY
Alumni Emma Schlatter
and Eli Schlatter
are Camp Schlatter, producing a satirical take on the time-honored
classic game of Monopoly for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Communopoly
includes twelve(!) South High alumni, including: Emma Capman, Jamie Countryman,
Claire Eisenberg, Mia Garcia, Ruth Gerber, Ryan Harper, Brenna Kruse,
Abbie Modaff, Reed Polakowski, Meta Swanson, Caroline Vaughn, Laura
Vaughn, and Erin
Wintervold. Prepare to meet colorful characters who are
larger than LIFE.
Minnesota
Fringe Festival 2010
Intermedia Arts
August 5th, 9th, 10th, 13th, and 14th
YVETTE: A LOVE STORY
The estate is in foreclosure. Two ruthless antiques dealers are after Yvette. How far will Morton go to save the chair he loves? Alumni Gemma Irish
writes, directs, and produces a love story involving furniture,
long-lost siblings, and French history for the Minnesota Fringe
Festival.
Minnesota Fringe Festival 2010 Theatre in the Round August 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, and 14th
CAT ON A HOT
TIN ROOF
Alumni Sarah Holmberg will
be designing props for the return of Torch Theater's critically
acclaimed production of Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof -- an explosive portrait of a Southern
family, charged with verbal fireworks, savage humor, and sexual
friction.
Minneapolis
Theater Garage
September 7th - October 9th, 1010
ROSENCRANTZ
& GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Alumni Hannah Steblay
is the assistant director for Theatre in the Round's production of Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern Are Dead, in which she will also
appear as Ophelia. Deconstructed narratives are only fun when their
farces: Take a look at Hamlet
from the viewpoint of its minor characters, the college chums of the
Prince of Denmark.
Theatre in
the Round
September 10th - October 3rd, 2010
MASTER
BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB
The Guthrie Theater will launch their 2010-2011 season with Master Butchers Singing Club,
adapted from Louise Erdich's book by Marsha Norman. And alumni Emily Gunyou Halaas
will be playing Delphine!
Guthrie
Theater
September 11th - November 7th, 2010
FULLY COMMITTED
Starring alumni Nathan
Keepers. Fully Committed
is a devastatingly funny play about a day in the life of Sam
Peliczowski, an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line
at Manhattan’s number-one restaurant. While juggling scheming
socialites, name-dropping wannabes, fickle celebrities and egomaniacal
bosses, can Sam manage to make it home for the holidays?
Jungle Theater
November 5th - December 19th, 2010
OPUS
A celebrated
string quartet has their backs against a wall on the eve of their White
House debut. They’ve had to replace their violist with gifted,
inexperienced Grace, who’s never played Beethoven's difficult Opus
131. Opus
explores the power and pettiness of collaboration... and what a girl's
gotta do to play with the big boys.
Alumni Emily Gunyou
Halaas stars as Grace in Park Square Theater's area
premiere.
Park Square Theater
May 6th - May 29th, 2011
INSTITUTIONS
This section is dedicated to
the South High Theater alumni who have become part of institutions for
theater, film, or the arts. As we all know, there's more to theater
than just the performers up on stage. This is our way of acknowledging
more than just the tip of the iceberg and recognizing the many
accomplishments and achievements of our South High Theater alumni. (In
general, the idea is that if you're contributing creatively to a
specific show -- acting, directing, editing, designing, stage managing,
writing, or the like -- the show will be spotlighted up above. But if
you're on the board or own the company or running the theater's box
office, this is the place for it.)
DAVENPORT THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES
Alumna Jane Caplow
is a Creative Development Associate at Davenport
Theatrical Enterprises, currently producing multiple Broadway
and Off-Broadway productions in New York.
TEATRO
DEL PUEBLO
Alumna Sheila Regan is the
Educational Coordinator for Teatro del Pueblo.
Based out of the West Side's Latino community, Teatro del Pueblo has a
mission to promote cultural pride in the Latino community, to develop
and support Latino talent, to educate the community at large about
Latino culture and to promote cultural diversity in the arts. Teatro
del Pueblo maintains several educational tours, including Echoes
from the New World, Manzi: The Adventures of Young
Cesar Chavez, Help Wanted, The Great Cheese Adventures in Mexico,
and Political Theater Matinees.
2010-2011 SOUTH HIGH THEATER
Zombie Hamlet, directed by Eric Holm
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, directed by Ali Harris
Guys and Dolls, directed by Ellen Fenster
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, directed by Frieda Bormann
Senior One-Acts, directed by Emma McIntosh and Briana Libby
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