2012-2013 Artists in Residence
Fall 2012
A former McKnight Fellow, Dominic Orlando was awarded his second Jerome Fellowship in 2009, and was commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, Teatro del Pueblo, BVT Children’s Theatre, The Red Eye Collaboration, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. He is a co-creator of Fissures(lost & found) which premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
In New York, he has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, HERE, the Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row (off-broadway), and the New York International Fringe, among others. Regionally, the Guthrie Theater (commission), The Jungle Theater, The Aurora Theatre Company, Crowded Fire Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater (multi-year), Stage Left Theater, the National New Play Network, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (multi-year). Internationally, the Tokyo Festival for the Arts, the Prague International Fringe, The Edinburgh Fringe and the Pasinger/Fabrik Theater in Munich. He is a four-time Fellow to the MacDowell Colony and a founding producer of the Workhaus Playwrights’ Collective, company-in-residence at The Playwrights’ Center.
Other residencies include Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation (multi-year), Ucross, The Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The William Inge Center for the Arts, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts (a residency with Paula Vogel). Published: Nevermore and The Flow, Playscripts, inc; Dramatics Magazine (multi-year), San Francisco Magazine (multi-year). He is a Core Writer and board member of the Playwrights' Center. –Bio from MN Playwrights’ Center website
Mariana Araoz - Director, Actress & Professor from France. Mariana was born in Argentina, lived in Venezuela, Germany and moved to France in 1985. After receiving her bachelors degree in Biology she studied Theater with Mario Gonzalez (a member from “Theatre du Soleil”) and in Sorbonne (Institut d’Etude Theatrale-Paris III) She specialized in mask theater. As an actress she performed in Europe and Latin America mainly directed by Mario Gonzolez and Christophe Patty.
Mariana started directing in 2000 and in 2002 first worked with the St. Olaf College Theater. She directed the play Scapin in Kelsey Theater in 2005 and from this collaboration she has worked with Matt Trucano (’06) and the Bricklayers theater company in Chicago and Minneapolis. With Matt she directed Twelfth Night and Mother Courage in the Guthrie Theater lab.
Mariana directs in Sweden, France, United States and produces an international project called Trans Mission: Women and Mask and co-directs the company Collectif Mask. She teaches Mario Gonzolez’s mask method in Paris at the Conservitoire National and Ecole du Jeu in Sweden and Moscow.
Mariana is sister to St. Olaf Spanish Professor Maggie Broner.
2011-2012 Guest Artists
Doug Scholz-Carlson '90 - Director/Company Actor Great River Shakespeare Festival
Tim Otte '10 - Poet Playwright
John Carl Heimbuch
Anna Sundberg '05 - Actor
Randy Reyes - Actor
Dominique Serrand - Director, co-founded/company member Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Peter Hanson - Actor
Raye Birk - Actor
Kate Lawrence - Voice Over Artist
Linda Talcott Lee - Tony award winning Choreographer
Craig Wright - Playwright, Emmy nominated television writer
Christian Lander- writer, blogger, writer for MTV
2010-2011 Guest Artists
Linda Talcott Lee - Award winning Choreographer
Kathy Kohl - Costumer
Kevin Kling - Playwright, Storyteller
Matt Rein '05 - Actor
Judy Swanson - Designer
Anna Sundberg '05 - Actor
Wendy Knox - Artistic Director Frank Theatre
Max Wojtanowitz '06 - Actor, Singer
Raye Birk - Actor
Abbee Warmboe '10 - Designer
Camryn Reynolds '09 - Actor
Thomas Borger '06 - Marketing Communications Manager for The Playwrights' Center
Kelsey Cramer '08 - Playwright
Doug Scholz-Carlson '90 - Director/Company Actor Great River Shakespeare Festival
Robert Rosen - Director, Performer, Teacher, co-founded/company member Theatre de la Jeune Lune
2009-2010 Guest Artists
Linda Talcott Lee-Award Wining Choreographer
Lee Breuer- Co-founder Mabou Mines, International Director, Playwright & film creator
Leigh Fondakowski - Director & Playwright Tectonic Theatre Project & head writer of
The Laramie Project
Rick Shiomi - Artistic Director of Theatre Mu
Lee Henderson '01- Communications Manager Guthrie Theater
Paul LaBissoniere '85 - Lip Service a Twin Cities voice over talent group
Radiohole - Theatre collective from Brooklyn NY
Doug Scholz-Carlson '90 - Director/Company Actor Great River Shakespeare Festival
Raye Birke - Actor Guthrie Theater
Joe Dowling - Artistic Director Guthrie Theater
Myron Johnson - Choreography
Camryn Reynolds '09 - Actor
Kelsey Cramer '08 - Playwright
Preston Lane - Playwright
Lauralyn Dosset - Songwriter
