Pillsbury House + Theatre is supported in part by:
2015
A PLAY BY DANEZ SMITH
MAY 19TH, 7PM
Co-presented by the Authors Guild Foundation This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
CAST:
“Real Danez”
“Fake Danez” .
“Real Bae”.
Stage Directions read by.
Antonio Duke
Danez Smith
.Thomasina Petrus*
Tish Jones
Directed by Aimee K. Bryant
BIOS:
A Twin Cities theatre veteran, Aimee K. Bryant has appeared on stages across the region, including Pillsbury House + Theatre, Guthrie Theater, and Ten Thousand Things. Also a musician and director, Aimee is a Resident Teaching Artist at Pillsbury House.
Danez Smith is a nationally acclaimed poet, playwright, and performer from St. Paul, MN. Their works include Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] Boy, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective, Smith’s work spans page, stage, and podcast.
PRODUCTION STAFF:
Technical Director
Production Stage Manager
Livestream Technician
Claudia Errickson
Rachael Christina Rhoades*
Marcus dePaula
Special thanks to Bernard Schwartz, Executive Producer, Literary Programs at Authors Guild Foundation for having a vision and seeing it to fruition.
Special thanks to Equity and SAG-AFTRA
* Appearing through an Agreement between Pillsbury House + Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Pillsbury House + Theatre Company
Sara Abdelaal, Audience Engagement Director
Bart Buch, Arts Integration Liason
Claudia Errickson, Technical Director
Signe V. Harriday, Senior Artistic Producing Director
Michael Hoyt, Creative Community Director
Masanari Kawahara, Naked Stages Director
Kurt Kwan, Breaking Ice Manager
Mankwe Ndosi, Resident Community Engaged Artist
Julia Snider Nickerson, Chicago Avenue Project Director
Noël Raymond, Senior Director of Arts & Culture
Rachael C. Rhoades, Production Manager
Teaching Artists:
Aimee K. Bryant, Bart Buch, Masanari Kawahara, Clay Man-Soo
Associate
Company Members
Jamila Anderson
Clare Brauch
Sharon Bridgforth
Laurie Smith Carlos (1949 – 2016)
John Catron
Christiana Clark
Paul de Cordova
Stephen DiMenna
Ellen Fenster
Brian Goranson
Signe V. Harriday
Daniel Alexander Jones
Jodi Kellogg
Blayn Lemke
Elizabeth MacNally
Marion McClinton (1954 – 2019)
Kimberly Joy Morgan
Sonja Parks
Heidi Batz Rogers
Michael Wangen (1954 – 2020)
James A. Williams
Payton J. Woodson
Pramila Vasudevan
Founder, Ralph Remington
Preceding Co-Artistic Director & Visionary, Faye M. Price
Late Night Founder, Laurie Smith Carlos (Ancestor)
Pillsbury House + Theatre’s mission is to cocreate enduring change towards a just society through art. Pillsbury House + Theatre creates theatre productions, arts programs and projects aimed at increasing Access, Attachment and Agency among audiences, artists and community members.
