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 co-create 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.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Pillsbury House + Theatre acknowledge that we are on unceded Dakota territory. The Dakota and Ojibwe people continue to live on this land, including the sovereign nations of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Portage Chippewa, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, Lower Sioux Indian Community, Prairie Island Indian Community, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, and Upper Sioux Community. These Indigenous people and more continue to live on this land despite the genocidal efforts and forced removal by the State of Minnesota and the United States Government. The approximately $3 million promised in the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, ceding Dakota land in southern and western Minnesota to the United States Government, has yet to be paid. The land we are on was, is, and will always be Indigenous land.
The Settlement House movement which gave rise to Pillsbury House + Theatre has a history of erasure with respect to Native communities. In alignment with our mission to create challenging art that inspires enduring change towards a just society, Pillsbury House + Theatre commits to continue including Indigenous voices, whether they be Dakota, Ojibwe, or any of the 30+ Indigenous Nations represented in the Twin Cities area and across the globe. We commit to working in partnership with, and providing resources and stage time for Indigenous theatre makers and artists. We strive to support Indigenous voices at every opportunity and we ask you to commit to supporting the Indigenous people wherever you are.
Pillsbury House + Theatre Presents
A Walless Church
By AriDy Nox
directed by signe v. harriday
sept 19 - oct 13
Nona ............................................... Aimee K. Bryant*
Oru .................................................. Essence Renae*
Mo .................................................... Nubia Monks*
Stage Manager
Lyndsey R. Harter*
Scenic Designer
William Boles
Sound Designer
Queen Drea
Technical Director
Claudia Errickson
Assitant Stage Manager
Zhané Jackson
Light Designer
Kathy Maxwell
Additional Creative Team
Properties Designer
Jenny Moeller
Costume Assitant+ Wardrobe
Rane Oganowski
Production Manager Rachael C. Rhoades
Costume Designer
Zamora Simmons - Stiles
Board Operator
Ellie Simonett
Electricians - Dante Benjegerdes, Mitchell Frazier, Bevibel Harvey, Zoe HermerCisek, Jack Hinz, Carl Swanson, Andy Tollin, Louis Thiessen
Sound Technician - Peter Morrow
And Special Thanks to: Mitch Frazier Minnesota Opera
A WALLESS CHURCH will be performed with no intermission and includes some harsh light changes
* Appearing through an Agreement between Pillsbury House + Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in he United States.
Esemble
Aimee K. Bryant* (Nona)
Aimee K. Bryant is has built a lengthy resume performing on stages throughout the Twin Cities since she graduated from Howard University. Aimee’s Pillsbury House credits include We Wake: Dem/Dey Back, The Bull Jean Stories, What to Send Up When it Goes Down, Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady, West of Central, The Gospel of Lovingkindeness, River See, and Phoenix Fabrique. In addition to being an actor, Aimee is a director, a songwriter, a vocalist, and a Resident Teaching Artist at PH+T. Her debut cd, Becoming, is available online. Aimee was named City Pages “2015 Actress of the Year” and was a McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow for 2015-2016.
Essence Renae* (Oru)
Essence Renae is proud to have worked at a plethora of Minneapolis’ most well known professional and community theatres such as The Children’s Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The Illusion Theatre, The Lehr Theatre and Phoenix Theatre to name a few. On screen, Essence can currently be seen in the drama series Bosch: Legacy as well as the comedy feature film Diamond in the Rough, both on Amazon Prime. Upcoming, she can be seen in the independent drama Aftershock: The Nicole Belle Story. She’s a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she was awarded The Thomas Auclair Award.
Nubia Monks* (Mo)
Nubia Monks is an actor, playwright, and educator. Since graduating from UC San Diego with her MFA in acting, she has performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, The Women’s Theatre Festival, Ten Thousand Things, The Guthrie Theater, The Folger Theater, Penumbra Theater, Theatre Latte Da, and Geva Theater. Her writing includes Hands of Color (2019), The War Unseen (2020), The Lost Women, and A Lesson in Love, developed at the Playwrights’ Center and The Playwright’s Realm. Nubia teaches creative writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and is a two-time Jerome Fellowship recipient. She has worked with Pillsbury House Theatre’s Breaking Ice initiative and participated in the 2024 Maker’s Series. She is excited to debut on PH+T’s stage. Follow her journey at _onlynubia (Instagram).
Artistic and Production Staff
AriDy Nox (Playwright)
AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under their belt. They create out of the vehement belief that creating a liberated future requires a radical imagination. Their tales are small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping created by black femmes, with black femmes at the center. They have been inordinately privileged to share the workings of their imagination in collaboration with artists of various radical backgrounds throughout the country.
Signe V. Harriday (Director)
Signe V. Harriday is Senior Artistic Producing Director at Pillsbury House + Theatre. She is a fierce visionary and powerful storyteller who crafts theatre that awakens our individual and collective humanity. As a director, multidisciplinary artist, activist, and facilitator, she uses theatre as a catalyst to ask questions about who we are and who we are in relation to each other. Most recently she directed bull-jean stories (PH+T and Drama League) and co-directed PASSAGE (PH+T) and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Opera (Lincoln Center). She is a NY Drama League Directing Fellow and Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow.
Lyndsey R. Harter* (Stage Manager)
Lyndsey R. Harter is grateful to return for her third production at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Previous productions include What to Send Up When It Goes Down and Passage. She has also collaborated with Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Theater Latté Da, Theater Mu, Penumbra Theatre, History Theatre, New Dawn Theatre, Playwrights’ Center, Park Square Theatre, and Collide Theatrical Dance Company. Lyndsey is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and recently began serving on the new Central Committee for Independent Theatres. Up next:
Artistic and Production Staff
William Boles (Set Design)
William Boles is a Chicago artist whose work spans the US and internationally, focusing on new plays, operas, and public parks. In the Twin Cities, he has designed for Minnesota Opera (Romeo and Juliette) and Children’s Theater Company (Sneetches, Morris Micklewhite). William holds a BFA from the University of Central Florida, an MFA from Northwestern University, and is pursuing a master’s in Landscape Architecture at Harvard. He founded FUTURE FUTURE PARKS in 2020, a mixed media studio creating environmental landscapes through theater and nature. See more at wbdesigns.carbonmade.com.
Queen Drea (Sound Design)
Queen Drea is a sound alchemist, mixing sonic potions with looped vocals, jagged rhythms, and found sounds. She has designed sonic worlds for PH+T’s productions, Penumbra Theater’s For Colored Girls…, Spittin Seeds, Minnesota Children’s Theater’s Locomotion, and dance companies like BrotherHood Dance and Ananya Dance Theater. Her work explores themes like depression in the Black community and the African creator goddess Mawu. Queen is a 2022 McKnight Composer Fellow, 2019 PH+T Naked Stages Fellow, 2019 Jerome Finalist, and 2017 ACF Emerging Composer awardee.
Claudia Errikson (Techinical Director)
Claudia is Pillsbury House + Theatre’s resident Scene Shop Coordinator. She has previously worked on PH+T’s bull-jean Experience, the bull-jean stories, What Washed Ashore Astray, and bull-jean/we wake.
Zhané Jackson (Assitant Stage Manager)
Zhané Jackson is a creative mover, writer, director, producer, and event coordinator based in the Twin Cities. She co-founded New Black City, an all-Black, femme, Hip Hop dance collective. For 8 years, she’s performed at venues like First Avenue Mainroom, The Varsity Theatre, and The Ordway, opening for artists like Kehlani, Rico Nasty, and Leikeli47. Currently, Zhané is focused on developing as an independent artist and building a stable legacy of community through transformative artistic creations. She is also developing a nonprofit, Creating Joy, for inner-city youth. Her current projects include Origins of the Future, The New Skool, and teaching at Hothouse Mpls and House of Dance Twin Cities.
Artistic and Production Staff
Kathy Maxwell (Lighting Designer)
Kathy Maxwell is a Twin Cities based theatrical lighting and video designer. She has worked at many local venues including Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Open Eye Figure Theatre, the History Theatre, the Jungle Theatre, the Childrens’ Theatre, Theatre Latte Da, the Ordway and the Guthrie Theatre. She is currently the Production Manager at the Jungle Theater. Select national credits include Utah Opera Company, Des Moines Metro Opera, Keegan Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company. Kathy is a frequent mentor and instructor at the University of Minnesota and a recurring adjunct professor at Macalester College.
Jenny Moeller (Properties Design)
Jenny Moeller is a props and lighting designer, director, playwright, and theater artist working in the Twin Cities. She is currently Technical Director of the Twin Cities Horror Festival, serves on the board for Arts Nest, and is the former Artistic Director of Raw Sugar. She has worked as producer, playwright, director, technical director, designer, and builder for many theaters, including Theatre Pro Rata, Nimbus, the Minnesota Opera, Southern Theater, Theatre Unbound, Four Humors, Six Points Theater, and many others. She believes that stories make us human, and has a passion for helping others bring their stories to life.
Rachael C. Rhoades (Production Manager)
Rachael Rhoades (she/her/hers) is a St. Paul-based stage manager, production manager, and event planner. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa. Rachael has worked with notable companies like Illusion Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Theatre Latte Da, and the Guthrie Theatre. She is a creative consultant and Musical Theatre Instructor for Brekke Dance Center and co-creator of Triple Threat Theater. Rachael is also a Technical Theatre Evaluator for Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Spotlight Education program and serves as the Production Stage Manager for Brownbody. She lives on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with her three cats and enjoys immersing herself in nature.
Zamora Simmons-Stiles (Costume Designer)
Zamora S. is a seasoned Costume, Makeup, and Hair Designer from Trinidad and Tobago, currently based in the Twin Cities. With an MFA in Theatre Design from the University of Iowa, Zamora brings years of costume design expertise and more than a decade of leadership and teaching experience in theatre, film, and dance. Zamora recently designed Mixed Blood’s production of The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington and the regional premiere of Scotland PA at Theater Latté Da.
PH+T Contributors
Funding from state and federal government agencies, local and national foundations and donations from individual donors fuel Pillsbury House + Theatre’s work. Contributions support not only our Mainstage and Naked Stages seasons, but also the Chicago Avenue Project and our community engagement programs.
Thank you to all donors for your generosity. If you have made a donation in the last year and do not find your name listed below, we apologize for the omission and ask that you let us know by contacting Sara Abdelaal at 612-787-3622 or SaraA@pillsburyhousetheatre.org.
Sponsors and Grantors
Carlson Family Foundation
Community Shares of Minnesota
E.A. Michelson Philanthropy
Jerome Foundation
McKnight Foundation
Minnesota State Arts Board
Mortenson Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Ruth Easton Fund of the Edelstein Family Foundation
Rosemary and David Good Family Foundation
Sheltering Arms Foundation
Shubert Foundation
Wallace Foundation
Annual Fund
Donors
(2020 to present)
Yasmin Abdi
Faysal Abraham
Mary Adair
Alberta Adams
Elissa Adams
Andrew Adelmann
Vicki & Eugene Adelman
Denise Alden
Heather Allen
Ryan & Dara Allen
Emily Allgeyer
Emily Allgeyer
Deborah Anderson
Drew Anderson
Elizabeth Anderson
Farrand Anderson
Lauren Anderson
Cheryl Anderson
Jeanne Andre
Julie Andrus
Pamela Arnold
Andy Arsham & Sonja Kuftinec
Scott Artley
Elizabeth Athorn
Marsha Aubineau
Jeanelle Austin
Rachel Austin
Beverly Bachel
Laura Bachinski & Renee
Delong
Sarah Bagwell & Anthony
Lubin
Ellen Baker
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Davina Baldwin
Judith E. Baldwin
Leslie Ball
Subir K. Banerjee & Manju
Parika
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Ike Belton
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Benjamin
Nadia Benner
Jane Berg
Mark Berge
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Simba Blood
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Kristina Boerger
Rita Boersma
Cecelia Boone
Carol Bouska & Jeremy Iggers
Ariana Boussard-Reisel
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Elizabeth M. Brooks
Ronnie & Roger Brooks
Marilyn Broussard
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Virginia Brown
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Malia Burkhart
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Charles Campbell
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Julie Carlson Sladci
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Julie Caruso
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Joan Cornwell
Theodore Cornwell
Julie Costello
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Sam Crossley
Jane Curry
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Lynda Dahl
Tope Daniel
Danielle Daniel
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Faith Dietz
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Dawn Stratton
Laura Suess
Karen Svien
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Gary Tazelaar
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GREAT Theatre
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Ann Drew Yu
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Stanley
Milligan Fund for BIPOC Artists
Donors
(2020 to present)
This fund is made possible by seed donations from the Milligan family, including a generous bequest from the estate of Carol Milligan in 2021.
The fund will be cultivated and used to support the work of BIPOC artists.
Drew Anderson
Pamela Arnold
Kim Brown
Nathaniel & Cathy Fuller
Harry Greenberg
Cat Hammond
Lyndsey Harter
Abigail Jackson
Rich Knowlton & Katie Piehl
Emily LaJoy
Sharon Lyon
Thomas & Martha Milligan
Amelia Palacios
SooJin Pate
Bunnard Phan
Adelin Phelps
Katherine & Bruce Rhoads
Stacy Rooney
Julie & George Sand
Karen Seay
Kevin Springer
Jane Sturges
Jo & Brad Thies
The Community Foundation of Shelby County
The Faye M. Price Fund
Donors
Dedicated to our former
Co-Artistic Director of over 20 years, the Faye M. Price Fund directly supports Black femaleidentified artists that PH+T has the honor to collaborate with.
Ancestors
Beverly & Bill Cottman
Laura Esping
Robert Frame
K. Harp
James Payne
Polly Posten
Faye M. Price
Erica Thorne
Chicago Avenue
Project
Donors
(2020
to
present)
Since 1996, the Chicago Avenue Project has brought local youth together with the Twin Cities’ best adult playwrights, actors, and directors to create and produce original plays.
Patrick Bailey
Judith E. Baldwin
Baron Heinz Family
Theresa Blue
Tim & Lindsay
Culverhouse
Ellen Fenster & Mohammed
Gharib
Leah Ferguson
Amy Finnegan & Mike Westerhaus
Olive Goff & Family
Pamela J. Henderson
Liz Hughes
Spruce Krause
Margaret Manderfeld
John & Kristine Mandler
Steve Mayer
Jess & Henry Miller
Jillian Peterson
Jon Poupore
Lily Thiboutot
Shanea Turner-Smith
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The Ruth Easton Fund
Actress Ruth Easton (née Edelstein) was born in North Branch, Minnesota and graduated from North Branch High School. She attended the University of Minnesota for one year and the following year attended Macalester College before finishing her collegiate career at Cumnock School in Los Angeles. She went on to New York where she studied acting with Oliver Morosco. Mr. Morosco opened a stock theater company in upstate New York where Ms. Easton starred in several plays. After performing with other stock theater companies she returned to New York City where she appeared in five Broadway plays over a period of seven years. They included Exceedingly Small, Privilege Car, Town Bay, Buckaroo and CharlieChan.ExceedinglySmall was directed by Ethel Barrymore and Easton played opposite Eric Dressler. New York critics praised her performance as “thoroughly touching” and “highly spirited and excellent.” She starred in radio dramas on the Rudy Vallee Hour and the Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour opposite such actors as Walter Huston, Judith Anderson and Lionel Barrymore. She also appeared with Clark Gable, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson during the course of her career.
Ms. Easton’s legacy, her commitment to theater and the development of new works continues through the charitable gifts distributed through the Ruth Easton Fund of the Edelstein Family 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.
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