SMSU LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT STATEMENT

Southwest Minnesota State University sits on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota people, collectively known as the Oceti Sakowin, Seven Council Fires. We acknowledge and recognize our sovereign neighbors from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) and Cansayapi Otunwe (Village Where They Mark The Trees Red), and all indigenous people who continue to call this area home. SMSU resides on land ceded by the Dakota Nation to the United States in the disputed 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. This land acknowledgment affirms these nations’ sovereignty and history, while seeking to hold SMSU accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous people.

Please Note

Please completely turn off all cell phones, pagers, watches, and electronic devices that would interfere with communication and cues crucial to the performance. In an effort to make our Theatre more “green,” we have installed energy-efficient LED house lights. You may notice flickering as the house lights are fading out.

Friends Of The Theatre

2022-23 Members

Director

Mark Goodenow**

Lois A. Henkel**

William Hezlep***

Robert W. Schwoch***

Marshall Area Stage Company (MASC)***

US Bancorp Foundation/Mark Bosveld***

Jim and Laurie Johansen**

Designer

Tetta & Edison Askeland*

Jerry & Ricke Bly**

Tyler and Sue Bowen***

Christine & Eric DeGroot*

Jerry Girton***

Pam & Jeff Gladis**

Pam & Jason Hess*

Michael Martin & Rosemary Krueger Martin*

Joland Mohr

Gwen Mukomela**

Jan Craig Nelson ‘73***

Paula Nemes & Stephen Rasmusson***

Carma Nordahl*

Lee & Norma Raske**

Nadine, Karl, Will & Henry Schmidt***

James Smalley and Sara Runchey**

Jim & Sheila Tabaka and Family***

Māra & John Wiggins**

Actor

Jorun Ahmann*

Dan & Linda Baun*

Doug & JoAnne Fraunfelder***

Brett & Anita Gaul**

Wayne Hanson, in Memory of Janet Hanson**

Christine Hollinger*

Timothy A. Krause*

William A. Mulso*

Ray and Jane Oster*

Carol Purrington**

Lorna Rafness*

Pam Sanders & Ross Anderson*

Ross A. Wastvedt*

Other Donors

Diana Holmes

Nancy A. Marco

Denise M. Myhrberg

Linda G. Scheid

*** Charter Member

** Sustaining Member (3+ yrs)

* New Member

Friends Gift Levels

NEW! PRODUCTION UNDERWRITER FOR $5,000

Our family-friendly season provides a great opportunity to build and strengthen positive ties with the community. Underwriter benefits include:

• 20 ticket vouchers for the current season of SMSU Theatre performances, and

• acknowledgments on the Theatre web page and show posters, in social media posts, media releases, and radio interviews, and in a lobby display during the run of the show.

If you would like to join Friends of the Theatre or sponsor a production, please call the SMSU Theatre at 507-537-7103.

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival , part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by D David M. Rubenstein.

Special thanks to The Harol d and Mimi Steinberg Charitable T rust for supporting the John F. Kennedy Cent er for the Performing Arts’ Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein ; and the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts.

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college -level theater production. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for invitation to the KCACTF regional festival and may also be considered for national awards recognizing outstanding achievement in production, design, direction and performance.

Last year more than 1,500 productions were entered in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university theaters across the nation.

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival™ 56 for Region V will be held in 2024.

For more information about the SMSU Theatre Program please call 507-537-7103 or fax 507-537-7014. Visit the Theatre Arts web page at www.SMSU.edu/go/theatre find SMSU Theatre on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @SMSUTheatre