Meet Our Leadership Team
Joan Korte
ACTING - TheatreMidwest: Atlas of Mud, When the Messenger is Hot. Fair Assembly, Dallas TX: Romeo and Juliet. Texas Shakespeare Festival: King John, Tartuffe, 110 in the Shade. Wesleyan Theatre Company: August: Osage County, The Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie. BUSINESS - Professor of Theatre, Nebraska Wesleyan University. DIRECTING: ACADEMIC Nebraska Wesleyan University: A Doll’s House Part 2, The Book of Will, A Christmas Carol, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Bridges of Madison County, 12th Night, Nell Gwynn, Mamma Mia, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Noises Off, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Learned Ladies, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Clean House.
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Nadine Purvis Schmidt
THEATRE: TheatreMidwest: Nickel and Dimed. TheatreSquared: Superior Donuts. Bare Bodkins Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest. Cleveland Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Henry IV. Land Stewardship Project: Look Who’s Knockin’. BUSINESS Southwest Minnesota State University: Professor of Theatre, Director, Producer, Theatre Program Coordinator. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, University of Arkansas
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Katie Braden
ACTING - TheatreMidwest: Burst, Atlas of Mud, When the Messenger is Hot. Ivy Theatre Company (NYC) Co-Founder: A Real Boy (59E59), Reach, Mill Fire, Outside/Inside, The Perfect Wife, Like Poetry (LaMaMa), Incongruence, Black Ice. The Secret Theatre (NYC): The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Romeo and Juliet, Edward II, The Spanish Tragedie. Shakespeare Forum (NYC): The Scarlet Letter, Romeo and Juliet. Workshop Theater (NYC): Acting: Full Frontal. Directing: Turtles & Bulldogs, After, Vowed & Wowed, Food for Thought. FILM - Wherever You Go Pictures (NYC): Unpacking. EDUCATION- Gregory Abels Training Ensemble, NYC, Certificate. Simpson College, Iowa, BA Theatre Arts.
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Kate Kanne
SCENIC DESIGN - Illusions by Ivan Viripaev, Rumors by Neil Simon, Les Liaison Dangereuse by Christopher Hampton, and (Anon)ymous by Naomi Iizuka. BUSINESS: Central College - Theatrical Design Faculty Member. EDUCATION - Minnesota State University, Mankato - MFA. South Dakota State University, Brookings - BA Theatre.
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*Atlas of Mud* 2021.
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Katie Buchholz
THEATRE PERFORMANCE Theatre Simpson: University, Festival of Short Plays 2011, The Learned Ladies. THEATRE MANAGEMENT TheatreMidwest: Nickel and Dimed, Atlas of Mud; Des Moines Performing Arts: Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King (Merchandiser); Theatre Simpson: Festival of Short Plays 2013 & 2012 (Box Office Manager), Alice’s Trip, The Glass Menagerie (House Manager). MULTIMEDIA Iowa Watch: Multimedia Director (Senior Project); Simpson Student Media: Director of Digital Content; Iowa Momentum: Communications Intern. BRAND AMBASSADOR/OTHER Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival: 2020 Bacon Queen; ACTION Talent Group. BUSINESS Businessolver - Supervisor Member Services. EDUCATION BA Multimedia Journalism, Simpson College.
*Nickel and Dimed* streaming concert reading, 2020. The cast.
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Tom Woldt
DIRECTING TheatreMidwest: Atlas of Mud, Thanksgiving Play, Brilliant Traces, The Friendly Hour; Repertory Theatre of Iowa: The Diary of Anne Frank, That Championship Season; Des Moines Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire; Duluth Playhouse: Singin' In the Rain; Yellow Tree (MN): Expecting Isabel; Williamston (MI): Five-Course Love; Guthrie Theater (Studio): Hopscotch; Other Professional: Seven Year Itch, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Do! I Do!, Noises Off, Lysistrata the Bluegrass Musical!, Mother Courage, The 39 Steps, One Man-Two Guvnors, On The Razzle, As You Like It, Charley's Aunt, Antigone; Simpson College: Peer Gynt, Love Letters, Learned Ladies, Henry 5, Into the Woods, Rumors, Trojan Women; Other Academic: Machinal, The Winter's Tale, The Marriage of Figaro; The Bacchae, Tom Sawyer, The Woolgatherer.
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT/CHAIR (ACADEMIC) University of South Dakota, Simpson College, Doane College. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Lyric Theater, Inc. now Jon Hassler Theater (Founding Co-Artistic Director). OTHER MANAGEMENT ACTION Talent Group (Founder/CEO), Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (Regional/National Officer), C.G. Craig, Inc. dba Eastern Onion (General & Sales Mgr). ACTING Goldfinch Theatre: Macbeth; Stagewest: Time Stands Still; Other: Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Desire Under the Elms, The Matchmaker, Brigadoon, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Equus, A Flea In Her Ear, Mister Roberts. AWARDS John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre and education; Simpson College: Outstanding Junior Faculty member. EDUCATION Guthrie Theater: Intern (Directing/Stage Management); University of Nebraska-Lincoln: PhD (Theatre); Minnesota State University, Mankato; MFA (Directing); South Dakota State University: BS (Communications and Theatre). HOMEPAGE tomwoldt.com |
Our Mission |
Professionals creating works of relevance to the people of the Midwest, with particular attention to the voices of women and other under-represented groups.
TheatreMidwest strives to:
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"MIDWEST?"In the middle. West of the East Coast (but East of the West Coast.) Our roots have taken hold in the almost-exact-middle, as did our first production, in Des Moines. The journey continues from there. |