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Original 2012 Production
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StoryBased on the actual minutes of a women’s club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the ’30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium. 
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2005 Film, with Elizabeth Reaser
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Scandinavian Farmers?
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 The beautiful Viking Theatre on the campus of Grand View University in Des Moines, IA.
Viking Theatre, of course! |
Katie Privitera
Associate Producer PRODUCTION/BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Des Moines Social Club, Historic Valley Junction Foundation, Theatre Simpson STAGE MANAGEMENT Theatre Simpson: A Year With Frog And Toad, The Learned Ladies, Festival of Short Plays 2010; THEATRE DESIGN Repertory Theater of Iowa: That Championship Season; Theatre Simpson: Festival Of Short Plays, The Servant Of Two Masters; ACTING Theatre Simpson: Push-Up 1-3, The American Dream, Back Story, Spring Awakening, Fall From Grace 
Mackenzie Sheehan
Marketing Director THEATRE MANAGEMENT/MARKETING Des Moines Symphony: Marketing Manager; Iowa Dental Association: Marketing & Membership Manager; Alexandria (MN) Schools: Performing Arts Manager; Mixed Blood Theatre (MN): Management Intern. ACTING Alexandria (MN) Arts: The Addams Family; Theatre Simpson: Antigone, The Love Talker, Trash Anthem, One Flea Spare, Into the Woods, The Bear, Trojan Women. Countryside Players: The Sound of Music. 
Tiffany Flory
Choreographer CHOREOGRAPHY Urbandale Community Theatre: Music Man; Des Moines Playhouse (Academy): Fame Jr.; University of Idaho: A Christmas Carol; Lincoln High School: Sound Attraction and Infinity Show Choirs; Southeast Polk High School: IHSSA Musical Theatre; ACTING Tallgrass Theatre: The Foreigner, Independence, Barefoot in the Park; Iowa Stage Theatre: Lion in Winter, Romeo and Juliet; Repertory Theatre of Iowa: Turn of the Screw; Des Moines Playhouse: West Side Story, Rent; Goldfinch Theatre: Macbeth; University of Idaho: Winter's Tale, Three Strikes to First; Simpson College: Learned Ladies, Servant of Two Masters, Henry 5, Antigone. 
Erin Tracy
Graphics, Audience Services GRAPHIC/AD DESIGNER Carroll Daily Times Herald, The Graphic Edge, Kingman Row Entertainment, Carroll Library, Donna Reed Foundation, AUDIENCE SERVICES Simpson College: Box Office Manager, House Manager, Audience Services Undergraduate Assistant; THEATRE DESIGN Theatre Simpson: Eurydice, Festival of Short Plays, A Year With Frog and Toad; ACTING/DIRECTING Theatre Simpson: Spring Awakening, Necessary Targets, Henry 5, The American Dream, Pride and Prejudice; Carroll Community Theatre: Steel Magnolias, Wizard of Oz, Annie, Peter Pan (Director); Kuemper Catholic High School: Speech Coach, Assistant Musical Director. 
Rick Goetz
Lighting LIGHTING DESIGN Stage West: The Underpants, I am My Own Wife; Theatre Simpson: Kiss Me Kate, Tartuffe, Playhouse Creatures, The Comedy of Errors, Noises Off, Marisol, Carousel, Lysistrata Jones, The Winter's Tale, Peer Gynt, Love Letters, The Learned Ladies, Henry 5, A Year with Frog and Toad, Push Up 1-3; Lyric Opera of Kansas City: Don Giovanni, La Boheme, Tosca, Vanessa, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly, The Ballad of Baby Doe; Music at Simpson: La Canterina/Prima la Musica e poi le parole, Dido and Aeneaus/Venus and Adonis, Cendrillion, The Mikado, Die Zauberflute, I Paggliaci; SCENIC DESIGN Theatre Simpson: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Pericles, The Women of Lockerbie, The Glass Menagerie, Betrayal; TECHNICAL DIRECTION Theatre Simpson: Festival of Short Plays '19/'18/'17/'16, Kiss Me Kate, Silent Sky, The Bald Soprano, These Shining Lives, Knowing Joan, Marisol, Peer Gynt. |
Amber Miller
Designer THEATRE Des Moines Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire; Coralville Arts Center: A Year With Frog and Toad, Bye Bye Birdie; Simpson College: Peer Gynt, The Learned Ladies; Yellow Tree Theatre: Expecting Isabel, Miracle on Christmas Lake; Jungle Theater (MN); Shirley Valentine, Driving Miss Daisy; Theatre in the Round (MN): Don't Dress for Dinner, The Burial at Thebes; Playwrights' Center (MN): 500 Words; Park Square Theater (MN): Rock 'n' Roll, Painting Churches. BUSINESS The Planning Center: Certified Financial Planner; Starbuck's: Store/Space Designer; Jungle Theater: Graphic/PR Designer. 
Cassie Foster
Technical Director EVENT/CREW MANAGEMENT Des Moines Metro Opera, Simpson College Conferences & Events, Brownville Village Theatre, Missoula Children's Theatre, Theatre Simpson DESIGN/TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT Brownville Village Theatre: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Winterset Stage: Death by Disco; Theatre Simpson: Women Beware Women, Love Letters, The Learned Ladies, Festival of Short Plays; ACTING Brownville Village Theatre: June Groom, The Perfect Murder, Move Over Mrs. Markham, Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect; Theatre For A Change: The Winter's Tale; Missoula Children's Theatre: The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Cinderella, The Jungle Book; Theatre Simpson: Peer Gynt, Henry 5 
Ann Woldt
Speech and Dialects DIALECT/VOCAL COACHING Des Moines Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire, Metamorphosis, Dinner with Friends; Stage West: Cock; Simpson College: Noises Off, Pride and Prejudice, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Woman in Black, Tons of Money; ACTING Stage West: Vanya, Sonya, Masha, and Spike, Dancing at Lughnasa; Des Moines Playhouse: Little Woman, Sabrina Fair COMMERCIAL VOICE Hummel’s Nissan, Wells Fargo, John Deere, EMC, Mediacom, GMAC, Dupont; DIRECTING Simpson College: Silent Sky, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, These Shining Lives, Noises Off, The Memory of Water, University, Betrayal, Necessary Targets, Pride and Prejudice, Standing on My Knees TEACHING Simpson College: Acting, Voice, Dialects, Arts Management, Oral Interpretation, Directing; Des Moines Playhouse: Acting for Youth, Acting for Adults 
Tom Woldt
Director DIRECTING 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 Theatre (Studio): Hopscotch; Other Professional: Seven Year Itch, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Do! I Do!, Noises Off, Lysistrata the Bluegrass Musical!, Mother Courage, Night at the Carlton With Ray Charles; Guest Residencies; The 39 Steps, One Man-Two Guvnors, On The Razzle, As You Like It, Antigone; Simpson College: Peer Gynt, Learned Ladies, Henry 5, Into the Woods, Trojan Women, Godspell, Quilters, The Woman in Black, Twelfth Night; Other Academic: Machinal, The Winter's Tale, The Marriage of Figaro, The Bacchae; ACTING Goldfinch Theatre: Macbeth; Stagewest: Time Stands Still; Other: Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Brigadoon, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Equus, A Flea In Her Ear. Homepage tomwoldt.com |
Perrin Post
Book/Original Producer-Director Directing/Producing Sweet Land the Musical (BGP workshops / History Theatre world premiere) is based on the film Sweet Land (Ali Selim) and the short story, A Gravestone Made of Wheat (Will Weaver); Broadway's Legendary Ladies (Ordway McKnight Theater, Loring Playhouse, 13 State Tour; Hormel Girls (History Theatre), Monsters, Witches & Freaks; Martinis, Girls & Guns (Loring Playhouse), Vixens (Loring Playhouse, Fringe Festival), Ten Years Later (Hopkins House) The Spitfire Grill (Loring Playhouse, Jon Hassler Theater); Zombies from the Beyond (Bryant Lake Bowl); Opening Number (The Ivey Awards, 2006-2012.) Acting Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Ordway, History Theatre, Troupe America, Mixed Blood, Penumbra and Minnesota Festival Theater. Awards Minnesota State Arts Board: Artist Initiative Grant (supported by MN State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.) 
Dina Maccabee
Composer & Arranger Music (Strings/Vocals) International Tours: Real Vocal String Quartet, Vienna Teng, Beth Custer Ensemble; San Francisco Bay Area: multiple groups and events. Solo ContraPhonic Records (original songs); EP based on residency at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2012.) Awards Izzy Award nomination and grants from New Music American America, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music: Ramon & Jessica Songwriting Duo. |
Laurie Flanigan-Hegge
Book & Lyrics Book & Lyrics Sweet Land the Musical (BGP workshops / History Theatre world premiere); Hormel Girls (w/ Perrin Post, Hiram Titus); See Jane Vote (w/ James Kaplan); Loose Lips Sink Ships (Kaplan and Jacinda Duffin); Twenty Days to Find a Wife, Tales Along the Minnesota Trail (w/ Marya Hart.) Professional Affiliations Dramatists Guild of America (Twin Cities Regional Representative.) 
Robert Elhai
Orchestrations Composer Nautilus Music Theater: Twisted Apples; Theater Latté Da: The Lady with a Lapdog, C., (adaption of Cyrano de Bergerac); Nautilus: Lady Persephone's Sister (in Ivey-Award-winning Sister Stories, and many otherpieces. Orchestrator (Broadway-Tony and Drama Desk nominee): The Lion King ; History Theater: Glensheen, Sweet Land The Musical Illusion Theater: A Night In Olympus. Film Over 150 film scores including the Oscar-winning score for Frida, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Thor 2, five Fast and Furious movies, three Alien movies, two Batman movies, the first Pirates of the Caribbean. Popular Music Arrangement Metallica: The Call of Ktulu (Grammy Award from album S&M); The New Standards with the Minnesota Orchestra; The Who with the Julliard Symphony Education Doctorate, Yale University; Master's, University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music; BA, Carleton College. |
