Crafting the authentic voice to artfully and truthfully tell our stories.
“War & Peace in My 20th Century Life – What is Worth Fighting For?” Bernadine Joselyn is the Minnesota-born descendant of white Protestant farmers and their settler forbearers. Imagination and longing led her from her childhood home in a first-ring Minneapolis suburb to India, the Soviet Union-later Russia, New York City and rural Itasca County, […]
“Mermaids, Monsters, & Mysterious Strangers: Stories of the Unknown and Unexpected” Not everything can be explained. Not all strangers are who they seem. Not every monster is what you expect. Award-winning storyteller Laura Packer (Staff Pick, MN Fringe 2022) explores the creatures we fear, the visitors we can’t explain, and the moments when ordinary life […]
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“Oz-America” During the past thirty years, I have lived for three years in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood; twenty in Whittier; seven in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and, most recently, several months in the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Having been born August 19,1973 in Denver, Colorado, the only official citizenship I have ever held […]
“War & Peace in My 20th Century Life – What is Worth Fighting For?” Bernadine Joselyn is the Minnesota-born descendant of white Protestant farmers and their settler forbearers. Imagination and […]
Did you miss visiting us during the Minnesota Fringe? Join us for our first ‘Hair of the Dog’ storytelling festival! Come for this mini-storytelling festival with some encore performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand & Vianna Isbister- and from old favorites- Jim Stowell, Howard Liberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.
“Moby Dick Tonight”
“Leaking (The Wolves Are Everywhere)” How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Vianna Isbister’s show Leaking weaves together fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories to explore how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. “As she ran her finger down the gold thread holding together her cloak, Little […]
“My Dog Died (and all I got was this Lousy Miracle)” Erin Ferdinand is author of “The Ghost Dog Diaries”, a collection of essays and advice about life after death […]
“Leaking (The Wolves Are Everywhere)” How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Vianna Isbister’s show Leaking weaves together fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories […]
“Ranger Jim Part 2- Traveling in the Unknown” Stories from Jim’s 46 year-long love affair with nature. Jim told Part 1 at the 2025 Minnesota Fringe Festival. “This is must see theater.” […]