Little Shop of Horrors (2024)

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Paul Allen

GUTHRIE Debut. BROADCAST Voice of the Minnesota Vikings since 2002; KFAN FM 100.3 since 1998; Announcer for Canterbury Park since 1995. NEWS USA Today, Pasadena Star-News. TRAINING Pasadena City College. AWARDS Awarded the title “National Treasure” by LeBron James in 2022

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China Brickey

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Time Brickey

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Mercury Theater Chicago: Young Frankenstein, Chicago; Chicago Children’s Theatre: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show; 5th Avenue Theatre: The Wiz; Theater Latté Da: Jelly’s Last Jam; Drury Lane Theatre: 42nd Street. FILM/TELEVISION Mind of Its Own (independent). OTHER Former principal dancer for M.A.D.D. Rhythms and Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Stone Soup Rhythms; Performed in Dance for Life at the Harris Theater. UPCOMING White Christmas (Marriott Theatre). TEACHING Taught workshops for Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Rhythm World, Las Vegas Tap Festival, Keane Sense of Rhythm and Dance Masters of Wisconsin; Currently on faculty at Visceral Dance Chicago. TRAINING B.M., Music Business, Millikin University. @time.brickey (IG), www.timebrickey.com

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David Darrow

GUTHRIE The Tempest, Sunday in the Park With George, The Royal Family, The Parchman Hour, South Pacific, Juno and the Payco*ck, Crimes of the Heart, Skiing on Broken Glass. THEATER A.C.T.; Asolo Rep; Baltimore Center Stage; Florida Repertory Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Theater Latté Da; Ten Thousand Things; Project Y Theatre Company; 7th House Theatre. OTHER Composer and lyricist whose musicals have been developed and performed at theaters and residencies across the country. TRAINING Albright College; Currently pursuing an M.F.A. at Grad Acting, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

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Vie Boheme

GUTHRIE West Side Story, Refugia. THEATER Merrily We Roll Along, Memphis. DANCE August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble; TU Dance; Camille A. Brown and Dancers. CHOREOGRAPHY Stokley Williams, Sonic Healer Tour; Self-Produced: Ritual Amalgamation, CENTERPLAY, Viva:BLACK a Live Theater Documentary (August Wilson African American Cultural Center). SOLO VOICE/DANCE Works presented by Walker Art Center (Choreographers’ Evening 2014, 2015 and 2017). MUSIC Opening Act: Little Dragon, Bilal. TRAINING Park Point University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts; The Ailey School

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Gabrielle Dominique

GUTHRIE Guys and Dolls, West Side Story (Francisca/Rosalia US), A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, South Pacific. THEATER Arena Stage: Ride the Cyclone (Constance Blackwood); The 5th Avenue Theatre: The Wiz; Ordway: West Side Story (Rosalia/Maria US); Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Mamma Mia!; Children’s Theatre Company: Annie, I Come From Arizona; Theater Latté Da: Jelly’s Last Jam; Artistry: The 25th...Spelling Bee, Shrek, The Best Little whor*house…, Oklahoma!; Jungle Theater: Ride the Cyclone (Constance Blackwood). OPERA MN Opera: Flight. DANCE Collide Theatrical; Flying Foot Forum. OTHER Proud member of AEA. TRAINING B.A., Dance and Theater, St. Olaf College

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Robert Dorfman

GUTHRIE The Tempest, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Indecent, Sense and Sensibility, The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound, Choir Boy, Freud’s Last Session, Uncle Vanya, The Merchant of Venice. THEATER Broadway: To Be or Not To Be, The Lion King, Social Security, The Drowsy Chaperone (first national tour); Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company; Manhattan Theatre Club; Playwrights Horizons; The Public Theater; Second Stage Theater; Twin Cities: Martin Coren’s The Moneylender’s Daughter (Six Points Theater, world premiere)

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Erica Durham

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER National Tours: Into the Woods, The Color Purple; Regional: Into the Woods (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); The Color Purple (The Muny/Broadway Sacramento); How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts); Marie and Rosetta (Vermont Stage). FILM/TELEVISION A Bread Factory, Parts One and Two. TRAINING B.F.A., Musical Theatre, Penn State University. @_ericadurham (IG)

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Yvonne Freese

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER National Tours: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Time Bubble Tour and The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour; Regional: Juan Bobo, Two Wheel Tour (Open Eye Theatre); Rough Cuts (Nautilus Music-Theater); Rigoletto, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Really Spicy Opera); Razia’s Shadow, Jabberwock (Phantom Chorus Theatre); Fancy Nancy (Stages Theatre Company). FILM/TELEVISION Mystery Science Theater 3000; “Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes” (PBS). OTHER On-Field Correspondent, St. Paul Saints; Member, Writers Guild of America; “Coco's Barrio Podcast” (Teatro del Pueblo). TRAINING Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theater Institute; B.A., B.M.E., Northern State University. @yifreeze (IG), www.yvonnefreese.com

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Kiko Laureano

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Artistry: The Sound of Music; History Theatre: I Am Betty, Runestone! A Rock Musical; Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail the Musical; Theatre L’Homme Dieu: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Lyric Arts: Evita, Something Rotten!, The Revolutionists; Minnetonka Theatre: Joseph...; Lakeshore Players Theatre: Company; Mixed Blood Theatre: Autonomy. TEACHING Resident Teaching Artist, Children’s Theatre Company. TRAINING B.F.A., Musical Theatre, Indiana University. @klaureano (IG), www.kikolaureano.com

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Joey Miller

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Regional: The Prom, Footloose, Mamma Mia!, Holiday Inn, Newsies, Beauty and the Beast (Chanhassen Dinner Theatres); Songs for a New World (Artistry); Chicago (Theater Latté Da); West Side Story, A Chorus Line, White Christmas, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees (Ordway). DIRECTING/CHOREOGRAPHY The Hive Collaborative: Mood Swings; History Theatre: The Boy Wonder; Theatre L’Homme Dieu: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: The Prom; Old Log Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide...; Artistry: Shrek. UPCOMING Rent (Artistry). TRAINING B.F.A., Musical Theatre, Viterbo University; Massage Therapy, CenterPoint Massage & Shiatsu. www.jdmbodywork.com

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T. Mychael Rambo

GUTHRIE A dozen productions since 1995, most notably Crowns and Caroline, or Change. THEATER Tours: Porgy and Bess, The Wiz, Dreamgirls; Regional: Carnegie Hall; Arena Stage; Houston Opera; Opera Omaha; Europe: Paléo Festival (Switzerland, Germany and France); Twin Cities: Penumbra Theatre, Illusion Theater, Ordway, Ten Thousand Things, Theater Latté Da, Mixed Blood Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company. FILM/TELEVISION Justice, Crossing the Bridge, The Cure, The Wooly Boys, Grumpy Old Men, The Mighty Ducks; “Laurel Avenue” (HBO miniseries), “Equinox.” AWARDS Three Regional Emmy Awards; Two McKnight Artist Fellowships; Sally Ordway Irvine Award

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Will Roland

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: Be More Chill, Dear Evan Hansen; New York/Regional: Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals); The Black Suits (Center Theatre Group/Barrington Stage Company). FILM/TELEVISION “Billions,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Foul Play.” OTHER Cabaret: Joe Iconis & Family, Loser Songs. AWARDS 2017 Grammy Award; 2018 Emmy Award; Two Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards; 2018 Clive Barnes Award Finalist. @actually_will_roland (IG), @will_roland (X)

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Alan Menken

is an American composer, songwriter, conductor, director and record producer best known for his work on films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and Pocahontas (1995) each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1987), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007) and Tangled (2010), among others. Onstage hits include Little Shop of Horrors (1982), A Christmas Carol (1994) and Sister Act (2009). With eight Academy Award wins, Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories. He has also won 11 Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, an Emmy Award, seven Golden Globe Awards and many other honors.

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Denise Prosek

GUTHRIE Into the Woods; Associate: Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, My Fair Lady. THEATER Composer/Lyricist: I Am Betty; Theater Latté Da (Co-Founder): Chicago, Twelve Angry Men, Ragtime; Children’s Theatre Company: A Year With Frog and Toad, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Peter Pan; Park Square Theatre: The Pirates of Penzance, The Color Purple; Theater Mu: Again, Into the Woods. OTHER Founder of Prosody, a songwriting collaborative; TPT’s “Minnesota Original.” AWARDS 2013–2014 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow; 2012 Lavender Theater Artist of the Year; Best Music Director for Evita, Parade and Gypsy. TRAINING B.Mus., Piano Performance, St. Olaf College

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Marcia Milgrom Dodge

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: Ragtime (revival); Off-Broadway: Closer Than Ever, Romance in Hard Times; Regional (selected): The Kennedy Center; Arena Stage; Bay Street Theater; The Cape Playhouse; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Cleveland Play House; Drury Lane Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Olney Theatre Center; Pittsburgh Public Theater; The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Muny. FILM/TELEVISION Appears as herself on “Encore!” (Disney+); Choreographed The Muppets in an Emmy-winning episode of “Sesame Street.” OTHER Tokyo Disneyland’s 40th Anniversary Parade “Harmony in Color”; CCM Honors Stephen Flaherty (Carnegie Hall); The Music Man (Glimmerglass/Royal Opera House). AWARDS Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire and Edgar Award nominations; Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes, Jeff, LA Drama Critics Circle and Carbonell Awards. @marciamilgromdodge (IG)

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Lex Liang

GUTHRIE Shane, Vietgone, Emma. THEATER Off-Broadway: 50+ productions; Regional (selected): Actors Theatre of Louisville; Alliance Theatre; Asolo Rep; Cleveland Play House; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Dallas Theater Center; Denver Center; Geva Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; Long Wharf Theatre; Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Paper Mill Playhouse; Pasadena Playhouse; Portland Center Stage; Syracuse Stage; Woolly Mammoth. OTHER Founder/Owner of LDC Design Associates, an experiential event design and production company in New York City; Recent projects/clients include Absolut Vodka, Johnson & Johnson, Invesco, The Kardashians, Tony Awards Gala, NY Fashion Week, NYC Wine & Food Festival and William Hill Winery. www.lexliang.com

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Sully Ratke

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Chicago-based theatermaker and associate of Lookingglass Theatre Company who has been working around the country in theaters such as Steppenwolf (Chicago), The Muny and The Repertory Theater of St. Louis (St. Louis), McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton), Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa), Arkansas Repertory Theatre (Little Rock) and KCRep (Kansas City). AWARDS Her costume work has been nominated for multiple awards in Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Atlanta. @sully.ratke (IG), www.sullyratke.com

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Allen Lee Hughes

GUTHRIE The Importance of Being Earnest; Crowns; Once in a Lifetime; Ah, Wilderness!; You Can’t Take It With You; Big White Fog; Death of a Salesman; Fantasio. THEATER Broadway: Topdog/Underdog, Ohio State Murders, A Soldier’s Play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park, Having Our Say, Mule Bone, Once on This Island, K2, Strange Interlude, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Quilters; Regional: A.C.T.; Arena Stage; Seattle Rep; Goodman Theatre; Mark Taper Forum; Roundabout Theatre Company; Playwrights Horizons. AWARDS Four Tony nominations; Outer Critics Circle Award; USITT Distinguished Achievement Award; Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration; Two Helen Hayes Awards; The BIPOC Fellowship at Arena Stage bears his name

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Matt Kraus

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: Liza’s at the Palace..., Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony; Off-Broadway: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 50 Shades! The Musical, Fat Camp, Lone Star Love, Cam Jansen, Voca People; Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse; The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Walnut Street Theatre; Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Barrington Stage Company; Ogunquit Playhouse; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. FILM/TELEVISION Audio Coordinator: “The Tonight Show” remote shoots; NBA’s “2020 Reboot Bubble.” OTHER The Spotlight Bar; Stage Struck for Princess Cruises; Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Yuletide Celebration. AWARDS Daytime Emmy Award (“Disney’s Broadway Hits at Royal Albert Hall”). TRAINING B.F.A., Theater, University of Cincinnati CCM

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Carla Steen

GUTHRIE More than 85 productions since 1996; Musicals include Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Sunday in the Park With George, The Cocoanuts, The Pirates of Penzance, Martin Guerre and Sweeney Todd.THEATER Dramaturgy: The Acting Company; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

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Keely Wolter

GUTHRIESkeleton Crew,Dial M for Murder,'Art',For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, Noura, The Great Leap. THEATERTheater Latté Da: Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Five Points, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Lullaby, Sweeney Todd, All Is Calm; Jungle Theater: Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Is Edward Snowden Single?,The Wickhams, Miss Bennet, Lone Star Spirits, Le Switch, Constellations; Penumbra Theatre: benevolence, Wedding Band; Minnesota Opera: The Fix. TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Viterbo University

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Lori Lundquist

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: For the People, Into the Woods, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA); MCC Theater; Vineyard Theatre; Signature Theatre; Shakespeare in the Park; Roundabout Theatre Company; Playwrights Horizons; Second Stage Theater; Minetta Lane Theatre; NYTW; NYSAF; Regional: Ford’s Theatre; Ordway; Hartford Stage; Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Theatre Center; Alley Theatre; Trinity Rep; KCRep. OPERA MN Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera. TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University

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Jason Clusman

GUTHRIE Stage Manager/Assistant Stage Manager: Nearly 50 productions, most recently including the History Plays,A Christmas Carol and Shane. THEATER History Theatre; Ten Thousand Things; Theater Latté Da; The Moving Company; Shapiro & Smith Dance; Quicksilver Productions; Three Legged Race Productions; Playwrights’ Center; Penumbra Theatre; Minnesota Centennial Showboat; Walker Art Center: Ocean. OTHER North Star Events, including implementing COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts for the state of Minnesota and 2023 inauguration events for Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. TRAINING B.A., University of Minnesota

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Matthew Meeks

GUTHRIE The Importance of Being Earnest,Into the Woods,SITI Company’s The Bacchae, A Christmas Carol (2019), Incurable: A Fool’s Tale (A Guthrie Experience 2017), Disgraced (intern). THEATER American Players Theatre: Hamlet, The River Bride, The Gift of the Magi, A Doll’s House, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Heartbreak House, Exit the King; Ten Thousand Things: The Hatmaker's Wife,Mlima'sTale;Artistry:The Sound of Music; Illusion Theater: In This Moment...Now. MUSIC Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Yuletide Celebration(2022); Minnesota Orchestra: Home for the Holidays (2018).TRAINING B.S.B., University of Minnesota

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Jason Hansen

GUTHRIE Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls. THEATER Theater Latté Da: 18 productions, including Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bernarda Alba, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Little Night Music, Once and Assassins; Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail, Cinderella, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Sneeches; Mixed Blood Theatre; Ten Thousand Things; Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Northern Sky Theater; Ordway; Illusion Theater; Artistry; TigerLion Arts; Open Eye Theatre; Jungle Theater. OTHER Diary of a Wimpy Kid (album); Composer/Orchestrator. AWARDS MN Theater Award for Exceptional Performative Direction (Assassins at Theater Latté Da). www.jasonhansen.com

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Howard Ashman

was a pivotal creative mind behind the Disney Renaissance from 1989 to 1999 with films such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, which is dedicated to Ashman (“To our friend, Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul”). His first love was theater; he was a founder of off-off-Broadway’s renowned WPA Theatre, where he conceived, wrote and directed God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as well as Little Shop of Horrors (both with music by Alan Menken). In 1986, he wrote and directed the Broadway musical Smile (music by Marvin Hamlisch). In his short career, Ashman received many awards, including an Outer Critics Circle Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Little Shop of Horrors; two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast; and multiple Grammy Awards.

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Annie Enneking

GUTHRIESkeleton Crew,History Plays,A Raisin in the Sun.THEATER Fight Direction: She Kills Monsters, Troilus and Cressida (UMN); Man of La Mancha, Cabaret (Theater Latté Da); Hand to God, Noises Off (Jungle Theater); Of Mice and Men, Cyrano (Park Square Theatre); Cambodian Rock Band, Man of God (Theater Mu); Antigonick, Anon(ymous) (Full Circle); Hamlet, Macbeth (Shakespearean Youth Theatre); Intimacy Direction: Extremities, Fool for Love (Dark & Stormy Productions); Bernhardt/Hamlet (Theatre Pro Rata); Life Sucks (Girl Friday). MUSIC Founder of the band Annie and the Big Bang. TEACHING Stage Violence, University of Minnesota. AWARDS Grants: MSAB; MRAC; Jerome Foundation; 2010 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship

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Jennifer Liestman

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including the History Plays,Dial M for Murder,'Art',For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Murder on the Orient Express, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISIONCasting Consultant:Master Servant. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Other universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead

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Chris Lutter

GUTHRIE The Winter’s Tale. THEATER Designer, inventor, theatermaker and community educator whose work revolves around the design, construction and performance of puppets, masks, props, costumes, theatrical inventions, kinetic sets and interactive sculptural installations. He produces art predominantly from waste-stream materials, exploring the unique potentials inherent in the material. He is Artistic Director of Big Animal Productions, LLC, a scenic and public art production company based in the Seward neighborhood of South Minneapolis. TEACHING Minnesota State Arts Board; COMPAS Teaching Artist. AWARDS 2006 Bush Artist Fellowship; 2008 Public Art Saint Paul Sustainable Practices Fellowship; 2012 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship; 2014 Forecast/McKnight Professional Development Grant. www.christopherlutter.com