Community Arts
Community Arts
"A Trip to Nerdville" - a new community theatre production. Funding to create and perform an original new community theatre musical production called, "A Trip to Nerdville" which will feature movie scenes and musical numbers from nerd classics like Star Trek, Dr. Who, Princess Bride, Holy Grail, and many more. The production is open to community members ages 10-100 and performances will take place at the Arts Garden in Hugo in April 2017.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Mary Jo Lewis: Artistic, administration; Nancy Anderson: Administration; Mary Beth King: Artistic, organizational development, administration; Sarah Wiechmann: Education, community education, youth programming; Tim Cooper: Artistic, computer systems, finance; Mandy Meisner: Audience development, artistic, fundraising; Sue Morgan: Artistic, volunteerism; Jeff Ambroz: Artistic, fundraising, administration; Florence Brammer: Administration.
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We hope to have 35 people participate in the cast of Nerdville and have an audience of 400. We hope to have 90% positive responses from cast in the areas of personal growth, improvement in performance skill, made new/deeper friendships, will return to do another Arts Garden show. We will count cast members and audience members. We will give an exit survey to all cast members.
*We exceeded our goals! We had 39 actors and 22 techies, costumers, volunteers participate. Our goal of 400 audience members was also exceeded as we had 527. *Audience exit surveys showed that 96% of respondents are likely to come back to Arts Garden and 68% are motivated to participate in a show in the future! *Actor surveys showed 95% positive in personal growth, fun and likeliness to return.
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