Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Thoni will expand her playwriting practice into public space through the research and development of QUEEN B, a new play set in community gardens that invites audiences into a resilient future inspired by honeybees.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Jeffrey Bleam: Associate professor of costume design and directing, Saint Cloud State University; Julia Gay: Actor, dancer, playwright, and comedian; Rachel Haider: Performing arts manager, Northfield Arts Guild; founder and director, Purple Door Youth Theater program; Paul Herwig: Coartistic director, Off-Leash Area; Arts Board grantee; Rebecca Meyer-Larson: Theater arts, language arts and speech communications teacher, Moorhead High School; William Nour: Playwright; Arts Board grantee; Fathimath Eliza Rasheed: Multidisciplinary performance artist; director of school theater program; Arts Board grantee; Benjamin Thietje: Cofounder and coartistic director of DalekoArts in New Prague
ACHF Arts Access
Elle Thoni will expand and deepen her rehearsal-based playwriting process through the research/development of QUEEN B. I will revise and expand the process model I tailored for my 2017-2018 Puppet Lab Fellowship by conducting a nine month workshop-creation process with actors and musician, this time with an emphasis on my primary art of playwriting. 2: Elle Thoni will acquire new skills in engagement through learning how to site work in non-conventional outdoor spaces with community partners. I will take time to research/develop relationships with prospective partners under the mentorship of Scotty Reynolds, with whom I will have bi-monthly phone or in-person meetings.
Elle Thoni will expand and deepen her rehearsal-based playwriting process through the research and development of QUEEN B. Elle Thoni deepened her playwriting process, working with an originating cast of actors in the months leading up to the final showing. Additionally, Elle was able to spend significant time with composer Dameun Strange and learn from his process. 2: Elle Thoni will acquire new skills in engagement through learning how to site work in non-conventional outdoor spaces with community partners. Under the mentorship with Scotty Reynolds and the close partnership of Tamales y Bicicletas Urban Farm, Elle learned how to navigate an outdoor rehearsal process that respected the community gardeners, neighbors, and the garden itself.
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