Arts Learning
Early Professionals program
Funding for Walking ShadowÆs Early Professionals program providing immersive hands-on experience with mentors for theatre students in middle school through college during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons.
Thomas Suprenant: Program Director, Sounds of Hope; Patty Richardson: Development Associate, Partnership Resources; Victoria Lauing: Managing Director, Chicago Ave Fire Arts Center; Sheila Terryll: Principal, Strategic Development for Nonprofits; Kathleen Spehar: Managing Director, History Theatre at Os'haughnessy Auditorium; Catherine Callahan; Dudley Voigt: Coordinator, Minneapolis FLOW Festival; Merilee Klemp: Augsburg Quintet; Jodi Eisland: Public Health Consultant.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Education
To deepen each student's particular interest area within theatrical production and expose them to the entire production process in a mentor/mentee relationship with theater professionals.Each mentor/mentee pairing will establish formalized goals and conduct progress reports throughout the process.
Seven early-career theater artists learned directing, producing, and stage managing skills, and determined next steps for themselves as a result of this mentorship program.
Other, local or private