Creative Support for Individuals-Round 1

Taylor Fischer: Fischer has worked as education intern for the Children's Theatre Company and Merrill Arts Center where she assistant taught classes to youth. She graduated from Portland State University with a BA in theater and a minor in film. She has a strong knowledge of both media arts and theater due to her educational background.; Serena Hodges: serena violet hodges (they/them/theirs) is a documentary cinematographer and filmmaker based in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. serena holds a B.A. in documentary production from DePaul University in Chicago. serena's work has appeared on ESPN, Netflix, and PBS. serena recently worked as Director of Photography on Smriti Mundra's docu-series: Bollywood Fusion (working title). They were also a Visual Communications Armed with a Camera fellow in 2020. ; Stephen Kingsbury: Kingsbury is a dynamic and exciting conductor and educator who is dedicated to inspiring students and audiences alike through impassioned performances and a deep commitment to choral excellence. Kingsbury serves as director of choral activities and professor of music at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Kingsbury holds both a BA in music teaching and a MA in teaching degree from the University of New Hampshire, as well as a MA of music performance degree in conducting from Boston University, and a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL).; Kelly Lundquist: Kelly Foster Lundquist teaches writing at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park. A nonfiction writer, her work has appeared in Image Journal, Good Letters, Patheos, and The Academy Stories. She has an MA in English from Mississippi College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. Lundquist is on the Central Minnesota Arts Board's Teaching Artist Roster and leads a weekly Writers Open Studio at the Monticello Arts Initiative. ; Emily Winn: Winn is a dancer and dance teacher with experience in ballet, modern, and jazz. She performed with Twin Cities Ballet and Borealis Dance (a modern company in Minneapolis) from 2014 to 2017, and currently teaches at Ballet Royale. She graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA) at the age of eighteen with her BA in writing and linguistics, where she studied creative nonfiction, short stories, and poetry. She also has a love for community theater and musicals and has performed in and/or choreographed for several, including The Music Man, The King and I, and Anything Goes.