Project Grant Round 1
Project Grant Round 1
BCT's summer 2025 production of the musical "Urinetown"
Gretchen Boulka: Chair, Director of Performing Arts at Paramount Center for the Arts, arts administrator with background in development, special events, program management, marketing and communications; musician, Association for Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) member, Minnesota Presenters Network board director; Buddy King: Vice Chair, St Cloud Playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, community youth arts initiatives; Louis Witt, Treasurer: BA and MA in Music Education, Conductor and musician for Community Bands, Musical Theatre and Orchestras, served as VP of Corporate Giving, past member and chair of MOST Ministries, serve on Advisory Council for Feed My Starving Children; Tom Berger, Secretary: Small Business Owner, AAA Courier Express, Waite Park; Producer, Production Manager, Designer with Belville Productions; Served in many capacities for the History Theatre in St. Paul including Managing Director, Educational Project Director, Tour Director, Production Manager, Designer; University of Minnesota, Theatre Arts, Classics, Geology; Deb Vander Eyk: visual artist, B.S. Arts Education, B.A. in Sociology/Research and an AA Degree in Advertising with a background in K-12 Art Education, community involvement research, nonprofit fundraising and programing; Eric Ellwoods: facilities manager, BA in Christian Ministry, history of involvement in choirs and community theater, member of Buffalo Community Theater board of directors.; Hans Lammeman: Assistant News Editor for Star Publications; columnist, lead reporter, and award-winning journalist for Benton County News; contributing writer for Sauk Rapids Herald and Benton Ag with a focus on human interest stories and community government coverage. BS in Sociology, University of Houston; Pat Thompson: Moorhead State University, BA in theater, Second City, Chicago, UND School of Law, Grand Forks, involved in numerous theater, workshops and performances, previous volunteer for GREAT Theatre Board of Directors, LaSemana Volunteer, St. Cloud District 742 Advisory Board, Career Solution Board of Directors; Abigail Nelson-Davis: visual artist, BA in Education, trauma informed children's advocate, involved in DEI committee, past educator in Taiwan.
Diana Klisch: artist, B.S. in Art Education from U of MN, Art K-12 Teacher Certification State of Minnesota, St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute, Commercial Art, various jobs and volunteer experience and practicing artist, past volunteer for Parents in the Arts, 4H, Sunday School teacher, after school and workshop leader/teacher, First United Methodist Church of the St Cloud doing Liturgical Artwork, Promise Neighborhood, St Cloud, MN, Art on a Roll workshop leader at Art in Motion, Holdingford, MN, past experience working with artists in residence, involved in creating murals; Su Legatt: B.A. Fine Art, Minnesota State University Moorhead, M.A. Fine Art, Utah State University, Interned at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, served as a Grant Panelist for Minnesota State Arts Board, South Dakota State Arts Board, Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program, served on various board for arts organizations and Commission for the Arts and Culture Commission of City of Moorhead, practicing Visual Artist and Social Practitioner; Heidi Kroll: B.A. in education from Augsburg College, all ages teaching experience, member of 4-H, I received blue ribbons at the Minnesota State Fair in photography and needle arts; Jeanne Blonigen: Municipal band member; Parish Choir member, Granite rotary member, Noon Optimists member; past employment - Paramount Center for the Arts - box office, College of St Benedict Theater - Costume department; Sydney Robinson: Assistant Director at Multicultural Student Services, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs, , Master of Science in Higher Education Administration St. Cloud State University, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing , College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Doctoral Graduate Assistant, Research and Assessment Support, Higher Education Administration, College of Education and Learning Design, serves on the College of Saint Benedict Alumnae Association Board of Directors, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Region IV-East Advisory Board, Minnesota State Coordinator, 2024 Region IV-East Conference Committee, Inclusion and Equity Chair, Center for Womxn in Student Affairs, Alice Manicur Symposium Cohort 2023, American Association of University Women, Association of Black Women in Higher Education, American College Personnel Association.
ACHF Arts Access
This project will increase theatrical knowledge and appreciation in the community. The proposed outcomes will be measured post show audience and participant surveys. Box office reports will provide attendance and demographic info.