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Leah Cooper, Co-Creative Manager* (she/her), has been directing, producing, and managing in theater for over 30 years. Locally, she has directed for Park Square Theatre, History Theatre, Commonweal Theatre, Gremlin Theater, 20% Theatre, Theatre in the Circular, Shakespearean Youth Theatre, The Playwrights Center, and for the Breaking Ice (variety and inclusion) program at Pillsbury Firm & Theatre. She was the first Executive Director of the MN Theater Alliance serving over 450 theaters across the land, co-founding partner at MinnesotaPlaylist.com, and Executive Manager at the MN Fringe Festival. Leah is also a facilitator and consultant in community engagement and organizational development, and she serves on the board of directors for the Section of Public Transformation, an artist-led arrangement that works locally and relationally to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places. Prior to working full fourth dimension in the arts, she spent 10 years in the corporate sector equally a software engineer and business organisation consultant. Other loves include gardening, cooking, yoga, bicycling, and hanging out with good friends. She's done a broad multifariousness of things, but the unifying theme to her passion is inclusive creativity and creative inclusivity, and her favorite quote is, "In a gentle manner, you tin milk shake the world." – Mohandas Gandhi

Rosie Tabachnick, Managing Assistant (she/her), joined Wonderlust in the summer of 2021 as the product manager for Hopscotch. Rosie is a performer, managing director, and all-around problem solver. She is interested in experimental performance, new works, mending & repair, and listening to the radio. In addition to her work with Wonderlust, you can take hold of Rosie making theater in the Twin Cities with Commutator Collective and The Virginia Twins.

Ensemble

Becky Dale, Ensemble Member (she/her), was the composer of original music for Wonderlust'sCapitol Play Project. She also participated as a community fellow member in theAdoption Play Project and theOverachiever Web Series. Other community-engaged theater work she has done includes composing music for Cornerstone Theater Company'due south touring product of California The Tempest, Cornerstone'south downtown LA production of Attraction, and founding, producing and composing for the Westward Side Theater Project, a community-engaged effort that staged three shows: The West Side on the S Side, Phanton of the Kitchen, and Once Upon a River. Some of her other Theater composing credits include Nautilus Music Theater'south Sis Stories, 10 Thousand Things Theater'south The Furies and Caucasian Chalk Circle. Geva Theater, the Playwright's Center and others accept as well performed her piece of work. Her theatrical scores include settings of Brecht, Aeschylus, and several living playwrights, Alison Carey, Naomi Wallace, and Folio Leong amongst them. Nautilus' Composer Librettist Studio and Wesley Balk Opera Music Theater Institute, Cornerstone Theater Company'southward Institute, and several years report with composer Libby Larsen were foundational experiences in her creative journey. She is as well a autobus, a parent, a bicycler and on staff at Minnesota Communities Caring for Children.

Gabrielle Dominique, Ensemble Member (she/her), performed in Wonderlust'sCapitol Play ProjectandOverachiever Web Series.She is a 2017 graduate of St. Olaf College, where she earned bachelor'south degrees in Dance and Theatre. A South Minneapolis native, she has worked professionally in the Twin Cities as a teaching creative person for four years. She has had the privilege of sharing her work as a performer with several companies including Flying Pes Forum, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater, Perspectives Theater, Playwrights Center, Artistry, Theater Latté Da, Ordway Heart for the Performing Arts and Guthrie Theater.

Zeb Hults, Ensemble Member (he/him), was the technical director for Wonderlust'due southCapitol Play Projection and the breathtaking designer for theAdoption Play Projection.He is a contempo transplant to Minneapolis from New York Metropolis and Connecticut. He has worked every bit Breathtaking Designer and/or Technical Director on every Wonderlust bear witness produced so far. Locally, Zeb has also worked as Technical Manager or Stage Manager for Theatre Novi Virtually, Eclectic Border Ensemble, Maple Grove HS, Circus Juventas, and Mad Munchkin Productions. He is currently the Assistant Technical Director for the Theatre Arts & Trip the light fantastic Dept. at the University of Minnesota. During his viii years in NYC, he worked Off-Broadway, in the theatre/upshot/mode industry, and traveled across the country for a pattern firm, installing large-scale seasonal displays for casinos. In CT, he worked for the Goodspeed Opera Business firm, was the Technical Managing director for the Greater Hartford University of the Arts in Hartford, CT and as a Project Manager for Global Scenic Services in Bridgeport, CT.

Megan Kim, Ensemble Member (she/her), Megan Kim is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy-Los Angeles. She spent 9 years interim and singing in LA performing at diverse venues such as the Ford Amphitheatre and Fullerton Civic Light Opera, before returning to the Twin Cities. She is a company member with Wonderlust Productions. She performed in In My Center: The Adoption Play Project, Our House: The Capitol Play Project and theOverAchievers Web Series and was the banana director forLook Once again: The Normandale Play Project. Other theatre credits include: Artistry, Smartmouth Comedy, Freshwater Theatre, Theatre Unbound and Nautilus Music-Theater. She besides performs with Pillsbury House + Theatre's Breaking Ice plan.

Kari Olk, Ensemble Member (she/her), stage managedThe Capitol Play Project and was the product manager forThe Overachievers Webseries. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in performing arts and social justice in 2015. She has been directing and interim in plays since she was a kid. As an developed she has stage managed with the Academy of Minnesota BFA/Guthrie Preparation Program, assistant directed with Theatre Latté Da, and run programming for Twin Cities Theater Camp, and Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. She currently works at Pillsbury House + Theatre as the manager of the Chicago Avenue Project. Kari believes in theater that generates new ideas, empowers new voices and sparks creativity.

Oogie Push, Ensemble Member (She/Her/We), is a member of the Meskwaki Nation well-nigh Tama, Iowa. She received an MFA in Theatre: Blueprint & Engineering science from Academy of Missouri-Kansas Urban center. She'south been a working Actor in the Twin Cities for 5 years, and she can also exist found performing with Wonderlust Productions, Theatre Unbound, Total Circle Theater, Pillsbury Business firm + Theatre'due south Breaking Water ice, and anyone else who invites her to do a staged reading or functioning. She initially got into theatre to smash stereotypes of Native Americans and to tell Native stories from a Native perspective. Simply it was only recently that Oogie began to write her own personal stories for the phase and internet. She and other actors have performed her stories at Pangea World Theatre, Park Foursquare Theatre's Andy Boss Phase, The Guthrie Theatre's McGuire Proscenium, the Minneapolis American Indian Centre, and at MIA. For non being an admitted fan of Shakespeare, she has done King Lear, A Midsummer Night'southward Dream, R&J, Measure for Measure.  She nigh recently self-produced, directed, recorded, edited and starred in her own brusk grade picJust Continue Living which you can find at https://youtu.exist/u0Ur3OBnZpw and she currently manages 3 youtube channels: Oogie Push button, Auntie Oogie Presents:, & Theatre Talk (westward/Oogie). When she isn't acting or writing Oogie tin be institute weaving Meskwaki Twine Bags, dancing, playing with her cat Luna Grrl, communicable a theatre evidence, watching movies or binge watching television shows, because the next best thing to interim is watching other actors act.

Adam Whisner, Ensemble Member(he/him), performed in Wonderlust'sVeterans Play Project, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Adoption Play Project, Capitol Play Project, Dear Time to come Cocky at St. Thomas Academy,andOverachievers Spider web Series. Additionally, he has been a band leader, singer, and guitarist for all of our projects that featured live music. Adam has been a full-time actor in the Twin Cities since age twenty-5, doing theatre, corporate/educational video, and commercial TV, radio, and Web advertising. He's been the voice of dozens of local, regional, and national brands including Callaway, Papa Irish potato'due south Pizza, and the Minnesota Wild. Theatre credits include shows with Hey City Theater, History Theatre, Hidden Theatre, Eye of the Storm Theatre, xv Head: A Theatre Lab, The Commonweal, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Gremlin Theatre, Workhaus Collective, Joking Envelope, Loudmouth Commonage, Theatre Pro Rata, and Park Square Theatre. Adam took a hiatus from stagework in 2002 to focus on music, starting a few stone bands including Blacktop Bluecoat, which played around the Twin Cities' rock club scene. He's too an avid motorcyclist, a lifelong passion. His stage acting has been recognized in Lavender Mag and Urban center Pages, where he was named Best Thespian in Urban center Pages' 2016 "All-time of the Twin Cities" almanac review. Today Adam balances his acting life with work for Pillsbury Firm + Theatre'due south "Breaking Ice" variety, equity, and inclusion education program.

Lath

East.G. Bailey, Lath Member (he/his), recently named one of Filmmaker magazine'due south 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and a McKnight Media Artist Beau, is an Ivey laurels-winning artist, filmmaker, director and producer. He is the recipient of a regional Emmy, LIN travel grant, and the Hughes, Diop, Knight Poetry Accolade from the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference. His work is featured in the Target Art Connects commercial, at present archived at the Museum of Modernistic Fine art (NYC). He was an editor for the film,Petting Zoo, which debuted at the 65th International Berlin Film Festival. Bailey has directed and assisted plays for well-known production houses, such as: The Guthrie, Pillsbury Firm, and Children'due south Theater. Titles include: Othello, Amiri Baraka'southward Wise Why's, Juno and the Paycock, The Blood brother Size, and Sha Muzzle's Due north-Discussion and U/One thousand/Fifty/Y. He is the co-founder of Tru Ruts Endeavors,  MN Spoken Give-and-take Clan, and the One thousand thousand Artist Movement. Bailey's written works have been published in Solid Ground, the millennial issue of Drumvoices Revue, Warpland, a publication by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center, and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota, an anthology.  His latest piece of work includes the co-curation of America Now!, a special film project which has taken place at the Tampere Film Festival in Republic of finland, Latvia and others; and his film,New Neighbors, premiered at the 2017 Sundance flick festival, and has been won numerous awards and screened at over 100 festivals globe-wide.

Mary Beidler Gearen, Board Member (she/her) is an award-winning theater actor, manager and producer. She is a trustee at the College of Wooster, in Ohio, and serves locally on the boards of Playwrights' Eye and the Summit Loma Association. Mary received a Drama Desk Award every bit a coproducer of Latte Da's "All is Calm – the Christmas Truce of 1914," in its off-Broadway run. She has a brand new musical, "SKATES – the Musical" on "Covid hold" in Chicago. Mary has enjoyed film and commercial piece of work, and enjoys editing/opining on scripts, screenplays and books. She favors new work development in all aspects of her career and supports numerous Twin Cities arts organizations that create information technology. Mary loves to travel and does so with gusto whether towing her tiny Scamp travel trailer to the national parks, exploring the Scottish Highlands, or delving into the canyons of New York Urban center. She looks forward to learning more near the Wonderlust odyssey.

Marianne Combs, Board Fellow member (she/her) is a veteran public radio announcer, with more than 20 years experience covering the Minnesota arts scene. In 2020 she was named Announcer of the Year by the Minnesota chapter of the Club for Professional Journalists, and has won multiple awards for her investigative reporting. She is specially interested in the areas where the arts intersect with social justice. Currently she is the Managing News Editor for "Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice," a collaboration between KMOJ, Ampers Radio for Diverse Communities and the Minnesota Humanities Center.

Erica Fields, Board Member (she/her), an adoptee who was a performer in the Adoption Play Project, is a business possessor, entrepreneur and a theatre artist. Erica was President and majority owner of her grain marketing firm, Brooks Grain, LLC, which she started in 2007 subsequently working in the grain industry since 1974. She recently sold her concern to her nephew who will carry on the family business. She now has a consulting firm, Fields Consulting, LLC, which works with clients in the surface area of DE&I. Erica is a transgender woman, and successfully transitioned her gender in 2010. With a thoughtful plan and peachy support from family, friends and colleagues, she was able to consummate this transition smoothly and maintains her active roles in her business and theatre careers. Erica has been on the boards of several Twin Cities not-profits, including 20% Theatre Company, a Theatre Visitor which promotes the work of women and transgender artists, Minnesota Trans Health Coalition, Quorum, the Twin Cities GLBT Sleeping accommodation of Commerce, and Gender Justice, a local non-profit that works to promote gender equality. She besides has served equally an advisory board member for Reclaim!, a nonprofit providing counseling to trans youth and their families, every bit a mentor. Erica is active in Rotary International, and is a Past President of the Minneapolis University Rotary Social club and currently serves every bit an Banana Governor for her Rotary Commune. Erica was one of the co-founders of TransParentDay.org, which promotes the commencement twenty-four hour period of November as a 24-hour interval to celebrate being a transgender parent without the concerns of the stereotypes of gender. A native of Edina Minnesota, Erica is a graduate of Edina High School, and Gonzaga University. Erica recently relocated to Louisville, KY where she lives with her wife Patience. In Louisville, she is a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville and serves on the board of the Fund for the Arts.

Kevin Lindsey, Lath Member (he/him), who we met through the CAPITOL PLAY Projection, was also a participant and performer in the OVERACHIEVERS Web SERIES. Kevin is currently the CEO of the Minnesota Humanities Heart. Prior to that, he was appointed commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Homo Rights in February 2011. He has over 25 years of experience in resolving complex legal and public policy questions as an chaser within individual law firms, an executive in business organisation, and in the public sector with the Office of the Ramsey Canton Attorney. In announcing his appointment, Governor Marker Dayton chosen Kevin ideally suited for the position, and said, "Kevin is a respected lawyer and advocate with deep feel in the customs working on issues of fairness in the workplace and in the community. He will be a strong, professional person voice in the Dayton Administration." The section is responsible for enforcing the Minnesota Homo Rights Act. The jurisdiction of the agency is broad, covering subject field thing areas such as public accommodations, public services, business contracting, housing, education, and employment. In the area of employment, the agency investigates approximately 400 charges of employment discrimination, audits approximately 500 employers regarding their equal employment and equal pay practices, and investigates 100 ban-the-box complaints on an annual ground. Kevin received his JD and BA from the University of Iowa, where as a student he served as editor-in-master of the Iowa Law Review. Commissioner Lindsey was recently honored by his alma mater with the 2017 Iowa Law Review Distinguished Alumni Award.

Ned Rousmaniere, Board Member (he/his) is a behavioral consultant for organizations. He earned a Master's degree in clinical social work at the University of Minnesota (1984). Subsequently several years as a child and family therapist, his professional focus turned to workplaces. Equally a advisor and consultant, he'southward helped employees and leaders meliorate workplace satisfaction and effectiveness despite common challenges like alter, conflict, and doubt. He's supported all of MN state government for 20 years, with previous experiences at Honeywell, Wells Fargo, and the US Mail. In 2017- 2018 he participated in WLP'southward Capitol Play Project . Previously, his school-aged daughter dragged him into a couple of plays, including one produced past customs-based theater company Cornerstone Theater. That experience inspired Ned, and he's been thrilled to build on information technology through WLP. Ned also gardens and bikes around town. After four decades away from sailing, he recently returned to the sport thanks to a pocket-size styrofoam boat that resembles a picnic cooler with a colorful imprint for a sail.

Sarah Tan, Lath Member (she/her) is an artist educator and deviser born and raised in Singapore. She has a B.A. in Theatre Arts and concentration in Education Studies from Carleton College, an M.F.A. in Theatre for Youth and Community from Arizona State University, and is a certified Trauma Support Specialist. Her background is in modern dance, physical theatre, professional theatre, and drama education. As a scholar, she has researched digital creations with young people, the performance of identity, and the intersection between the performing arts and healing trauma. Currently, she is a freelance creative person educator in Due north America in the physical and online space. Learn more about what she'due south up to at www.sarahtanhy.com.

*Leah Cooper and Alan Berks are the founders of Wonderlust Productions and are active ensemble and board members.

Cheers to our founding board members!

Julie Guidry, Upstream Arts
Ashley Hanson, Place Base Productions and Department of Public Transformation
Wu Chen Khoo, Technical Tools of the Merchandise
Jack Reuler, Mixed Blood Theater
Maren Ward, zAmya Theater Projection
Harry Waters, Jr., Macalester Academy

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