Announcing Night of New Works 2017!

We're so proud to announce the participants of our annual Night of New Works project development series:

• Mark Sweeney: A Squid Has Three Hearts
• Scotty Reynolds: Dr. Falstaff and the Desperate Housewives of Lake County
• Eva Adderley & Jordan Lee Thompson: We Had a Second Bathroom

You can read more about each of their projects here!

Through the Night of New Works series, we will offer support to artists interested in creating new work for the stage and experimenting with collaborative processes. These three projects will receive artistic and production support from Savage Umbrella company members and collaborators. The public is invited to view the final presentations of the participants' work, as well as offer feedback through our signature audience conversations!

*** Mark your calendars: May 22, 23, 24, 2017 at 7:30 PM at The Southern Theater ***

“We're trying to create an environment where makers feel supported at every turn--to dream, to take risks, to try something for the first time," says Managing Director Hannah K. Holman. "We're excited to help these awesome artists add to their artistic/collaborative toolboxes, while providing some of the nuts-and-bolts producing that goes into a work-in-progress. Each of these projects reflect our values of conversation, and sensitivity to social, environmental, and historical context. We can't wait to get rolling!"

​Drumroll, please...

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Mark Sweeney
(Photo: Daniel Soderstrom)

MARK SWEENEY is a performer/composer/writer currently on the move from Northeast to South Minneapolis. Performing credits include Savage Umbrella, Actors Theater of Minnesota, Artistry, The Twin Cities Improv Festival, Troupe America, Bedlam, Toronto Fringe Festival and The New Century Theater. He is a proud Nautilus Music-Theater Composer-Librettist Studio collaborator. He has written music and lyrics for five original music-theater works including the sold out run of Into the Unreal City in the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Mark also created the podcast Twin Cities Song Story which focuses on new music written for local stages. He is a founding member of Perpetual Motion Theatre Company as well as Catalog Models with playwright and wife Gemma Irish.

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Scotty Reynolds
(Photo: Travis Chantar)

SCOTTY REYNOLDS' active career in performing arts includes directing, performing, and facilitating an ensemble of artists with disabilities at the Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts. As Producing Artistic Director of Mixed Precipitation, he has helmed the Picnic Operetta since inception. His 2008 production with Interact, Broken Brain Summit, won an Ivey Award for its innovative concept. He's toured as a performer and stage manager with Tiger Lion Arts and their outdoor production, Nature: A Walking Play, performing in arboretums in Minnesota, Illinois, and Ohio. He also directed the premiere of Swede Hollow Opera with award winning composer Anne Millikin and the Olympic season figure skating extravaganza, Tonya and Nancy: The Opera. 

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Eva Adderley

EVA ADDERLEY is a writer and designer from Iowa City, Iowa. She has a BFA in Metal Arts from the University of Iowa, with minors in Theater and English. Her plays have been performed in Minneapolis, New York City, Sydney, Cape Town, and several cities in Iowa. She was the winner of the 2013 International Student Playwright Award from the National Student Drama theater in Scarborough, England, and she was a presenting playwright at the 2015 Women Playwright’s International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked as a costume designer, props designer, set designer, scenic painter, children’s theater director, metalworker, muralist, and commission artist. She moved to Minneapolis last September, and has spent the last seven months working to get involved in the Twin Cities’ vibrant theater scene.

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Jordan Lee Thompson
Photo: Makeen Osman

JORDAN LEE THOMPSON is an art worker and educator who works in a variety of mediums including performance, installation, video production, projection, drawing, animation and other new media to combine his passions of participatory art, critical theory, sociology and storytelling. His work has included painting people onto mirrors, fabricating crowds, dating an imaginary woman, dancing with projections, and producing a soundtrack for lonely people. Jordan spends his days running the Youth Media Department at CTV North Suburbs, and serves as the Film Festival Coordinator for Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. Most recently, Jordan co-produced The Beginning of Things + Fictions as Creative Director of Dance & Other Behaviors. Jordan has also worked with organizations including James Sewell Ballet, the Minneapolis Television Network, and the Twin Cities Media Alliance. Jordan holds a BFA in Painting, a BA in Art History and Arts Management, and a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Iowa.

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See you under the umbrella!