Rich in the Arts

What are those theaters and who are those arts professionals that Mac students get to meet? Following is a list, by no means comprehensive, of some of the guest speakers and performances that have enriched our students’ educations.

Guest lecturers/instructors

Olive Bierenga, co-director, BodyCartography

Ranee Ramaswamy, artistic director, Ragamala Dance

Megan Flood, dancer and massage therapist working with cancer patients, Regions Hospital

Zenon Dance Company

Joshua Tobiessen, playwright, University of California-San Diego

Kurt Schweickhardt, actor/director, Meisner instructor, and theater director, Normandale Community College

Heidi Ricks, actor and occupational therapist

Bob Rosen, founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Shawn McConneloug and Bob Rosen, Studio 206, performance art incubator

Playwright Naomi Wallace, author of The Inland Sea, performed at Macalester in 2011

Michael Croswell, composer and musician, sound design, The Inland Sea

Lucinda Holshue, Guthrie Theatre dialect coach

Maria McNamara, professional properties designer

Annie Enneking, choreographer and certified fight artist

Renu Cappelli ’9, PhD in Performance Studies from UC–Berkeley and a Stanford Visiting Humanities Scholar

Isabel Nelson, artistic director and cofounder, Transatlantic Love Affair theatre company

Vladimir Rovinsky, cofounder, Theatre Novi Most

Sonja Kuftinec, professor of theatre and dance, University of Minnesota

Leif Jurgensen, Neighborhood BRIDGES Program, Minnesota Children’s Theatre

Amanda Friou ’03, assistant director of The Birds, Guthrie Theatre

Andrea Heilman ’02, professional scenic and lighting designer

Aditi Kapil ’94, playwright and director

Melissa Hart and David Anthony Brinkley, actors in the Guthrie Theatre production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Gulgun Kayim, Minneapolis director of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy

Performances

Ragamala Dance, Sacred Earth, The Cowles Center

Story/Time, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Walker Art Center

One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show, staged reading of a play by Aditi Kapil ’94, The Playwrights’ Center

Flesh and the Desert, The Playwrights’ Center

Crashing the Party, Mixed Blood Theatre Company

The Pride, Pillsbury House Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Guthrie Theatre

Hamlet, Jungle Theater

Neighbors, Mixed Blood Theatre

Two Trains Running, Penumbra Theater

Burial at Thebes, Guthrie Theater

Ajax in Iraq, Frank Theater, The Playwrights’ Center

Cunningham/Rauschenberg Exhibit, Walker Art Center

Three Artists, The Soap Factory

Art, Politics and Censorship Discussion, The Soap Factory

The Dvorak Project, Czech Cultural Center

Pedro Reyes: Baby Marx, Walker Art Center