Directed by Sasha Walloch

CAST

Ann Brummer (Company) -- Ann is making her debut at the Fringe Festival and with theatre in the Twin Cities. After receiving her BFA in theater from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Ann toured with Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre for 3 years as Actor/Director. She was promoted to Associate Director in 2001. Ann is excited to be working with Commedia Beauregard, director Sasha Walloch, and such sparkling, talented actors. Ann can be seen in It’s About Time Theater’s production of As You Like It this October.

Kate Greenwood Gunther (Company) -- Kate is currently a junior Theatre Major/Art Minor at the University of Minnesota. She is ridiculously jazzed to be making her Fringe Fest debut alongside such an amazing cast of women. Kate’s recent theatre credits include The Park, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Las Meninas, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. She plans to continue and expand her theatrical studies post graduation before venturing out into the divine and wonderfully frightening world of a life on the stage. Kate is originally from Milwaukee, is spending her first summer away in Minneapolis, and has yet to invest in an umbrella figuring that playing in the rain is more fun anyway.

Katie Kaufmann (Company) -- Katie Kaufmann has performed with various companies in the Twin Cities including Theatre de la Jeune Lune, The Guthrie Theater, Skewed Visons, Starting Gate Productions, Hardcover Theatre, Teatro del Pueblo, 3 Legged Race, and Off-Leash Area. Katie has a BA in Drama from Colorado College and is a graduate of the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre.

Kari Kelly (Company) -- Kari is excited to be returning to the Fringe Festival with this exciting project. She has worked as an actor, director, teacher and playwright in the Twin Cities area and the great regions of northern Minnesota for the past few years. Recent performance credits include Tallgrass Gothic (Emigrant Theater), The Tempest (Theatre Unbound), and Live Action Set’s Please Don't Blow Up Mr Boban (Best Experimental Theatre Piece-Star Tribune 2005). Her training includes the post-graduate classical acting program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, along with a B.A. degree in theatre and a minor in art history from Bemidji State University. Happy Fringe Festing everyone!

Markell Kiefer (Company) -- Markell has a BA in Religion and Environmental Ethics from Middlebury College and an MFA in Lecoq-based physical theatre from Naropa University. She trained for two years at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City and has performed and directed nationally. Markell created and produced The Buddha Prince, a play celebrating the life of the 14th Dalai Lama, which most recently performed in Minnehaha Park and then toured to Central Park in New York City. When Markell was 6 years old, she could stand on her head whilst riding a horse.

Katie Rose McLaughlin (Company) -- Katie Rose was born and raised in Minnesota where she first began dancing in her living room. After 11 years of formal ballet training at Ballet Arts Minnesota, she moved to NYC to attend the Joffrey/New School BFA program. She decided that she missed the sub-zero temperatures too much, so after two years she moved back to MN to pursue a dance degree at the University of Minnesota. There, she has the opportunity to study with various artists including Shawn McCanneloug, and Dana Hansen from Seattle’s 33 Fainting Spells. She has also trained with Pierre Byland at the Burlesk Center in Switzerland. In addition to going to school she also had the opportunity to perform with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in their productions of The Ballroom and Lettice and Loveage. Most recently Katie Rose performed in The Shoebox Tour with world-renowned object manipulation artists Erik Alberg and Jay Gilligan.

Jane Schrantz (Company) -- Jane has recently returned after three years in New York where she performed with Nymprovic, a locally produced improv company and played the Duchess of York in Richard II with Life and Death Productions. Other credits include being part of the ensemble cast of The Laramie Project and Mary in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as well as Catherine Petkoff in Arms in the Man, Monica Reed in Present Laughter and Lizzy Sweeney in Philadelphia, Here I Come at Monomoy Theater in Cape Cod.  Jane received her MFA in Acting at Ohio University where her favorite roles included Emilia in Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief, Mme Pernelle in Tartuffe, Margaret in Waiting for the Parade, Gogo in Waiting for Godot and the Rabbi & Hannah Pit in Angels in America: Millenium Approaches. She played Mrs. Loopner in Death of a Salesperson with Mystery Café Theater in her previous Minnesota life.

CREW

Stage Manager:  Fletcher Hirom
Sound Designer:  Rob Whithoff