Artistic Staff 

Michelle Storm
Playwright/Producer

At 19, Michelle Storm was a National Young Playwrights' Festival finalist in
NYC where she received a staged reading of her first full length play, ROWDY BOYD, at Playwrights' Horizons, directed by Mark Brokaw and featuring Martha Plimpton.  She performed in, wrote, and directed various productions at Hamline University, St. Paul, where she received a B.A. in Theater and English. For ten years, she has been a licensed teacher in local public schools.  Michelle has taught acting and movement to children of all ages, and has served as a drama coach in her community.  The playwright was born in Honolulu and lived in San Fransisco and Germany, but spent most of her childhood along the bluffs and banks of the Mississippi in Red Wing, Minnesota.  She currently lives with her husband and two children near St. Paul.

Advisory Board

Clark Cruikshank
Performer/Producer 

A member of Minnesota's theatrical community since 1990, by way of Illinois and California, Clark Cruikshank is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.  As a performer, he has been seen at the History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, and the Illusion Theater, as well as national touring productions of THE ODD COUPLE and THE FANTASTICKS.  In his five years with Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, Minnesota, he served in a variety of creative and administrative roles, including Managing Director, Producing Director and Artistic Associate.  Clark will next appear this fall in BEYOND THE RAINBOW at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, Florida.

Delta Giordano
Performer

Delta Giordano is a Core Member of the Artistic Staff at Theatre Unbound since in 2004. Besides her work at Theatre Unbound, she has appeared on such Twin Cities stages as Park Square Theatre, Illusion Theater, Teatro del Pueblo, Minnesota Jewish Theatre Co. and at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, among others.  Ms. Giordano was most recently seen in Nimbus' Death and the Maiden. A native Californian, she was a member of the Company of Angels in Los Angeles and the Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbaraand is a graduate of L.A. City College Theatre Academyand U.C. Santa Barbara. Delta is currently the coordinator for the Minnesotabranch of BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools).


Ernest Grumbles, III
Attorney

Ernest Grumbles is a trial lawyer at the Minneapolis based law firm Merchant & Gould, in patent and trademark litigation.  He has handled numerous intellectual property disputes in federal courts around the United States.  He has also spoken and written on various patent and trademark issues. Ernest holds a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His professional affiliations include the Minnesota State Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.   In addition to his legal duties, he is also a musician in local band, The New Nationals.

Allison Moore
Playwright

Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis where she is a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center.  Her plays include END TIMES (2007 Kitchen Dog Theater); AMERICAN KLEPTO (2006 Illusion Theater, Fresh Ink Series); Hazard County (2005 Humana Festival); EIGHTEEN (2001 O'Neill Playwrights' Conference); URGENT FURY (2003 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Mentor: Marsha Norman); (2003 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Mentor: Marsha Norman); and COW TOWN and SPLIT (Guthrie Theatre commissions).  Her work has been read or produced on such stages as The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theater Club, Actors Express, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Meadows Basement, the Drilling Company and The Playwrights’ Center; and developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Madison Rep, Portland Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the Themantics Group, among others. She is a two-time Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a McKnight Advancement Grant recipient, and most recently, a Bush Foundation Fellow. 


Troy Storm
Financial Trader

Troy Storm is a Senior Financial Trader at Securian Financial Services, a subsidiary of Minnesota Life, in St. Paul.  Before that time he worked for nearly ten years as a Financial Broker-Trader for Ziegler.  He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, with a degree in Business and Economics.  Troy is also an avid cyclist, frequently training and competing on local roads and at the track.  For Bridge, he has served as a dedicated technical assistant, set builder and painter, and financial advisor.  A native of St. Louis Park, he now lives in Woodbury with Founding Producer Michelle Storm and their two children, Ethan and Elisabeth. 

Laura Zabel
Arts Administrator

Laura Zabel currently serves as Executive Director at Springboard for the Arts,
providing management and career services to artists and arts managers of all disciplines and at all stages of their careers. Laura has worked in the non-profit arts sector for over 10 years. She is a nationally-known specialist and advocate of health care for individual artists.  In addition to her work at Springboard, Laura is an actor in the Twin Cities and has worked with companies such as Theatre in the Round and the Brave New Workshop.  Previously, she was the Program Director for the Twin Cities Unified Theatre Auditions and the Development Manager at COMPAS.  Laura wrote the play DREAMING FOR REAL for Climb Theatre and the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office.  She  has been awarded one of five national “Emerging Leader” scholarships from Americans for the Arts and also serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO).  Laura has an undergraduate degree in Theatre from the University of Kansas where she now serves on the Professional Advisory Board for the Department of Theatre & Film.