BRIDGE PRODUCTIONS
Building the Bridge...
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. Michelle learned play writing from Marisha Chamberlain (Augsburg College, U of M - Mpls.), John Olive (The Loft), and Kathleen Tolan (Playwrights' Center). For nearly ten years, she has been a licensed teacher in the 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.
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. A native Californian, she was a member of the Company of Angels in Los Angeles and the Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara and is a graduate of L.A. City College Theatre Academy and U.C. Santa Barbara. Delta is currently the coordinator for the Minnesota branch of BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools).
Ernest Grumbles, III
Attorney
Ernest Grumbles is a trial attorney at 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 numerous 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 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); 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.
Laura Zabel
Arts Administrator
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.
Please check back from time to time to find out who and what is new at Bridge as it continues to grow!
BRIDGE PRODUCTIONS is administered with support through a fiscal sponsorship arrangement with Springboard for the Arts.
BRIDGE PRODUCTIONS is the grateful recipient of grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (2007) and A Very Small Arts Fund (2008).
Current and Previous Guest Artists...
Readers and Actors
Andy Babinski
Heidi Berg
Alana Bloom
Henry Burns
Kyle Christopherson
Clark Cruikshank*
Kate Eifrig*
Charles Fraser*
Delta Giordano
Emma Gochberg
Eric Graves
Christina Frank
Jaclyn Johnson
Charity Jones*
Nashue Jordan
Cameron Hager
Jane Hammill
Megan Hickey
Molly Hickey
Reid Knuttila
Kathy Kupiecki
Shira Levinson
Kaia Natwick
Heather Ortiz
Simone Perrin
Carolyn Pool*
Randy Reyes*
Adam Sharp
Bethany Simmons
Ethan Storm
Scott Stromback
Caleb Van Ornum
Simon Wallace
Noah Warren
Christine Winkler
Laura Zabel
Anne Zager
*AEA
Directors, Designers,
Dramaturgs & Technical Support
Jason Allyn-Schwerin
Melonie Allyn-Schwerin
Terry Lynn Carlson
Aaron Chvatal
Zach Curtis
Maria Domeier
Paul Epton
Micki Fredin
Meredith Gillies
Gretchen Guenter
Montana Johnson
Tyler Lambert-Perkins
Allison Moore
Per Olson
Erik Paulsen
Mark Rosenwinkel
Karn Severson
Craig Steineck
Troy Storm
Leili Tajadod-Pritschet
Laura Wilhelm
Ryan Worthman
