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HOMEGROWN BY JEANNINE COULOMBE
Jeannine Coulombe's (THE MILL) new play HOMEGROWN explores the ways in which poverty and rural isolation stifles the creative impulses and artistic opportunities of a single mother and her children. Aspiring photographer Maryanne Durant has died in poverty, and her three thirty-something children, Charlee, Bobbi, and Russ come together in an impromptu reunion. Over the course of one long night these siblings compare notes over their inheritance: an enigmatic package of photographs that their mother has left each of them. Russ thinks there's a secret cash estate that Bobbi is hiding, and the conflict forces the three siblings to confront their own relationship with their mother and her art, the disparate ways in which their own creativity has been stymied, and ultimately, the true nature of their mother's final gift.
HOMEGROWN stars Jennifer Blagen, Miriam Schwartz, Katherine Kupiecki, Matthew Rein, and Adelin Phelps. It features light and projection design by Ian Knodel; sound design by Peter Morrow; costume design by Cole Allon Bylander; set design by Holly Wingingstad; and prop design by Matthew Gilbertson. The production also features original music by Matthew Rein and Jason Murray, and original photography by Amy Sundby Jeanchaiyaphum.
JEANNINE COULOMBE (Playwright) is a Minnesota native, playwright and theatre artist. Her original plays include Hummingbirds, The Mill, The Vacant Lot, Planting Shelly Anne, The Road to Santiago, Broken Peaces, Special Talents, Picture.Cigarette. and Rose Beds. Her adaptations include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky (both based on books by Grace Lin), and Zen Shorts (based on the book by Jon Muth.) Her plays have been seen at Upright Citizens Brigade, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Manhattan Repertory, Producer's Theatre, Stage Left, History Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Synchronicity Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Workhaus Collective, Theatre Unbound, Thirst Theatre, Minnesota Fringe, Ebullient Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota-Duluth, and A Theatre Group. Her work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Heinemann. Ms. Coulombe won the University of Iowa's IRAM Award for Best New Play, the Maebaum Award, and the National AIDS Fund CFDA-Vogue Initiative Award from the Kennedy Center. She was also an alternate for the Jerome Fellowship in 2003. Ms. Coulombe received her MFA from the University of Iowa's Playwrights Workshop and her BFA in Theatre and BA in History from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. In addition to playwriting and Workhaus, Ms. Coulombe was a founding member of the Twin Cities' company Theatre Unbound and currently is on staff at Stages Theatre Company. She works locally as a director, dramaturg, and costume designer.
ELLEN FENSTER (Director) She is a Twin Cities theater artist who works as a director, teaching artist, and program manager. Recent directing credits include The Tiger Among Us with Mu Performing Arts, The Great Divide with Workhaus Collective, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds at Gremlin Theater, and They Called her Captain in the 2013 MN Fringe Festival. Since 2001 she has been a company member with Pillsbury House Theater and has served as director of the Chicago Avenue Project since 2007. Ellen is an artistic associate with the Illusion Theater where she has directed several new plays and for seven years managed the Lights Up! series, an annual performance featuring new work by emerging artists. As a teaching artist Ellen works in many area schools, is the resident creative movement instructor with theater e3 (a summer theater institute for children), and is the director of the South High Theater Program.
JENNIFER BLAGEN (Maryanne) is very excited to be making her debut with Workhaus Collective. She was most recently seen in Born Yesterday at the Guthrie Theater and as May in Fool For Love at The Jungle Theater. Having had the privilege to take part in dozens of Playwrights' Center workshops, Jennifer has also appeared with many other area theaters over the years including: Theater Latté Da, Park Square Theater, The Children's Theater, Eye of the Storm, Pillsbury House Theater, 10,000 Things, The Theater Exchange, Chanhassen Dinner Theater, and The Old Log Theater.
KATHERINE KUPIECKI (Bobbi) is making her second appearance with Workhaus Collective, appearing in 2009's Planting Shelly Anne, also written by Jeannine Coulombe. She has worked locally with Penumbra Theatre, Park Square Theatre, History Theatre, Old Log Theatre, Gremlin Theatre, Walking Shadow Productions, Stages Theatre, and more. She was a proud member of the 2012 Ivey Award winning production of Theatre Unbound's all-female Julius Caesar, where she portrayed Mark Antony, and the #1 Comedy show at the 2012 Fringe Festival, Class of '98.
ADELIN PHELPS (Amber) is elated to be making her Workhaus Collective debut! Born and raised in Madison, WI, Adelin graduated from Coe College four and a half years ago with a B.A in Theatre. She has worked with Minnesota Shakespeare Company, American Shakespeare Repertory Theatre, Brazen Theatre, Workhouse Theatre, Frank Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, the Illusion Theatre, Savage Umbrella Theater, Swandive Theater, and is a founding and corps member of Transatlantic Love Affair.
MATTHEW REIN (Russ) was recently seen in The Last Five Years at Minnesota Jewish Theatre and the All Is Calm with Theater Latté Da and Cantus. Other credits include Children's Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre, History Theatre, Walking Shadow Theatre, Gremlin Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, The Phoenix Theater Project and The Illusion Theater. Matt was a recipient of an Ivey award for Ensemble Acting with the Cast of Orson's Shadow at Gremlin Theatre.
MIRIAM SCHWARTZ (Charlee) is thrilled to be joining Workhaus again with Homegrown. A Seattle native and graduate from the U. of MN/Guthrie BFA Program, some of her past credits include Arden in Cinephilia (7th House Theater Collective), the Manicurist in Born Yesterday (Guthrie Theater), Olivia in The Hollow (Workhaus Collective), Branca in The Brutes (Theatre Forever), Ayelet in Handle with Care (MJTC), Sonya in Uncle Vanya, Jenny in In Game or Real, and multiple roles in Clandestino.
WORKHAUS COLLECTIVE (Trista Baldwin, Alan Berks, Jeannine Coulombe, Christina Ham, Carson Kreitzer, Dominic Orlando, Joe Waechter, and Stanton Wood) is an ensemble of nationally known Minneapolis-based playwrights who have been producing innovative and highly theatrical work in the Twin Cities since 2006 as the company-in-residence at the Playwrights' Center. Workhaus Collective has a model unlike any other theater companyfor each production, the playwright assumes Artistic Directorship of his or her own production. Our renegade model seems to be workingour productions have made several end-of-the-year "Best of" lists, won an Ivey Award, been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and several plays produced with Workhaus have moved onto productions in other cities. Workhaus Collective playwrights are visible members of the Twin Cities' communitytheir work has been seen on local stages such as the Guthrie Theater, Frank Theatre, Red Eye, Off-Leash Area, The Moving Company, Gremlin Theatre, and Mixed Blood Theatre, among others. www.workhauscollective.org.
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LocationPlaywrights' Center (View)
2301 E. Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55406
United States
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