Creative Team

Senior from Beloit, WI

Kenzie is a senior Theatre major on the Tech/Design track with Stage Management emphasis. Her Saint Mary's credits include The Real Inspector Hound, Stage Manager; Measure for Measure, Stage Manager; Significant Other, Stage Manager; The Lady from the Sea, Asst. SM; After Magritte, ASM; 9 to 5: The Musical, ASM; The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Wardrobe Manager; Songs for a New World, Asst. Scenic Designer.

Education: Minnesota State University - Moorhead (B.A. in Theatre Arts);

University of Wisconsin - Madison (M.F.A. in Scenic Design)

Saint Mary’s: Measure for Measure, The Glass Menagerie, Significant Other, Songs for a New World, The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte, She Loves Me, The Lady from the Sea, Romeo and Juliet, Proof, She Stoops to Conquer, Glengarry Glen Ross, SPLaSH! 2018, and A Grand Night for Singing.

Elsewhere (selected): Avenue Q, Tartuffe, Lady Windermere’s Fan for University of Mary Washington; Cloud 9, Ti Jean and His Brothers, The Cradle Will Rock for University of Wisconsin-Madison; Next to Normal for Heartland Festival in Platteville, Wis.; New Brain, Rumpelstiltskin at Minnesota State University - Moorhead; Odd Couple, Chicago for Straw Hat Players in Moorhead, Minn.

Education: University of Washington in Seattle (M.F.A. in Costume Design)

Saint Mary’s: She Loves Me, Measure for Measure, The Glass Menagerie, Significant Other, Songs for a New World,The Lady from the Sea, Romeo and Juliet,Proof, A Grand Night for Singing, She Stoops to Conquer, and Glengarry

Glen Ross

Elsewhere (selected): Murder Mystery at the MMAM (2018), Peter Pan, Shakespeare’s Henry IV pt. I and II, ‘Master Harold... and the Boys’, Little Shop of Horrors, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening (greater Seattle area between 2012 and 2016).

Currently: teaching Stage Makeup, Stage Craft Costume Lab, Graduation Projects, and Assistant Costume Design.

Theatre credits date back to Touring Technical Director for the Indiana Repertory Theatre in 1972! Since studying technical theatre back when the earth was still cooling, and Wildlife Science (Purdue University, 1976) he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon, W. Africa, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. John is an ordained (and retired) Lutheran pastor (1985), and has returned to work in theatre here at Saint Mary’s since 2015. Summers, you will find him working as a Park Ranger for the State of Wisconsin.

John’s chief responsibilities not only include building our sets, but helping students learn how to build without serious injury.

A recent Saint Mary's grad and beer aficionado who designed the show completely from zoom whilst studying in Antarctica.

Sophomore from Fukuoka, Japan

Hina is a sophomore Theatre major on the Tech/Design track and Graphic Design major. Her Saint Mary's credits include Songs for a New World, ASM; Girls Like That, Asst. Master Electrician.

Senior from Querétaro, México

Saint Mary's: Measure for Measure, Mariana; The Nutcracker, Rat Queen; DRC; Significant Other, Choreographer; The Glass Menagerie, Choreographer; After Magritte, Choreographer

Elder is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, Theatre Communications Group, and an artistic member of Black Earth Collaborative Arts Company. Currently, he is an assistant professor of acting and directing in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Elder received his BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University, and his MFA in Directing from the University of Oklahoma. He has taught at Interlochen Center for the Arts, the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Juniata College, Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has worked as an actor, director, fight choreographer, dialect coach, designer, or technician on nearly 100 productions throughout the United States and abroad. At Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, he has directed Measure for Measure, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Selected work as a director also includes The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Metal Children, Marisol, Rumors, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Proof, One Man, Two Guvnors, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, and World Goes 'Round. As an actor, he has performed with the American Shakespeare Center: Macbeth (Macbeth), Antonio (Merchant of Venice), Buckingham (Richard III), Hortensio (Taming of the Shrew), the National Shakespeare Company: Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), Ferdinand (The Tempest), and the North Carolina Stage Ensemble: Joseph (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat).