Cityceased
A Live Performance
Cityceased
A Live Performance
I graduated from the U of Minnesota in 2002, where I performed a lot, but also directed and worked in the scene shop. After graduation, I worked with Theatre de la Jeune Lune for about a year, working in the collaborative model that we are using to create Cityceased. I’ve performed at the Jungle in Orson Wells Rehearses Moby Dick and at Commonweal Theater in Lanesboro in To Fool the Eye. I’ve directed around the city, but have started to generate my own work. I teamed up with the Swedish Institute last winter to do a performance of Strindberg’s The Creditors in that amazing mansion that houses the Institute. Hopefully, I’m going to be doing another Strindberg there in October. This one will be around Halloween and about ghosts and horror. Nothing like Cityceased.
I love doing everything in the theater. I think that it is really important to work on all aspects of the theater, but in the professional world, there aren’t a lot of opportunities to work in a number of roles. This is the opportunity I’ve been hoping for. I can produce, direct, perform and design. This is what I love.
I graduated with a Bachelors in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music in 2005. While in Boston, I served as the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the College Repetory Orchestra. I also served as guest conductor for various small college ensembles in the Boston Back Bay area, many of which stemmed from the Boston Pro Arts Consortium. I've been an active percussionist in a variety of musical settings including Orchestral Percussion with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, film scoring stages and theater pits in Boston, and Funk/Blues drumset with bar bands wherever there's booze. I'm currently hand drumming and playing drumset with Ticket to Brasil here in Minneapolis and writing for small independent projects in the twincities area.
A well known fact about Beth is that she is a dedicated Red Sox fan and believes in spreading the gospel: Yankees Suck.
A Sampling of Beth's Music:
I graduated from Viterbo Universityin 2006, receiving a BFA in Theatre Performance and a minor in Musical Theatre. Among my most memorable roles from the college stage are Sir Andrew in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest. An all female production of As You Like It (Rosalind) with It’s About Time Theatre, brought me to the Twin Cities area where I have been for one short year. Thus far, I have had the good fortune of working with such local theatres as The Minnesota Shakespeare Project (Twelve Dancing Princesses—2007 Fringe Fest—and currently The Year of Lear) and Theatre in the Round Players (Fools) among others. Although I dabbled in playwriting and directing at the University level, my home base in the creative process has been as a performer. I love Shakespeare because it forces artists to use their entire instrument in order to achieve any measure of success; and since arriving on the Twin Cities theatre scene, I have found a passion for physical theatre and fresh ensemble-created works. I seek to use theatre as a means to awaken the imagination and the mind, both muscles that I feel are in atrophy among emerging generations, no thanks to the invention of the big black box.
A recent graduate of U of M, I have worked as a performer, musician, and
scenic designer since relocating to the Twin Cities in 2003. Recent
performance credits include Four Humors Theatre (Beckett's Widow, Devilled Eggs) and the Minnesota Centennial Showboat (Old Four Eyes). My scenic
designs have been seen recently in Beckett's Widow and on the U of M
Mainstage (The Master and Margarita). As a musician, I have provided
accompaniment for all of the above productions on accordion and piano(Old
Four Eyes).
Currently, I am working with Open Eye Figure Theatre to create the Tour
Wheel Tour (a toy-box theatre that will tour the Twin Cities behind a
tandem bicycle!), Penumbra Theatre (properties and assistant design), and
playing accordion with "Old Man Orville."
II am excited to be involved with Cityceased!
Matt Rein - Performer
While earning a BA in Theatre from St. Olaf College, I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic people on wonderful shows, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Zipless, and Moonchildren. For the following year, I lived in Christchurch , New Zealand and worked with The Court Theatre as an intern. I pursued both business and artistic aspects of there business and had the pleasure to work on Edward Albee's The Goat and Oliver!. I returned to Minneapolis just over a year ago and have had the opportunity to work on A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Park Square Theatre as well as numerous new plays. New works I have had the privilege to work on have been Born in Iraq at the Mixed Blood, Rock, Shock and Awe: The Musical at the 2006 Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Von Rollo and Act A Lady at the Illusion and Killer Smile in the 2007 Fringe Festival. I love working with new plays because of the commitment to collaboration that is necessary to make them happen. The creators of Cityceased are a wonderful group of people and I am excited to be collaborating with them on this project.
Amy Schweickhardt - Performer
After a short stint in LA and studying in Santa Monica and Florence Italy, I returned to Minneapolis and have called the Twin Cities home since then. Most recent roles include Flora in episodes 2,3,4 and 5 of Hardcover Theater's London After Midnight. A Princess in Minnesota Shakespeare Project's 12 Dancing Princesses and Erika in Tempest Production's Body and Sold. I am currently rehearsing King Lear-'The Year of Lear' with Minnesota Shakespeare Project where I can be seen as Cordelia in March of 2008.
Besides my recent work in theater, I have also had the pleasure of being involved in several independent short films and recently a couple of music videos! As well as acting, I also have a background in dance and am truly thrilled when I have the opportunity to combine my love of theater with my love of dance and movement.
Cityceased has been such a pleasure to work on and I am honored to have had a chance to collaborate with this extremely talented group of people.
Noah Bremer- Stage Manager/ Collaborator
Noah is an actor, teaching artist, director, and clown. He is a founder and co-artistic director of Live Action Set, and has worked with Pillsbury House Theatre’s Breaking Ice company, Theater de la Jeune Lune, The Red Eye, Illusion Theater, Children’s Theatre Co. Hastings High School, Main Street School for the Performing Arts, and a number of Jon Ferguson’s theatrical endeavors among others. He trained at the University of Minnesota and The Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theater in California.