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Employer: Special Education Professional at Wayzata School District

City: Plymouth

Hobbies: Dancing, drawing, and painting

Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings, Wuthering Heights, Into the Wild

Favorite Music: Anything Hanson!

Favorite Food: I don’t discriminate, I love all food equally.

Favorite Plays: West Side Story, Sylvia, and Crimes of the Heart

Favorite Lakeshore Players Show: And Then There Were None

Favorite Thing about this Show: My first entrance.

Favorite Thing about the Cast and Crew: How everyone works hard toward the common goal of putting on a really good show. 

Thing about Lakeshore Players: the very apparent love of theatre.

Employer: OffiCenters

Hometown: Blue Mounds

Hobbies: Reading and watching football

Favorite Book: The Red Tent, S, and Mermaids Singing

Favorite Music: Country

Favorite Food: Breakfast

Favorite Plays: Time Stands Still

Favorite Thing about the Cast and Crew: They are all hilarious and fun people to be around

Thing about Lakeshore Players: The people and the environment

Proudest Moment: Climbing to the top of an active volcano

Past Shows/Roles: The 39 Steps/ Dancing Shadow Puppets

Special Talents: Laughing without smiling

Employer: LPT, Resident Costume Designer and Office Manager

Hobbies: Knitting, Reading, Sewing, and the BBC

Favorite Book: Doctor Zhivago and anything by Jane Austen

Favorite Music: Classical and Opera (Mozart and Puccini) The Beatles, and Bobby Long

Favorite Food: Czech and English food, pizza, and nachos

Favorite Plays: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Macbeth

Favorite Lakeshore Players Play: Suessical, I loved that show because I got to go as crazy as I wanted. It was so much fun making everyone look like a Dr. Suess character and everyone did a great job!

Favorite Part of This Show: Gabby. I think that Robert Sherwood did a wonderful job writing an independent woman of the 1930s. It is very rare to see this type of woman in any art form during this time. Because she was such I great role model for women I wanted to give her a costume that really fit who she was, and something that I really wanted to make.

Favorite Thing about Lakeshore Players: The rich history that we have here. Everywhere you look there is a story. Also, I think that it is wonderful that LPT works so hard to mentor youth in the arts. And they are willing to take a chance on new, young artists.

Proudest Moment: When I got my first costume-designing job out of college. I couldn’t have been happier to be able to share my vision with an audience.

Honor and Awards: At the 2010 Ivey Awards honoring costume designers, I was one of the 20 or so Costumers honored.

Past Shows: Fuddy Meers (Loudmouth Collective), The Jungle Book (LPT), Big River (LPT), Everybody Loves Opal (LPT), Alice in Wonderland (LPT SYP), Willy Wonka Kids (LPT SYP Jr.), Suessical (LPT), The Odd Couple, the Female Version (LPT), Inherit the Wind (LPT), James J. Hill, Empire Builder (LPT, and Landmark) The Doc Barker Story (LPT and Landmark) The Rise and Fall of W.B. Foshay (LPT and Landmark)  (Loudmouth Collective) Oh, the Humanity (The Peanut Butter Collective), Joe Dowling’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the Moon, Featuring Kate Mulgrew as Lady Capulet (The Peanut Butter Factory), Richard II (Classical Actors Ensemble), All’s Well That Ends Well (Classical Actors Ensemble), 10 Virgins (Theatre Unbound), Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (LPT) and Our Countries Good (Starting Gate)

Special Talents: I can tell you the time period of just about any women’s fashion.

Employer: Paradigm Reporting and Captioning

Hobbies: Theatre, books, movies and TV

Favorite Music: Oldies and Musicals

Favorite Food: Pizza, Pasta and Burgers