Cast & Team
| Director/Creator | Markell Kiefer |
| Writer/Creator/Set Designer | Tyson Forbes |
| Writer/Creator | Sam Elmore |
| Writing Advisor/Contributor | Andrew Schelling |
| Lead Composer | Dick Hensold |
| Composer | Jason Hansen |
| Composer | Norah Long |
| Co-Music Directors | Tyson Forbes & Jared Troilo |
| Community Chorus Director | Beth Norton |
| Choreographer | Kimberly Richardson |
| Costume Designer | Christine A. Richardson |
| Movement Coach | Chelsie Newhard |
| EDI/Creative Consultant | Eric Sharp |
| EDI Consultant | Kira Cowan Troilo |
| Executive Producer | Markell Kiefer |
| Producer/Tech Director | Tyson Forbes |
| Stage Managers | Eric “Pogi” Sumangil* & Megan Fae Dougherty* |
| Tour & Company Manager | Nathan Gebhard |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Gabriel Ortiz-Larrauri |
| Education & Outreach Coordinator | Laila Sahir |
| Operations Consultant | Jeremiah Zortman |
| Costumer | Brittany Meehan |
Tyson Forbes* as Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cristhian Mancinas-García as Henry David Thoreau
Olivia Duvall as Nature
Ensemble & Musicians: Ryan Behnke, Nigel Berkeley, Corinne Brooks, Aimee Doherty*, Deanna Dunmyer*, Nathan Gebhard, Johnny Gordon, Isa Guitian, Sylvan Mayer, Molly Jane McCarthy, and Jared Troilo*
Swings & Guides: Addison Boger, Jay Dunn*, Zoe Garcia, Gabriel Ortiz-Larrauri
*Member of Actors Equity Association
The Cast
Tyson Forbes HE/HIM (Emerson, Writer, Creator, Designer, Producer, Co-Music Director) is the Co-Artistic Director of TigerLion Arts where he serves as a writer, performer, creator and producer. TigerLion ’s past productions include The Buddha Prince, KIPO!, The Flame Brigade, and The Dragons are Singing Tonight. Local credits include performances at the Guthrie in Nice Fish, The Crucible, Twelfth Night, 1776, Arsenic and Old Lace, Peer Gynt, The Winter ’s Tale, Edgardo Mine, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, Macbeth, Harvey, and most recently Metamorphoses. He was seen in the Ordway ’s production of Cabaret, the Jungle ’s productions of Detroit,The Night Alive, and Little Women, and Ten Thousand Things productions of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Fiddler on the Roof, The Good Person of Szechuan, and Into the Woods. He has performed in regional theaters throughout the US. Other credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Terra Nova, Arcadia, The Homecoming, Equus, Don Juan in Hell and Fully Committed. Tyson has collaborated on numerous original productions, with Nature being especially close to his heart, as he is the great great great grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Cristhian Mancinas-García HE/HIM (Thoreau) is thrilled to join TigerLion on this amazing feat of storytelling. Some of his favorite credits include: Rae/Reynaldo in the Boston Premiere and the Edinburgh Fringe productions of Noir Hamlet (Centastage Productions); Mr. Black in The Wild Party (Moonbox Productions, IRNE Award Nominee - Best Supporting Actor); Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar (Firehouse Center for the Arts); Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages (Marblehead Little Theatre); Lorenzo in Melancholy Play (The Umbrella); Pablo Picasso in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (The Wellesley Players). Cristhian is a Software Engineer by profession and an Actor by passion. He has been doing theatre both in México and the US for over 20 years. cristhianmancinas.com
Olivia Duvall SHE/HER (Nature) is a Boston native who recently graduated from the University of the Arts’ BFA Musical Theatre program. She also studied at the National Music Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Philadelphia credits include: Once, Treasure Island (Arden Theatre), Mother Courage (Philly Fringe), and Marie in Tomorrow Land (Polyphone Festival). Olivia is thrilled to be performing in her home state with the cast of Nature! oliviaduvall.com
Ryan Behnke HE/HIM (Piper) is a Traditional Irish musician experienced in a wide variety of instruments that span across Ireland and Scotland. Playing highland pipes with the Macalaster College pipe band for most of his young adult life competing and performing locally and across the U.S. and Canada. Ryan holds a Master ’s degree in Traditional Irish Music Performance from the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he honed his skills on the Uilleann pipe (Traditional Irish bagpipe) whistles, and Irish flute. Since his time at U.L., he has performed across the U.S. as a solo performer and with the bands “Three Pints and a Glass” and “Unwelcome Visitors.” He brought his brilliant musicality to the Nature Company in 2019 and toured the production to 9 locations across the Midwest and East Coast. Follow Ryan at ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com.
Nigel Berkeley HE/HIM (Hawthorne, Eddy, Ensemble, Crew) is an actor, writer, and proud San Francisco native. He recently graduated from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, Company of 2021. He collaborated on writing Adelia (or, the Nose Play) with Daniel Holzman, which was shown at Dixon place in 2019 and Counterpulse SF in 2018. He was a Co-Founder of the Quarantine Bake Off, a pioneering digital playwriting challenge responding to COVID-19 with 4000 submissions from all over the world. His favorite role was that of a Dancing Sheep in As You Like It.
Addison BogerSHE/HER (Guide, Ensemble) Addison had the immense pleasure of playing the role of Elly in TigerLion’s first ever Concord, MA, run of Nature at The Old Manse in 2017. This was the experience of a lifetime for this Concord native, who has enjoyed being involved in Nature with each return to Massachusetts. Addison is a rising sophomore at Concord Carlisle High School.
Corinne Brooks SHE/HER (Elly, Ensemble) has become a regular with TigerLion Arts. They can’t seem to get enough of her. She is returning to the role of Elly for a second time after numerous performances in 2019. Her voice has also been featured on TigerLion Arts recordings and videos. Corinne loves reading and writing, and she also enjoys playing piano, going to the library and singing in choir. She has a love of performing and is excited to be part of this journey!
Aimee Doherty SHE/HER (Lydian, Ensemble) is excited to join TigerLion Arts to perform in the great outdoors where she feels right at home! Aimee got her Bachelors in Environmental Science from UMASS Amherst and spent 15 years in the field (literally) before starting her acting career. Since then she has performed on stages across New England including Shakespeare & Company As You Like It (Rosalind); the Huntington Theatre Merrily We Roll Along (Gussie), A Little Night Music (Mrs. Segstrom) and Sunday in the Park with George (Yvonne); and at Symphony Hall as a soloist with the Boston Pops under the baton of Keith Lockhart. She is a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award and a three-time recipient of the IRNE Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her portrayals of Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Moonbox Productions), Gussie in Merrily We Roll Along (Huntington Theatre), Luisa in Nine (SpeakEasy Stage), The Witch in Into the Woods (Lyric Stage) and Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray (Wheelock Theatre). AimeeDoherty.net
Deanna Dunmyer SHE/HER (Moody, Ensemble) has appeared on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in I Hate Hamlet, Off-Broadway at The Promenade in Allan Knee's Little Women, in Bill W. and Dr. Bob at New World Stages and Off-Off Broadway with Karin Coonrod's Arden Party, David Herskovits' Target Margin Theatre, and in the Gallery Players production of The Hostage. Regional plays include Lend Me a Tenor, (Syracuse Stage), Member of the Wedding, (Geva Theatre), The Crucible, Three Sisters, Arms and the Man, (The Alley Theatre), Death Trap, Crimes of the Heart (American Stage Festival), As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Streetcar Named Desire (White River Theatre Festival), The Tempest, Top Girls, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet (Performance Studio/Shakespeare on the Green directed by Amy Seham), Tribute (Cherry County Playhouse), and locally in On The Verge (Nora Theatre), To Kill A Mockingbird (Foothills Theatre) and Stonewall Jackson's House (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). Deanna enjoys travelling through time portraying historical figures, most recently 1630's Puritan Anne Hutchinson and 1920's suffragist Alice Paul.
Jay Dunn HE/HIM (Swing, Guide) is an actor, director and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally with companies including the LA Philharmonic and Simon McBurney, Pig Iron Theatre Company, rainpan43, Geoff Sobelle & Charlotte Ford, PTP/NYC & Project Y, U.S. theaters including Atlantic Stage 2, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, MCA Theatre, The Barbican, Edinburgh Fringe and Paris’s Maison des Metallos. As a director/choreographer, selected credits include Music at the Close at Carnegie Hall, the world premiere of Spoolie Girl Off-Broadway, Village of Vale at Lincoln Center Education, and a developmental libretto reading of Rev 23 (White Snake Projects/Beth Morrison Projects). Jay’s on screen work can be seen in feature films The Harbinger and We Go On and as a motion capture performer in Red Dead Redemption 2. Jay currently teaches acting and movement at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and SUNY Purchase BFA.jaydunn.co
Zoe Garcia SHE/HER (Elly, Guide, Ensemble) Zoe Garcia is a rising 8th grader at Wayland Middle School. She played Elly Emerson in the Fall 2019 Nature performances at The Olde Manse in Concord, MA. Zoe is represented by Andrew Wilson Agency (AWA) in Boston, MA. She’s an animal lover, creative writer and designer, and is honored to once again be part of the show.
Nathan Gebhard HE/HIM (Ensemble, Percussionist, Tour & Company Manager, Crew) is an interdisciplinary performing artist driven by the curiosities that tickle the human soul. Based in New York, NY, he plays with The Coldharts (The Unrepentant Necrophile), Spaceheater (Saint Ex), and co-produces the So-fi Festival. His favorite Minnesota credits include: Live Action Set (Unset), Swandive Theatre (Kid Simple), and Open Window Theatre (Everyman). He's been performing in Nature with TigerLion Arts since 2014. nategeb.net
Johnny Gordon HE/HIM (Parker, Ensemble, Thoreau understudy, Crew) is ecstatic to join the world of live theatre again with the company Nature! A graduate of Westfield State University with a communications major and a theatre minor, Johnny was a three-time nominee for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Irene Ryan Award (KCACTF). He was recently sharing his love for theatre as an actor and educator with Children's Stage Adventures, a US/Canadian educational musical theatre touring company. Some theatre credits include Cabaret, Significant Other, Avenue Q, Rabbit Hole, Much Ado About Nothing, and Spring Awakening. When not on stage, he enjoys acting for film, voice over work, cats, and video editing for a horror/thriller production company called JCMT Productions. Much gratitude for friends and family. Enjoy the great outdoors!
Isa Guitian SHE/HER (Fuller, Ensemble) is thrilled to be joining the cast of Nature! Most recently, she appeared in Measure for Measure and The Winter’s Tale at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in Bloomington, IL. Other regional credits include Pride and Prejudice, As You Like It, and Caesar at ISF, and Technicolor Life at Rep Stage in Columbia, MD. A proud native of Baltimore, Isa just graduated from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, where she recently appeared in Heresy of Love, The Seagull, The Oresteia and the world premiere of Dear God. In 2019,she had the opportunity to study at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where she performed in Julius Caesar.
Molly Jane McCarthy SHE/HER (Elly, Ensemble) is an actor, singer, and theater enthusiast with 6 years of experience performing in many theatrical performances, commercials, movies, and short films. She is most well known for her performances in The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop, Agony, and Eight, for which she won best-supporting actress at the Fusion Film Festival. Molly Jane can be seen on local stages on the south shore of Massachusetts as well as in national commercials and print ads. She is thrilled to be a part of the cast of Nature and is happy to be back on stage after a long year of quarantine.
Sylvan Mayer SHE/HER (Elly, Ensemble). Nature made a lasting impression on Sylvan when she played the role of Elly, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughter, in 2019. Sylvan is thrilled to return to the role of Elly in this year’s production. Sylvan enjoys horseback riding, acting, singing and playing guitar. Sylvan attends the Nashoba Brooks School in Concord, MA, where she is in the fifth grade.
Jared Troilo HE/HIM (Bronson, Ensemble, Emerson understudy, Co-Music Director) is an actor and singer who has worked extensively in the New England area. He has appeared on the stages of Speakeasy Stage Company, The Lyric Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, Palace Theater, Wheelock Family Theater, The Barnstormers, Shadowland Theater, Fiddlehead Theater, and Moonbox Productions. He is the recipient of an IRNE Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as "Steven Kodaly" in She Loves Me. Jared has also toured the Mediterranean and South America as a concert and cabaret singer on board several luxury cruise ships. This fall, he will appear as "Jamie" in The Last Five Years, and in the spring as "Monty Navarro" in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, both at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Jared's television and film appearances include Across The Pacific on PBS, Kevin can F*** Himself on AMC and the upcoming About Fate starring Emma Roberts. He is a proud member of AEA and graduate of The Boston Conservatory. Jared lives in Massachusetts with his wife, actress/writer Kira Troilo, and their son Levi. JaredTroilo.com
The Team
Markell Kiefer SHE/HER (Director, Writer, Producer) has toured, performed, and directed nationally. She is a pioneer of "outdoor walking plays" such as The Buddha Prince and Nature, with performances in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and New York City. In addition to producing and directing All TLA productions, she has worked with companies including Circus Juventas, Minnesota Boychoir, Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, TPT Twin Cities PBS, Guthrie Theater, Puppet Farm Arts, Stages Theatre, Pillsbury House, Children's Theatre Company, NY Theatre Workshop, Jobsite Theatre, The Actor ’s Loft, and American Stage Festival. Training includes: M.F.A. in Lecoq Physical Theatre (Naropa University), B.A. in Religion and Environmental Ethics (Middlebury College), Circle in the Square Theatre School, and European Clown with Giovanni Fusetti. Markell is affiliate faculty of the UofM/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.
Sam Elmore HE/HIM (Writer, Creator) served as creative producer on the 2010 production of Nature and originated the role of Thoreau. Sam has been working in theatre for over 20 years and has been guiding people into nature for 15 years. As a guide Sam specializes in connecting people to their own unique relationship to nature. He has acted in over 40 productions across the country. He currently tours a show titled 52 Pick Up. He is a member of Playback Theatre West, a Colorado based improvisational theatre company dedicated to leveraging the power of story. Sam heads a boutique consulting group called OrgDev which supports companies and organizations to evolve and grow through experiential learning and improvisation.
Eric "Pogi" Sumangil HE/HIM (Stage Manager, Assistant Director, Marketing & Publicity Manager) is a Minneapolis-born theater artist of Filipino descent. He is an actor, playwright, and the founder of Barkada Theater, where he recently produced UNALIENABLE, a virtual monologue project-in-quarantine featuring playwrights and actors of Asian descent writing from their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. While he was in Concord performing with the 2019 company of Nature, he was able to drive up to Maine and set foot in all 50 states in the U.S. As an actor, he was most recently seen in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio in Fast Company. He has appeared at La Jolla Playhouse in The Seven and Salsalandia! and Mo’olelo Performing Arts’ Cowboy vs Samurai. In his hometown of Minneapolis, he has appeared in Jungle Theater’s production of The Oldest Boy, Park Square Theatre’s Baskerville, Macbeth, and The Realistic Joneses; Ten Thousand Things’s Park & Lake, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres productions of Altar Boyz, West Side Story, and HAiR. He is a Playwrights’ Center Affiliated Writer; and a two-time Many Voices Fellow. His plays include Kicking the Gong Around, The Duties and Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick, and The Debutante’s Ball.@WilyFilipino EricPogiSumangil.com
Megan Fae Dougherty SHE/HER (Stage Manager) has been a professional Stage Manager for 15 years, mostly in the Minnesota - Twin Cities area, but has toured along the East coast and worked summer stock in the West. She has been working on various shows with Tigerlion Arts since 2011, including a few past touring productions of Nature. Megan is excited to be back in Massachusetts with this wonderful production.
Dick Hensold HE/HIM (Lead Composer) is the foremost player in North America of the Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England). Hensold has played and taught in Scotland, England, Canada and Japan, and has toured throughout the United States. He performs the traditional music of Scotland, Northumberland, Ireland and Cape Breton Island; also early music, and Nordic folk music. Hensold has appeared at the Guthrie Theater (Peer Gynt, A Christmas Carol), Children’s Theater (Buccaneers, Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel, Robin Hood, plus playing a number of recorded shows), Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Hunchback of Notre Dame), and numerous independent productions, most notably Ruth MacKenzie’s hit show Kalevala, Dream of the Salmon Maiden. At the venues above he has appeared as a musician both onstage and in the pit, and has worked as arranger, conductor, and music director; this is his first show as composer. He is a 2006 Bush Artist Fellow.
Jason Hansen HE/HIM (Composer) is a musician in the Twin Cities with a reputation for his work in the theater. Jason has held positions of music director, composer, arranger, educator, and/or performer at Theater Latté Da, the Children’s Theater Company, Mixed Blood Theater, Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, History Theater, Theater Mu, TigerLion Arts, Open Eye Figure Theater, University of Minnesota, UofM Centennial Showboat, MN Fringe Festival, the Hennepin Theater Trust, Arkansas Repertory Theater, and Northern Sky Theater. Jason co-directs Alive & Kickin, the Twin Cities premier senior rock ensemble and is heavily involved with educational and community organizations and Twin Cities area school districts. Jason is a commissioned composer and arranger developing new music for choir, cabaret and theater whose works can be found with both Hal Leonard and Alfred Music. In 2020-21 Jason engraved the entire score for Nature so that it can be shared with new companies in years to come. He lives in Saint Paul with his wife Alise and daughter Madeleine. jasonhansen.com
Norah Long SHE/HER (Composer, Arranger) has been developing and performing Nature since 2014 when she first came on board as Nature and violinist, and she is delighted to now see a new team of performers taking on the work! Norah is on the Fine Arts faculty at North Central University where she directs and teaches private voice and theater as well as classroom courses. She also serves on staff at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN, singing and directing weekly, and is a founding member of Upstream Arts, a Minneapolis-based organization which uses arts-based curriculum to teach social and communication skills within the disability community. Norah has performed leading roles on dozens of stages across the country including the Guthrie, Ordway Center, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Arvada Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, Opera Roanoke, Florida Stage, and Riverside Theater, with awards including nods for Best Actress as Marie Lombardi in Lombardi, Eliza in My Fair Lady, and Julie in Miss Julie, and Best Supporting Actress as Mother Superior in Sister Act. As a concert soloist Norah has toured the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. To listen, watch, or learn more, visit norahlong.com.
Christine A. Richardson SHE/HER (Costumer Designer). has worked as a freelance Costume Designer for 30 years, and designed the costumes for TigerLion Arts production of The Dragons are Singing Tonight, The Flame Brigade, as well as the 2010-2019 productions of Nature. She is currently the Costume Director for Portland Opera. Christine has designed for other companies such as: Guthrie Theater (Juno and the Peacock, Uncle Vanya, Skiing on Broken Glass, An Iliad, Embers, Time Stands Still, The Edge of Our Bodies, Arsenic and Old Lace, Faith Healer, Happy Days, The Caretaker, The Ugly One, Pen), Portland Opera (La Traviata, In the Penal Colony, Hansel and Gretel, Songs of Love and War) as well as Stages Theatre Company, Mu Performing Arts, Mu Daiko, Mixed Blood Theatre, Commonweal Theatre, et al!! christinearichardson.viewbook.com
Kimberly Richardson SHE/HER (Choreographer) is an actor, choreographer, and theatre maker with 19 years on the Twin Cities performance scene. A member of Ten Thousand Things ’ Artist Core, Kimberly has appeared frequently with the company since 2008, in productions including Othello, Music Man, As You Like It, Dirt Sticks, and Scapin. Also a regular at Open Eye Figure Theatre, Kimberly performed/ co-created My Life as a Fairytale and The Clumsy Man with Michael Sommers and The Red Shoes with Joel Sass. Kimberly received a 2016-17 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship and a 2006 Sage Award for dance performance. Kimberly performed with the ensemble of Nature in 2017 and 2019 and has decided to take a little break from performing to raise her beautiful new baby.
Chelsie Newhard SHE/HER (Movement Coach) is thrilled to be returning to the Nature company after touring with the show in both 2016,2017, and 2019. Local credits include work with The Guthrie Theatre, Walking Shadow Theater Company, Artistry MN, Live Action Set, Gremlin Theater, and appearing in both The Visit and Cradle Will Rock for Frank Theatre’s 30th season. When not on stage you can find her singing with rock bands Jonny James and the Hall of Fames or Ready Freddie: A Queen Experience, teaching science at The Bakken Museum, and gardening. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/ Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program. Endless thanks to TigerLion Arts and the Transcendentalists for putting so much beauty into words and motion.“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” —Thoreau
Eric Sharp HE/HIM (EDI/Creative Consultant) is an actor, playwright, and teaching artist based in Minneapolis. He has appeared onstage regionally and internationally at the Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, as well as the Toronto and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Currently he is in rehearsals for Small Mouth Sounds at the Jungle Theater. Recently Eric played Mowgli in Children's Theatre Company's new adaptation of The Jungle Book, and the young Dalai Lama on multiple tours of TigerLion Arts' The Buddha Prince. A regular performer at Theater Mu, Eric wrote and starred in the 2014 world premiere of Middle Brother. He directs and teaches for Penumbra Theatre’s Summer Institute and has facilitated RACE Workshops for the company since 2016.
Kira Cowan Troilo SHE/HER (EDI Consultant) is a Boston-based writer, performer and Elliot Norton and IRNE award-nominated choreographer who is passionate about storytelling, social and racial justice, and doing her part to work toward a more anti-racist society. She strives to serve as a bridge in her blog (biracialmom.com), writing frequently about her experiences as a Black, biracial woman, creative professional and mother. Her articles about Black maternal health have received national attention, and her articles about diversity and theater have been published in such outlets as BroadwayWorld and StageSource. Kira has advised, consulted and mediated for many Boston arts organizations. She has received anti-racism training from Anti-Racism Collaborative, and serves as a member of Moonbox Productions’ EDI advisory council. She has also served as a member of Wheelock Family Theater’s EDI Task Force. Kira lives in Framingham with her husband Jared and their son Levi.
Salima Y. Seale SHE/HER (Stage Management Consultant) is a midwest based stage manager. Credits include Penumbra Theatre Company, New Griots Festival (Guthrie Theater), Shapeshift Theatrical, Mixed Blood, Guthrie Theater, Open Eye, Park Square, Daleko Arts, and Intermedia Arts. Recent credits: How It's Gon Be (Underdog Theatre), benevolence (Penumbra Theatre). Salima brilliantly guided the company through the 2019 Nature tour, and this year is offering her expertise in and advisory role.
Jeremiah Zortman HE/HIM (Operations Consultant) is in his seventh year assisting the TigerLion team with tour planning, budgeting and vendor contracting. This gift from the gods has provided event production services for several local arts organizations including Northern Spark, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the MSP International Film Festival. Jeremiah is super pumped to be back working with Markell and Tyson and the whole Nature cast. Let's do this!
Andrew Schelling HE/HIM (Writing Advisor/Contributor). Andrew grew up in New England's Transcendentalist country. He moved west to Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas and studied Sanskrit and Asian literature at U.C. Berkeley. An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer of wilderness areas, he has travelled extensively in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas. In 1990 he relocated to Colorado to join the faculty at Naropa University where he teaches poetry, Sanskrit, and wilderness writing. Poet, amateur naturalist, mountaineer, and translator of India's classical poetry, he lives in Boulder, along the front range of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
Brittany Meehan SHE/HER (Costumer) is a Costume Designer, Wardrobe Supervisor, and Costume Technician from Boston who received her degree in Costume Design from Boston University in 2018. She has designed productions for Greater Boston Stage Company (Addams Family), Brandeis University (We Are Proud to Present…), NEMPAC Opera (The Little Prince), Wheelock Family Theatre (Once on This Island), and is the active Wardrobe Supervisor for both the Central Square Theatre, and Wheelock Family Theatre.
Gabriel Ortiz-Laurrauri HE/HIM (Assistant Stage Manager, Musician/Guide, Crew) is an active composer and saxophonist in Boston, Massachusetts. He is currently enrolled at Berklee. Gabriel enjoys reading literature, writing poetry, and whistling. He plays SATB saxophones, Guitar, Bass and Piano. He is currently learning to play didgeridoo and oboe.
Laila Sahir SHE/HER (Education & Outreach Coordinator) is a theater artist based in Minneapolis, MN. She has worked with companies including Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Lyric Arts, Children's Theatre Company, and Wayward Theatre Company. She is absolutely thrilled to be a part of this year's Nature team!
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.