ARTIST ROSTER - THEATRE

Pretty Good Players

Minneapolis

The Pretty Good Players are people 55 to 80+ who use true stories and original skits to educate the public about aging issues:

• What's funny about aging?
• What's annoying?
• What's heartwarming?
• And, what do you have to say about it?

“An Evening with Mark Twain: 'The Trouble Begins at Eight.'”

Edina

My one-man show, ““An Evening with Mark Twain: 'The Trouble Begins at Eight,” presents the humorist, writer, and stage personality as a white-haired 70-year-old man in a white suit and red ascot recalling his life as a boy on the Mississippi, a riverboat pilot, a Confederate soldier in the Civil War (for two weeks), a gold and silver prospector in Nevada, and a reporter in Virginia City and San Francisco.

Prime Time Players

Edina

Don Cosgrove is a director, actor, and acting instructor who has worked around the world in theatrical release motion pictures, stage plays, award-winning television dramas, radio theater productions and thousands of TV/radio commercials and non-broadcast industrials. He teaches acting at the Guthrie Theater and The Talent Center, he read for 15 years for State Services for the Blind, and he supplies direction and performance perspectives from both sides of the proscenium, the camera and the microphone.

Arts of Passage

Minneapolis

Arts of Passage is a center for arts-based therapy specializing in expressive arts therapy and drama therapy. We also train others in the therapeutic and transformational use of the arts, especially including drama.

Sunrise Seniors Story Theater

North Branch

North Branch Community Education initiated the Sunrise Seniors Story Theater troop for the opening of our new school building three years ago.

Arrowhead RSVP-AEOA

Virginia

Volunteer performing groups comprised of older volunteers can present to senior groups within their various communities and for children at day cares and elementary schools. Anyone who has a desire to serve the community as a volunteer is eligible to register with Arrowhead RSVP or Northland Volunteer Center. There are no restrictions based on education, income, or experience.

HealthEast Passport 

St. Paul

The main focus of the HealthEast Passport program is to combine art and health. Performances and classes offer reader’s theatre, short plays, dramas, improvisation, and comedy. This group consists of people ages 50 and better who are suffering from a chronic illness and making their health better by trying something new, exercising, making friends, and acting. Anyone can join and it’s free to become a member of the group.

Lakeshore Players Theatre 

White Bear Lake

Lakeshore Players is in its 57th year of producing live theatre in White Bear Lake, engaging older adults as students, participants, and audience members. Our mission is “to provide community enrichment opportunities through the performing arts.” Run by volunteer community members, guest artists, and administrators, Lakeshore Players serves as the premier performing arts center for the White Bear Lake area and is committed to providing opportunities for our community to participate in and experience live theatre.

Merely Players Community Theatre

Mankato

The Merely Players Community Theatre 2nd annual performance of Golden Guys & Gals: Revue II in 2010 features an original work created specifically to be performed by our distinguished community members 55 years of age and older. This scripted variety show will feature a little song, a little dance, and much more!

Tales From a Trunk

St Paul

Before working as the memory care coordinator at St. Therese Southwest’s Terraces assisted living accommodations in Hopkins, Minnesota, I worked full time in the theater profession for 27 years.