This is an ongoing monthly series of poetry & spoken word open mics that will take place on the 4th Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 15 poets. 5 minutes or 3 poems each. Any form. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of storytelling open mics that will take place on the 3rd Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 10 Tellers. 10 minutes each. Any style- traditional, personal, braided. etc. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do not park […]
What was it like growing up behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union? Were Soviet kids raised in drawers, force-fed borscht, and forbidden from smiling? Yes, that’s almost how it was. But there was one special boy who learned his grandpa’s magic and developed an antidote to communist propaganda. In this show, award-winning storyteller […]
This nationally traveled Tour-de-force is a riveting and relevant reimagining of the ancient epic. The Trojan War, Homer’s famous prose poem, has been predominantly told, re-told, filmed and written through masculine sensibilities. In the hands of award-winning storyteller/actress/playwright Megan Wells, the bones of the story remain true to the classic versions. Thrillingly though, the heart […]
This two hour workshop will roll-up your sleeves and put you immediately up “in-front.” Megan will coach your story development with three refinements in mind. Is the tension in your story dancing with your audience for the biggest possible response? Are you authentically connected to your story in a powerful balance of detachment AND vulnerability? […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer featured off-Broadway and nationwide. Sufian’s shows “about romance, culture, and one immigrant’s story” (NPR) are based on his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and a college professor, which might be funnier than it sounds. Sufian is […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Howard Lieberman has done everything on stage except sing, which he would gladly do if he could carry a tune. He grew up on the North Side of Chicago with a professional tap dancer for a father and a math teacher for a mother, which […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer featured off-Broadway and nationwide. Sufian’s shows “about romance, culture, and one immigrant’s story” (NPR) are based on his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and a college professor, which might be funnier than it sounds. Sufian is […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Loren Niemi is an innovative storyteller creating, coaching/directing, performing, producing, teaching and writing about stories that matter for audiences of all ages in urban and rural settings for over 45 years. He has done 36 Fringe Festivals in eight cities as solo or ensemble storytelling […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Marie Cooney has performed locally at four Minnesota Fringe Festivals from 2019-2024th. In addition, she has performed locally at Patrick’s Cabaret, Twin Cities MOTH, Strike Theater, Story Club Minneapolis, Story Arts Minnesota, OUTSpoken, Cheap Theatre, and American School of Storytelling. In addition, Marie has performed […]
Buy tickets at the door or online at Minnesota Fringe Howard Loren Lieberman and Loren Niemi have been performing together at Fringe Festivals and theater cabarets since 2009. Their storytelling tends towards the edgy and intimate personal stories that arise from improvisations on lived experience. For the MN Fringe they are performing “How Do You […]
Please join us for Wendy Brown-Báez reading from her new book, “Threading the Gold” This poetry collection takes us on a journey from Advent to Lent during a time of conflict and chaos locally and globally, through reflections on what was heard and experienced while attending services at Westminster Church. These poems consider the balance […]
Braiding stories is a means of making meaning shine. The multiple levels of an older story can become relevant and deeply personal, when incidents, unusual or ordinary, in our lives can be seen as mythic and life changing. Laura will tell one traditional tale as the ground of our exploration. Discover the way the experience […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of poetry & spoken word open mics that will take place on the 4th Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 15 poets. 5 minutes each. Any form. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do not park on […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of storytelling open mics that will take place on the 3rd Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 10 Tellers. 10 minutes each. Any style- traditional, personal, braided. etc. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do not park […]
Coming Saturday, March 16th, 1:00-3:00 PM – an in-person workshop on “Wedding Toasts and Roasts” for all you who have been asked by friends and/or relatives to offer the traditional humorous / heartfelt celebratory toast at a too soon wedding. Practice structuring and delivering a speech that straddles the line between expectation and appreciation without […]
The third performance of Jim’s Stowell’s retrospective of original works is an adaptation of his hit play, CUBA SI! which was produced by the History Theater in St. Paul in 1994. These stories start with a nightmare and end with a dream of hope, retracing Jim’s journey from Montana and the October 1962 Cuban missile […]
Expect less Sanskrit and more swears. This show (based on the podcast also done by S.P. Jayaraj) will tell you different tales from the Mahabharata in each performance, using modern colorful language that makes it accessible, memorable, and above all, entertaining. It is a labor of devotion to the Mahabharata quite unlike others you might […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of poetry & spoken word open mics that will take place on the 4th Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 15 poets. 5 minutes each. Any form. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do not park on […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of storytelling open mics that will take place on the 3rd Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 10 Tellers. 10 minutes each. Any style- traditional, personal, braided. etc. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. Please do not park […]
