MEMBERS

Trista Baldwin is a native of the woods of Washington State, and sometime-New Yorker, who makes her home in Minneapolis. Her work has been produced and developed regionally, internationally, and Off-Broadway by companies including The Flea, Women’s Project, The Guthrie, New Georges, Bricolage, Live Girls!, HERE Arts Center, Circle X, SFIA, Santiago a Mil, National New Play Network, The Lark and Bay Area Playwrights’ Foundation. Trista is a two-time Jerome Fellow and the recipient of a McKnight Advancement Grant, a Saison Artist Residency, a Tofte Residency and a Japan Foundation grant for her ongoing collaboration with Tokyo theater artist Shirotama Hitsujiya. Trista’s plays include Angel Fat, American Sexy, Patty Red Pants, Chicks with Dicks: Bad Girls on Bikes Doing Bad Things!, and Mesujika DOE, a play in Japanese and English co-created with Shirotama Hitsujiya. Educated on the geoduck beaches of The Evergreen State College and the desert sands of Arizona State, Trista is a former professor of dramatic writing at St. Cloud State University and an alum Core Writer of The Playwrights’ Center. She is currently part of Seattle Rep Theater’s Writers Group. Her work is published by Heinemann and Playscripts.

With Workhaus:
Doe, Forgetting, Kill Me, Don’t Go, and Eye of the Lamb

Alan is co-Artistic Director of Wonderlust Productions, based in Minneapolis. As a writer, his plays have been produced around the country. His most recent play, Complicated Fun, about the Minneapolis music scene in the 1980s, will play at the History Theatre in St. Paul from April 30 to May 29. He also adapted and directed Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author for Wonderlust Productions and Park Square Theatre April 19-May 8, 2016. As a founding member of Minnesota’s innovative Workhaus Playwrights Collective, he has produced three original plays: Music Lovers, The Great Divide, and Feast of Wolves and directed Stanton Wood’s Skin Deep Sea. Other plays include Goats (numerous productions); How to Cheat, ringtone and at Gremlin Theatre Almost Exactly Like Us, and Everywhere Signs Fall. He is co-founded Thirst Theater and is also the co-founder and editor of Minnesota’s online trade publication for the performing arts MinnesotaPlaylist.com.

With Workhaus:
Music Lovers, The Great Divide, and Feast of Wolves.

Jeannine is a Minnesota native, playwright and theatre artist. Her original full-length plays include Homegrown, The Mill, Hummingbirds, The Vacant Lot, Planting Shelly Anne, The Road to Santiago and Broken Peaces. She has also written numerous shorter works, including Special Talents, Picture.Cigarette. Rose Beds, Mike and Ned, With A Baby Carriage, and Fish. Her adaptations of children’s literature include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky (both based on books by Grace Lin), Zen Shorts and Zen Ties (based on books by Jon J. Muth) and One Dog Canoe and I Love You, Stinky Face, both musical adaptations in which she wrote both the book and lyrics. Her plays have been seen at Upright Citizens Brigade, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Manhattan Repertory, Producer’s Theatre, Stage Left, History Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Synchronicity Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Harwich Junior Theatre, Workhaus Collective, Theatre Unbound, Thirst Theatre, Minnesota Fringe, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota-Duluth, and A Theatre Group. Her work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Heinemann. Ms. Coulombe won the University of Iowa’s IRAM Award for Best New Play (Hummingbirds), the Maebaum Award (The Mill) and the National AIDS Fund CFDA-Vogue Initiative Award from the Kennedy Center (The Vacant Lot) Ms. Coulombe received her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop and her BFA in Theatre and BA in History from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. In addition to playwriting, Ms. Coulombe is a founding member of the Workhaus Playwrights Collective in Minneapolis. She was also a founding member of the Twin Cities’ company Theatre Unbound. Currently, she is the Manager of New Play Development at Stages Theatre Company. In addition to playwriting, she works as a director and dramaturg.

With Workhaus:
Planting Shelly Anne, The Mill, and Homegrown.

Christina will enjoy four productions of her work in the Twin Cities including two World Premieres (the critically-acclaimed Nina Simone: Four Women which is currently enjoying a sold-out run at Park Square Theatre and Scapegoat at Pillsbury House Theatre) and two remount productions of her theater-for-young-audiences hits Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 and Ruby! The Story of Ruby Bridges (at Stages Theatre Company at FAIR School in Crystal and SteppingStone Theatre in St. Paul). In addition she is the recent recipient of a Jerome Travel Grant that will allow her to travel to Dublin, Ireland this summer to work on her new play Niagara at the Abbey Theatre. She is also one of the 2016 jurors for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Christina’s plays have been developed both nationally and internationally with the Center Theater Group, The Goodman Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Off-Broadway at the SPF Summer Play Festival, SteppingStone Theatre, and the Tokyo International Arts Festival among others. Christina is a two-time recipient of a McKnight Advancement Grant and a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, the Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting, and a 2006 MacDowell Residency. She is a two-time nominee for the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentorship Program, a nominee for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and was nominated for the Center Theater Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award for Distinguished Emerging Theater Artist. She has received commissions from The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and REDEYE Theatre among others. Her feature-length screenplay Booker was a finalist for Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access program. Her plays are published by Dramatic Publishing, Heinemann, PlayScripts, Inc., and Smith and Kraus. A graduate of the University of Southern California and a MFA in Playwriting from The UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Christina is a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center and member of The Dramatists Guild of America. Website.

With Workhaus:
Glyph and The Hollow.

Carson is a 2015/16 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, her third time receiving the honor. Current projects include Capital Crime!,a play with songs, and Lempicka, a new musical with composer Matt Gould, for which she just won a 2016 Jonathan Larson Award. Her plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Rosenthal New Play Prize, American Theatre Critics’ Steinberg New Play Citation, and Barrie Stavis Award; published in Smith and Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004), SELF DEFENSE or death of some salesmen, Flesh and the Desert (Workhaus Collective), The Slow Drag (New York and London), Slither, Behind the Eye, and Lasso of Truth (NNPN Rolling World Premiere). Ms. Kreitzer is a member of the Workhaus Collective, an alumna of New Dramatists, and was the first Playwrights Of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. Her collection SELF DEFENSE and other plays is available from No Passport Press.

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With Workhaus:
Flesh and the Desert and Lasso of Truth.

Dominic is a former Core Writer and two-time Jerome Fellow and McKnight Fellow at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He is currently working on the screenplay adaptation of his play Danny Casolaro Died for You, that has been optioned by Caliber Media and Aviation Films. Other commissions include: an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s Hammer & Sickle for ArtsEmerson in Boston; book & lyrics for The Barbary Coast at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California; and book & lyrics for The Working Boys Band at The History Theatre in Saint Paul. Dominic is a co-creator of Fissures (lost & found), which was commissioned by Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and The Playwrights’ Center, premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival, and was published by Dramatic Publishing. In 2015, Dominic became a staff writer for “The OA”, a new thriller produced by Plan B for Netflix. Just prior to that, he wrote and directed Reagan Years for Workhaus, and co-created The Nature Crown with Theatre Forever, which premiered at The Guthrie Theatre’s Joe Dowling Studio. Other recent plays were produced or developed by TimeLine Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Arts Emerson.

With Workhaus:
A Short Play About Globalization, The Sense of What Should Be, A Short Play About 9/11, and Reagan Years.

Stanton Wood’s adaptation of The Snow Queen was produced by multiple theaters over the past year, and his comedy Nymph was produced by Paper Wing Theatre Company in Monterey, California. In the coming year his one act plays Gates of Equality and The Golem will be produced in touring productions by Urban Stages Theatre Company in NYC. He is currently working on a novel adaptation of his play Skin Deep Sea, produced by Workhaus last season, a new iteration of his animated web comic Lies the Mirror Told Me, and a book version of his illustrated fictional blog The Unbelievably Strange Wildlife Garden. He also works to advance human rights through his work as the Strategic Initiatives Officer for US programs at The Center for Victims of TortureStanton Wood is a dramatic writer in a variety of media. He is a resident artist and founding member of the award-winning Rabbit Hole Ensemble in New York, with whom he has created The Tale of Frankenstein’s Daughter, Candide Americana, Big Thick Rod, and The Night of Nosferatu, which received 6 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations (including Outstanding Full Length Script). Other plays include The Snow Queen, The Magical Forest of Baba Yaga, The Blue Bird (co-written with Lori Ann Laster), Down the Drain, and Mr. Hoover’s Tea Party. His work has been commissioned, developed and/or produced by the likes of Urban Stages, Manhattan Class Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Hangar Theatre, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, the Puffin Foundation, and City Theatre in Pittsburgh, among others. He is also the author of the animated podcast Lies the Mirror Told Me, the creative blog The Unbelievably Strange Wildlife Garden, and a contributing author to Patent Number 09/955,678. As a narrative designer, he has worked on award winning computer game projects at Zoesis Studios and Pandemic Studios (now part of EA). He is a member of Workhaus Collective, the Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and his plays are published by Original Works, Indie Theatre Now, and Playscripts. Master Wood has an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Website.With Workhaus:
Skin Deep Sea,

Sarah Myers is a playwright and sometime performer who also manages to teach full-time. Her play The Realm will be produced by The Other Theatre Company at the Side Project in Chicago April 14 to May 10, and her solo play I Do Today will be featured during Greenhouse Theater Center’s Solo Celebration in the fall of 2016. Her other work has been produced and developed at the Wild Project, FronteraFest, the Off Center, the Blue Theater, the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, the Women & Theater Conference, and Indiana Repertory Theater, among others. Published plays include The Realm (Bonderman National Youth Playwriting Award), God of the Gaps (Pushcart Prize nominee), and In and Out. Sarah is a former company member of Austin-based theatre collective Rude Mechanicals and an ongoing collaborator with Sod House Theater, a company that creates adaptations and new works with communities throughout Minnesota. A graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin, Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Theater Department and MFA Creative Writing Program at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

Cory recently re-located to Los Angeles with his wife Victoria Stewart to pursue film and TV. Most recently, he was the winner of the 2015 Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville for his play, This Quintessence of Dust. In 2015, he co-wrote That High Lonesome Sound, which premiered at the Humana Festival and he was a resident artist at the Sundance Theatre Lab at MASSMoCA. Other recent plays have been produced or developed at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, Jackalope Theater in Chicago and HERE Arts Center in New York.

With Workhaus:
Sad Grrl13 and Little Eyes

Deborah Stein divides her time between Los Angeles and San Diego, where she is Assistant Professor of Playwriting at UCSD. She is Co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum Projects, a collaborative for creating new theatre works, for whom she has written and co-directed Chimera and The Wholehearted and has most recently written the book for the musical Movers + Shakers, directed by Suli Holum and developed at UCSD.

With Workhaus:
God Save Gertrude and Chimera

Victoria Stewart has moved to Los Angeles with fellow Workhauser Cory Hinkle. She is writing a project for YouTube with Devin Graham and her play Hardball has been optioned for film. She just finished a stint with the CTG New Play LA Workshop, working on her newest play Ophelia Redux.

With Workhaus:
800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick

Joe lives in Los Angeles, where he is developing projects for television and film. He is currently writing a play set in Minnesota about masculinity and sexuality in high school hockey for Berkeley Rep, which will be developed at this year’s Ground Floor residency. Joe’s plays include PROFILES, Lake Untersee, Good Ol’ Boys, The Hidden People, and The Strangler. His work has been developed or produced by Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, PlayPenn, The Amoralists, The Hangar Theatre, Portland Stage, The Source, Inkwell, and The 25¢ Opera of San Francisco. Awards include the McKnight Advancement Grant and two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center, a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and a Jerome Emerging Artist Residency at Tofte Lake Center. In 2009, Joe received a travel grant to develop The Hidden People, a three-part epic mash-up of Icelandic folklore, Norse mythology, and The Bible. Upcoming projects include a site-specific commission from Woodshed Collective and SPACE at Ryder Farm, and a residency with The Arctic Circle, developing work aboard an ice-class sailing vessel while travelling through the Arctic Ocean. MFA Playwriting, Brown University. Website.

With Workhaus:
Lake Untersee