Design Team

ABBI BUTTERFIELD, House Manager
MARIA GAGNON, House Manager
CRAIG KOSSEN, Makeup and Prosthetics Assistant
RYAN “COBRA” STRANDJORD, Marketing Director
STEPHEN MICHAEL STRAUB, Sound Assistant
ADAM VACHON, Technical SFX Assistant
JEREMY, Sound installation
CHUCK & MIKE MCGINLEY and the team at the The St. Croix Sensory, Olfactory Design
DAN NORMAN, Postcard Photo
BILL CAMERON, Program Photo
JOANNA HARMON, Postcard & Program Design
IGOR DUKIC, Postcard, Program & Poster Graphic Art

Cast

Featured

In these days of spoiler alerts, FOMO and immediate gratifications galore, the art of truly engaging with audiences grows more challenging. Immersive theater pushes buttons that are still fresh for us in the 21st century. We get to make discoveries. We get to experience moments unique to ourselves. We get to engage all our senses. As audience, our imaginations get to co-direct these shows. With immersive theater, our curiosity defines the performances we attend. ~ Christopher Barton

Immersive theater is a chance to experience artistic expression at an intimate and personal level. No one is passively watching the actors as the performance unfolds... the audience and the actors are all actively living in the show. Each person is an integral participant of the world that has been created. And I love that people get the chance to explore and to play. Every performance feels so different based on the unique energy that the audience brings to the world and that's what makes this show so fresh and new and exciting. ~ Nadia Honary

Immersive theater reminds us of the intimate relationship between audience and performer. It's scary, exhilarating, and necessary - the arts are integral to revealing the best and worst of human nature, mundane and surreal, beautiful and horrific. Hopefully this style of theater will remind audiences to maintain a tactile and emotional relationship with what they discover, even after they leave our world and return to their own. ~ Cate Jackson

What I love about immersive theater is that it's impossible for it to grow safe. After a long run of a traditional format show, it's easy to settle into patterns, routines, and you have to make a conscious effort to break out of them. In immersive theater, everything is different from moment to moment. You might deliver your favorite lines to a dozen intent faces, three bored ones, or an empty room. An errant sneeze can give a scene a whole new approach. Everything, good or bad, can happen and change the entire show, but it cannot grow routine and safe. ~ Brian Watson-Jones

GABRIEL ANDERSON, HEATHER CADIGAN BROCKMAN, JIM DOMINICK, ALARICA HASSETT, KATHERINE HESTERBERG, BRITTNAY KEEFE, JIM LIEBERTHAL, VICTORIA OLENDER, KERRY PARKER, RACHEL PETRIE, EVE SCHULTE: Prostitutes

Donors

Lauren Allen, Chris and Margaret Bell, Raye and Candace Birk, Stephen Boland, Bill and Connie Cameron, Julia Chavez, Toni and Bruce Dachis, Gregory Frankenfeld, Carol Harmon, Mary Harmon, Gabriel Keller, Ryan Lindberg, Donna and Michael Meyer, Scott Pakudaitis, Lars Peterssen, Jack Rubin, Al Saks, Trish Santini, Jon Schwenk, Emily Sohn, Chris and Sharon Sorenson, Annette and John-Pierre Van Dongen, Dennis Yelkin, Jerome Yorke, RD Zimmerman, the Benevity Community Impact Fund, The Southern Theater and ARTshare, and The Tea Source.

2014 PRODUCTION TEAM

JOHN OLIVE, Playwright

LILLIAN EGNER, Project Manager
LAURA THAISEN, Production Manager
ERICA ZAFFARANO, Set Designer
JASON QUICK, Design Consultant
KRISTEN LEIGH, Makeup Designer
SHELBY THOMASON, House Manager
AMY NELSON, House Manager
ABBEE WARMBOE, Props
STEEVIE BROWN, Costume Assistant

special thanks

Haley Finn and the Playwright’s Center, Ben Heywood, Colin Marx, Beth Bowman, Tana Hargest, Mitch Redepenning, Antoinette Abeyta, Theresa Akers, Alpha Plastics, Kate Arford, Steve Ashley, Bedlam Theatre, Jon Bradley, Adam Cox, Seth Dahlseid, Sarah Fiedler, Frank Theatre, Dani Hans, Elisabeth Howthorne, Samantha Kuhn-Staneart, Mark Leski, Donna and Michael Meyer, Samilee Moody, Sarah Morrison, Trevor Muller-Hegel, Dan Norman, Margot, Alex, and the Olsen Family Circus, David Penn, Sam Pitmon, Brad Silvernate, Jes Traut, and the many volunteers who made CRIME AND PUNISHMENT possible.