Walking Shadow Theatre Company is a Minneapolis-based professional non-profit theatre company which was founded in 2004 by John Heimbuch, Amy Rummenie and David Pisa with the following aims: to develop the talents of its artists, to nurture audience commitment to the arts, to facilitate dialogue within the community and to examine local culture in a global context. The company's name comes from Act V, Scene V of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Heimbuch currently serves as the company's Artistic Director; Pisa currently serves as the company's Executive Director.
Production history
2022: Cabal 2021: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [digital production]; 21 Extremely Bad Breakups [digital production]; Gilgamesh [digital production]; Week of Sharks [digital production of short plays]; Gilgamesh and Beowulf in the park; REBOOT: An Online Play with Puzzles' 2020: The Ugly One (Original Title: Der Häßliche); Beowulf [digital production]; Hatchet Lady [digital production]; The Odyssey [digital production] 2019: Cabal; Open' 2018: 21 Extremely Bad Breakups; Equivocation' 2017: Marie Antoinette; Red Velvet; Hatchet Lady: Carry Nation, Angel of Destruction' 2016: The Aliens; Lasso of Truth [co-production with Workhaus Collective]; The Christians; The River 2015: The Coward; The 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival; A Midwinter Night's Revel 2014: The 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival; Schiller's Mary Stuart; The Odyssey; The Three Musketeers; Gabriel; The Whale 2013: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; The Sexual Life of Savages 2012: reasons to be pretty; An Ideal Husband; Compleat Female Stage Beauty; Eurydice 2011: Drakul; after the quake; Saboteur 2010: Mojo; The Transdimensional Couriers Union; See You Next Tuesday; The Crowd You're In With 2009: Caligula; Robots vs. Fake Robots; SQUAWK; Some Girl(s) 2008: 36 Views; The American Pilot; William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead; Amazons and Their Men 2007: The Cryptogram; Fat Pig; Mr. Marmalade 2006: 1926 Pleasant; Seventy Scenes of Halloween 2005: 10-Speed Revolution 2004: The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen
References
External links Walking Shadow Theatre Company official website Skinner, Quinton; "Walking Shadow emerges as region's most ambitious theater company"; City Pages; 17 August 2009