Sandbox Theatre

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the first MN New Theater Conference!

From thinking about leadership and building community, to balancing feathers and exploring masks, to trying out each other’s methods of devising and cross-pollinating - it filled us up and inspired us to play✨ See you at the next one?










Washington

📸 and Evie Digirolamo

Sandbox is excited to announce that they are part of the first ever Minnesota New Theater Conference. This event is intended to bring together members of the local theater community who are engaged in creating new work together collaboratively, be it workshopped, experimental, devised, or ensemble. The event will take place at The Crane Theater on August 24th and 25th and will be open to anyone who is interested. Registration is free and is now open at www.newtheater.org. Sign up today!

Participating Companies:
nimbus theatre
off-leash area: contemporary performance works
Pangea World Theater
Wonderlust Productions
The Birth Play Project
Lightning Rod Theater

Minnesota Fringe on the horizon has got us excited about continuing to bring the theater community together!

Sandbox is excited to announce that they are part of the first ever Minnesota New Theater Conference. This event is intended to bring together members of the local theater community who are engaged in creating new work together collaboratively, be it workshopped, experimental, devised, or ensemble. The event will take place at The Crane Theater on August 24th and 25th and will be open to anyone who is interested. Registration is free and is now open at www.newtheater.org. Sign up today!

📷 Matthew Glover

Spotting Sandbox: Evelyn Digirolamo has turned their whim of devising as a wellness practice into a monthly workshop! You can find future dates at their FB group Lucid Movement in Minneapolis. The next one is Saturday July 20th 3-5pm at the Center for Performing Arts. You can register here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/bc8be27f/category/X19hbGxfXw%3D%3D/appointment/65322892/calendar/5959354

Couldn’t make it out to karaoke but still want to support trans artists? Donate here for the Trans Voices Cabaret!

https://sandboxmn.square.site/

If you can’t make it out tonight and sing with us you can still donate to help pay trans artists making art in the Trans Voices Cabaret this December! The Aliveness Project is matching all our donations tonight 🏳️‍⚧️

Never stop playing! led us in a playful comic book exercise to explore creating new characters through drawing ✍️ Not pictured: when we brought our creatures to life and sent them to try on shoes and go to awkward middle school dances. Also if you’re curious about the lighting- we had the lights in the rehearsal room on a disco preset because…why not? 🪩

This is your call to do something silly today just for the joy of it!

It’s Tonight!!! Come sing with us 🎶✨🏳️‍⚧️

At Minneapolis Cider Company

✨✨✨THIS FRIDAY✨✨✨

🏳️‍⚧️Come sing with us to keep the magic flowing🏳️‍⚧️

Craving movement and connection? Sandboxer Evelyn Digirolamo is co-leading a workshop with Sarah Zuber called the Lucid Movement Workshop on Saturday June 15 2-4pm! Link in comments ✨

Since the day she auditioned for us in 2012 delivering her monologue in a headstand, Evie has brought their insatiable movement curiosity to our company (pictures for evidence). Including of course forming our aerial wing The Swingset resulting in the shows Little Pilot, Houdini, and Bone Mother.

Here’s a description of her workshop 🌻
Lucid Movement is a new practice exploring how we can “journal” with our bodies. Using an integration of yoga, dance, and physical theater techniques we will let movement be our guide as we explore ideas together and perhaps come away with a moment of inspiration, aha, or shared laughter. This session is focused on joy and the question of what makes us feel delight. All movement experience levels welcome- bring your body and your curiosity

Held at the Center for Performing Arts✨

Can’t wait to see what Sandboxer Hal Sansone and friend of Sandbox Atim Opoka (and really everyone) create with the Naked Stages Fellowship! Yes! Artists supported in making their art! Our world is better for it. This is your sign to go make the thing today- hum the song, write the poem, plant the garden, imagine the story, dance the dance- wishing you all a flourishing and creative day ✨✨✨

We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2024 Naked Stages Fellowship: Atim Opoka, hal sansone, Sarah M. Greer, and Skye Reddy! This 7-month development program provides time, financial support, and mentoring to early career artists as they develop their unique voices. We are thrilled to welcome these brilliant performers into our 32nd season!

Exciting News!!! We’re thrilled to announce Trans Voices Cabaret Minneapolis is BACK this December! You want to be part of this magic? Come sing and fundraiser along with us at the Trans Voices Karaoke Friday June 14th at Minneapolis Cider Company🎤 ✨🎶

Ticket link in the comments below

Shoutout: this is the final night to catch this amazing showcase at Red Eye Theater ✨

Opening tonight at Red Eye!

Black Ensemble Productions Presents:

The Ifẹ̀ Lab
(Curated Rental)
March 28-30, 2024

The inaugural Black Ensemble Production's (formerly The Black Ensemble Players) Ifẹ̀ (Ee-fay) Lab is a 12-week fellowship highlighting three black solo performing artists in the Twin Cities. Each fellow will be encouraged to create two pieces: one 10-minute solo piece to perform live and another 5-minute solo piece which we’ll film. We'll document each artist's process by filming their 5-minute piece along with their creation rituals in a space of their choosing. We will edit down their creation ritual to 5-minutes totaling a 10-minute solo cinematic highlight. The film and live performances will be interwoven into a multimedia, multidisciplinary, Afro-futuristic showcase which will take place at Red Eye Theater as part of their Curated Rentals Program. Excerpts of their solo performances will be shared via social media and The Ifẹ̀ Lab’s website for free.

Antonio Duke: Program Director
Ashawnti Ford: Social Media Manager
Nia Navarro: Digital Content Unit Director
Olu Famule: Film Editor
Mau Ojeda: Production Assistant
Skye Reddy: Stage Manager
Alsa Bruno: Host
Theo Langason: Lighting Designer

Fellows:
Asha Rowland
Antonio Duke
Eshay Brantley

More information and tickets: https://www.redeyetheater.org/the-ife-lab

Shoutout to this fun piece opening tonight- yay scrappy theater companies making magic ✨

Our spooky opening night has arrived. And it's....right behind you! 👻 JABBERWOCK performs at 7pm at the Phoenix Theater and via our live-stream. Doors open at 6:30pm. Show up or tune in! Ticket link in bio or comments 🎭🎟️

🍄JABBERWOCK : a horror show featuring 2 actors, 5 puppeteers, live music and Foley sound effects, showing for ONE WEEK ONLY at the Phoenix Theater February 22-25! In the early 1900s, two robbers are hiding out in a remote cabin in the American West and must contend with a mysterious cosmic horror that lurks in the wilderness. Featuring a huge puppet of an Eldritch abomination. 🍄

📸 PC Dan Norman

Spotting Sandbox: Evelyn Digirolamo will be performing Thursday nights with the improv movement project at HUGE Theater in March and April! Conceived by Sean Dillon and Mark Benzel and including so many other incredible talents like the delightful Gregory Parks ✨✨✨

If your soul is seeking some poetry to pair with snow and sun - Sandbox company member Hal has published this beautiful collection available now at ethelzine.com:

WINTER GARLIC: HEALING POEMS FOR MY ROOT SYSTEM
by

hal sansone

hal sansone is a trans love poet, theatre artist, and herbalist-in-training. He creates in the traditions of love, joy, gentleness, and sweetness as radical acts. He has been a company member with Sandbox Theatre since 2018. hal lives on Dakota and Anishinaabe homeland (Minneapolis) with two sweet kitties.

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✨✨Tomorrow!✨✨
Trans Voices Cabaret begins it's weekend run at Mixed Blood Theatre tomorrow, and we'd love to have ya there!

Join us for a musical theatre cabaret of trans and non-binary artists on the stage of. Come out to celebrate and support trans individualism, community, and joy.

This event is ENITRELY, and PROUDLY, trans ran and operated.

https://transvoicescabmpls.ticketleap.com/tvc-mpls/
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Poster by Elliott Sharpe

Thanks MPR News! Check out what Sandboxer Hal Sansone has to say about Trans Voices Cabaret and hope you can join us this weekend (and Monday) only at Mixed Blood Theatre Company ✨

🎟️Link to tickets in the comments

Check the show out on IG

‘We’re not hiding’: Trans Voices Cabaret debuts in Minneapolis Hal Sansone directs the Minneapolis Trans Voices Cabaret, a theater production featuring entirely transgender and nonbinary participants, highlighting diverse trans experiences and showcasing their talent in a politically supportive Minnesota.

Joy, art, stories, access, and belonging🏳️‍⚧️

Come see us this weekend.

https://transvoicescabmpls.ticketleap.com/tvc-mpls/

Poster by Elliott Sharpe

Join us THIS WEEKEND for a musical theatre cabaret of trans and non-binary artists on the stage of Mixed Blood Theatre. Come out to celebrate and support trans individualism, community, and joy. This event is entirely, and proudly, trans ran and operated.

https://transvoicescabmpls.ticketleap.com/tvc-mpls/

IMPORTANT DETAILS:
-All-ages welcomed and encouraged.
-On Sunday, December 10th at 7 pm, the show will be ASL interpreted.
-There will be vendor booths by trans/non-binary artists in the lobby of the theater before every show. Doors will open one hour before start time.
-We have free tickets reserved for trans and BIPOC community members for whom cost is a barrier to attending. If this is you, please DM us on Instagram or email us at [email protected]. We will be happy to set aside a ticket for you.