Bios

• Aaron Barck Born on a cold November morning in south Minneapolis Aaron Barck has been involved in both the performing and visual arts since a very young age. In his youth he studied the cello with a private Instructor, which ultimately led to his further interest in musical performance. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he studied Animation and Printmaking. It was during his enrollment at MCAD that Aaron really started to become interested in the world of theater. After he left MCAD Aaron and a good friend had the great idea to create a miniature puppet show and take it on the road performing on the street. Aaron has continued to perform as a street musician for the past three years all across the country. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Corinne Ebbenga Corinne is has studied Wu Chein Pai and self-defense at the Feminist Eclectic Martial Arts school and is a student/performer in Zenon Dance School's scholarship program. She is a member of we dance; a Minneapolis based site-specific dance group that works with drawing out the energy and stories of everyday environments, rejuvenating and honoring them. Tapping into the possibilities of compassionate living in every moment move her to make and share her art wherever she is standing, whatever bridge she is crossing, or from whichever tree she is climbing.

• Gus Ganley Gus Ganley is a filmmaker who works in the intersection of theatre, video, and the natural world. He spent a year instructing Film Tech and Acting for the Camera classes at the University of Minnesota, and moved out of the academy to organize and facilitate his own workshops on media, performance, and political activism throughout the country. His work focuses heavily on changing the present age. Gus lives in Minneapolis.

• Rachel (Olli) Johnson Rachel (Olli) Johnson is a theater artist, theater practitioner, puppeteer and musician. She attended the Perpich Center for Arts Education where she focused in theater. She is a member of the local organizing team for the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference and organizer of the practitioner's forum for those devoted to the work of Augusto Boal.
Olli has developed work and performed with the Bread and Puppet Circus, Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, and Drum & Squeeze, a comedy puppet duo. She is the co-creator of the Full Moon Puppet Cabaret at the Bedlam Theatre providing opportunities for emerging artists to show their work. 

She has studied at Bennington College and is committed to community-based theater that raises questions about social injustice and how to create a radically different world.

• Walken Schweigert Walken Schweigert is an actor, musician, and performer from St. Paul, MN. He is a 2009 graduate of the Dell' Arte International School for Physical Theatre, ( and a 2006 graduate of the Perpich Center for Arts Education (Theatre Major). In the past 4 years, he has worked with the Taller Xuchialt and the theatre company Ronda de Barro in Leon, Nicaragua; lived and performed with the Growtowski-based theatre company/circus troupe Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, MA; and has performed on the streets of 11 countries. He has also facilitated Theatre of the Oppressed workshops in Nicaragua and Minnesota. Walken currently resides in Minnesota.

• Chad Stender Chad graduated from Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theater in 2009 where he studied ensemble-based physical theater and the devising of original performance work. He earned his Bachelors degree in Theater Arts from the University of California Santa Cruz where he focused on physical comedy, mask performance, dance, mime, directing and theater theory. He is the founder of multiple actor-run performance collectives and is committed to the empowering of actors toward the creation of their own socially and politically responsive art.