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Kirby Bennett (Co-Producer/Actor)
Kirby Bennett is a stage and
commercial actor who has performed at a variety of Twin Cities’ theatres.
Most recently she was featured in The Left Hand
Singing and The
Triumph of Love at Park Square Theatre,
Machinal at Theatre Pro
Rata and An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand
Boeuf for Girl Friday Productions, the latter
which she also produced. Other highlights include Lori Martin in the world
premiere of Hanukkah Lights in the Big Sky
with the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company;
Belinda/Flavia in Noises Off,
Reba in The Last Night of Ballyhoo,
and Edith in The Women,
all at Park Square Theatre; M’Lynn (understudy) in
Steel Magnolias with
Commonweal Theatre; Melissa in Love Letters
and Dahlia in Hate
Mail, which she co-produced for Girl Friday
Productions; Lillian Davis in 16 Spells to Charm
the Beast with Mary Worth Theatre and the
Playwrights’ Center; numerous characters in the critically acclaimed
The History of the Devil,
also with Mary Worth; and M’Lynn in Steel
Magnolias, Maria in
Twelfth Night, and Grace in
Bus Stop, all at the Paul
Bunyan Playhouse. Kirby also co-produced and performed the roles of Arles et
al in Greater Tuna
with Buzzworks Theatre. She holds a degree in Dramatic Arts from
Macalester
College.
Natalie Diem (Co-Producer/Assistant Director)
Natalie Diem is a director, actor
and educator native to the Twin Cities. Most recently she directed
critically acclaimed productions of
Communicating Doors,
A Woman in Mind and
Closer for Joking Apart
Theatre, On the Verge
for Gremlin Theater, and An Empty Plate in the
Café du Grand Boeuf for Girl Friday Productions.
Other recent direction credits include Murder at
the Abbey Grange, an
adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery for Hardcover Theater, which was
selected by the Star Tribune
as a stand-out of the 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival; and
Love Letters and
Hate Mail, which she
co-produced for Girl Friday Productions. Her directing credits also include
the regional premieres of Stroganoff
by Erica Christ for Cheap Theatre; the end-of-the millennium cabaret show
Tabloid Dreams for
Mary Worth Theatre Company; and Sex and the
Office, adapted for the stage from the Helen
Gurley Brown bestseller by Joe Leary for Mockingbird Theatre at the
Minneapolis Fringe Festival. Natalie co-produced both
Tabloid Dreams and
Sex and the Office. Natalie
joined Mary Worth Theatre Company in 1997 as Joel Sass’ assistant director
and acted as the theatre's Producing Director until 2003. She also served as
the assistant to Artistic Director Erica Christ for Cheap Theatre for three
years. Natalie has extensive experience as a children’s theatre instructor
and director; she holds a BA in Theatre with an emphasis on acting/directing
and a BA in English from the
University
of Minnesota,
Morris.
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