Walking Shadow Theatre Company

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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. [1] 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.

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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 [2] '
2020:The Ugly One (Original Title: Der Häßliche) [3] ; Beowulf [digital production] [4] ; Hatchet Lady [digital production]; The Odyssey [digital production]
2019:Cabal [5] ; Open [6] '
2018:21 Extremely Bad Breakups [7] ; Equivocation [8] '
2017:Marie Antoinette [9] ; Red Velvet [10] ; Hatchet Lady: Carry Nation, Angel of Destruction [11] '
2016:The Aliens [12] ; Lasso of Truth [co-production with Workhaus Collective] [13] ; The Christians [14] ; The River [15]
2015:The Coward [16] ; The 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival; A Midwinter Night's Revel [17]
2014:The 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival; Schiller's Mary Stuart [18] ; The Odyssey [19] ; The Three Musketeers [20] ; Gabriel [21] ; The Whale [22]
2013:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [23] ; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde [24] ; The Sexual Life of Savages [25]
2012:reasons to be pretty; An Ideal Husband [26] ; 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 [27] ; Robots vs. Fake Robots [28] ; SQUAWK; [29] Some Girl(s)
2008:36 Views [30] ; The American Pilot [31] ; William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead [32] ; Amazons and Their Men [33]
2007: The Cryptogram [34] ; Fat Pig; [35] Mr. Marmalade [36]
2006:1926 Pleasant [37] ; Seventy Scenes of Halloween
2005:10-Speed Revolution
2004:The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen

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