memento vivere
Extra Special thanks to Hannah Steblay for her time and help. 
DOMINIQUE SERRAND - Artistic Director
Co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company and co-founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Dominique Serrand has acted, conceived, directed and designed for most Jeune Lune and Moving Company productions for over 40 years, concentrating primarily on directing. His other directing stages include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playmakers, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theatre, The Alley, The Shakespeare Theater, DC, amongst others.
Awards: 2006 Best Production “THE MISER”, Boston, Houston, San Diego, Minneapolis, San Francisco, 2005 Tony award best regional theater, 2005 USA ARTIST Fellow, Ford and Bush Fellow , knighted by the French Government in the order of Arts and Letters.
STEVEN EPP - Artistic Director (Fenix)
Actor, writer and co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company and Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1983-2008), Steve’s acting credits include title roles in Crusoe, Hamlet, Gulliver, Figaro, and The Miser. Locally, he has graced the stage at The Guthrie Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, The Jungle and others. His work has also brought him to La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, The Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alley Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theater, and Theatre for a New Audience, and The New Victory Theatre off-Broadway, among others. In addition to creating new work for The Moving Company, Steve has co-authored many plays, including Children of Paradise, which was awarded a 1993 Outer-Critics Circle award
Awards: 1999 Fox Fellow, 2009 McKnight Playwrights Center Fellow, 2013 Beinecke Fellow at Yale University, and 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor.
NATHAN KEEPERS - Producing Artistic Director (Rick)
Nathan Keepers is Producing Artistic Director of The Moving Company. Before MoCo, Nathan spent 11 seasons with Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Elsewhere locally: Jungle Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, Sod House Theater, The Modern Rep, Augsburg Varsity Theater, Six Points, Playwright’s Center and CTC. Nationally: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (ATL), ART, The Shakespeare Theatre-DC, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory and The Folger Theatre. Nathan has also collaborated with other local artists including choreographer Berit Ahlgren, and around the country directing for Merrimack Repertory Theater and ATL. He has been an artist in residence at University of Iowa, U Theaterof MN, Stanford University, NYU and Gustavus Adolphus. Nathan studied at The Burlesque Center for Clown with Pierre Byland in Switzerland and at The Ecole Philippe Gaulier (London.)
KENZI ALLEN (Neatn’ Tidy)
Kenzi is honored to be performing with MoCo once again. She was previously seen in The Cherry Orchard, at low tide and Speechless. Kenzi is a local theater artist and teacher specializing in movement, experimental performance, physical and devised theatre. Twin Cities credits include the Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, TigerLion Arts, Four Humors, Red Bird Theatre, Walking Shadow, Nervous Theatre, and devised work directed by Jon Ferguson. She is a founding company member for The Missing Theatre, UK. Training: École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. Familie Flöz, Italy. The Burlesk Centre with Pierre Byland, Switzerland. Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, CA., University of Minnesota.
TRACEY MALONEY (Rattz)
Tracey is thrilled to working with the Moving Company again, having last worked with them on The Cherry Orchard and Say All The Truth. Recently Tracey appeared in Sickle with Theater Novi Most, and the History Plays at the Guthrie Theater. She has been acting around the Twin Cities for over twenty five years, including theaters such as The Guthrie Theater, Six Points Theater, Pillsbury Theater, Mixed Blood, The History Theater, Park Square, Ten Thousand Things, The Playwrights' Center, the Children’s Theatre, The Illusion, and others. Film credits include
Cedar Rapids and The Straight Story.
ANNA SCHLOERB (Girl in Red)
Anna M. Schloerb is beyond thrilled to be making her MoCo debut! She has worked locally with Children's Theater Company, Ten Thousand Things, Nautilus Music-Theater, History Theater, Wonderlust Productions, Open Eye Figure Theater, Illusion Theater, and has been an apprentice with The Moving Company for the last two years. Anna has studied at Dell'arte International, The Center for Movement Theater, and the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theater Institute. Anna holds a B.A. in American Studies, Theater & Dance from Macalester College.
LUVERNE SEIFERT (Pupa)
Luvernevis Co-artistic director of Sod House Theater and has been acting and directing professionally for over 30 years. He has received a National Fox Fellowship for distinguished achievement, a McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists and an Ivey Award for his Performance as Phillip K Dick in 800 Words. He is currently a Senior Teaching Specialist in the Department of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota where he has been teaching for 22 years. As a former Artistic Associate of Theatre de la Jeune Lune he has acted at South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, The La Jolla Playhouse, The Wilma Theater, The New Victory Theater and also with Arts Emerson and Arizona Rep. He’s performed locally with The Moving Company, The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theater and Ten Thousand Things. He holds a BA from Augsburg University and is certified in European clowning at The Burlesque Center for Clown in Locarno, Switzerland and at The Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Etampe, France.
JOHN NOVAK (Stage Manager)
After a nomadic early career as a stage technician and then an opera stage manager, John landed at the Jungle Theater in 1997. Since then, he has collaborated on more than 100 Jungle productions as stage manager and/or properties designer. Recently he’s had the opportunity to stage manage for Artistry Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Theater Latté Da, Frank Theatre, and The Moving Company (Say All the Truth, Speechless, The Cherry Orchard), and to design props for productions at Skylark Opera Theatre, Park Square Theatre, and Ten Thousand Things. He shares a home in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis with his spouse, the creator and performer Bradley Greenwald.
SONYA BERLOVITZ (Costume Designer)
Sonya Berlovitz designed over sixty productions for the Tony award-winning Franco-American company Theatre de la Jeune Lune between 1980 and 2008 including Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Miser, Carmen, Hamlet, Cosi Fan Tutti, The Magic Flute, Tartuffe, Medea, Circus of Tales and The Three Musketeers. Since 2009 she has been a resident designer with The Moving Company, touring shows with them to South Coast Repertory, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Productions elsewhere have included Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Wilma Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Jungle Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company, Theatre Latte Da and Wonderlust Productions.
Ms. Berlovitz graduated from both La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (fashion design, painting).
Recently, Ms Berlovitz had a solo exhibition of her costume designs and artwork in Tokyo, Japan called Red. www.sonyaberlovitz.com
MARCUS DILLIARD (Lighting Designer)
Marcus Dilliard has designed for theatre and opera across North America and in Europe, most recently seen at Pittsburgh Opera as the lighting designer for La Traviata, Utah Opera for Thais and Penumbra Theatre for Wine in the Wilderness. He has designed many productions for The Moving Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the Guthrie Theater, Theater Latté Da, Penumbra Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Children’s Theatre Company, Ordway Music Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minnesota Orchestra, American Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Opera designs include Pittsburgh Opera, the Spoleto Festival (Italy); the Athens Festival, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, Flanders Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Pacific, Fort Worth Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Canadian Opera Company, Chicago Opera Theater, and Boston Lyric Opera. Marcus is a graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts, a member of United Scenic Artists and a University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus.
Mads Plonski (Video)
Mads Plonski is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of live and digital performance. They are a lead artist with Supermoon theater and have shown work at the Southern theater, hair + nails gallery, and collaborated with many theater companies across the twin cities. Mads graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a B.A. in Contemporary Performance Practice.
Donors
*if you see a name omitted, misspelled, or anything else wrong, know that it is an inadvertent human error. You can email NATHAN at info@themovingco.org and he’ll fix it.
Leni and David Moore
Michael + Cynthia Jorgensen
Mary + Chuck Leer
Carol Lichterman
Betsee Parker
Margery Martin + Daniel Feidt
Wendy + David Coggins
Dave Hage
Fred + Mary Keepers
The Tyden Family
Gloria Peterson + Jim McCarthy
Lynn + Ben Oehler
Sylvia + Sam Kaplan
Susan + Jim Lenfestey
Susan Genaw + Lee Humphries
Adam Moore
Allen Mahnke + Kathryn Schenk
Andrew + Jenny Collins
Anne + Don Luce
Amy + Ken Kaminsky
Avner Ben-Ner
Baiba + Glad Olinger
Barb Francis
Barbar Meyer
Barbara Reid
Barb + Dan Ruble
Barbara Shaterian
Rita + Ben Olk
Ben Krywosz
Ben Olk + Kris Berggren
Ben Trudeau
Berit Alhgren
Beth Kellar-Long
Bill + Sara Stout
Bonnie + Gerald Kennedy
Carl Schroeder
Carla Adams
Carol Klee + Luis Ramos-Garcia
Caroline Bassett
Catherine McKegney
Catherine Schubilske
Charles + Rebecca Lyon
Charlie + Julie Zelle
Chris Lehn
Christina + Scott Baldwin
Christine DeZelar-Tiedman
Christine Noyes
Christopher “Yam Pants” Curtis
Clem Rosenberg
Craig Harris
Craig Poeschl
Craig Sinard
Cynthia Gillett + Dan Sadoff
Cynthia Gold
Dan + Lynn Lenort
Dan Lori
Dan Nass
Darcey Engen + Luverne Seifert
David Ball + Susan Pochapsky
David Colwell
David Mahnke
Deborah + Dietz Sussex
Drayton Cousins
Deborah Cromer
Dick + Pauline Hendrickson
Donna Stephenson
Donneen Torrey
Elizabeth Mead
Elizabeth Olson + Fam
Elizabeth Snyder
Ellen Cree
Ellen Sue + John Parker
Emma Greenman
Emilia Seay Allen
Eric Gustafson + Jennifer Jameson
Eric Olson + Susan Johnson
Eric + Joan Peterson
Erika + Nathan Eklund
Erin Dennis
Erin Keefe
Erin Oglesbay
Ernest Edwards
Eugenia Popa
Evelyn Schulte
Evelyn Valen
Flo Francis
Francoise Blanc
Germain Grueneberg
Glenn Klapperich
Gregory Milliren
Gregory Schultz
Gregory Vilmo
Gretchen Bratvold
Gwen Freed
Harry Waters Jr.
Harvey Sherman
Herb Winslow
Hugh Huston
Ignabova Trust
Isaac Risseeuw
J Seo
Jack + Rhoda Liebo
James David
James Howitt + Ann Lewandowski
James Martin
James Roth
Jane Kerr
Janet + Richard Myers
Janice Johnson
Janis Weller
Jason Clusman
Jeanne Schleh
Jeff Masco
Jean Thomson
Jen Keavy
Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer Strom
Jennifer + John Urbanski
Jill Schafer
Jim + Cheryl Epp
Jim Emery + Marti Martindale
Joanna Schnedler
John Fenster
John Snell
Joe + Lois Duffy
Joel Spence
Josh Kroll
Joyce Berdie
Joyce Lyon
Judy + Steve Emmings
Julie Robbins
Julie Sand
Julie Toth
Karen + Paul Nelson
Kathleen Nugent
Kathleen Wilken
Kathryn Nettleman
Kathryn Schenk
Kay Thomas
Kelly Maynard
Kent Kiefer
Kevin Ward
Kit Gordon
Kristen + Dan Charette
Kristen Froebel
Kristin Midelfort
Kyle Barron Cohen + Katy Carmody
Larissa + Eric Netterlund
Laura + Joel Bassin
Lauren Stringer
Lee + Beverly Gehrke
Linda Close
Linda Donaldson
Linda Hallman
Lindsey Galbraith
Lisa Hondros
Lisa Sinclair
Lisa Tiegel + Eric Galatz
Lori Constable
Louise Bormann
Lucas Erickson
Lynn + Ben Oehler
Maria Bianchi
Margaret Van Wyk
Margot McKinney
Mark Clements + Daphne Koop
Mark Germscheid
Mark Gustafson + Sarah Campbell
Mark Wexler + Mary Tran-Wexler
Mark Valdez
Martha Anderson
Martha Ballard + Paul Chrenka
Martha + Thom Sandberg
Mary Aalgaard
Mary Cajacob + Peter Eisenberg
Mary Feeney + Nick Pittenger
Mari Wittenbeer
Mary Harmon
Mary Hobday
Mary Kokernot
Masanari Kawahara
Michael Dillenberger
Michael Gast
Michael Hawkins
Michael Hull
Michael Friedman + Susan Hasti
Michelle Blaeser
Mija Van Der Wege
Mitch Richter
Molli O’Rourke
Nanci Olesen
Nancy Feldman
Naomi Konikoff
Nina Koch + Dave Uher
Norah Long
Patti Pinkerton
Patty Strandquist
Patricia Schaffer
Pamela Bayes
Pamela Wagner
Paul Bjerke
Paul Kennedy
Paul Thureen
Paul Walsh
Paul Wiedel
Penelope Snipper
R Kevin Chapman
Randy Nordquist
Richard Graham
Richard Taylor
Richard Todd + Patricia Haswell
Rob Gardner
Robert + Mary Beck
Ronald + Mary Mattson
Sandy Spieler
Sally + Tim
Sam Bergman
Sanford Weisberg
Sarah Agnew
Sarah Coggins
Sarah Day
Sarah Miller
Sarah + Steve Richardson
Sean + Rachel Gilbertson
Shirley Espaland
Sidney Konikoff
Sonya Berlovitz
Stacey Grimes
Stephanie + Jim Alford
Steve Bayes
Steven Matuszak
Steve Pincus + Fam
Steven Rosenberg
Susan Elsner
Susan Gilmore + Gordon Perkins
Susan Henderson
Susan Schultz + Weld Ransom
Tamara Rogers
Tracey Maloney
Torger Baland
Ute + Stefan Bertog
Valerie + Kevin Salley
Wendy Short-Hayes