October 29-31 & November 1, 2026
Provisional Rain Date November 2, 2026
Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis MN
puppetry · stilting · dance · fire · live music · song
2026 Directors
2026 Co-Director Marisa B. Tejeda is a Minneapolis-based theater artist, actor, director, and educator. Their work has been seen at companies including The Guthrie Theater, The Jungle Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Pillsbury House Theatre, Ten Thousand Things Theater, American Players Theatre, and Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Passionate about bold, collaborative storytelling and community-centered artmaking, Marisa has also worked extensively as an educator and teaching artist throughout the Twin Cities at local schools, universities, and colleges, as well as within Minnesota state prisons and correctional facilities. They are also the recipient of a 2026 MRAC Creative Connections grant, supporting collaborative devised theater work with students at St. Paul’s Avalon School, their alma mater.
2026 Co-Director Maren Ward has been performing, directing and theater-making in the Twin Cities for over three decades. She is drawn to create and participate in theater that is community-driven, celebratory, absurd, chaotic, spectacle, magic. Since 2004, she has directed the zAmya Theater Project which uses the powerful combination of lived experiences and artistic expression to inspire housing justice. As a performer she’s been seen frequently at Open Eye Figure Theater, Sod House Theater and other ensembles. She co-founded and held an artistic leadership role at Bedlam Theatre, a radical community theater in Minneapolis 1993-2016. She was a co-director of BareBones Halloween Shows 1998-2007 and 2013. You might have seen her as Chad, or was it Chip?, in Up In Smoke, last year’s pre-show.
