Canis Latrans
Melinda and Toby, two recluses of an apartment in some urban American sprawl, meet a coyote who mysteriously visits their fire escape one night. This wild encounter leads them on a poetic journey of self-realization, with their newly discovered animal instincts leading the way. My Barking Dog is a blend of magical realism and lyrical storytelling that explores how our everyday lives have been disconnected from our roots. Eric Coble examines what happens when nature decides to challenge our inorganic life-styles.
Melinda and Toby, two recluses of an apartment in some urban American sprawl, meet a coyote who mysteriously visits their fire escape one night. This wild encounter leads them on a poetic journey of self-realization, with their newly discovered animal instincts leading the way. My Barking Dog is a blend of magical realism and lyrical storytelling that explores how our everyday lives have been disconnected from our roots. Eric Coble examines what happens when nature decides to challenge our inorganic life-styles.
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The Crane Theater | 2303 Kennedy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Performances: Friday, April 20 | 7:30PM Saturday, April 21 | 7:30PM Monday, April 23 (PWYC) | 7:30PM Thursday, April 26 | 7:30PM Friday, April 27 | 7:30PM Saturday, April 28 | 7:30PM Sunday, April 29 | 2:00PM 90 minutes, no intermission | Contains mature themes. Viewer discretion is advised. |
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CAST
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Victoria Pyan (Melinda)
Victoria Pyan has been seen on stage performing with Frank Theatre: The Arsonists; Oncoming Productions: OCP Ruins Christmas, The Deep Dark, The Last Bombardment; Little Lifeboats: Raise Your Voice (Suzanne Cross): That Fucking Harriet Tubman Play, I Never Eat December Snowflakes, Trippingly On The Tongue; Freshwater Theatre: We Just Clicked; Theatre Cosmic: After Life; Theatre Pro Rata: Henry V, Twelfth Night; Mission Theatre Co: Midsummer Night's Dream; Theatre Unbound: Julius Caesar, 24 Hour Theatre Smackdown. She has also directed in the Twin Cities with Little Lifeboats: Sing to Me Now, Parhelion, Tease-The Easy Access Script Experience; Delve Theatre: Two Jokes One Act; Love’s Prick Productions: How to Date a Werewolf. She graduated from the University of MN Morris and the University College of Dublin. She is a company member and co-founder of Little Lifeboats and company member of Oncoming Productions. You can find her on twitter @DowagerVictoria Photo credit: Matt Black Mike Swan (Toby) Mike Swan is so excited to join Market Garden Theatre for My Barking Dog. Since moving to Minnesota almost 5 years ago, he has worked for some pretty cool companies including Girl Friday Productions (Idiot's Delight), Artistry (All My Sons, W;t **2017 Ivey award for emotional impact), DalekoArts (Middletown, Our Town, The Shape of Things), Theatre in the Round (The Drawer Boy), and 2 seasons with the Commonweal Theatre Company. Mike holds a B.A in Theatre Performance from James Madison University. When not on stage, you can find Mike managing tours at The National Theatre for Children, riding his bike, and petting your dog. |
CREATIVE TEAM
Lucas Skjaret (Director)
Lucas Skjaret is a theatre director, costume designer, and teaching artist in the Twin Cities. As the Artistic Director of Market Garden Theatre, he has directed: Gray Duck, Three Days of Rain, the world premiere of Public Exposure, and a staged reading of Ghosts & Zombies. He has also directed Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Lakeshore Players as well as with Little Life Boats/T.E.A.S.E, The One Minute Play Festival and others. He has also worked with The History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Artistry, Yellow Tree, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Freshwater Theatre, Daleko Arts, Theatre in the Round, Minnesota Musical Theatre, The Public Theater of Minnesota, and Teater Neuf in Oslo, Norway. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota where he studied Norwegian culture and Ibsen in Oslo, Norway and did research at The Ibsen Centre. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of North America. www.lucasskjaret.com
Lucas Skjaret is a theatre director, costume designer, and teaching artist in the Twin Cities. As the Artistic Director of Market Garden Theatre, he has directed: Gray Duck, Three Days of Rain, the world premiere of Public Exposure, and a staged reading of Ghosts & Zombies. He has also directed Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Lakeshore Players as well as with Little Life Boats/T.E.A.S.E, The One Minute Play Festival and others. He has also worked with The History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Artistry, Yellow Tree, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Freshwater Theatre, Daleko Arts, Theatre in the Round, Minnesota Musical Theatre, The Public Theater of Minnesota, and Teater Neuf in Oslo, Norway. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota where he studied Norwegian culture and Ibsen in Oslo, Norway and did research at The Ibsen Centre. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of North America. www.lucasskjaret.com
Eric Coble (Playwright)
People find this hard to believe, but Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado, playing with rocks, sticks, seeing 1940′s serials at the movie theatre thirty miles away, and wandering the desert with his friends trying to avoid cactus until he was 15 years old. Much of that time was spent writing/drawing comics and rigging up poorly built stage shows (much falling out of trees ensued). Moving off the reservation led to acting in high school, which led to majoring in English at Fort Lewis College (Colorado) before winging it to Ohio University for an MFA in Acting. Along the way he started writing plays, which (thank god) were well-received enough to spur him on.
Since then he has written a lot of scripts for adults and not-quite adults, including Bright Ideas, The Dead Guy, Natural Selection, For Better, Southern Rapture, A Girl’s Guide To Coffee, The Velocity of Autumn, My Barking Dog, and The Giver which have been produced Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at Manhattan Class Company, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, the Denver Center, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Florida Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Curious Theatre, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Oregon Children’s Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Company, Stages Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and The Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Awards include an Emmy nomination, the 2011 AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants. Eric has now traded the cactus of the southwest for the poison ivy of northeast Ohio, where he is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights Unit. He does miss the mesas, but can’t stop admiring the lush trees and that huge body of water just north of him.
www.ericcoble.com
People find this hard to believe, but Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado, playing with rocks, sticks, seeing 1940′s serials at the movie theatre thirty miles away, and wandering the desert with his friends trying to avoid cactus until he was 15 years old. Much of that time was spent writing/drawing comics and rigging up poorly built stage shows (much falling out of trees ensued). Moving off the reservation led to acting in high school, which led to majoring in English at Fort Lewis College (Colorado) before winging it to Ohio University for an MFA in Acting. Along the way he started writing plays, which (thank god) were well-received enough to spur him on.
Since then he has written a lot of scripts for adults and not-quite adults, including Bright Ideas, The Dead Guy, Natural Selection, For Better, Southern Rapture, A Girl’s Guide To Coffee, The Velocity of Autumn, My Barking Dog, and The Giver which have been produced Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at Manhattan Class Company, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, the Denver Center, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Florida Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Curious Theatre, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Oregon Children’s Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Company, Stages Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and The Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Awards include an Emmy nomination, the 2011 AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants. Eric has now traded the cactus of the southwest for the poison ivy of northeast Ohio, where he is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights Unit. He does miss the mesas, but can’t stop admiring the lush trees and that huge body of water just north of him.
www.ericcoble.com
Samson Perry (Stage Manager)
Samson is making his Market Garden Theatre debut with My Barking Dog. He currently travels around the Twin Cities theatre scene as a Stage Manager, Director, and Playwright. His recent credits include Stage Managing: Middletown (DalekoArts), Superior Donuts, and Plaid Tidings (Lyric Arts), The Good Boy and the Kid (Sheep Theater), and We are the Levinsons (Minnesota Jewish Theater). He also directs and works with students at Elk River High School each winter, and attempts to fill in the down time with his writing.
Samson is making his Market Garden Theatre debut with My Barking Dog. He currently travels around the Twin Cities theatre scene as a Stage Manager, Director, and Playwright. His recent credits include Stage Managing: Middletown (DalekoArts), Superior Donuts, and Plaid Tidings (Lyric Arts), The Good Boy and the Kid (Sheep Theater), and We are the Levinsons (Minnesota Jewish Theater). He also directs and works with students at Elk River High School each winter, and attempts to fill in the down time with his writing.
Leazah Behrens (Scenic Designer)
Leazah Behrens is excited to be doing her third scenic design for Market Garden Theater. Past productions include Public Exposure and Three Days of Rain. Other companies she has worked with include Steppingstone Theatre, Lyric Arts, Sandbox, Mission Theatre Company, The Phipps, and Freshwater Theater. Leazah has her MFA in Scenic Design from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Leazah is also the Technical Director at the Jungle Theater.
Leazah Behrens is excited to be doing her third scenic design for Market Garden Theater. Past productions include Public Exposure and Three Days of Rain. Other companies she has worked with include Steppingstone Theatre, Lyric Arts, Sandbox, Mission Theatre Company, The Phipps, and Freshwater Theater. Leazah has her MFA in Scenic Design from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Leazah is also the Technical Director at the Jungle Theater.
Jacob Lee Hofer (Lighting Designer)
Jacob Lee Hofer is a freelance lighting designer in the Wwin cities area. Originally from South Dakota, Jacob has recently made the twin cities his home. His local work includes designing for Ashland Productions, Crash Dance Productions, and other small companies. When not doing design or electrician work Jacob enjoys spending his time playing board games, exploring the city, and hanging out with friends. www.jlhoferdesigns.com
Jacob Lee Hofer is a freelance lighting designer in the Wwin cities area. Originally from South Dakota, Jacob has recently made the twin cities his home. His local work includes designing for Ashland Productions, Crash Dance Productions, and other small companies. When not doing design or electrician work Jacob enjoys spending his time playing board games, exploring the city, and hanging out with friends. www.jlhoferdesigns.com
Kassia Lisinski (Sound Designer)
Kassia is delighted to contribute an aural landscape to My Barking Dog as their first collaboration with Market Garden Theatre. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Kassia has previously worked with Patrick's Cabaret, 20% Theatre Company, Gadfly Theatre, and others in the Twin Cities. They are also a published poet and a produced playwright, and for this owe much thanks to the insightful criticism and encouragement of their publicity agent, an 18 year old cat name Athena.
Kassia is delighted to contribute an aural landscape to My Barking Dog as their first collaboration with Market Garden Theatre. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Kassia has previously worked with Patrick's Cabaret, 20% Theatre Company, Gadfly Theatre, and others in the Twin Cities. They are also a published poet and a produced playwright, and for this owe much thanks to the insightful criticism and encouragement of their publicity agent, an 18 year old cat name Athena.
