Past meets presents.
A newly-found journal reveals cryptic entries about a time in the early 1960’s, when two young architects struggle with a vital commission that will make or break their careers. After its discovery by the owner’s children thirty years later, the past is relived as they sort through the mysteries left behind on paper. Three actors play both their parents and children in this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, exploring the complexity of memory and those choices that connect us even beyond our lifetime.
Phoenix Theater - Minneapolis
2605 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 377-2285
January 1, 2, 8, 9 7:30
January 7 - 7:30 | Pay-what-you-can
January 10 2:00
Doors open 30 minutes before curtain.
General Admission | Tickets found here!
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
This is supported by Arts Nest's Fledgling Program.
Graphic by Jonathan Smith | Photography by Briana Patnode
Cast

Cristina Castro (Nan/Lina)
Cristina has acted in the Twin Cities with theatres such as Mixed Blood Theater, Park Square Theater, Theater Coup d'Etat, The Playwright's Center, Teatro del Pueblo, Little Lifeboats, and The History Theater. She is a graduate of the U of M Guthrie Theatre BFA Acting Program and is a Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights' Center.
Cristina has acted in the Twin Cities with theatres such as Mixed Blood Theater, Park Square Theater, Theater Coup d'Etat, The Playwright's Center, Teatro del Pueblo, Little Lifeboats, and The History Theater. She is a graduate of the U of M Guthrie Theatre BFA Acting Program and is a Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights' Center.

Paul LaNave (Ned/Walker)
A graduate of the University of Minnesota: Duluth with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre: Acting Emphasis, Paul has performed with a variety of theatre companies in Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Duluth over the past year. Most recently, he appeared as "Don John, u/s Benedick" in Public Theater of Minnesota's production of Much Ado About Nothing, and he can be seen next in Walking Shadow Theatre Company's production of The Aliens in February. Other previous credits include The Reagan Years (Workhaus Collective), This Is Our Youth (Sidecar Theatre), Red, Coronado (Renegade Theater Company), Proof, Same Time Next Year (Pioneer Place Theatre Company), O.I.N.K. (Paper Crane Theatre, MN Fringe Festival), Richard III, Three Sisters, Medea, Coriolana, It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, and The Miracle Worker (UMD Theatre). Special thanks to Paul's parents and grandparents for their love and support. For more visit: www.paullanave.wix.com/paul-lanave.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota: Duluth with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre: Acting Emphasis, Paul has performed with a variety of theatre companies in Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Duluth over the past year. Most recently, he appeared as "Don John, u/s Benedick" in Public Theater of Minnesota's production of Much Ado About Nothing, and he can be seen next in Walking Shadow Theatre Company's production of The Aliens in February. Other previous credits include The Reagan Years (Workhaus Collective), This Is Our Youth (Sidecar Theatre), Red, Coronado (Renegade Theater Company), Proof, Same Time Next Year (Pioneer Place Theatre Company), O.I.N.K. (Paper Crane Theatre, MN Fringe Festival), Richard III, Three Sisters, Medea, Coriolana, It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, and The Miracle Worker (UMD Theatre). Special thanks to Paul's parents and grandparents for their love and support. For more visit: www.paullanave.wix.com/paul-lanave.

Elohim Peña (Pip/Theo)
Elohim is thrilled to be part of his first production with Market Garden Theatre and working with Lucas Skjaret once again. Representative Theatre: Park Square: Of Mice & Men; Theatre Coup d’Etat: Art; Frank Theatre: Love and Information; Candid Theatre Company: Hauptmann; Forgotten Goddess Productions: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Just Kidding Theatre Company Inc.: Living Dead in Denmark TV: In an Instant (ABC) Training: Two-year Meisner program, William Esper Studio Conservatory, New York.
Elohim is thrilled to be part of his first production with Market Garden Theatre and working with Lucas Skjaret once again. Representative Theatre: Park Square: Of Mice & Men; Theatre Coup d’Etat: Art; Frank Theatre: Love and Information; Candid Theatre Company: Hauptmann; Forgotten Goddess Productions: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Just Kidding Theatre Company Inc.: Living Dead in Denmark TV: In an Instant (ABC) Training: Two-year Meisner program, William Esper Studio Conservatory, New York.
Creative Team
Richard Greenberg (Playwright)
Richard Greenberg is the author of Take Me Out (Tony, New York Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Drama League Awards), The Violet Hour, The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award), Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award; Olivier, Drama Desk, Hull-Warriner nominations) and many other plays. He won the Oppenheimer Award for a debuting playwright, the first Pen/Laura Pels Award for a mid-career playwright and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Naked Girl on the Appian Way marks the first of a series of Greenberg plays to see the New York stage this season. The playwright was last represented on Broadway with his Tony Award-winning Take Me Out and The Violet Hour. His play Three Days of Rain will be revived on Broadway starring Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd in March, 2006. Other new works being unveiled include The House in Town at Lincoln Center Theater and Bal Masque at Washington D.C.'s Theater J. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and an associate artist of South Coast Repertory.
Richard Greenberg is the author of Take Me Out (Tony, New York Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Drama League Awards), The Violet Hour, The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award), Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award; Olivier, Drama Desk, Hull-Warriner nominations) and many other plays. He won the Oppenheimer Award for a debuting playwright, the first Pen/Laura Pels Award for a mid-career playwright and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Naked Girl on the Appian Way marks the first of a series of Greenberg plays to see the New York stage this season. The playwright was last represented on Broadway with his Tony Award-winning Take Me Out and The Violet Hour. His play Three Days of Rain will be revived on Broadway starring Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd in March, 2006. Other new works being unveiled include The House in Town at Lincoln Center Theater and Bal Masque at Washington D.C.'s Theater J. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and an associate artist of South Coast Repertory.
Lucas Skjaret (Director & Costume Designer)
Lucas is a freelance theatre artist in the Twin Cities. As a 'jack-of-all-trades', he has worked in many different capacities. He has designed recent costumes for Pioneer Suite (Freshwater Theatre), The Reagan Years (Workhaus Collective), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Minneapolis Musical Theatre), Macbeth, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater of Minnesota), and many others. He has assistant directed on La Cage Aux Folles (Bloomington Civic Theatre), River Road Boogie (History Theatre), and Behind the Eye (Park Square), and Walking Shadow Theatre's Ivey-winning Gabriel. He has also directed with The Unit Collective, Box Wine Theatre, One Minute Play Festival, and Market Garden's Gray Duck and Ghosts and Zombies. He will be assistant directing Snow Queen at Park Square this November and designing costumes for Daleko Arts' The Shape of Things in March. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota and studied abroad at The University of Oslo/Ibsen Centre and The International Summer School of Oslo, as well as interned at The Playwrights Center. lucasskjaret.com
Lucas is a freelance theatre artist in the Twin Cities. As a 'jack-of-all-trades', he has worked in many different capacities. He has designed recent costumes for Pioneer Suite (Freshwater Theatre), The Reagan Years (Workhaus Collective), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Minneapolis Musical Theatre), Macbeth, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater of Minnesota), and many others. He has assistant directed on La Cage Aux Folles (Bloomington Civic Theatre), River Road Boogie (History Theatre), and Behind the Eye (Park Square), and Walking Shadow Theatre's Ivey-winning Gabriel. He has also directed with The Unit Collective, Box Wine Theatre, One Minute Play Festival, and Market Garden's Gray Duck and Ghosts and Zombies. He will be assistant directing Snow Queen at Park Square this November and designing costumes for Daleko Arts' The Shape of Things in March. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota and studied abroad at The University of Oslo/Ibsen Centre and The International Summer School of Oslo, as well as interned at The Playwrights Center. lucasskjaret.com
Andrea Nicholason (Stage Manager)
Andrea Nicholson has recently returned to the Twin Cities after graduating with a BA in Theatre Arts and Arts Administration from Buena Vista University in Iowa. During which she wrote and directed her own work, managed the university's box office, and interned with the Minnesota Opera. Since moving back to the cities Andrea has been working for The Ordway Center for Performing Arts in their box office, as well as performed in Freshwater Theatre's revival of the Fringe show Pocahontas (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse). She is excited to be back in the Twin Cities and is looking forward to future opportunities with in the community.
Andrea Nicholson has recently returned to the Twin Cities after graduating with a BA in Theatre Arts and Arts Administration from Buena Vista University in Iowa. During which she wrote and directed her own work, managed the university's box office, and interned with the Minnesota Opera. Since moving back to the cities Andrea has been working for The Ordway Center for Performing Arts in their box office, as well as performed in Freshwater Theatre's revival of the Fringe show Pocahontas (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse). She is excited to be back in the Twin Cities and is looking forward to future opportunities with in the community.
Leazah Behrens (Scenic Designer)
Leazah is a freelance designer new to the Twin Cities area. Leazah has worked at such theaters as Underground Theatre, Detroit, MI; Sakakawea South Shore Theatre, Hazen, ND; Gainsville Community Playhouse, Gainesville, FL. Leazah received her M.F.A. from Wayne State University’s Hilberry Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI and a B.S in Theatre Arts and Graphic Design from Southwest Minnesota State University. She is the current assistant technical director at Old Log Theatre.
Leazah is a freelance designer new to the Twin Cities area. Leazah has worked at such theaters as Underground Theatre, Detroit, MI; Sakakawea South Shore Theatre, Hazen, ND; Gainsville Community Playhouse, Gainesville, FL. Leazah received her M.F.A. from Wayne State University’s Hilberry Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI and a B.S in Theatre Arts and Graphic Design from Southwest Minnesota State University. She is the current assistant technical director at Old Log Theatre.
Mark Kieffer (Lighting Designer)
Mark Kieffer is an active lighting designer and theatre technician in the Twin Cities. Recent lighting designs include One Thousand Clowns at Theatre in the Round, Equus for Theatre Coup d'Etat and The Turn of the Screw for The Chameleon Theatre Circle in Burnsville. This coming spring he will be serving as Supervisor of Lighting and Sound for the Theatre Department at St. Olaf College as a sabbatical replacement. Upcoming lighting designs include Richard III at Theatre in the Round, Great Expectations at St. Olaf College andMacbeth for The Chameleon Theatre Circle.
Mark Kieffer is an active lighting designer and theatre technician in the Twin Cities. Recent lighting designs include One Thousand Clowns at Theatre in the Round, Equus for Theatre Coup d'Etat and The Turn of the Screw for The Chameleon Theatre Circle in Burnsville. This coming spring he will be serving as Supervisor of Lighting and Sound for the Theatre Department at St. Olaf College as a sabbatical replacement. Upcoming lighting designs include Richard III at Theatre in the Round, Great Expectations at St. Olaf College andMacbeth for The Chameleon Theatre Circle.
Ben Harvey (Sound Designer)
After graduating from St. Olaf College with an individual major "Electronic Artistic Design", Ben spent a year designing sound and projections for approximately 20 shows in his hometown of Duluth, MN, before relocating to the Twin Cities this past fall. He is very excited for his first design in the area after working as a technician at ValleyScare and as the sound engineer for The Pound: A Musical for the Dogs with Imagined Theater. Favorite shows he has worked on in recent years include Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club (Park Square Theater), Jesus Christ Superstar (Duluth Playhouse), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Game Show (Duluth Underground), A Christmas Carol (Wise Fool Shakespeare), Avenue Q (Stage 2 Theater), Oh What a Lovely War, and Baltimore Waltz (St. Olaf College). Upcoming projects include sound and projection design for Rhinoceros at University of Minnesota: Duluth in March. benjaminharveydesign.com
After graduating from St. Olaf College with an individual major "Electronic Artistic Design", Ben spent a year designing sound and projections for approximately 20 shows in his hometown of Duluth, MN, before relocating to the Twin Cities this past fall. He is very excited for his first design in the area after working as a technician at ValleyScare and as the sound engineer for The Pound: A Musical for the Dogs with Imagined Theater. Favorite shows he has worked on in recent years include Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club (Park Square Theater), Jesus Christ Superstar (Duluth Playhouse), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Game Show (Duluth Underground), A Christmas Carol (Wise Fool Shakespeare), Avenue Q (Stage 2 Theater), Oh What a Lovely War, and Baltimore Waltz (St. Olaf College). Upcoming projects include sound and projection design for Rhinoceros at University of Minnesota: Duluth in March. benjaminharveydesign.com