Friday, September 12 | 7 PM
Saturday, September 13 | 7 PM
Sunday, September 14 | 2 PM
An event like no other, Warroad Community Potluck celebrates the people, stories, music, and yes, foods, that make up this community. Set in Warroad during a community potluck, this new play follows a family and their friends as they seek to unravel their loves and aspirations. Inspired by interviews and stories with local residents, Warroad Community Potluck will feature community members on stage.
RESERVATIONS OPEN SOON!
Written by nationally-recognized playwright Kira Obolensky and directed by award-winning director Michael John Garcés, Warroad Community Potluck is brought to you by Mixed Blood Theater—a nationally acclaimed theater company in Minneapolis that models reciprocity, inclusion, and genuine welcoming to build relationships—and Warroad RiverPlace. This production was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program.
KIRA OBOLENSKY, PLAYWRIGHT
Kira Obolensky’s plays have been produced Off Broadway, in Los Angeles, in Prague and Terezin, and in such locations as homeless shelters, prisons, and immigrant centers. She has received the Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and most recently a Mellon Playwright Fellowship, which put her in residence with Ten Thousand Things for six years, with whom she developed a theater writing and performance class inside a women’s maximum-security prison. She co-wrote a national bestseller about architecture, The Not So Big House, and her short fiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, in hive literary, in Rollick, and in Quarterly West, where her novella, “The Anarchists Float to St. Louis,” won the novella prize judged by Padgett Powell. She attended Juilliard’s Playwriting Program, Williams College, and received an MFA in Fiction Writing from Warren Wilson. She teaches at the University of Minnesota and at Spalding University’s Naslund Mann Graduate School of Writing. Kira is a proud member of both The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and The Tent in NYC.
MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS, DIRECTOR
Michael John Garcés' productions in Minneapolis include For the People by Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse, Wrestling Jerusalem by Aaron Davidman, and The Falls by Jeffrey Hatcher (Guthrie Theater); red, black and GREEN: a blues and the break/s by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (Walker Art Center); and Snapshot Silhouette by Kia Corthron (Children's Theatre Company). His short play americanas was produced at Mixed Blood as part of "DJ Latinidad’s Latino Dance Party" and his work has been featured in Nautilus Music-Theater's "Rough Cuts" series. Other work includes productions at Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group, The Alliance Theatre, Carnegie Hall, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Theatre Horizon and The Geffen Playhouse. Currently a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, Garcés is the former Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company where he wrote several plays including 36 Yesses, Los Illegals and Magic Fruit and directing credits include Highland Park is Here by Mark Valdez, Plumas Negras by Juliette Carrillo and Wicoun by Larissa FastHorse. Garcés is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, Alan Schneider Director Award, Princess Grace Statue, and SDC President’s Award.