Joe Hendren, Director

Open Window Theatre: Tolkien (Director), 
Macbeth (Director), Nicholas (Co-
Director), The Jeweler’s Shop (Actor), A Man for All
Seasons (Director), Shadowlands (Actor), The Hobbit (Music)

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE:  Minneapolis Musical Theatre: Striking 12, Love Comics, Happy Days: A New Musical. TheatreX: The Birds, Frost/Nixon, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, Escape THIS, The Haunting of Hill House. Lakeshore Players: Baskerville, Of Thee I Sing, Laura, The Royal Family, Count Dracula. The Phipps: The Lion in Winter, Muskie Love, Weekend Comedy, Always… Patsy Cline. Chameleon Theatre/Theatre Uncorked: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Hamline University: Brecht’s Antigone.
TRAINING: Hamline University.
LEARN MORE: www.theatrex.org

Lindsey L. Oetken, Nastasya/Amalia/Ensemble

Open Window Theatre: Open Window Debut!

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE:
Phantom Chorus Theatre:  The Alchemist’s Bargain, Show Me Your Wings (w/ MaMa Faerie Productions), Jabberwock, Chroma, Bellerophon’s Shadow. Theatre Midwest: Atlas of Mud. Iowa Stage: Romeo and Juliet. Missoula Children’s Theatre: Red Riding Hood (Tour Actor/Director, national tour). Minneapolis Musical Theatre: Happy Days. Theatre in the Round: The Beaux’ Strategem. Eden Prairie Players: The Dining Room. Lakeshore Players: Of Thee I Sing. 

TRAINING: Minnesota State Mankato, MFA Acting. Simpson College, BA Theatre Arts.

Michael Quadrozzi, Lebezyatnikov / Ensemble

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: MN Fringe Festival: Against My Will (2025 Golden Lanyard Staff Pick Award). Six Points Theatre: Survivors (2024, ’25). Yellow Tree Theatre: Another Miracle on Christmas Lake. Pillsbury House: Chicago Avenue Project. Wonderlust Productions: The Caregiver Play Project, The Capitol Play Project. Lyric Arts: The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, The Servant of Two Masters, Our Town. Minnetonka Theatre: On Golden Pond. Zephyr Theatre: School of Rock, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, It’s A Wonderful Life, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Comedy of Errors, Witness for the Prosecution. Wayward Theatre: Christmas Carol, Hamlet. Theatre Pro Rata: Orlando, Isaac’s Eye

UPCOMING: Frosted Glass Creative: Murder at the Vineyard

TRAINING: University of Central Florida
LEARN MORE: Instagram: @MichaelQuadrozzi

Peter Colburn, Marmeladov/Porfiry Petrovich

Open Window Theatre: Our Town, Lillies of the Field, MacBeth, A Christmas Carol 

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: 

Red Tail Entertainment: Dolly Parton’s; A Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol. Nebraska Theatre Caravan: The Taming Of The Shrew, Animal Farm. The Jungle Theatre: Dial M, For Murder. Playhouse On The Square: A Streetcar Named Desire, Greater Tuna, Uncle Vanya, Peter Pan. Vanguard Repertory: Twelfth Night. The Circuit Theatre: Sherlock’s Last Case. Bucket Brigade: Kingdom Undone, Sam’s Son. Hero Now Theatre: Terra Nova, A Thing Of Beauty. Troupe America Productions: Ghost Stories, The Church Basement Ladies. Sidekick Theatre: Cinderella, Road to Oz, Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Brandt Roberts, Ilya/Ensemble

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE:
Frosted Glass Creative: Much Ado About Nothing. Bucket Brigade Theatre: Joyful Noise, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord. Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: The McAdo. Commonweal Theatre Company: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised], Boeing Boeing, Holmes and Watson, On the Verge, Dracula: Prince of Blood, The Elephant Man, Charley’s Aunt, The Three Musketeers, Arcadia, The Master Builder. Shawnee Theatre: Treasure Island, The Woman in Black, Fantastic Mr. Fox. American Family Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast. Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Measure for Measure, Henry IV Part One. Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre: God’s Man in Texas, Proposals.

TRAINING: Savannah College of Art and Design, MFA Performing Arts. Harding University, BA Theatre Arts.

Kendra Kispert, Stage Manager 

Open Window Theatre: LOLEK, A Christmas Carol (2024)

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE (Stage Management):

UNW Theatre: Sherlock Holmes, Romeo and Juliet, These Shining Lives

Faith Community Theatre: You Can’t Take it With You

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE (Director):

UNW Theatre Bathrobes Christmas Festival: A Hallmark Christmas

UNW Theatre One Act Festival: Hanging On 

TRAINING: University of Northwestern, St. Paul (Theatre); Internship at Sight and Sound Theatre, Branson, MO

LEARN MORE:https://kendrakispert.weebly.com

Sarah Dickson, Sonya

Open Window Theatre: Open Window Theatre Debut!

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Stage North: Mauritius. Sidekick Theatre: Perfect Wedding. Frosted Glass Creative: Sound of Music, Seven Keys, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol Radio Play, It’s A Wonderful Life Radio Play. Yellow Tree Theatre: Another Miracle on Christmas Lake.

TRAINING: BFA, University of Minnesota Duluth.   

Meg Grundy, Alyona/ Darya/ Katerina/ Pulkeria

Open Window Theatre, MacBeth, A Christmas Carol

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Theatre de la Jeune Lune: The Kitchen, Red Noses, 7 Dwarfs, Ubu for President, Cirque de Moliere, Cyrano, 1929.  Children’s Theatre Co.: Cinderella, Clown of God, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arthur and the Magic Sword. History Theatre: A Servants’ Christmas, Lindbergh Festival, Gold in the Streets. Pangea: Mother Courage. Sod House Theatre: RARE. Open Eye Theatre: Elijahs Wake. Theatre Coup d’Etat:  Rogue Prince, Et tu’ Brute. Rochester Civic Theatre: Addams Family Musical, Blithe Spirit, Steel Magnolias. Orchard Theatre Collective: St. Joan

PLAYWRIGHT: Jungle Theatre: Tossin’ Junk.

A. Emily Heaney, costume designer

Open Window Theatre: MacBeth, A Man For All Seasons

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Frosted Glass Productions: Much Ado About Nothing; Walking Shadow Theatre: Witch, Equivocation, Eurydice; Six Points Theatre: An Act of God, The Messenger, The Moneylender’s Daughter; Gremlin Theatre: Rope, Samuel J & K, Taking Shakespeare, Ideation; Lakeshore Players Theatre: Cabaret, One Man Two Guv’nors, Miracle on 34th Street, Into the Woods; Shakespeare & Company: Comedy of Errors, The Miser, Henry IV.

Sue Ellen Berger, Lighting Designer

Open Window Theatre: Dante’s Inferno, The Living Water, Lilies of the Field, A Christmas Carol, Frassati, Lolek

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Production Coordinator and Resident Lighting Designer for Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, over 200 productions and hundreds of live concerts. Sampling of previous designs: Finnish National Opera, Ordway Music Theatre, Pantages Theatre, Cowles Center for Dance, North Star Opera, Park Square, Yellow Tree, The Music Box, Valleyfair, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Carousel Dinner Theatres OH, Palace Theatre WI Dells, Southwest Ensemble Theatre AZ, Boulders Dinner Theater CO, Cedar Summerstock Theatre IA, dozens of universities and schools.

UPCOMING: A Christmas Carol for Open Window, Frassati in Cincinnati, White Christmas for Chanhassen

TRAINING: Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University. Taught theatre at several colleges.

Forest Godfrey, Sound Designer

Open Window Theatre: Happy to be participating in my first Open Window show.

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: TheatreX:  The Birds A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Carol, The Haunting of Hill House, MMT:  Striking 12, nimbus:  The Red & the Bright, Theatre Coup d’Etat:  Rogue Prince, Tempest, Marisol; Theatre Uncorked (co-producer with his wife Kari):  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,  The Chameleon Theatre Circle (50+ productions):  Vanishing Point, Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Macbeth, Lakeshore Players Theater:  The Tempest, Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet, The Mound Theater:  It’s an Honorable Life, Klingon Christmas Carol, Theatre Mu/Guthrie:  Yellow Fever.  Paramount Home Video:  “To Be or Not To Be:  Klingons and Shakespeare” (released on Star Trek VI BluRay as Bonus Feature).

UPCOMING: nimbus December production not yet named

TRAINING: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Jeremy Bode, Raskolnikov

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Artistry MN: Love and Baseball (u/s, perf). Gremlin Theatre: Rope. Theatre in the Round: The Seagull. Illinois Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, The Book of Will. UMN BFA: The Ferryman, James I, Pericles. TRAINING: BFA Acting, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Acting Internship, Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

Eric Knutson, Luzhin/Ensemble

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE:

History Theatre: 1968 The Year That Rocked the World, Capital Crimes, Lombardi, This Side of Paradise, All the Way, Great Society, Not for Sale, Diesel Heart. Lyric Arts: Wait Until Dark, Sense and Sensibility, Something Rotten, Our Town, Rainmaker. Girl Friday Productions: Street Scene, Camino Real, Idiot’s Delight. Artistry: Odd Couple, All My Sons. Jungle Theater: Hitchcock Blonde. Theatre Unbound: How I Learned to Drive, Expecting Isabel. Commonweal Theatre: Art, Bus Stop, Candida, The Lion in Winter, A Doll’s House, A Streetcar Named Desire, Irma Vep, Uncle Vanya.

TRAINING: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, Moorhead State University.

Fjaere Harder, Dunya, Lizaveta

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE:
Actors Theatre of MN: Miracle on Christmas Lake.  
Sidekick Theatre: Robin Hood, Cinderella
Lyric Arts: Little Women, Sister Act
History Theatre: Blended Harmony (understudy)
Troupe America: Church Basement Ladies (understudy) 
Masquers Theatre: Matilda
St.Croix Off-Broadway DT: Outsiders
Fanny Hill: Bingo, others I can’t remember
MN Fringe 2019
Arundel Barn Playhouse(ME): White Christmas, Cinderella, Rocky Horror
National Theatre for Children: Captain Wattage
UPCOMING: Sidekick Theatre: The Elves and the Shoemaker

TRAINING: Goshen College, BA; University of Wisconsin-Madison, MSW

LEARN MORE: https://youtube.com/@fjaereharder

Dominic T Schiro, Razumikhin

Open Window Theatre: Debut

REPRESENTATIVE THEATRE: Ten Thousand Things: The Spitfire Grill, Helen. Jackdonkey Productions: Henry V, The Dumb Waiter.

UPCOMING: Annie at Lakeshore Players, and Gutenberg: The Musical at Theater Latté Da

TRAINING: UMN Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program

LEARN MORE: ig: @domtomsheer

Stephanie Mogren, Assistant Stage Manager

Open Window Theatre: The Living Water (Stage Manager), LOLEK (Assistant Stage Manager)

Stephanie has been a valuable member of the OWT team since joining us as an Associate House Manager three years ago. FRASSATI marks her third foray into the world of stage management, following the OWT productions of LOLEK in 2025, and The Living Water in 2024. In addition to her work at Open Window Theatre, she also currently works part-time as a barista for a small coffee company. As a self-taught artist and musician, Stephanie can play piano, guitar, banjo, and penny whistle by ear! She also enjoys creating digital art and has started selling some of her pieces as prints and canvases.

LEARN MORE:
https://stephaniemogren.wixsite.com/stephanie-mogren-art

Chris Hannan – Playwright

Chris Hannan was born in Clydebank, Glasgow. His work has been produced by the RSC, the Old Vic, the National Theatre of Scotland and Shakespeare’s Globe.

His plays include: ELIZABETH GORDON QUINN (Traverse 1985); THE EVIL DOERS (Time Out Award 1990 and Charrington London Fringe Best New Play Award) and SHINING SOULS, which opened at the Traverse in 1996 and was revived by the Old Vic in 1997, winning a Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and a Lloyds Bank Playwright of the Year nomination. In 2006 ELIZABETH GORDON QUINN was revived by the National Theatre of Scotland in its inaugural season. THE GOD OF SOHO was staged by Shakespeare’s Globe (2009) and THE THREE MUSKETEERS AND THE PRINCESS OF SPAIN (Traverse, English Touring Theatre, Coventry Belgrade) was nominated in the 2011 CATS (Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland) in four categories, winning Best New Play and Best Ensemble.

WHAT SHADOWS premiered at Birmingham Rep (2016). This play about Enoch Powell’s River of Blood speech and identity politics was described by the Daily Telegraph as “the most provocative theatrical act of the decade.” It toured to The Park Theatre in London and the Lyceum Edinburgh in 2017.

As well as original plays, Hannan has adapted CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse/Lyceum Edinburgh, 2013) and THE ILIAD (Lyceum Edinburgh, 2016), and also made new versions of Ibsen’s THE PRETENDERS (RSC, 1991), Gogol’s GAMBLERS (Tricycle 1992), and STARS IN THE MORNING SKY (Coventry Belgrade, 2012). His 2008 novel MISSY was awarded the McKitterick Prize for a debut novel.