Beginning as a lighting technician in San Francisco, Todd has over 30 years of professional theatrical experience. Beginning as a lighting technician in San Francisco, Todd has develop skills in many aspects of technical production including; Stage Management, Set, Light, and Sound Design, Construction, Properties, and Artistic Direction.
He is currently the Producing Director of Theatre OR, a Resident Artist at Stages Theater Company, Education Coordinator at Escalate Dance and Theater Studio, and is coordinating strategic development for The Next Step Theatre in Maple Grove.
UPCOMING:
The Outsiders - FAIR Downtown School
A Party Worth Crashing - Director/Producer - Maple Grove and St Louis Park
Godspell - Maple Grove
PAST:
Theater OR*- Producing Director, June 2007-Present
Broadway Bound - Director - Theatre OR Jack And Rochelle - Director - Theater OR
Jack and Rochelle - Director - Theater OR MNPLS
Anschel And the Missing Hannukah Gelt - Director
The Fence - Director and Sound Design
Sight Unseen - Lighting Design
Stages Theater CompanyResident Artist- 1999- Present
A Silent Night for Peef - Stages Theater Company in Hopkins
Yearbook - Director - FAIR Downtown schoolWho Should I Ask! - Author/Director - FAIR School, Crystal
At Risk! - Author/Director - Stages Conservatory Performing Arts Series
The Giver - Assistant Director and Videography
Kill The Robot - Assistant Director - 2006 Fringe Festival
Wind of 1000 Tales - Director (FAIR School)
The People Who Hugged Trees - Director and Sound Design(FAIR School)
Pinocchio - Assistant Director and Dell' Arte Stylist
Escalate Dance and Theatre Studio - 2004-Present
Acting Education Coordinator
Acting and Improv Instructor
Youth Programming
Into the Woods - Director
Beth El Youth Programming - Director
Willy Wonka
Once Upon A Mattress
High School Musical
Guys and Dolls
Sabes JCC -Director/Fight Choreographer/Set Design/Construction/Costuming/Lighting
Romeo and Juliet
Blake School
Hamlet - Fight Choreographer
The Somewhat True Tales Of Robin Hood - Director
Other Professional
After Juliet - Fight Choreography - 20% Theater Company
Oklahoma - Fight Choreography - Eagan
Kill The Robot - Assistant Director - 2006 Fringe Festival
Producer of the live version of "Bootleg Minneapolis" on TPT2(KTCA) Public Television Show, Groovey Labs sponsored 5 evenings of performance at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Featured Artists were, Planet Melvin, Faux Jean, Jesse Greene, the Psychedelicates and an evening featuring Plasma Entertainment recording artists, Friends Like These, The Beatifics, Jonas(The Violettes), and the Idlehands.
The shows featured premiere videos of local musicians, live musical segments, humor, theatre and other mayhem. Good times that still should be growing.
Director, Dramaturge, Mask Maker, Mask-Maker, Multimedia Developer, Other Performing Arts, Performance Artist, Performing Artist, Theater
Director
Acting/Performance History
Actor's Mask Training Program
Acting Classes in Maple Grove
Acting Conservatory Instructor
Pinoke: Through a Man's Eyes
Seussical
Waking Virginia: Life is a Dream
Kill The Robot
Bootleg Minneapolis
Guthrie Instructing Artist
Acting/Performance History