Dragons Love Tacos:
The Musical

JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 25, 2024
An adaptation of the best-selling book
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and
Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
Script by Cristina Pippa
Music & Lyrics by Sharon Kenny
Directed by Anna Crace

 

CAST | CREATIVE TEAM

 

RECOMMENDED FOR: All Ages
LOCATION: Mainstage Theatre
SHOW RUN TIME: Approx 60 Minutes with no intermission.
RESOURCE GUIDE: Click Here!

 

Beat the winter blues and join our taco party!

Stages Theatre Company brings you a new musical adaptation of the wildly popular, laugh out loud funny, Dragons Love Tacos. Join us for the party of the year, because after all, the only thing Dragons love more than parties, or tacos, is TACO PARTIES!

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PHOTOS

Photos by Amy Rondeau Photography

The Cast

The Creative Team + Crew



ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Sandy Boren-Barrett
DIRECTOR - Anna Crace
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - Matt Ouren
FJA DIRECTING MENTEE - Alanna Nyberg
FJA DIRECTING MENTEE - Savannah Switzer
MUSIC DIRECTOR - JC Lippold
CHOREOGRAPHER - Megan Torbert
SET DESIGNER - Tiffany Fier
HEADWEAR DESIGNER - Kim Ford
SOUND DESIGNER - Gretchen Katt
COSTUME & MAKE UP DESIGNER - Stacey Palmer
BIPOC YOUTH MENTEE COSTUMES - Pixie Gatlin
PROPS DESIGNER & SCENIC PAINTER - Yvonne Ring
LIGHTING DESIGNER - Tony Stoeri
BIPOC YOUTH MENTEE LIGHTING - Aarya Batchu
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR - Jim Hibbeler
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR - Christa Ludwig
PRODUCTION MANAGER - Melanie Salmon-Peterson
STAGE MANAGER - Emily Carey
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER - Hailey Ballard
STITCHER - Kayla Marie Mielke
DRAGON HEADWEAR VOLUNTEERS - Pamela Pierzina, Willis Bowman
SOUND BOARD OPERATOR - David Gamache
LIGHT BOARD OPERATORS - Coy Drontle, Violet Schaefer, Frances Biebighauser
SPOT LIGHT OPERATORS - Lyla Bouchard, Stella Meents
SCENIC ARTIST - Cinde Ashley
CARPENTERS - Rachel Behrman, Justin Dekker, Gabriel Peñaloza-Hernandez, Yvonne Ring
ELECTRICIANS - Justin Dekker, Gabriel Peñaloza-Hernandez, Yvonne Ring, Justin Sharbono, Adrien Wittlieffe
VOLUNTEERS - Jeff Aune, Jenny Brown, Scott Brown, Warren Glidden, Ron Kline, Donna Meyer, Michael Remucal, Mariann Wolf

Creative Team Bios



ANNA CRACE(DIRECTOR)
Anna Crace is a Director and Dramaturg originally from the UK and now based in Minnesota. Recent credits include:Director: The Girl On The Train (Lyric Arts); Geminae (The Southern Theater); The Daughter Abroad (Theatre503); blueisblueisblueisblue (The Peckham Pelican); This Wall (English Theatre Berlin); you/me/tomorrow (Apiary Studios); Stranded (National Youth Theatre). Associate* & Assistant Director: Born With Teeth* (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream* (Filter Theatre, U.K. Tour); Born With Teeth (Guthrie Theater & Asolo Rep), Twelfth Night (Guthrie Theater), Small Mouth Sounds (Jungle Theater); The Seagull, The Plough and the Stars, Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith). Dramaturg: Vietgone (Guthrie Theater), A Different Pond (STC), Raymie Nightingale (STC) A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater). Training: B.A., Drama, The University of Manchester; M.A., Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London; M.F.A., Directing, Birkbeck, University of London. Anna is currently the Manager of New Play Development at Stages Theatre Company!






JC LIPPOLD (MUSIC DIRECTOR)
JC is grateful to walk alongside amazing storytellers at Stages Theatre Company in this production! As music director, JC has worked at Stages Theatre Company since 2011. His favorite shows include Bridge to Terabithia, Spookley the Square Pumpkin & the last two Pippa/Kenny World Premieres "What Do You Do With an Idea?" and "Maybe". Here's to dragons, tacos and the power of theatre!






MEGAN TORBERT(CHOREOGRAPHER)
Megan has been an employee of Stages Theatre Company since her return to the Twin Cities in 2019 in various roles such as a part-time Teaching Artist and choreographer, and full-time Marketing Manager. For the past 10 years Megan has choreographed musicals at a number of schools and theatres throughout the Twin Cities and Omaha areas including Holy Family High School, SPA, The Rose Theater, and Creighton University. She is thankful for the fulfilling opportunities to do what she loves - teaching the joys of theatre to young people of all ages. Megan would like to thank her incredibly supportive and patient wife, Marissa, for putting up with her choreographing musicals in the kitchen at the most inopportune times.






ADAM RUBIN (AUTHOR)
Adam Rubin is the author of a dozen critically acclaimed picture books, which have sold more than five million copies combined. They include Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, High Five, Gladys the Magic Chicken, Secret Pizza Party, Robo-Sauce, the Those Darn Squirrels trilogy, and El Chupacabras, which won the Texas Bluebonnet Award. Publishers Weekly called his #1 New York Times bestselling story collection The Ice Cream Machine a “madcap middle grade debut.” Visit Adam online at adamrubinhasawebsite.com and follow him on Twitter @rubingo.






DANIEL SALMIERI (ILLUSTRATOR)
Daniel Salmieri is an artist and illustrator from New York City. He has illustrated 12 picture books including four best-sellers, one of which is Dragons Love Tacos. He regularly contributes to The New Yorker and The New York Times and other print and digital media. Daniel currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, son, and their dog Ronni.






 SHARON KENNY SHARON KENNY (COMPOSER & LYRICIST)
Sharon Kenny writes songs and the words that go with them.  She lives in New York. Kenny's solo projects include Songs About You; (Songs About Me), Holiday Happy, My Name Is Sharon, Adjectives & Nouns (EP), and Pianocentric.  Her music has been prominently featured worldwide on television, most notably with five placements on Lifetime’s hit show, Dance Moms.  Kenny’s song "Hotel Heart" reached #68 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts; her music has cumulatively garnered nearly 25 million views on YouTube. Sharon’s theatre work has been commissioned and/or developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Yale Institute of Music Theatre, The Institute of American Musical Theatre, and Stages Theatre Company. She is an alum of ANTFest (Ars Nova), The Johnny Mercer Songwriter's Project (American Music Theatre Project), Prospect Theatre Company's Musical Theatre Lab, and Space on Ryder Farm. She has performed sold out shows to Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Gramercy Theatre, and has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers Awards. As a pianist, she has played extensively on Broadway. www.sharon-kenny.com, @sharonkennymusic






 CRISTINA PIPPA CRISTINA PIPPA (PLAYWRIGHT)
Cristina Pippa is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. Collaborations with Sharon Kenny include commissioned world premieres for 92NY, such as Ice Queen and Tempest, which was recommended by The New York Times, as well as musical adaptations of Kobi Yamada's What Do You Do with an Idea? and Maybe for Stages Theatre Company. Cristina also wrote adaptations of Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo and The Most Magnificent Thing with music/lyrics by Michael Gruber for Stages. Her short film Amelia premiered at the Toronto International FIlm Festival and won the Golden Gateway Award at the Mumbai Film Festival. Cristina completed her BA at Columbia University and her MFA at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship.





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