Trudy has been with Stages Theatre Company since 2003. She taught the Arts & Literacy program to kindergarteners throughout the Hopkins School District for 9 years and currently works with students in grades K through 4 at Fair Pilgrim Lane Elementary in Robbinsdale. Trudy has taught acting and dance; performed in and choreographed shows for over 20 years in 4 different states.

Peter Morrow

Peter Morrow has worked as a composer, sound designer and teaching artist for the last eleven years. Peter has been working with the CAST Program for six years and has been part of developing the curriculum which is noted on many national platforms. For the summer CAST session, Peter also serves as designer and mentor for ASD youth who are serving as interns. He also works as a composer and designer for Stages.

Matt Ouren

Singing + Dancing Teaching Artist, Composer, Actor - Matt is a Stages Theatre Company Creative Play Academy and Conservatory teacher and appears regularly on our mainstage. He's been in Spookley the Square Pumpkin THREE times and he's appeared in and composed the music for our Theatre for the Very Young Production of Leo Lionni’s Inch by Inch. Other credits include: Fish in a Tree, The Nightingale, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Shrek The Musical, and many more.

Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha

Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha is a Twin Cities based director and teaching artist who has worked with Stages’ CAST Program for many years. She is also a PhD student in Theatre Historiography at the University of Minnesota where she specializes in Indigenous performance, and holds an MFA in Acting from MSU Mankato. Sara has taught and directed for UMN Morris and Northern State University, and directed with Twin Cities companies Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Black Dirt Theatre, New Native Theatre, and Stages Theatre Company, among others. She is a mom, wife, and lover of vinyl records and orange cats.

André Samples

André has been teaching at Stages Theatre Company since 2012. He has taught classes and directed shows for them at Columbia Academy, FAIR School Crystal, and FAIR School Downtown. He has been working in theater since a very young age, having performed on the stages of the Guthrie, Mixed Blood, Penumbra, Illusion, Park Square, and many other local theaters. He has lived in Minneapolis his whole life, and enjoys spending time at all our local parks with his wonderful family. Black Lives Matter.