Company
David Hanzal, Artistic Director & Co-Founder
David is a Minneapolis-based theatre artist. Previously, their stage direction and design has received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival and the University of Iowa. They completed their Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at the University of Iowa, where they regularly developed and directed premieres of new plays and devised work with writers from the nationally-recognized Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. David has also trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Kari Margolis and the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Czech master puppeteer Miroslav Trejtnar, the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theatre Institute, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Rough House Theater, Open Eye Theatre, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. For more information, please visit their online portfolio.
David is a Minneapolis-based theatre artist. Previously, their stage direction and design has received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival and the University of Iowa. They completed their Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at the University of Iowa, where they regularly developed and directed premieres of new plays and devised work with writers from the nationally-recognized Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. David has also trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Kari Margolis and the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Czech master puppeteer Miroslav Trejtnar, the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theatre Institute, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Rough House Theater, Open Eye Theatre, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. For more information, please visit their online portfolio.
Core Collaborators
Eva Adderley is a freelance artist and writer based in Minneapolis. Her plays have been performed in Iowa, New York, Minneapolis, Sydney, and Cape Town. She has worked as a costume designer, props designer, puppet designer, scenic designer, scenic painter, muralist, and illustrator. Eva has a B.F.A. in Metals & Jewelry Arts from the University of Iowa.
Emily Dendinger is a New York-based playwright. Emily's plays include Hideous Progeny (produced by LiveWire, Holland Productions, and North Park College), No Home for Bees, God Hates You, Little House/Big City, and Pocketful of Sand (winner of the 2016 Activate Midwest New Play Festival and a 2015 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award finalist). She is a two-time winner of Theater Masters National Play Competition, a City Theatre National Award finalist, a 2017 Emerald Prize Finalist, and a Heideman Award finalist. Emily has worked around the country with companies including the Lark, Sideshow Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, NNPN, Jackalope Theatre, Filament Theatre, Available Light Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, NJ Rep and TimeLine Theatre. Emily was the 2015-2016 NNPN Playwright-in-Residence with Curious Theatre Company and is an alumni member of TimeLine’s Writer’s Collective. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwrights’ Workshop.
Leif Jurgensen has worked in the Twin Cities as a theatre professional for over 25 years. He has appeared in over 20 productions at Children’s Theatre Company (CTC), including a national tour and two regional tours. Leif was an Artistic Associate with 15 Head where he not only performed but also directed and participated in script development. Other local theatres that Leif has worked with include Frank Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, Workhaus Collective, Red Eye, Interact Theater, Classical Actors Ensemble, Wayward Theater, Exposed Brick Theatre, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, and Red Bird Theatre. Leif has been a Teaching Artist with CTC's nationally recognized Neighborhood Bridges Program since 2002 and CTC’s Early Bridges program since 2010. Leif graduated from Marquette University, studied Laban Movement at Ohio State University, and trained with Anne Bogart at the SITI Company's Summer Intensive at Skidmore College.
Justin Leaf is a performance artist based in Minneapolis. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2001, and was a company member of James Sewell Ballet (2002– 2008) and Minnesota Dance Theatre (2008–2014). Since 2006, Justin has presented more than two-dozen cabaret works that merge story, song, and dance, often through the persona of Mistress Ginger. Justin's choreography has been presented by Minnesota Dance Theatre, James Sewell Ballet, Minnesota Orchestra, and Collective Unconscious Performance, among others. Justin has received a 2001 Zaraspe Prize for Outstanding Choreography, a 2007 Minnesota SAGE Award for Best Performance, a 2009 McKnight Fellowship for Dancers, and a 2014 Next Step Fund Grant. For more information, visit justinleaf.com.
Sarah Modena has performed in nearly all of Collective Unconscious Performance’s previous productions. Other notable theatre work includes Antigone at Park Square Theatre & Theatre Coup d’Etat (Co-Composer, Music Performance, winner of Lavender’s Best Sound Design in 2016), Door to Door at the Phoenix Theater (Assistant Director, Costumer), and the world premiere of My Soul, and Other Broken Things (Playwright) at Metropolitan State University. My Soul, and Other Broken Things was an invited production at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region V, as well as the winner of “Outstanding Production of a New Work” at the national level in Washington, D.C.
Libby Porter (e.w.porter) is a freelance costume designer, artist, and jack-of-all-trades based in Minneapolis. She has worn many hats: designer, fundraiser, project manager, consultant, and arts advocate. Libby has worked with 20% Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theater, Lyric Arts of Anoka, Stages Theatre Company, and others.
Emeritus Members
Katharine Sherman, Co-Founder (2014-2017)
Sofia Lindgren Galloway, Core Collaborator (2016-2017); Associate Artistic Director (2018-2020)
Katharine Sherman, Co-Founder (2014-2017)
Sofia Lindgren Galloway, Core Collaborator (2016-2017); Associate Artistic Director (2018-2020)