Red Eye is an artist-led organization with a collective leadership model.

A group of Co-Artistic Directors steward Red Eye as a leadership collective, working in collaboration with the Red Eye community. We share the tasks and responsibilities of running Red Eye, guiding both the artistic vision and organizational management.

You can reach all the Co-Artistic Directors at staff@redeyetheater.org.

 

Valerie Oliveiro
flexible pronouns
valerie@redeyetheater.org

is an artist in the performance field who is based in the Twin Cities and born in Singapore. She embraces interdisciplinarity as her artistic practice and generates creative work in multiple mediums while using dance and movement as the primary motor for her expression. Her current research excavates notions, realities and imaginations of vastness. She has performed for Jennifer Monson, Morgan Thorson, Rosy Simas, Pramila Vasudevan and Emily Gastineau all over the Twin Cities including Fresh Oysters, Walker Art Center, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, MOVO and Cowles Center for Dance. Valerie has also performed at national venues such as Danspace, New York Live Arts, Portland Art Museum, BASE Seattle, ADI, Fischer Center for Performing Arts, Vermont Performance Labs and Maui Arts and Cultural Center. She maintains a long-term creative practice with Jennifer Monson. Valerie is one of 7 Artistic Directors of Red Eye Theater and runs MOVO SPACE, a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ centered incubation space for dance and performance.

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Emily Gastineau
she/her/hers
emilygastineau.com | fire-drill.org
emily@redeyetheater.org

Emily is a choreographer, performer, writer, and arts administrator. Her work has been presented at Frascati (Amsterdam), On the Boards (Seattle), Garage29 (Brussels), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis), among others. Her work with Billy Mullaney (US/NL) under the name Fire Drill has been shown in Amsterdam, Minneapolis, St. Paul, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago. Her collaboration with Vilma Pitrinaite (LT/BE) has been supported by workspacebrussels, SE.S.TA (Prague), and the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Emily co-founded the performance writing platform Criticism Exchange, curates performances at Fresh Oysters Performance Research (Minneapolis) and elsewhere, and produced RELAY RELAY, an interview marathon and publication on contemporary performance. Emily has worked for Mn Artists at the Walker Art Center since 2014, and has been Program Manager since 2016. Through Mn Artists, she works with guest artist-curators to produce multidisciplinary performance programs at the Walker Art Center, and coordinates guest editors to commission original arts writing for mnartists.org. From 2017-2019, she was based between Minneapolis and Amsterdam while completing a masters at DAS Choreography, Amsterdam University of the Arts.

 
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Rachel Jendrzejewski
she/her/hers
rachelka.com
rachel@redeyetheater.org

Rachel is a writer, performance maker, and arts administrator who works throughout the U.S. and internationally. She frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her projects have been developed and/or presented by Red Eye, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, Public Functionary, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Wild Project, Playwrights’ Horizons, ICA/Boston, MASS MoCA, and Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, among others. Honors include Playwrights’ Center Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, two Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Residencies, and support from the Network of Ensemble Theaters, Minnesota State Arts Board, Dramatists Guild Foundation, PEN America, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Jendrzejewski has held staff positions at Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles), The Grotowski Institute (Poland), and Upstream Arts (Minneapolis). She is a member of The Playwrights’ Center Artistic Committee; previously she served on the Soap Factory’s Program Committee, in the Arts on Chicago Bush Community Innovation Cohort, and in the Creative Engagement work group for the City of Minneapolis Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy program. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.

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Theo Langason
he/him/his
theo@redeyetheater.org

Theo is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and teaching artist based in Minneapolis. A graduate of Rutgers University–Camden with a degree in Theatre Arts, Theo has been working in the Twin Cities as an actor, director, musician, composer, improviser, poet, and teaching artist for a decade. In addition to his work with Red Eye, Theo is a company member of Sandbox Theatre, a member of Blackout Improv, and a cast member of The Theater of Public Policy. As a teaching artist, Theo works regularly with Guthrie Theater, Penumbra Theatre, and Upstream Arts. Theo has also worked with Ten Thousand Things, Park Square Theatre, Pillsbury House + Theater, and Theatre Pro Rata, among others.