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Show Me Your Wings
By MaMa Faerie Productions
Created by Rhiannon Fiskradatz
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Show Description
Show Me Your Wings is a traveling, experimental, multidisciplinary rock opera created from music by MaMa Faerie. It features a live band, projections, movement, puppetry, installations, and a visual art show!
Genre and Content
Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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| Thu 08/01 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Fri 08/02 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/03 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/04 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/07 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Thu 08/08 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/10 | 7:00 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Rhiannon Fiskradatz
Creator, Narrator, Lead VocalistRhiannon Fiskradatz is a renaissance woman! She writes and performs her own music as MaMa Faerie and has built a community of collaborators to create multidisciplinary experiences around the music as her repertoire expands. She is a vocalist with The Argyle Street Trio and 10 Items Or Fewer, performs with a variety of theatre/puppetry troupes, composes music for theatre and manages a teen choir for VocalEssence. She is a core member of Phantom Chorus Productions & a board member with Frank Theatre. She co-writes & performs a feminist sketch & song series called Songversations with Shanan Custer. She is a master beadweaver and an aficionado of handcrafts. She costumes entertainers & productions of all sorts, and she is gratified to be producing at the MN Fringe again after a 20+ year hiatus!
Shanan Custer
ConductorShanan Custer a theater maker, writer, director and improviser who has performed and directed with many Twin Cities theaters, most recently directing Lyric Arts’ 9 to 5: THE MUSICAL and performing with Unlabeled Theatre Company in their summer show Rock of Ages. You can catch Shanan monthly at the Bryant Lake Bowl and at Crooners with the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society as well as her new storytelling and song series called Songversations that she creates and writes with Rhiannon. Upcoming: Songversations (September 13 + 14) at the Bryant Lake Bowl, Transyl-Mania at Phipps Center for the Arts (directing) and The Wrench with Wheeler in the Sky at the Twin Cities Horror Festival (acting) this October.
Azure Anderson-Jayaraj
Band Member (backup vocals), Installation Designer, Rehearsal Stage ManagerAzure Anderson-Jayaraj is a singer, artist, maker, and innovative arts event planner based in St. Paul. With 18 years of performance experience across the Twin Cities and Iowa, she brings a rich musical and artistic background to her roles. Azure works as an administrator at VocalEssence, contributing to the organization's longstanding arts initiatives. She also produces a comedy storytelling podcast which she co-hosts with her husband called "Not Your Mother's Mahabharata."
Josh Vogen
Ensemble PerformerJosh has been an actor/puppeteer/builder in the Twin Cities for over 15 years working primarily with smaller theater companies that like to create original works. He is a founding company member of Phantom Chorus Theatre and is proud and humbled to share the stage with such incredible artists.
Lindsey Oetken
Ensemble Performer"Lindsey is a local actor hailing from Iowa, originally. She holds an MFA in Acting from Minnesota State Mankato and a BA in Theatre Arts from Simpson College. She has been involved with Phantom Chorus Theatre since it's first show, Belleraphon's Shadow, her introduction to Bunraku Puppetry. Locally, she has performed with several community and regional theatres. Regionally, she has performed with Theatre Midwest and Iowa Stage. She toured nationally with the Missoula Children's Theatre, sparking an interest in teaching children. When her schedule allows, she teaches classes and directs children's theatre with Youth Performance Company, Mayer Arts, and Ashland Production's ACT program. She is excited to expand her movement and puppetry skills and play imaginatively with Mama Faerie and the Phantom Chorus gang. "
Marc Berg
Ensemble Performer, Puppet DesignerMarc is co-artistic director of Phantom Chorus Theatre, as well as a freelance props & puppet designer who works with theatres throughout the Twin Cities, such as Stages Theatre Company and Classical Actors Ensemble. He's also a multidisciplinary visual artist and the vocalist for local shoegaze rock band Radiator Girl.
Thalia Kostman
Ensemble Performer, ChoreographerCo-artistic director of PCT Thalia Kostman has been a performer and creator in the Twin Cities theatre community since 2012. She studied physical theatre and mime at Macalester College and Studio Magenia in Paris. Thalia is the logistics coordinator for American Immersion Theater’s Minneapolis Troupe. She co-created Cecilies with Jeesun Choi at Red Eye’s Works In Progress series, has produced shows at the MN Fringe Festival, performs original mime acts in local cabarets, and has produced 5 original productions with PCT.
Christa Rübsam
Band Member (cello, bass)Christa Rübsam is a cellist, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist and educator with deep musical roots and her own varied experience performing, composing and improvising for live silent film performances and theater productions. She has been a member of New Music and avant-garde chamber ensembles, Skeleton Crew, Dreamland Faces and the Poor Nobodys, is the cellist of newly formed string quartet, Yam Jam and leads jazz trio, Ensemble Pro Arte.
Mike Hallenbeck
Band Member (beats, auxiliary percussion, wheels of steel)Mike Hallenbeck is a sound designer and composer. Recent years have seen collaborations with animators (Merit Thursday, CC Stanhill, John Akre), filmmakers (Kevin Obsatz, Kari Jo Skogquist, Sarah Smith), and music artists (mix engineering for composers Andy McCormick of Dreamland Faces and Dan Dukich, plus hip hop artist Lucky Tiger, singer-songwriter Matt Gladue, and Hallenbeck’s own band 10 Items or Fewer). He designed sound for puppeteer Oanh Vu’s productions “Phantom Loss” and “Chim Lac (Lost Bird)”, the latter with the MN Opera, and executed voiceover engineering, original musical score, and audio post on Skewed Visions’ recent podcast “Impossible Performances” (available everywhere). Mike Hallenbeck home page: coolcataudio.com
Steven Zubich
Band Member (keys)Steven Zubich is a pianist, harpsichordist, and composer based in St Paul. He has performed incidental music for Phantom Chorus and Wayward Theater. An eclectic solo and collaborative performer, Zubich has appeared in ensembles whose genres range from high Baroque to alternative rock. He is on the piano faculty at MacPhail School of Music.
Avery Hunter
Live PainterAvery Danger Hunter is a proud neurodivergent visual artist. He moved to the U.S. from England in 2004 at age 18 and landed here in Minneapolis, MN. In England, he earned A levels in Drama, English Literature and General Studies. Avery, a visual artist since childhood occasionally dabbling in the art world, has since pursued painting/drawing and printmaking as a profession, participating in several art fairs and national shows. He continued on to receive an AFA and then his Bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts from Metropolitan State University in 2021. He has held two solo exhibitions and was awarded two artist residencies since graduation. Avery is a husband, a dad to two neuro-spicy children and 6 fur babies, also working as a Teaching Artist within the disability community through the Upstream Arts organization.
Aaron Fiskradatz
Video & Projection DesignerAaron is a theatre artist, educator, and technician, whose work can be seen around the Twin Cities. His technical assistance was instrumental in keeping theatres running during the COVID pandemic, and he still continues to consult on video streaming projects. He also happens to be married to Rhiannon. When not creating and enjoying time with Rainy and their two dogs, he works regularly in the disability community in his role as Program Manager for Upstream Arts.
Peter Morrow
Sound Design, Audio EngineerCreating and collaborating in the twin cities since 2012 as a composer, sound and video designer.
Brian Bishop
Performance Stage Manager, Board OperatorSatish Jayaraj
Box Office, Front Of HouseSatish Jayaraj is a world builder, an author, a podcaster, a creative life coach, an innovative event planner and a generally positive dude. His varied practices of creative imagination have thus far led to two mythic fantasy books that are inspired by global mythology, and a storytelling comedy podcast that he hosts with his wife called 'Not Your Mother's Mahabharata,' where he tells the story of the East-Indian epic casually and comedically. He is proud to be a cog in other creative's adventures through his Imagination Life Coaching business, where he taps his knowledge of and passion for creativity in service of others. He has also co-produced multi-dimensional shows in the past and is excited to be diving into that world once again.
Jen Rand
Graphic DesignerJen is a storyteller and problem-solver located in the Pacific Northwest. Formerly of the Twin Cities theater and music community, she currently works in user experience design and spends most of her free time in the famed wilderness of Washington state with her husband and 4 year-old feral child.
More Information
Show Me Your Wings evolved from performance ideas I had while writing and recording an album of introspective, witchy, electronic tunes during the pandemic. Called Anthems for the Apocalypse, the album was a personal meditation on the gigantic mirror that 2020 held up to the world. When I decided to turn those original ideas into a storytelling arc that would introduce my MaMa Faerie persona to the theatrical world, the Fringe Festival was really the only place I could imagine producing the show!
MaMa Faerie is a name that was originally given to me by two young girls when I worked for the circus. I regularly wore wings to be easily seen during big events so that people wouldn't have to scream my name to get my attention, but the name was also a reflection of my role as an orchestrator of whimsy and “good trouble” when I saw goings on that needed to be called out. It’s a name I’ve held on to with pride and I use it now to tell the story of how I became the woman who earned it.
I’ve long been a passionate multidisciplinary collaborator because I believe that my audience is best served by being provided with as many access points to a story as possible. I think people appreciate being seen; when they’re seen, they care; when they care, they pay attention. In the case of Show Me Your Wings - in addition to the music, of course - I’ve partnered with my friends at Phantom Chorus Theatre to provide movement choreography and puppet design that highlight the messages in some of the story’s songs. My live band is full of wildly talented musicians who bring their own flavor to the tunes I crafted in the studio (check out Mike Hallenbeck’s sound design work at Cool Cat Audio, Steven Zubich’s piano skills & Christa Rübsam Schneider’s cello work in one of her many ensembles). We’re creating several artful installations with which the audience will have a chance to engage in the course of the show and the whole piece starts off in the front gallery of Squirrel Haus Arts, where we’re hosting a visual art show to pack even more artists onto our roster! Speaking of, let’s not forget artist Avery Danger Hunter, who will be featured as a live painter integrated into the storytelling.
So… something for everyone! Come see this intimate yet spectacular musical journey of one woman’s quest to find her wings and fly.
Most of the music in Show Me Your Wings is from MaMa Faerie's debut album, Anthems for the Apocalypse. Stream it here! The album will be available to purchase at performances in vinyl and as a digital download.
Want to follow along with the storytelling journey? Check out my Instagram feed for behind-the-scenes details throughout the summer!
