Show Me Your Wings

Rhiannon Fiskradatz

Creator, Narrator, Lead Vocalist
Rhiannon 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

Conductor
Shanan 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 Manager
Azure 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 Performer
Josh 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 Designer
Marc 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, Choreographer
Co-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 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.

Chris Gorecki*

Live Painter (*at select performances)

Aaron Fiskradatz

Video & Projection Designer
Aaron 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 Engineer
Creating and collaborating in the twin cities since 2012 as a composer, sound and video designer.

Brian Bishop

Performance Stage Manager, Board Operator

Satish Jayaraj

Box Office, Front Of House
Satish 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.