Co-Directors

Co-Directors

A group of Co-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-Directors at staff@redeyetheater.org.

Valerie Oliveiro is a queer artist and activist in performance based in Mni Sota Makoce and born in Singapore. They are first a choreographer and performance maker. Their choreographic work surfaces inquiry through specific, cross-focal, multi-racial and densely relational perspectives, through the lens of SE Asian sensibilities. They also move between worlds of visual art, lighting design, writing, and technical direction. They have designed and performed in the work of Jennifer Monson, Morgan Thorson, Pramila Vasudevan, Rosy Simas, Chitra Vairavan, and Emily Gastineau, among others. Their most memorable performance experiences were at BASE (Seattle, WA), Danspace (New York, NY), New York Live Arts (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland) and Maui Arts and Cultural Center (Maui, HI). Their own choreographic work has been presented at Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Hair+Nails Gallery and Bryant Lake Bowl and Cowles Center and they have been supported by The Waterers, Racing Magpie, Minnesota State Arts Board, MRAC, and the Jerome Foundation. They are a Co-Director at Red Eye Theater, core ensemble member at Lighting Rod (a queer trans led performance group), and co-run a performance incubator MOVO SPACE for QTBIPOC dance artists. A 2023-2025 Jerome Fellow for Choreography, they also currently design the work of Meg Foley, dance in the work of Rosy Simas, and cultivate a long term multi-modality creative relationship with Jennifer Monson.

Rachel Jendrzejewskiis a writer who often collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists to unpack wide-ranging performative vocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Red Eye, Walker Art Center, Hair+Nails, Weisman Art Museum, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, MASS MoCA, RISD, and ICA/Boston, among others. Publications include ENCYCLOPEDIA (Spout Press), IN WHICH _______ AND OTHERS DISCOVER THE END (a collaboration with SuperGroup; Plays Inverse Press), and MERONYMY (53rd State Press). She is honored to be a Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fellow for the second time and a Co-Director at Red Eye. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.

Theo Langason 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.