Our Ecosystem

Red Eye Staff Ecology

A group of arts workers and artists steward Red Eye, working in collaboration with the Red Eye community. You can reach all staff 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.

Pramila Vasudevan a movement-centered artist, cultural worker, and maker of community-rooted/routed transdisciplinary work. Vasudevan is of Tamil descent and lives and works on Dakota land. She was the founder and artistic director of Aniccha Arts (2004–2024), an arts collaborative producing site-specific performances that examine agency, voice, and group dynamics within community histories, institutions, and systems. She is currently a board member of Rootsprings, a retreat center that nurtures artistic and spiritual development through connection with land. She is an artist associate of Pillsbury House Theatre.

As an artist she has been honored with McKnight Choreography Fellowship (2024, 2016), Joyce Award (2022), United States Artists (2022), and Guggenheim (2017). Vasudevan has been invested in cultivating art spaces and artist growth as the director of Naked Stages (2016–21) and national mentor (2024-2025), a fellowship program for early-career performance artists at Pillsbury House Theatre, and as a teaching artist with Upstream Arts (2015–19), which activates and amplifies the voice and choice of individuals with disabilities at every stage of life.

Her current practice involves gardening, hosting conversations and community gatherings, and developing improvisational movement sessions inspired by growing practices in gardens and greenhouses and by plant cycles in the urban park systems.Her work engages with physical sites, ranging from human-constructed locations (like a suburban parking ramp) to natural environments (such as along the Mississippi River). In this process, she learns about the site’s history and current uses, the people that have come and gone, the embedded politics, and the materials that physically make it what it is. In responding artistically, Vasudevan orients from the body while layering in other media (sound, drawings, sculptural elements, and so on) that illuminate a multiplicity of perspectives.

Sarah Peters (she) is a visual artist, writer, and arts administrator living and working in St. Paul, MN, four blocks from Mississippi River within the Mississippi River Boulevard subwatershed, on and near Dakota homelands and waters, in the Eastern Broadleaf Forest biome.

Recently, she was the Sunset Co-Director of Northern Lights.mn, an arts non-profit that worked with artists in public places to explore expanded possibilities for civic engagement, including the beloved, all-night, Northern Spark festival. Prior to NL's closure, Sarah was its Executive Director and other roles for 13 years.

As an artist, Sarah’s practice revolves around drawing and book-making. She was the recipient of a Minnesota Center for Book Arts Jerome Fellowship in 2008, and an Arts-In-Education Residency and an Artist Book Production residency from Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY in 2003 and 2013 respectively. Her editioned artist books are held in collections locally and nationally, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Sarah is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Floating Library, a lake-based library of artist-made books that floated on urban lakes in Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles between 2013 and 2018. Funded in part by grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, MRAC, and the Knight Foundation Knight Arts Challenge, the FL commissioned eight artists to create works specifically for the lake-based Library, and collected more than 200 books and zines via an international open call.

Sarah supports connections between art, people, and place in multiple ways; currently as Special Projects Manager at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and as the Artist in Residence at Capitol Region Watershed District.

Marcela Michelle is a community-engaged transdisciplinary artist, educator, facilitator, and producer living and working on Mni Sota Makoce. Her artistic practice spans mediums and genres, engaging dance, music, physical and scripted theatre, design, burlesque, literature, construction, performance, theory, composition, devising, and the culinary arts. She is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Combined Artistic Fields, a 2020-2022 Hennepin Theatre Trust Teaching Artist in Residence, a 2019 Mentee of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation, and a member of Actor’s Equity. She is currently the Resident Dramaturg for Doma Dance Theater, a Beverage Co-Director with Mamasan Bartending Collective (who recently completed a residency her at Walker for Sadie Barnett’s New Eagle Creek Saloon), and was a resident host and headliner for DADDY, voted 2018 best lgbtq nightlife event by City Pages. Her original work has been presented by Walker Art Center (Choreographer’s Evening), Red Eye Theater (NW4W), Guthrie Theater’s Dowling Studio, Northern Spark, Right Here Showcase, The Minneapolis Burlesque Festival, Patrick’s Cabaret, Wanderlust Productions, and 20% Theatre Company, where she worked in many capacities from 2015 to 2021, ultimately serving as Artistic Director in its final years. Marceela served as an Artistic Co-Director of Lightning Rod, a QTGNC arts collective from 2018-2024. She has held additional residencies with Rosy Simas Danse (three thirty one studio), Red Eye Theatre (OMNIVERS), Pancake House, and DOMA Dance Theater (upcoming). She enjoys cooking, reading, video essays, and long periods of rest with her Wife.

Rachel Jendrzejewski is 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.