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
she/he/they
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-Artistic 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.
Emily Gastineau
she/her
emilygastineau.com
emily@redeyetheater.org
Emily Gastineau is a choreographer, performer, writer, and editor based in Minneapolis. Recurring concerns in her body of work include objects, desire, value, citation, spectatorship, collectivity, and the generic. Her work has been supported, developed, or presented at Frascati (Amsterdam), On the Boards (Seattle), workspacebrussels, Garage29 (Brussels), The Luminary (St. Louis), SE.S.TA (Prague), Studio 303 (Montreal), Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Soap Factory, Southern Theater, Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and Minnesota State Arts Board, among others. She created over a dozen collaborative works with Billy Mullaney (US/NL) as part of the performance duo Fire Drill, and curated events at former studio space Fresh Oysters Performance Research. Emily engages with language within her choreographic practice as well as through arts writing and publishing: she co-founded the platform Criticism Exchange, and her writing on performance has been published at Mn Artists, MARCH.international, Temporary Art Review, Culturebot, and elsewhere. She worked with Mn Artists at the Walker Art Center for a decade, where she was most recently the editor of the interdisciplinary arts writing publication. She studied at DAS Choreography, Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Rachel Jendrzejewski
she/her/hers
rachelka.com
rachel@redeyetheater.org
[on medical leave]
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-artistic director at Red Eye. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.
Theo Langason
he/him/his
theo@redeyetheater.org
[on sabbatical]
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.