Board & Supporters
Board of Directors
President
Karen Quisenberry
Choreographer, Dancer, Educator, Artistic Director of Movement Architecture
Vice President
David W. Kelley,
Partner, Stinson Leonard Street (Retired)
Treasurer
John Marks
Artist; Operations Director, The Cedar Cultural Center; Founder/Director, Mirrorlab Studios
Director
Jinza Thayer
Choreographer, Dancer, Educator, Artistic Director of Movement Architecture
Secretary
Rachel Mattson
Senior Consultant, Educopia Institute
Director
Sara Shives
Executive Producer, Meetings and Shows, BI Worldwide
Our Supporters
We are profoundly grateful for the many artists, audience members, community partners, donors, and funders who make Red Eye’s work possible--truly a collective effort!
The below list reflects those who made contributions to Red Eye between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. If you’re not on this list yet, we’d love to add you! Learn more or donate now on GiveMN.
Please let us know if something is missing from this list! If you have any questions or corrections, please contact staff@redeyetheater.org.
Visionaries
10,000 and above
- Jerome Foundation
- The McKnight Foundation
- Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
- Minnesota State Arts Board
Collaborators
1,000-9,000
- Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation
- Arts Midwest
- GiveMN
- Linda Holford
- David W. Kelley and Molly Maloney
- Rene and Christoph Meyer-Grimberg
- Seward Community Co-op
- Sewell Family Foundation
Innovators
250-999
- Anonymous
- Philip Bither and Kathleen Gavin
- Greg Bullard
- John Gastineau
- Karen Gastineau
- Andrew and Amy Jendrzejewski
- Carolyn Kramer
- David and Leni Moore, Jr.
- Miriam Must
- Sara Shives
- Jinza Thayer
- 3M
- Joseph Bingham
- Lisa Channer
- Aki Shibata and John Colburn
- Lucas Erickson
- Fred Frumberg
- Ritika Ganguly
- Jenny Goelz
- Tom Gorsuch and Ann Hopkins
- Gregory Gramza
- Julie Guidry
- Mathew Janczewski
- Rachel Jendrzejewski
- Justin Jones
- Ben Krywosz
- Krista Langberg
- Jim Lieberthal
- José A. Luis
- Heather MacKenzie
- Theresa Madaus
- John Marks
- Megan Mayer
- Kyle Meerkins
- Emily Michaels King
- Marcela Michelle
- Jamie Monson
- Ayaka Moriyama
- Alys Ayumi Ogura
- Benny Olk
- Nicole Pearce
- Jim Quisenberry
- Karen Quisenberry
- matt regan
- Chris Schlichting
- Craig and Kathy Shives
- Bree Sieplinga and David Luke
- Kate Sutton-Johnson
- Erin Thompson and Byron Richard
- Morgan Thorson
- Greg Tromiczak
- Rosemary Tufon
- Kristin Van Loon
- Scott Van Wert
- Jeffrey Wells and Sam Johnson
- Arneshia Williams
- Jeremiah Zortman
Friends
100-249
- Margot Bassett Silver
- Charles Boldt
- Charles Campbell and Susan McKinnell
- Hong Chen
- Rebecca Dale
- Judith Howard
- Janet Jones and Rob Reul
- Siobhan Kane
- Masanari Kawahara
- Greg Langason
- David Must
- Scott Pakudaitis
- Sarah Peters
- Julian Plonski
- Rosy Simas
- Carl Atiya Swanson
- Laurie Van Wieren
- Pramila Vasudevan
- Jo Ann and Jeff Wells
- Joe and Lori Zook-Stanley
In-Kind Gifts
- Jerome Foundation
- The McKnight Foundation
- Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
- Minnesota State Arts Board
Funding
Red Eye Theater is made possible in part by grants from The McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Rahr Corporation.
New Works 4 Weeks is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Minnesota State Arts Board; and by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.