Board of Directors
Karen Quisenberry, President
Chief Production Officer, Minnesota Opera
Jinza Thayer, Director
Choreographer, Dancer, Educator, Artistic Director of Movement Architecture
John Marks, Treasurer
Artist; Operations Director, The Cedar Cultural Center; Founder/Director, Mirrorlab Studios
David W. Kelley, Vice President
Partner, Stinson Leonard Street (Retired)
Rachel Mattson, Secretary
Senior Consultant, Educopia Institute
Sara Shives, Director
Senior Events Producer, Minnesota Public Radio
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.
Visionaries
($10,000 and above)
Jerome Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
Minnesota State Arts Board
Partners
($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
Collaborators
($1000-9,999)
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
Friends
(up to $99)
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
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
In-Kind Gifts
Bedroom Besties
Mudluk Studios (Sayge Carroll)
Matt Lerner
East Lake Liquors
Nicolas Eggert
Isabel Fajardo
Ritika Ganguly
Kaya Lovestrand
Marakah Mancini
John Marks
FOCI Minnesota Center for Glass Arts
Moon Palace Books
The Wellness Center (Kara Motta)
Lupa Studio (Sharon Picasso and Ted Roseen)
Karen Quisenberry
Sally Rousse
Seward Community Co-op
Jinza Thayer
Trader Joe's
Jeffrey Wells Feldenkrais
Shun Yong
Zipps Liquors
Please let us know if something is missing from this list! If you have any questions or corrections, please contact staff@redeyetheater.org.
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.