Allison Vincent
MC

Allison Vincent is an award-winning performer, director, writer, deviser, and educator known for creating new works, physical theatre, and gender-bending performances.  She has been honored to collaborate with companies and theaters across the Twin Cities. In addition to performing, Allison is a co-artistic director and founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair, a company member of Four Humors, a former teaching artist at the Guthrie Theater and Loft Literary Center, and has collaborated as a writer on over twenty produced scripts.  She is a 2022 Pillsbury House + Theatre’s Naked Stages Fellow and recipient of a 2023 Everwood Artist Residency and the 2023 Loft/Madeline Island School for the Arts Teaching Excellence Residency. Allison teaches at the University of Minnesota in the Writing Studies Department’s First Year Writing Program and the Theatre Arts and Dance Department, and at Augsburg University’s Theater Department.

Leslie Vincent
Jazz Musician

Leslie Vincent is a prolific songwriter and jazz vocalist. Equally at home singing the Great American Songbook, musical theater, and contemporary rock and pop, she has quickly become one of the most notable voices to emerge in the vibrant Minneapolis music scene, being hailed for her joy-filled performances and her “fun, human, beautiful interpretations” (Levi Weinhagen).

In 2023, she released her sophomore album “About Last Night”, which garnered critical attention from fans and music critics in the Twin Cities, especially from Jazz88 FM, where she’s become a regular in-studio guest. 

“Leslie Vincent…is as much a storyteller as she is a jazz singer”
— DownBeat Magazine

“…think Amy Winehouse had she gone full-tilt jazz” – John Apice
— Americana Highways

Duncan Raney
Multimedia Artist

“I make art to do my piece in contributing to the oddity of our space, to break up the patterns we see every day and draw attention to the unusual, and to drag my viewers kicking and screaming back to themselves as children reading fantasy novels. I return always to handicraft, metallurgy, leatherwork, and carpentry as excellent tools for this purpose, to twist the familiar into new shapes, and in pursuit of a caught-smoke quality of “authenticity.” Always I feel myself being pulled further in this direction, toward craft and hand-hardening work, both for its utility and history, and to catch hold of one’s fascination for other worlds just-forgotten. If we can all hearken back to our story-loving child selves for a few moments, our world will be the better for it.”

Matt Scott
Artist

“My printmaking practice largely focuses on the matter of life and existence. I study creatures both real and imagined and depict them in realistic or illustrative manners using mezzotint and aquatint methods. I use scientific examinations of insects and historical descriptions of cryptids to inform my work. My aim with this work is to investigate whether something needs to be accepted as real in order to exist. Through these projects I question, can these two subjects be viewed the same even though one of them is not real?”