Leah Cooper (Director)
Leah Cooper has been directing, producing, performing and occasionally writing for theater for over twenty-five years. Locally, she has directed productions with Ministry of Cultural Warfare, Gremlin Theater, Starting Gate Productions, Cromulent Shakespeare Company, 20% Theatre Company, Fortune’s Fool Productions, and the Fringe Festival as well as many developmental workshops of new scripts. She has assistant directed with Robert Rosen for Live Action Set and Ethan McSweeney at the Guthrie Theater.

After five years running the Minnesota Fringe Festival, she now provides arts administration consultation to many theaters around the Twin Cities. Leah is also a partner and co-founder of MinnesotaPlaylist.com and serves on the Minneapolis Arts Commission. Her next directing project will be Panache at Theatre in the Round.

Bethany Ford (Betty)
Bethany moved to the Twin Cities in 2005, after studying and working as an actor in Tennessee, Oregon, and South Carolina.  Locally, she has worked with quite a few different theatre companies, including The Cromulent Shakespeare Company, Nimbus Theatre, 20% Theatre Co., Theatre in the Round, Lamb Lays with Lion, Urban Samurai, and Starting Gate Productions.  In January, she will perform in Rock ‘n’ Roll at Park Square Theatre.   

Sara Howes (JoAnne)
Sarah is happy to be working with Prufrock Theatre on this brilliant and dark piece. She was most recently seen in The Flickering Wall (Red Figure Lady/Brianna) at the Illusion Theater. This fall, she finished up a production internship at the Jungle Theatre (Mary’s Wedding).  Brownville Village Theatre: Rumors (Chris Gorman), Time Out for Ginger (Lizzie), and House on the Cliff (Miss Pepper.) Other credits from college include: No Exit (Estelle,) Beauty Queen of Leenane (Mag,) Imaginary Invalid (Louison,) Caucasian Chalk Circle (Cook/Ensemble.) Sarah received her B.A. from the College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University in theater and political science.

Ariel Pinkerton (Rosalie)
Ariel Pinkerton has worked on many shows in 2009 (THE NAKED I, ReCollect, Teach Me Tonight, The Tempest, The Dumbwaiter) but considers learning to sing one of the highlights of this year, as is working with such a talented team. Ariel is a graduate of the U of MN with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and is a company member of both Cromulent Shakespeare Co. and 20% Theatre Co. You can see her putting her other talents to work later this year as a lighting designer for many shows, among them A Klingon Christmas Carol, and directing Troilus and Cressida for Cromulent in the parks next summer.


Dan Averitt (Masked Man/Dope King of Providence/Bank Teller)
Dan Averitt’s Minneapolis theatre credits: Ethan, 3 Way (8 Ball Productions); David, Twilight of the Golds (Ensemble Productions); Various roles in both This Queer Life (Gaydar Productions) & Corpus Christi (Gray Space Performance Company).  Additional credits include: Leopold, Never the Sinner & Kenny, Proposals (Duluth Playhouse); Alan, Torch Song Trilogy & Stephen, Line (Renegade Comedy Theatre); Hansel, Hansel and Gretel & Tailor, The Brave Little Tailor (Renegade Comedy Children’s Theatre); Cook, Ten November (Dagmar Plaid Productions).  Dan also had the recent privilege of participating in the national staged reading of Laramie Ten Years Later: An Epilogue at the Duluth Playhouse.

John Lilleberg (Captain Marvin Holohan)
John Lilleberg  Most recent roles for John include Sebastian (The Tempest) for Cromulent, Katz (Hot’l Baltimore) for Starting Gate, Marty/Police Chief (Amanda Tears Teenage Detective) and Bill Dudley (Have You Seen Steve Steven) both with Red Eye.  Other credits include Macbeth (Macbeth) for Pigs Eye and Bob Phillips (How the Other Half Loves) both at Park Square and Theatre in the Round.  John also performs with Down in History Tours at the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul as Irish gangster Dapper Dan Hogan.

Tony Williams (Bert)
Tony got the acting bug at age four, when he chose the role of “flying monkey” in a park production of The Wizard of Oz.  Since then he has been seen in numerous stage productions, including Miss Nelson is Missing at Stages Theatre and The Walleye Kid at Theater Mu, as well as in musicals at Southwest High School, where he is currently a Junior. Tony also played the role of “Marlon” in the independent film “Fall Into Me”. Tony is currently in his fourth year at Stages Acting Conservatory. Outside of acting and singing, Tony enjoys reading, hanging out with his friends, and being a teenager.  Tony is thrilled to be working with Prufrock Theatre in Landscape of the Body.

Jessica Etukudo (Margie)
Jessica Etukudo makes her debut on this stage playing the role of Margie. Originally from Los Angeles, California and a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota she has taken her background in dance and step and embarked on the world of theatre. She enjoys singing and dancing and has always found the challenge of a live show thrilling. While Jessica is new to theater, she has really taken pleasure in the experience. She is enjoying the chance to learn about the production process, and loves working with this cast and crew. Jessica would like to thank the theatre family for welcoming her and hopes to continue exploring the world of theatre.

James Rodriguez (Raulito)
James Rodriguez graduated with a BFA in Music Theatre from the College of Santa Fe.  Theatre credits include: The Ongoing Saga of Clapperclaw,( Lamb Lays with Lion).  I Am Not Batman(Yellow Tree Theatre). Chicago Avenue Project and Breaking Ice (Pillsbury House Theatre).  King Lear (Minnesota Shakespeare project).  The Pajama Game (Mixed Blood Theatre). True History of Coca Cola in Mexico (Teatro del Pueblo). References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Garson Theatre Company).

Kevin Fehlen (Donny)
Kevin Fehlen marked his professional theatre debut in 20% Theatre’s Teach Me Tonight, written by Ariel Pinkerton, and directed by Leah Cooper.  He then went on to do 20% Theatre’s After Juliet, and now by a stroke of luck is doing Prufrock’s debut show Landscape of the Body with Ariel Pinkerton and Leah Cooper.  It truly is a small world after all.

David Beukema (Durwood)
A native Minneapolitan, David is thrilled to be a part of the thriving Twin Cities theatre scene.  In the year that he has been back in the Cities, David has appeared with Cromulent Shakespeare, Theatre In the Round, Bloomington Civic Theatre, The Science Museum of Minnesota, and in the Minnesota Fringe Festival.  After receiving a BFA in Acting from Otterbein College in 2004, David appeared at theatres in Ohio, New York, and New Hampshire; however, he is happiest to call Minneapolis home.

Jeff Bartlett (Lighting Design)
Jeff Bartlett has designed lights for over twenty years, specializing in alternative theater and dance.  Recent designs include Yulan for Circus Juventas, Field Songs for Carl Flink’s Black Label Movement Company and By the Bog of Cats for Frank Theatre at the Guthrie Dowling Studio.  Many of his designs have been at the Southern Theater where he was Artistic Director from 1981 until July 2008.  His design work has been recognized with a 2008 Artist of the Year listing in City Pages; a 2005 Sage Award for Dance, in Design; and a 2003 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship awarded by the Playwrights’ Center.  His piece Lightwork:Currents is on permanent public display every night at the Wilder Center, University and Lexington, St. Paul.

Kelly Schaub (Properties Design)
Kelly Schaub has been active in theatre for almost 30 years. Working in both administration and production, she has served as Production Stage Manager for the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre, Business Manager at The Children’s Theatre Company, Managing Director for 15 HEAD – a theatre lab, and Board Chair for Open Eye Figure Theatre. Kelly also does freelance consulting to small arts nonprofits. She has toured the country as Stage Manager for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. She has been passionately involved with many local arts organizations. Kelly also spent 10 years working full-time for the National Guard in the areas of personnel, logistics, training and administration.  She is thrilled to be working with Leah Cooper again, after stage managing The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Cromulent and designing set & props for 20 Percent’s Teach Me Tonight. Kelly is currently wrapping up the dissolution process at Theatre de la Jeune Lune and is putting all of her energy into opening Play by Play Theatre Bookstore very soon. Stay tuned.

David P Schneider (Violence Choreography)
David has been training as an Actor-Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors since 2001 and has choreographed violence for several shows around town, most recently for Narnia the Musical at Woodbury Community Theatre, but also including Cromulent Shakespeare’s Richard III and Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, Oleanna, Coriolanus, Jekyll and Hyde, and several fights for the MN Renaissance Festival. He appeared as a sword fighter in MN Opera’s Romeo and Juliet, and has been acting around the twin cities since 2003 with numerous companies including Theatre in the Round, Cromulent Shakespeare, Artist’s Shakespeare, Flaneur Productions, Zealots and Mystics, STL Productions, and at the MN Renaissance Festival.

Zachary Scot Johnson (Piano)
Zachary Scot Johnson is thrilled to be reuniting with director Leah Cooper for this show. He played Marcus in this spring’s production of Teach Me Tonight that Ms. Cooper directed (and Ariel Pinkerton wrote) for 20% Theatre Company. Zach relocated to St. Paul recently after spending most of his life based in the Milwaukee, WI area, where he appeared in over 50 theatrical productions, including national tours. Favorite shows include Stones In His Pockets, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, Boomtown, Our Country’s Good, and King of The Moon. He is also a nationally touring singer/ songwriter who has shared the stage with artists like Shawn Colvin, Keb’ Mo’, Jane Siberry, The Be Good Tanyas, Steve Forbert, The Verve Pipe, Richard Shindell, The Greencards and others. His two cds can be found on Itunes, Amazon.com and his website at www.zacharyscotjohnson.com.

Michael Pearce Donley (Musical Director)
Michael Pearce Donley is an entertainer, songwriter and musical director who is best known for co-writing and co-starring in the hit comedy Triple Espresso.  Michael has worked locally with Ten Thousand Things, Nautilus Music-Theater, Front Porch Theatre, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and many others.  Michael is married to theater director Joy Donley, has two children, and is a member of Dramatist’s Guild of America.

Megen Edstrom (Stage Manager)
Megen is very excited to be a part of Prufrock’s first production. Hopefully this is the first of many artistic collaborations. She has also worked with several theatre companies around the metro. Some more recent being Off-Leash Area, Theatre in the Round, Cromulent Shakespeare, Theatre Latte Da, and Park Square Theatre.

Scot Moore (Sound Designer)
Scot is an actor, musician, and writer in the Twin Cities.  Landscape is his first experience as a Production Manager, and he’s thrilled to be working on such a unique and valuable project.  Scot has acted with Theatre in the Round, Starting Gate, Cromulent, Commedia Beauregard, and many others.

Liz Robinson (Graphic Designer)
Liz is a graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Art Institute International-Minnesota and works in areas of design ranging from print to interactive.  She currently works full time as a full time freelance Graphic Designer. In 2008, Liz served as the Graphic Designer for Cromulent Shakespeare Company’s, Sense and Sensibility, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Three Sisters, The 2009 Mid Winter Repertory, and The Tempest.

Deb Murphy (Costume Designer)
Deb Murphy has been costuming for about 30 years (for about twenty years in the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin area) at community, educational, and professional theaters. She is currently also a graduate student at United Theological Seminary, working on a Master of Arts Degree in Theology and Art. Her “day job” is in the wardrobe department of the Guthrie Theater.