**DOMINIQUE SERRAND - Artistic Director**
Co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company and co-founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Dominique Serrand has acted, conceived, directed and designed for most Jeune Lune and Moving Company productions for over 30 years, concentrating primarily on directing. His other directing stages include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playmakers, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theatre, The Alley, The Shakespeare Theater, DC, amongst others.
Awards: 2006 Best Production “THE MISER”, Boston, Houston, San Diego, Minneapolis, San Francisco, 2005 Tony award best regional theater, 2005 USA ARTIST Fellow, Ford and Bush Fellow , knighted by the French Government in the order of Arts and Letters.

**STEVEN EPP - Artistic Director**
Actor, writer and co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company and Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1983-2008), Steve’s acting credits include title roles in Crusoe, Hamlet, Gulliver, Figaro, and The Miser. Locally, he has graced the stage at The Guthrie Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, The Jungle and others. His work has also brought him to La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, The Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alley Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theater, and Theatre for a New Audience, and The New Victory Theatre off-Broadway, among others. In addition to creating new work for The Moving Company, Steve has co-authored many plays, including Children of Paradise, which was awarded a 1993 Outer-Critics Circle award
Awards: 1999 Fox Fellow, 2009 McKnight Playwrights Center Fellow, 2013 Beinecke Fellow at Yale University, and 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor.

NATHAN KEEPERS - Producing Artistic Director

Nathan Keepers is Producing Artistic Director of The Moving Company. Since 2009 MoCo has been creating original works, most recently Say All The Truth. Others include, Liberty Falls 54321, Werther & Lotte, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Refugia (with The Guthrie.) Nathan previously spent 11 seasons with Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Elsewhere locally: Jungle Theater, The Guthrie, Ten Thousand Things, Sod House Theater, Augsburg Varsity Theater, Six Points, Playwright’s Center and CTC. Nationally: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (ATL), ART, The Shakespeare Theatre-DC, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory and The Folger Theatre. Nathan has also collaborated with other local artists including choreographer Berit Ahlgren, and around the country directing for Merrimack Repertory Theater and ATL. He has been an artist in residence at University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Stanford University, NYU and Gustavus Adolphus. Nathan studied with Pierre Byland in Switzerland, and Philippe Gaulier in London.

**KENZI ALLEN**
Kenzi is a local theater artist and teacher specializing in movement, experimental performance, mask, and the art of failure. Twin Cities credits include the Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Four Humors, Red Bird Theatre, Walking Shadow, and devised work directed by Jon Ferguson. She is a founding company member for The Missing Theatre, UK. *Training* École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Flöz Akademie with Familie Flöz, Burlesk Center with Pierre Byland and Mareike Schnitker, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, University of Minnesota, SPCPA.

**HELEN HATCH**
Helen Hatch is a Minneapolis-based performer and choreographer. Recognized as one of MN Monthly’s 10 Artists to Watch in 2012, Helen began her career with Minnesota Dance Theatre, where she performed a diverse range of repertory and created her own choreographic works. In 2018, she founded Hatch Dance, which, under her direction, has produced critically acclaimed performances that combine dance, music, and theater, developed through innovative collaborative processes. Helen is a graduate of the Ailey/ Fordham University BFA program. Throughout her career, Helen has danced repertory by renowned choreographers including Christopher Bruce, Danny Buraczeski, Eliot Feld, Loyce Houlton, José Limón, and Glen Tetley and has originated roles in works by Adam Barruch, Stefanie Batten Bland, Jon Ferguson, Penelope Freeh, Francesca Harper, Lise Houlton, Helen Pickett, Dominique Serrand, and many others. Her choreography has been presented at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the 2011 Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival, The Southern Theater, throughout Mexico and Guatemala by the Juntos Collective, and commissioned by Minnesota Dance Theatre, Saint Paul Ballet, Aveda, Mareck Dance, and The Cowles Center. In 2022, Helen was selected for the Choreographic Institute Residency at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The following year, she served as an Artist in Residence at Moulin/Belle in Mareuil en Périgord, France. Helen has taught extensively throughout the Twin Cities and is currently a teaching artist at Saint Paul Ballet.

**RANDY REYES**
Randy Reyes is an award-winning theater artist who has worked as a professional actor, director, playwright, and theater educator with institutions across the country including Perseverance Theatre, Theater Mu, The Guthrie, Mixed Blood, The Jungle Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, Pillsbury House Theatre, St. Olaf College, NYU Graduate Acting Program, University of Minnesota, The University of Utah, Augsburg College, and Macalester College (Assistant Professor). He trained at the University of Utah BFA Actor Training Program, where he received the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award, and The Juilliard School. Randy is crazy excited to be making his debut with The Moving Company under the direction of Dominique Serrand. He is extremely grateful for the love and support of his amazing family, the radiant Laura, the beautiful Mahler family and his mighty friends.

**ANNA SCHLOERB**
Anna is so grateful to be working with The Moving Company! She has admired their work from afar and is thrilled to be a part of this production. Anna received a BA from Macalester College with a double major in Theater & Dance and in American Studies. At Macalester Anna performed in various shows including *Angels in America* (HARPER), Fetes de la Nuit (NANNETTE) and *Hair* (SHELIA). Other acting credits include Open Eye Theater (*LochMess!*), Ravinia Festival (*Bernstein’s Mass*). Anna is originally from Chicago where she performed with the Chicago Children’s Choir singing with many artists including Chance the Rapper, Ted Hearne, Bobby McFerrin, and Jamilla Woods. Currently, Anna is working with Ten Thousand Things as their Acting Production Manager. She recently completed a year-long Production Fellowship at the Children’s Theater Company where she will return as the Assistant Director of *Milo Imagines the World*. Anna would like to thank the whole *Speechless* team for bringing her on board and teaching her so much! She has been consistently inspired and ignited by the company's poetic, thoughtful, and joyously human approach to the work.

JOHN NOVAK

After a nomadic early career as a stage technician and then an opera stage manager, John landed at the Jungle Theater in 1997. Since then, he has collaborated on more than 100 Jungle productions as stage manager and/or properties designer. Recently he’s had the opportunity to stage manage for Artistry Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Theater Latté Da, Frank Theatre, and The Moving Company (Say All the Truth), and to design props for productions at Skylark Opera Theatre, Park Square Theatre, and Ten Thousand Things. He shares a home in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis with his spouse, the creator and performer Bradley Greenwald.

**SONYA BERLOVITZ**
Sonya Berlovitz designed over sixty productions for the Tony award-winning Franco-American company Theatre de la Jeune Lune between 1980 and 2008 including Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Miser, Carmen, Hamlet, Cosi Fan Tutti, The Magic Flute, Tartuffe, Medea, Circus of Tales and The Three Musketeers. Since 2009 she has been a resident designer with The Moving Company, touring shows with them to South Coast Repertory, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Productions elsewhere have included The Wilma Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Jungle Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company, and Theatre Latte Da. She is very excited to be returning to Speechless.
Last year, Ms Berlovitz had a solo exhibition of her costume designs and artwork in Tokyo, Japan called Red. www.sonyaberlovitz.com

**MARCUS DILLIARD**
Marcus Dilliard has designed for theatre and opera across North America and in Europe, most recently seen at Pittsburgh Opera as the lighting designer for *La Traviata*, Utah Opera for *Thais* and Penumbra Theatre for *Wine in the Wilderness*. He has designed many productions for The Moving Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the Guthrie Theater, Theater Latté Da, Penumbra Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Children’s Theatre Company, Ordway Music Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minnesota Orchestra, American Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Opera designs include Pittsburgh Opera, the Spoleto Festival (Italy); the Athens Festival, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, Flanders Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Pacific, Fort Worth Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Canadian Opera Company, Chicago Opera Theater, and Boston Lyric Opera. Marcus is a graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts, a member of United Scenic Artists and a University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus.

**Speechless Piece List in Order**
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C Major, D.956, Op. 163: II. Adagio
Schubert - Nachtelle, D.892
Schubert - String Quintet Reprise
Schubert - Liebe, Op.17, No. 2, D. 983a
Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma”: 9. Nimrod (Adagio)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, TH 75: Hymn of the Cherubim
Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60: III. Andante
Erich Korngold - Glück, das mir verblieb. Sung by Lotte Lehman and Richard Tauber
Arvo Pärt - Fratres - For 12 Celli, Cello and Piano, Viola and Piano, Violin and Piano

Donors

The Mary and Chuck Leer Fund for Speechless:

Linda Donaldson, Cynthia Gold, Sylvia + Sam Kaplan, Susan + Jim Lenfestey, Lynn + Ben Oehler, Betsee Parker, Gloria Peterson + Jim McCarthy

Donor List:

*if you see a name omitted, misspelled, or anything else wrong, know that it is an inadvertent human error. you can email NATHAN at info@themovingco.org and he’ll fix it.

Michael + Cynthia Jorgensen

Carol Lichterman

Margery Martin + Daniel Feidt

Wendy + David Coggins

Dave Hage

Fred + Mary Keepers

The Tyden Family

Adam Moore

Allen Mahnke + Kathryn Schenk

Andrew + Jenny Collins

Anne + Don Luce

Amy Kaminsky

Avner Ben-Ner

Baiba + Glad Olinger

Barb Francis

Barbar Meyer

Barbara Reid

Barb + Dan Ruble

Barbara Shaterian

Rita + Ben Olk

Ben Krywosz

Ben Olk + Kris Berggren

Ben Trudeau

Berit Alhgren

Beth Kellar-Long

Bill + Sara Stout

Bonnie + Gerald Kennedy

Carl Schroeder

Carla Adams

Carol Klee + Luis Ramos-Garcia

Caroline Bassett

Catherine McKegney

Catherine Schubilske

Charles + Rebecca Lyon

Charlie + Julie Zelle

Chris Lehn

Christina + Scott Baldwin

Christine DeZelar-Tiedman

Christine Noyes

Christopher “Yam Pants” Curtis

Clem Rosenberg

Craig Harris

Craig Poeschl

Craig Sinard

Cynthia Gillett + Dan Sadoff

Dan + Lynn Lenort

Dan Lori

Dan Nass

Darcey Engen + Luverne Seifert

David Ball + Susan Pochapsky

David Colwell

David Mahnke

Deborah + Dietz Sussex

Drayton Cousins

Deborah Cromer

Dick + Pauline Hendrickson

Donna Stephenson

Donneen Torrey

Elizabeth Mead

Elizabeth Olson + Fam

Elizabeth Snyder

Ellen Cree

Ellen Sue + John Parker

Emma Greenman

Emilia Seay Allen

Eric Gustafson + Jennifer Jameson

Eric Olson + Susan Johnson

Eric + Joan Peterson

Erika + Nathan Eklund

Erin Dennis

Erin Keefe

Erin Oglesbay

Ernest Edwards

Eugenia Popa

Evelyn Schulte

Evelyn Valen

Flo Francis

Francoise Blanc

Germain Grueneberg

Glenn Klapperich

Gregory Milliren

Gregory Schultz

Gregory Vilmo

Gretchen Bratvold

Gwen Freed

Harry Waters Jr.

Harvey Sherman

Herb Winslow

Hugh Huston

Ignabova Trust

Isaac Risseeuw

J Seo

Jack + Rhoda Liebo

James David

James Howitt + Ann Lewandowski

James Martin

James Roth

Jane Kerr

Janet + Richard Myers

Janice Johnson

Janis Weller

Jason Clusman

Jeanne Schleh

Jeff Masco

Jean Thomson

Jen Keavy

Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Strom

Jennifer + John Urbanski

Jill Schafer

Jim + Cheryl Epp

Jim Emery + Marti Martindale

Jim McCarthy + Gloria Peterson

Joanna Schnedler

John Fenster

John Snell

Joe + Lois Duffy

Joel Spence

Josh Kroll

Joyce Berdie

Joyce Lyon

Judy + Steve Emmings

Julie Robbins

Julie Sand

Julie Toth

Karen + Paul Nelson

Kathleen Nugent

Kathleen Wilken

Kathryn Nettleman

Kathryn Schenk

Kay Thomas

Kelly Maynard

Kent Kiefer

Kevin Ward

Kit Gordon

Kristen + Dan Charette

Kristen Froebel

Kristin Midelfort

Kyle Barron Cohen + Katy Carmody

Larissa + Eric Netterlund

Laura + Joel Bassin

Lauren Stringer

Lee + Beverly Gehrke

Linda Close

Linda Hallman

Lindsey Galbraith

Lisa Hondros

Lisa Sinclair

Lisa Tiegel + Eric Galatz

Lori Constable

Louise Bormann

Lucas Erickson

Lynn + Ben Oehler

Maria Bianchi

Margaret Van Wyk

Margot McKinney

Mark Clements + Daphne Koop

Mark Germscheid

Mark Gustafson + Sarah Campbell

Mark Wexler + Mary Tran-Wexler

Mark Valdez

Martha Anderson

Martha Ballard + Paul Chrenka

Martha + Thom Sandberg

Mary Aalgaard

Mary Cajacob + Peter Eisenberg

Mary Feeney + Nick Pittenger

Mari Wittenbeer

Mary Harmon

Mary Hobday

Mary Kokernot

Masanari Kawahara

Michael Dillenberger

Michael Gast

Michael Hawkins

Michael Hull

Michael Friedman + Susan Hasti

Michelle Blaeser

Mija Van Der Wege

Mitch Richter

Molli O’Rourke

Nanci Olesen

Nancy Feldman

Naomi Konikoff

Nina Koch + Dave Uher

Norah Long

Patti Pinkerton

Patty Strandquist

Patricia Schaffer

Pamela Bayes

Pamela Wagner

Paul Bjerke

Paul Kennedy

Paul Thureen

Paul Walsh

Paul Wiedel

Penelope Snipper

R Kevin Chapman

Randy Nordquist

Richard Graham

Richard Taylor

Richard Todd + Patricia Haswell

Rob Gardner

Robert + Mary Beck

Ronald + Mary Mattson

Sandy Spieler

Sally + Tim

Sam Bergman

Sanford Weisberg

Sarah Agnew

Sarah Coggins

Sarah Day

Sarah Miller

Sarah + Steve Richardson

Sean + Rachel Gilbertson

Shirley Espaland

Sidney Konikoff

Sonya Berlovitz

Stacey Grimes

Stephanie + Jim Alford

Steve Bayes

Steven Matuszak

Steve Pincus + Fam

Steven Rosenberg

Susan Elsner

Susan Gilmore + Gordon Perkins

Susan Henderson

Susan Schultz + Weld Ransom

Tamara Rogers

Tracey Maloney

Torger Baland

Ute + Stefan Bertog

Valerie + Kevin Salley

Wendy Short-Hayes