Mixed Blood Theatre

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City Pages to Mixed Blood:
"Best Theater"
City Pages named Mixed Blood "Best Theater" in its "Best of 2012" edition. City Pages cited Avenue Q, the Center of the Margins festival, and Radical Hospitality as reasons for the top honors. Read more here.

2012-13 Season Announcement
Stay tuned for the announcement of Mixed Blood's 2012-13 season in late May.

Latina "Outrageously Funny"
It's hard to resist words like "hysterical," "uproarious," and "outrageously ridiculous." Check for out the reviews for Mixed Blood's 2011–12 season closer, Learn to Be Latina: StarTribune, Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com, AisleSay.com, HowWasTheShow.com, City Pages.

Mixed Blood Theatre Donors

Each gift to Mixed Blood is vital to continuing its programming on stage, in classrooms and at work places throughout the region. In this new era of Radical Hospitality, your contributions are essential to providing excellent live theatre for all members of Mixed Blood's community. Thank you for your support!

If you have questions about making a gift or a gift acknowledgment, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at (612) 338-0984.

This list reflects donations made from July 2010 through August 2011.

Champions ($25,000+)
Bush Foundation
Edgerton Foundation
General Mills Foundation
McKnight Foundation
Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund *
Minnesota State Arts Board
National Endowment for the Arts
Shubert Foundation
Target
Theatre Communications Group
Wallace Foundation

*Activities are funded, in part, by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

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Ambassadors ($10,000-24,999)
Bremer Foundation
COMPAS
National New Play Network
Travelers Foundation
VSA Minnesota
Xcel

Advocates ($5,000-9,999)

Greg Frankenfield
Jerome Foundation
Magenic Technologies, Inc.
Minneapolis Foundation
3M Foundation
Thomson Reuters

Backers ($1,000-4,999)
Daniel Adolphson
Elmer & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation
Hugh J. Andersen Foundation
Anonymous
Martha & Bruce Atwater
Molly Bott
Ellen & Jan Breyer
Buuck Family Foundation
Joan & Ron Cornwell
Rory & Ane-Grethe Delaney
Sheila Gore Dennis
Pj Doyle
EcoLabs
Jim & Mary Beidler Gearen
Health Partners Institute for Medical Education
K. David Hirschey
Imation
Nancy Koo
Helen L. Kuehn
Lorraine LeBlanc
Susan P. Mackay
Mayo Foundation
Qwest/Century Link
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Carl & Verna Schmidt Foundation
Robert Schoenbaum
Margaret & Daniel Shulman
South Dakota Arts Council
James R. Thorpe Foundation
H.E. & Helen Warren Foundation
David & Ruth Waterbury
Howard Weiner
Wenger Foundation
West Broadway Business Association
Margaret & Angus Wurtele

Allies ($500-999)
Actors Equity Association
Pamela Birch
Bobby & Steve's
Martha & John Bordwell
Debra & Scott Bryan
John & Nancy Burbidge
Kathleen & Joseph Daly
Paul & Reba Dominski
Joe Dowling & Siobhan Cleary
Beverly Erickson
David R. & Elizabeth P. Fesler
Suzi Kanyr Hagen
Nanette Hoover
Dave Larson
Phyllis & Donald Kahn
Jim McCarthy & Gloria Peterson
Ronald & Devin McKinley
Tabitha Montgomery
Carl & Susan Patow
Laurie Rice & Brad Frederiksen
Ken & Nina Rothchild
Tucker Rottinghaus
Mark Sieve
Jeanne M. Voigt
James & Linda Wallace

Sympathizers ($100-499)

Marty Allen
William & Suzanne Ammerman
Cornell & Patti Anderson
Marion & Emil Angelica
Anonymous
Howard Ansel
Denise Artley
Janice Aune
Kay & Ronald Bach
Karen Bachman
George & Lou Bailey
Gordon & Josephine Bailey
Walt & Ginger Bailey
Sandy & Barry Baines
Rosalyn Baker
Anne & Gregory Bartel
Laura & Terry Becker
Jeff & Karyl Beeman
Barbara K. Belew
Margaret Belew & Charles Tenbensel
Dr. Bernice E. Berns
Amy Blumenshine & Michael Troutman
Gene & Jane Borochoff
Mary K. Boyd
Dr. Arnold & Judith Brier
Jane S. Brodie, PhD, in memory of Nancy Koo`s mother Peifen Koo
Thomas & Barbara Brown
Dimitri Burroughs & Susan Estes
Lee Butcher
Sandy & Peter Butler
Jerdis Cerney
Carolyn Chalmers & Eric Janus
Brenda Clark
Mary & Rob Colbert
Dave Colwell
Diane Connor
Dan Cornejo
Jeanne Corwin
John & Shari Couch
Sage & John Cowles
Pat Cummings
Russell Curry & Emanuela Boni
John & Jackie Dahler
Tom E. Davis
Edward & Sherry Ann Dayton
Jim & Martha Demetriou
Gene Dixon & Larry Miller
Maureen & Art Dollase
Judy Dorn
Jane Doyle
Jean Ann Durades
Steve & Judy Emmings
Kathleen Erickson
Patricia Ewald
Lee & Mary Ann Fabel
Bonita Fisher
Steve & Mimi Fisher
Ronald Fraboni, in memory of Barb Fraboni
Chuck Freiberg
Mary & Jay Gallagher
Michael Garcia in honor of Susan Mackay
Gary Gardner & Helen Kivnick
Heidi & Howard Gilbert
Helen Gilbert & Jim Amundsen
Phyllis Rawls Goff & Bob Goff
Marge Goldberg
Diane & Louis Goldenberg
Mel & Judy Goldfein
Stanley Graham
Polly Grose
Jennifer Gunn
Marcia Haffmans & Ed McFalls
Susan A. Hagstrum & Robert Bruininks
Keith Halperin & Karen Grabow
Elie Halpern, in memory of Bob & Betty Reuler
Greg & Beth Ann Halvorson
Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen
Amy Hargens
Craig Harris & Candy Kuehn
Duane Hasegawa & Barbara Heideman
Jeffrey Hatcher
Tom & Carla Hawley
Kristin Henning
Diane & Stephen Henry
Janet L. Herbert
Joan Higinbotham
Eric & Lois Hyde
Jeremy Iggers & Carol Bouska
Harry & Lila Jacob
Chris & Jack Jaglo
Betty Johnson
Josie R. Johnson, in memory of Patrice Y. Johnson
Martha Johnson
Mary-Louise Johnson
Maryanne Johnson
Joy & Sid Kaplan
Marlan & Gloria Karbo
M. Kassapa
Lendre & King Kearns
Miriam & Erwin Kelen
Ellen J. Kennedy
Joyce & Wallace Kennedy
Kim Keprios & John Everett, in honor of Jack Reuler
Leroy & Miriam Kieffer
Kevin Kirsch
Patricia Klass
Hugh Klein
Jean & Loren Kramer-Johnson
Amy & Bert Kritzer
Ruth Ladwig
Kirsten & Alan Langohr
Michael & Emily Laskin
Stephen Lehman & Kathleen Childers
Laurel & Eric Lein
Kathleen Lenzmeier
Delores & Sheldon Levin
Ron & Judy Libertus
Alice Lloyd
Joel Locketz
George E. Logan
Douglas & Mary Logeland
Mary H. Lundberg-Johnson (Greschner)
Pat Lynch & John Halpern
Janis Lysen
Janet & William MacNally
Mary & Mark Maher
Rhoda & Donald Mains
Judith Martin
Vivian Mason
Ron & Mary Mattson
Sue & Larry Matthews
Paul Mau
Cynthia Mayeda
Wanda & Robert McCaa
Jeff McCallum
Kay & Mike McCarthy
Ed McFalls
Anne McInerney
Nancy Melich
Terie Miyamoto
David Miller & Mary Dew
Alex Moore & Linda Antonucci
Charlie Moore
David Moore
Jason Moore
Marianne Moulson
Rita Mueller
Sara Mushlitz
Judith & Joseph Neumeier
Judy Nobles
Dan Nordby & Barbara Rawley
Patrick O'Brien
Daniel & Vicki Olson
Diane Sims Page & Alan Page
Laurel Paller-Rzepka
Kathy & Don Park
Patricia Pelto
Carol Peterson
Kolean Pitner & Richard Wilson
William & Polly Posten
Nancy & James Proman
Denise Prosek & Milton Ferris
Joe & Pat Pulice
Carol Quest
T. Mychael Rambo
Weld Ransom & Susan Schultz
Gail & Rip Rapson
Lawrence Redmond
Vicki Reece & Pat Wagner
Marc Reigel
Jack Reuler
Jim & Ellen Reuler
Beth Richardson
Shiela & John Robertson
Cecilia & Michael Rohrer
Bill Rossi, in memory of Baccus the sailor dog
Jim Rustad
Cathy Ruther & Dave Vanney
Paul & Linda Sadler, in honor of Susan Mackay
Suchitra Sairam
Linda & Lynn Schacher
Stan Schweitzer
Jim Sheeley
Laurie Rose Simon, in honor of Carol Hohenstein
Debra Sit & Peter Berge
Roy & Elisabeth Smith
Edward L. Sostek
Galen W. Stahle, M.D. & Rebecca Stahle
Carla Steen & Jeff Friedl
Kathy Steinberger & Jim Young
Donna Stephenson
Marcia & John Stout
John Sullivan
Adrienne Summerfield
Michael Symeonides
Jean & Alan Thiel
Daphne Thompson & Bill Curtis
Ken Tilsen & Connie Goldman
Emily Anne & Gedney Tuttle
Mark Valdez
Robert & Susan Warde
Constance Waterous
Melinda & Leon Webster
Suzanne Weil
David I. Weinberg MD & Corie Koransky
Chad Weinstein & Cathy Huber
James & Carolyn White
Beth Wickum
Cornelius & Betty Ann Wiens
Fred & Eleanor Winston
Barbara C. Winthrop
Kaye & Bernie Wiwel
Stan Wojewodski
Ann Wynia
Mary Lynn Yakel & Jeffery Sauer
Steve Yoakam & Shawn Judge
Jane U. Young
Louise Ziegler

Grassroots (up to $100)

Susan Abderholden & Lee Keller
Karen Abraham & Ray Wiedmeyer
Ruth Agar & Fay Harrison
Veronica Ahern
Julie Ahlman & Michael Higgins
Jill Ahrold
Denise Alden & Viswadas Leher
Betsy Allis & Bill Elwood
Wendy Amundson
Anonymous
Alex Arbit
Elizabeth Athorn
Marcia J. Aubineau
Lynn Bach
Bev & John Bachman
Mike Bailey
Brian Balcom
Victor & Ruth Barela
Joyce & Dick Barnes
Carol Barnett
Bob & Bev Barrett
Collin Bean
Rachel Bean
Barbara Bearman
Susan Beaubaire
William O. Beeman
Pat & John Belian
Carolyn Light Bell & Edwin Bell
Maureen Bell
Rita Benak
Merrie Benasutti
Sophia Bera
Maria & William Berens
Charlotte & Richard Berman
Jane Bernauer
Lois Berns
David Bernstein & Paula Rabinowitz
Rebecca Biderman & David Fraher
Susan & Randall Blum
Art & Phyllis Bofferding
Stacey Boggs & Jason Flynn
Judy & Dick Borgen
Michael & Sally Bosanko
Warren & Sam Bowles
Florence Brammer & David Shlay
Sharon Bruestle
Jean Burkhardt
Judy Burtis
Kristen Butler
Otto Byhre
Mary Cajacob & Peter Eisenberg
Joan Calof
Jane Carlstrom
Mark Caspers & Barbara-Ann March
Yvonne Cheek
Deborah Cheney
Carol J. Clarke
Beth Cleary & Peter Rachleff
Tom Crew
Barbara Crosby
Carol S. Daly
Patricia Davies
Laura M. Delavie
John & Ginger Dell
Jan DeNoble
Beth Dixon
Mary Kay Dooley
Kathleen Doom
Diane & Michael Dummer
Shirley & James Dunn
Margaret E.  Durham
Tim Dwyer
Jill & Bob Edelstein
Catherine Egan
Barbara Eiger
Kent & Katherine Eklund
Joan Erickson & Dennis Pease
Miriam Pew Ferguson
Harold Field
Joyce & Harold Field
Richard & Sharon Fields
Dudley Flamm
Sam Fleitman
Jacqueline M. Fleming
Gerald Foley
Mari Forbush
Gene Frazer & Jackie Thompson
Sally French
Arlene M. Fried
Jay Jaffee & Wendy Friede
Cathy & Nat Fuller
Jane B. Galbraith
Margot Galt
Donald Garvey
Hilde & Stephen Gasiorowicz
Pat Gavan-Gordon
Ellen Gavin
Sigrid Glasoe
Charles Glasrud & Theodora Economou
Meri Golden & Tom Homme
Devorah Goldstein & Will Durfee
Milt & Rosalie Goldstein
Ellen Grady
Nancy Grauff
John & Virginia Greenman
Alexian Gregory
Anne Marie Gromme
Barbara Grossman
Gerry Gulbranson
Les & Ellen Gunter
Marian Halpern
Darlene Hardie
Jed & Emily Harris
Larry & Tammy Harris
Max & Carole Harris
Susan Hasti & Michael Friedman
Patricia Haswell
Leslie Haugland-Smith & William Smith
Andrea Heilman
Sally Helmerichs, in memory of Lucy Cook
Marsia Herman
Joanne & Lee Hermann
Monica Herrera
Annamary & James Herther
Mark Heymans
Michael Hilger
Douglas A. Hill
Beverly Hlavac
Margaret J. Hornbacher
Mary T. Howard, PhD
Fran Howley
Megan & Charles Hubbell
Douglas & Victoria Huff
Sharon A. Huikko
Gail & Harold Huwe
Mary & Warren Ibele
Jerome Ingber & Judith Brin Ingber
Nagashia Jackson
Scott C. Jackson
Suzanne Jebe
Morgan Jenness
Donald & Ruth Johnson
Colleen Jones
Louise Jones
Valerie Jones & Steven Kurtz
Aditi Kapil & Sean Brennan
Helene Burton Kaplan & Sheldon Kaplan
Ira & Victoria Kasdan
Mary Ellen Kavanaugh
Margaret Kavaney
Mr. & Mrs. E. Gary Klein
Erika Klein
John Kluge
Anne Knauff
Mary T. Kokernot
Kathy & Douglas Koo, in honor of the marriage of Nancy Koo & Bob Donnelly
Leslie Koppenhaver
Steve & Kathy Kraemer
LaRoyce Kranz
Harriette Krasnoff
Joyce Krook
Marianne Kullback
Joe Kuznik
Julie & Maury Landsman
Robert & Eva Launer
Cheryl Laurent & John Sokalski
Leota S. Lawrence
Robert Ley
A. I. Leyasmeyer
Pat Lilligren
Patti & Bill Lisberg
Stephen & Bonnie Litton
Theresa Loch-Thoele
Ann Long
Barbara Lordi
Perry Lueders
Robin Macgregor
Melanie & Doug MacLean
R. & F. Magnuson
Aaron Mark
Alan Mastbaum
Virginia E. May
Karen & Jim McConkey
Virginia & Richard McFerran
Karen McGarrigle
Geraldine McGrane
Catherine McIntire
Genene McNabb & Reid Gagle
Vikki McVean
Roger J. Mehus
Mali Menendez
Ann Miller
Randy Moore
Nancy Morales
Bonnie Morris & Dean Holzman
Anne Myers-Richards & Trevor Richards
Bonnie K. Nelson & Robert Taylor
Clareyse Nelson
Kristen C. Nelson
Paul Nelson
Jim & Dee Noah
Donna Norberg
Mark & Joyce Nordby
June Noronha & Nicholas Noronha Rosenbaum
Kerry Noyes
Patricia O’Gorman
Vicki Oeljen
Jocelyn Olson & Steve Bergseth
Sandra Olson
Pam & Jeffrey Orren
Scott Pakudaitis
Lynne & Roderick Palmore
Dwana Paplow
Flo Pappas in memory of Jim Pappas
Mary Jane & Bruce Pappas
Polly Penney
Polly Peterson
Sue Peterson
Stephen Phillipps
Ann & Felix Phillips
Barbara Pilling
Pierre Piper
Mike & Deb Pleasants
Benjamin Pofahl
Sally B. Polk
Marlin Possehl
Virginia & Wayne Potratz
Robert Purdom
Mark Rabinovitch
Andrew J. Rapoport
Margaret Rarig
David Rasche
Jeannette Raymond & Mark Schultz
Bob & Audray Rees
Frinnie Rehm
Peter & Peggy Rejto
Peg Reuler
Betti Reuther
Sydney Rice & Craig Wiester
Danette Ricks & Kristin Moe
Jonathan Riehle
Richard Riehle
Dan & Mary Riordan
Lia Rivamonte & Matt Brown
Jolene Roehlkepartain
Deborah Roesler & John Kephart
Katharine Romme
Martin Ruben in memory of Anne Ruben
Jim & Andrea Rubenstein
Bridget Ryan
Dennis & Cheryl Schneider
Ralph J. Schnorr
Henny Schoeller
Katherine Gray & Gary Schoener
Robin Schow & Gregory Bernstein
Greg Schroeder
Brockman Schumacher & Nancy Zalusky Schumacher
Jeff Schuur, in honor of Susan Mackay
Beverly & Truman Schwartz
Barbara & Jonathan Scoll
Suzy & Herb Sewell
Caitlin M. Sheaffer
Sandra Shearer
Claire Dulgar & Frank Shelton
Mark Sherma
Shrell Zelmar In Honor of Lorraine Shrell
Jan Sigmund
Diane Sineps
Jackie & Stephen Sinykin
Elaine Sloan & Ross Moen
Chatta & Ken Small
Scott Solis & Carla Kaiser
Connie & Leslie Sowa
April Spas
Denny Spence & Barbara Bryne-Spence
Mike & Joan Stahlmann
Joe Stanley & Lori Zook-Stanley
Arturo Steely
Sharon Steinfeldt
Muriel Sterne
Rebecca Stibbe
Bev & Tom Stratton
Greta Stryker
Dale G. Swanson
Mae Seely Sylvester
Polly & Deborah Talen
Renee Tasaka
Robert Taylor
Marilou Thibault
Jeannine O. Thing
Rita Thofern
Barbara Thompson
Helene V. Turnbull
Cathy Tweedie
Cynthia Unowsky
Gale E. Van Buskirk
Joan & Segundo Velasquez
Paula Vesely
Kristen Vihovde
Marylou Walburn
Arnold & Helen Walker
Clara L. Walter-Marchetti
Peg & Doug Wangensteen
Janet Watchman & Joel Weisberg
Pat & Ralph Watkins
Sherri Weiss
Bridget Wellhoefer
Mark Wernick
Paul & Joan Wernick
Carol Westberg
Evan Williams
Alex & Marguerite Wilson
Shannon Wolkerstorfer in honor of Susan Mackay
Thea Zatocil
Brenda & Ben Zimmerman
Shirley Zimmerman
Karen Zollar
Stephen & Pamela Zuckerman, in honor of Dennis Carlson
Sharon Zweigbaum
Cindy Zwicky & Renee Lewis

Read Mixed Blood's 2009-2010 Annual Report here: