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Full Circle Theater Presents a Production of
Adventures of a Traveling Meskwaki
by Oogie_Push
Directed by Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha
November 6 - 24, 2024
Tempest-tossed and lost at sea, a young refugee called Anon embarks on a harrowing journey across the United States to find his mother. Based on Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, Anon(ymous) weaves together ancient truths and contemporary realities about re-membering one’s identity and finding home in a strange new land.
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Full Circle Theater Presents
Constellations
February 7 - 9, 2025
MORE INFO ABOUT OUR 2023 - 2024 SEASON
The Full Circle Core Artist Leadership Group:
(clockwise from left to right):
Lara Trujillo, Rick Shiomi, Martha B. Johnson, Stephanie Lein Walseth and Siddeeqah Shabazz
About The Core Artist Leadership Group
Full Circle Theater Company makes use of a unique model of inclusive leadership that embodies our company’s Equity, Inclusion, Diversity-based mission: All major artistic decisions are made collaboratively by our Core Artist Leadership Group, made up of the Artistic Director(s) and Core Artists, together representing diverse racial, ethnic, gendered, and other identities and communities. These artistic decisions are made using a consensus process.
Staff and Core Artists
Co-Artistic Directors: Rick Shiomi and Stephanie Lein Walseth
Core Artists: Lara Trujillo, Stephanie Lein Walseth, and Siddeeqah Shabazz (Full Circle’s 2022 Resident Core Artist)
Managing Director: Quinci Bachman
Full Circle's Artistic Mission
The MISSION of Full Circle Theater is to create transformative theater that centers marginalized perspectives, practices equity and access, and engages diverse artists and audiences in the creation of a more socially just world.
Our Core Values
We are a theater company that values:
- High artistic and professional standards in our work
- Shared artistic and organizational leadership amongst BIPOC, Disabled, LGBTQIA+, White, and multi-identity artists
- The multiple, intersectional identities/communities in our company and work
- A culture of inclusion, safety, mutual respect, and belonging in our collaborative work process
- The development of emerging theater artists
- Intergenerational artistic collaboration and co-mentoring
- Womanist perspectives
Types of Theater We Do
- The creation of theater pieces based on diverse personal narratives.
- Contemporary re-imaginings of classic plays that have the potential to explore contemporary issues, perspectives and narratives of diverse people.
- The development of new plays and productions that focus on diverse perspectives and characters within a single work.
- The production of already existing plays that exhibit diverse perspectives and characters within a single work.