Wonderlust Productions

In 2024, Wonderlust celebrated 10 years of powerful ripple effects:

“By the end, I felt like I finally had a framework for understanding what happened to me. I’d stumbled upon exactly what I needed and never knew to look for. In fact, if you drew out the timeline of my life, that moment was a tick mark where there was a definitive “before” and “after,” 

-Ali Gardner, audience member, In My Heart: The Adoption Play Project

"It changed my life. . . caused me to step back a lot and gave me back a piece of my humanity.  . . Forced me to give everyone else their humanity too." 

-Michele Livingston, story circle participant and cast member, The Labryinth and the Minotaur: The Incarceration Play Project

“Just my understanding of my place in the world is different now. . .It’s almost been like a spiritual epiphany. That can be a cliché, but it really has been a powerful personal transformation to me to be part of this process.”

-Chris Lindberg, story circle participant and cast member, Thank You for Holding: The Caregiver Play Project

“… like all of Wonderlust Productions’ projects, the stories in the series grew out of people’s real life experiences, shared and reimagined to help spark social conversation and change.”

-Jared Kaufman, The Pioneer Press “Self-guided audio play series Hidden Herald tells stories of what downtown St. Paul is — and could become”

Invest in the next ten years. Make ripples into waves by donating to Wonderlust Productions 

In 2025 we will...

• Produce the second season of Hidden Herald, a series of audio plays that explore hidden stories of our communities - this time in both downtown St. Paul and the Payne Phalen neighborhood. 
• Build partnerships and conduct story circles with values-driven organizations and individuals for The Values Play Project. Our next epic play will explore the current state of Democratic ideals and cultural divides in the 21st century. 
  
  By the end of 2025, we will share our first draft.
• Develop a mentorship program, tentatively called The Cabaret Project, in which we support participants from past projects expanding their artistry and become more confident in telling their own stories through workshops with professional artists and exciting, safe public presentations (supported by the memorial Ned Rousmaniere Commissioning and Mentoring Fund)
• Continue to share the stories we’ve already heard with more and more audiences by expanding distribution of Thank You for Holding: The Caregiver Play Project; the graphic novel In My Heart: The Adoption Story Project; the podcast of Our House: The Capitol Project; audio plays from Hidden Herald, Season 1; and the edited film version of The Incarceration Play Project; 
• Collaborate at the University of St. Thomas, University of Minnesota, and elsewhere to at the intersection of healing and changing narratives
• ..and more! 

There are many ways to support Wonderlust. 

Listen to the podcast, attend a reading, and more. (wlproductions.org). 

Donate today through Give to the Max. 

Visit wlproductions.org to donate.

 Mail your gift to PO Box 8021, St. Paul, MN 55108. 

Thank you for supporting community-driven art!