Scarecrow on Fire

Playwright and Scarecrow

Playwright, author and storyteller Kevin Kling is a proud graduate of Osseo High School and Gustavus Adolphus College. His plays have been produced in local and regional theaters including Illusion Theatre, The Guthrie, Open Eye Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company, Frank Theater, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Mixed Blood, the Goodman, Kennedy Center, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, History Theatre, Denver Center, Merrimack Rep Theatre, Spoleto and off Broadway at Westside Arts and Second Stage Theater.

Orchestral commissions include the Minnesota Orchestra and, collaborating with composer Victor Zupanc, the Zeitgeist ensemble and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Kevin is a frequent performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. He appears often on TPT’s Almanac and is featured in two PBS documentaries, Kevin Kling: Lost & Found and Art + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity. Kevin was named the Minneapolis Storyteller Laureate by Mayor RT Rybak in 2014.

 *Appearing through an Agreement between this theater and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Tin Man, Newspaper Man, Toto, Nurse

Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based all-purpose pianist and accordionist, sing-along enabler, concert soloist and accompanist, French and Italian teacher and bicycling vagabond.  He's the go-to pianist for a smorgasbord of singers across the Twin Cities and has been writer and host of live history-and-music shows for Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television. He played on a dozen live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion and has toured with Garrison Keillor and Prudence Johnson over the past three years. Recent favorites include gigs with his classic country band, Lush Country; summertime appearances with various folks at ILLUSION’s LIVE at Lyndale Gardens series; and a new music and history show, Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street. He started working regularly with Kevin Kling and Simone Perrin in 2008.

Stage Manager

Jeffery returned to Stage Management last year for Scarecrow on Fire after a 28-year absence. The in-between times were spent in Information Technology and owning his own fitness nutrition retail store. He has stage managed at Theatre L’Homme Dieu, Alexandria, MN; The Guthrie Theater and Frank Theater, Minneapolis, MN; Playwrights’ Horizons and Phoenix Theater, New York, NY; Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Arena Stage, Washington, DC.