LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER TWIN CITIES HOLIDAY 2023
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2023 ALUMNI HOLIDAY CAST
ROBYN AWEND
2018 ALUMNI
2021 SUMMER PANDEMIC SHOW ALUMNI
2022 SUMMER BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW ALUMNI
Robyn Awend is an art director and artist. Her work in the local non-profit arts community is centered around creativity, connectivity and advocacy. Robyn’s personal artwork is text-based, using words and word fragments to inspire her letterpress prints and mixed-media installations, exploring identity through cultural and societal influences. She lives in the burbs with her witty husband and three perfectly behaved children. Robyn is fueled by quality time with family and friends, staying active and her Total Wine rewards points.
STACEY
DINNER-LEVIN
2022 ALUMNI
2022 SUMMER BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW ALUMNI
2022 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
Stacey Dinner-Levin is the mother of four boys — now adults — the eldest of whom has autism. For over 25 years she’s worked with children with disabilities including PACER Center’s “Count Me In” program where she wrote several scripts. Her play Autistic License was named one of 2007’s Ten Best Plays by St. Paul Pioneer Press and was featured in American Theater Magazine. Autistic License was remounted for film and won “Best Educational” at the IFFF in 2010. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Michael, her son Geordy, and the world’s strangest dog, her Chinese Crested, Birdie.
MEGHAN MARRINAN FELICIANO
2022 ALUMNI
Meghan Marrinan Feliciano was born and raised in Minneapolis. She studied and volunteered internationally for a couple years in her 20s, then returned home for her next adventure – getting married and starting law school (10 days apart). Meghan and her husband are now busy raising their three living children, and honoring their angel, Sybil; Meghan shared Sybil’s birthing story her first time on the LTYM stage. Outside the home, Meghan helps run an academic externship that ensures real-life experience and mentorship for approximately 500 law students each year. Meghan adores family dinners, exploring our local and National Parks system, and visiting the library.
PEACHY GALINDEZ
2023 ALUMNI
Peachy Galindez is a full time momma and lover of suburban Minnesota life. She is originally from Metro Manila where she worked in broadcasting as a news anchor, voice actor, and radio personality. 16 long years after scripting music countdowns filled with boy bands, Peachy’s writing is a little rusty but her mothering muscle is well-oiled with three kids and a Bichon Frise that keep her on-the-go. She is a master at thrifting and whipping up a Filipino feast in a jiffy. Peachy is living her dream of sharing an extraordinary ordinary life with her husband and their family.
LISA HARRIS
2022 ALUMNI
Lisa Harris is an author, storyteller, narrative coach, and CEO/founder of Lisa Harris & Company. Lisa’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2016 after publishing, Unveiled Beauty: Handwritten Stories From a Poetic Heart. Prior, she spent 18+ years in leadership roles working for and with many Fortune 500 companies. Today, Lisa uses storytelling elements and narrative therapy principles to help women shift narratives and reclaim their power through the lens of their own life stories. Lisa also co-hosts the Life In Our Skin podcast. Lisa resides in Minneapolis with her husband, two kids, and their beloved Yorkie, Rosie.
KRISTIN NILSEN
2014 ALUMNI
2019 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
Kristin Nilsen is a children's author and erstwhile librarian with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things 70s and 80s. She is the author of Worldwide Crush (July 2023), a middle grade novel inspired by her own childhood crush on Shaun Cassidy. She also co-hosts The Pop Culture Preservation Society, a weekly podcast celebrating the cultural nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood. As the show’s Pro Crushologist (aka Andy-Gibb-ologist), her job legitimately involves studying why she once fantasized about being married to Andy Gibb and walking around their shared apartment in their bathrobes. Kristin lives in Minneapolis with her Gen X husband, her Gen Z son, and their rock and roll goldendoodle, Axl Rose Nilsen.
KELLY O’SULLIVAN
2013 ALUMNI
2019 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
2021 SUMMER PANDEMIC SHOW ALUMNI
Kelly O’Sullivan is a modern day (and hopelessly flawed) feminist, parent, and partner. She was the author of the How I Learned to Wear a Dress blog where she opined about sexism, equality, parenting, and even politics and religion (yikes!). Kelly occasionally finds herself on local stages as an actor and singer. She remains notoriously incapable of using commas correctly, but will fight to the death for her right to use the Oxford comma. Kelly enjoys the outdoors in a “waiter, I’ll have my tea on the terrace” kind of way. She shares her home with her loving family and their cats who are sitting on her keyboard right now.
AMANDA ROSAS
2018 ALUMNI
2021 SUMMER PANDEMIC SHOW ALUMNI
2022 SUMMER BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW ALUMNI
2022 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
Amanda Rosas is a mother poet and teacher. She draws beauty, strength, and creativity from the Mexican American women in her family and from her husband and three daughters. Her poetry has been published by Sweet Tree Review, The Latino Book Review, The Front Porch Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and The San Antonio Review, among others. She teaches Spanish and Women’s Studies at Visitation School in Mendota Heights, and is currently serving as a Voices of Change Writing Fellow with Edsurge Though she is a passionate educator, her ultimate dream is to become a full time writer and storyteller, perhaps in retirement.
KOREY STOELZING
2019 ALUMNI
2022 SUMMER BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW ALUMNI
Korey Stoelzing lives in South Minneapolis with her husband of 32 years and loves her girls but loves being an empty nester almost as much! In 2019, she decided to do "one scary/challenging thing a year" starting with auditioning for LTYM. Since then, she has jumped off a cliff into a river, done a high ropes adventure course, and opened a small flower business. Upon driving home from her very first LTYM rehearsal she realized that reading at LTYM helped her accomplish a secret lifelong dream … having people actually pay money to see her do something and clap afterwards!
LINDSEY HAMMOND TEIGLAND
2023 ALUMNI
Lindsey Hammond Teigland and her husband, Jonathan, have two sons ages 8 and 11. They spend most of their time trying to keep up with these highly energetic youngsters and their master negotiation skills. Lindsey is honored to spend her career listening to people’s stories and serving the caretakers of the world in her roles as the Program Director of Saint Mary’s Counseling and Psychological Services MA program and as a psychologist in private practice. A people loving introvert, she likes to live dangerously on the edge of FOMO and overwhelm.
CASSIE J. WILLIAMS
2023 ALUMNI
Cassie J. Williams, educator and writer. Having an extensive background in social justice, community and youth programming, she is currently a Labor Educator at Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. She has published her work in literary journals, performed and presented in slam competitions, schools, events, and local and national conferences. As a wife and mother of five children, Williams is currently sharing her journey of balancing (or not) being a writer, educator and mother on Instagram and Facebook under the name Poetess Unbound.
JEN WITTES
2022 ALUMNI
2022 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
Jen Wittes moved to the Twin Cities 16 years ago after growing up in California, studying writing in Boston, becoming a military wife in Sicily, giving birth to a daughter in Virginia and a son in New York. She received several journalism awards as a longtime features writer and monthly columnist for Minnesota Parent and has published a book in France. Jen works as an independent marketing specialist and is the proud mama of a St. Paul varsity tennis player and a college freshman studying animation in Los Angeles. She’s happily (re)married to the first boy she kissed.
KRIS WOLL
2015 ALUMNI
2018 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
2022 SUMMER BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW ALUMNI
2022 WINTER HOLIDAY SHOW ALUMNI
Kris Woll's essays and stories on home and history, family and food, have appeared in publications including Better Together: A Collection of Essays on Women Gathering (PublishHer Press 2023). She has a MA in history and is currently studying the practice of legacy writing; she leads workshops on legacy projects and family histories, and on fusing contemplative with creative practices. By day she organizes and edits things in higher education. She lives in a little house Minneapolis with her husband, her two children, and an enthusiastic little dog named after the moon. She occasionally posts on Instagram @thislittlepractice.
