Scotty Reynolds founded Mixed Precipitation in an effort to further his own pursuit of theatrical projects that embrace collaboration, exploration and community engagement. He works as a staff artist at the Interact Center for Visual and Performing Art, an art center for artists with disabilities. He directed Broken Brain Summit, the 2008 Ivey Award winner for Innovative Concept and Idea. It is a musical created in collaboration with a group of artists with brain injury and mental illness. In 2009 Scotty curated the Mpls Pinter Studies, Mpls Autotelic and directed segments of The Naked I: The Transgender Monologues with 20% Theatre Company. He collaborated with the Dead Composers’ Society to present the Midwest Premiere of Tonya and Nancy: The Opera outdoors at the Art Shanties on Medicine Lake and sell-out performances at Bedlam Theatre.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance Bachelor of Arts program. Scotty has extensive training in physical theatre and ensemble based performance creation. He has trained and created work with Kari Margolis and the Margolis-Brown Theatre Company and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He has also performed with the History Theatre. He spent a summer performing melodrama and vaudevilles in Durango, CO and the Minnesota Centennial Showboat. He has also performed his own original piece Girlyman Looks at the Feminist Women’s Health Center and The Galloping Gourmet at Patrick’s Cabaret and The Bottling House.
In 2002 he was a Horace J. Bond Fellow with Penumbra Theatre Company supporting and facilitating the company’s educational programs. In 2006 he was a fellow at Intermedia Arts in the Institute for Community and Cultural Development.
MEREDITH CAIN-NIELSEN
Meredith Cain-Nielsen (Performer) is a native of the Twin Cities. Favorite roles include the Old Woman in Babette’s Feast (North American Premiere), Tonya Harding in Tonya and Nancy: the Opera, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Mother/The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Melina Kondraki in Festival of Regrets (Midwest Premiere). Ms. Cain-Nielsen attended the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. She performed extensively at the College-Conservatory of Music and has also appeared with Opera Lucca, Skylark Opera, Mixed Precipitation, the Dead Composers Society, Queerdo Productions, Center Stage Opera, Inland Valley Opera, Twin Cities Lyric Theater, and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Orchestra. Recent projects include Trouble in Tahiti at the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival, for which she was nominated as “Outstanding Female Performer” at the Festival, and appearing as Giulietta in Mixed Precipitaiton’s 2010 picnic operetta, Tales of Hoffman.
Yolanda Cotterall (performer) is an actress and program manager the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) in Minneapolis. LEDC is a nonprofit economic development organization providing Latino entrepreneurs with technical assistance, loan packaging and training classes. Ms. Cotterall’s additional community activities include a seat on the Board and Executive Committee of Casa de Esperanza an organization with a national and international impact working to eliminate domestic violence. She was also, until recently, a board member for the Center for Independent Artist in Minneapolis, a nonprofit organization that works to provide artists with opportunities and resources. Yolanda’s has done extensive stage work in both the San Francisco Bay area and Minneapolis, including roles in the premier production of Victor Villasenor’s Rain of Gold, Teatro del Pueblo’s Real Women Have Curves, the Political Theatre Festival, Orpheus and Eurydice: A Picnic Operetta with Mixed Precipitation and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Guthrie Theatee. She is also a 2007 Fellow of Intermedia Arts’ Institute for Community Cultural Development, a fellowship she completed in 2007.
Nick Schneider’s decade-long culinary career spans the cities of Vancouver, Minneapolis and St. Paul. His career holds a strong background in classical French and Mediterranean cuisines, and recently has progressed into natural foods emphasizing the local-seasonal paradigm. His recent six-year post as a chef at local vegetarian and seafood epicenter, Café Brenda, has fostered numerous teaching, catering and consulting collaborations with organizations such as the Women’s Environmental Institute, Youth Farm Market, University of Minnesota Arboretum and Mill City Farmers Market. Having spent more than three years as a market garden manager for St. Paul’s Farm in the City, Nick continues to reinvest himself in the urban agriculture issues of healthy food access for all and protecting neighborhood green-space. Nick’s career is currently aimed at demonstrating ways in which the kitchen, garden and health classroom can all mutually inform and reinforce one another.
Terry Hempleman has worked as an actor with the Guthrie, Children’s Theater Company, The Jungle, Park Square, Then Thousand Things, Penumbra, and many more. He has directed for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, and assistant directed for Ten Thousand Things. He produced and designed the site specific project American Sublime. He moved to Minneapolis in 1991 and loves living here.
Maggie Scanlan holds a B.A. in Theatre from the College of St. Benedict and an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Minnesota. She has been a part of the Twin Cities theatre community for over 20 years, first as an actress and then as a director. She has worked with The Jungle Theater, Eye of the Storm, Mixed Blood, Frank Theater, Minnesota Festival Theater, and The History Theater among other and was a core member of the the Theater Exchange – a British-American company formerly of Minneapolis. In 2005 Maggie founded Nightpath Theatre Company. Scanlan co-designed and directed all of Nightpath’s past productions including The Devils, The Balcony and Measure for Measure. She recently directed Theatre Unbound’s production of How I Learned to Drive.
Our Collaborators
Scotty Reynolds, founder
Meredith Cain-Nielsen, performer
Yolanda Cotterall, performer
Nick Schneider, chef
Terry Hempleman
Maggie Scanlan
Scotty Reynolds
Scotty Reynolds founded Mixed Precipitation in an effort to further his own pursuit of theatrical projects that embrace collaboration, exploration and community engagement. He works as a staff artist at the Interact Center for Visual and Performing Art, an art center for artists with disabilities. He directed Broken Brain Summit, the 2008 Ivey Award winner for Innovative Concept and Idea. It is a musical created in collaboration with a group of artists with brain injury and mental illness. In 2009 Scotty curated the Mpls Pinter Studies, Mpls Autotelic and directed segments of The Naked I: The Transgender Monologues with 20% Theatre Company. He collaborated with the Dead Composers’ Society to present the Midwest Premiere of Tonya and Nancy: The Opera outdoors at the Art Shanties on Medicine Lake and sell-out performances at Bedlam Theatre.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance Bachelor of Arts program. Scotty has extensive training in physical theatre and ensemble based performance creation. He has trained and created work with Kari Margolis and the Margolis-Brown Theatre Company and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He has also performed with the History Theatre. He spent a summer performing melodrama and vaudevilles in Durango, CO and the Minnesota Centennial Showboat. He has also performed his own original piece Girlyman Looks at the Feminist Women’s Health Center and The Galloping Gourmet at Patrick’s Cabaret and The Bottling House.
In 2002 he was a Horace J. Bond Fellow with Penumbra Theatre Company supporting and facilitating the company’s educational programs. In 2006 he was a fellow at Intermedia Arts in the Institute for Community and Cultural Development.
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Meredith Cain-Neilson
MEREDITH CAIN-NIELSEN
Meredith Cain-Nielsen (Performer) is a native of the Twin Cities. Favorite roles include the Old Woman in Babette’s Feast (North American Premiere), Tonya Harding in Tonya and Nancy: the Opera, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Mother/The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Melina Kondraki in Festival of Regrets (Midwest Premiere). Ms. Cain-Nielsen attended the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. She performed extensively at the College-Conservatory of Music and has also appeared with Opera Lucca, Skylark Opera, Mixed Precipitation, the Dead Composers Society, Queerdo Productions, Center Stage Opera, Inland Valley Opera, Twin Cities Lyric Theater, and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Orchestra. Recent projects include Trouble in Tahiti at the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival, for which she was nominated as “Outstanding Female Performer” at the Festival, and appearing as Giulietta in Mixed Precipitaiton’s 2010 picnic operetta, Tales of Hoffman.
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Yolanda Cotterall
Yolanda Cotterall (performer) is an actress and program manager the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) in Minneapolis. LEDC is a nonprofit economic development organization providing Latino entrepreneurs with technical assistance, loan packaging and training classes. Ms. Cotterall’s additional community activities include a seat on the Board and Executive Committee of Casa de Esperanza an organization with a national and international impact working to eliminate domestic violence. She was also, until recently, a board member for the Center for Independent Artist in Minneapolis, a nonprofit organization that works to provide artists with opportunities and resources. Yolanda’s has done extensive stage work in both the San Francisco Bay area and Minneapolis, including roles in the premier production of Victor Villasenor’s Rain of Gold, Teatro del Pueblo’s Real Women Have Curves, the Political Theatre Festival, Orpheus and Eurydice: A Picnic Operetta with Mixed Precipitation and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Guthrie Theatee. She is also a 2007 Fellow of Intermedia Arts’ Institute for Community Cultural Development, a fellowship she completed in 2007.
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Nick Schneider
Nick Schneider’s decade-long culinary career spans the cities of Vancouver, Minneapolis and St. Paul. His career holds a strong background in classical French and Mediterranean cuisines, and recently has progressed into natural foods emphasizing the local-seasonal paradigm. His recent six-year post as a chef at local vegetarian and seafood epicenter, Café Brenda, has fostered numerous teaching, catering and consulting collaborations with organizations such as the Women’s Environmental Institute, Youth Farm Market, University of Minnesota Arboretum and Mill City Farmers Market. Having spent more than three years as a market garden manager for St. Paul’s Farm in the City, Nick continues to reinvest himself in the urban agriculture issues of healthy food access for all and protecting neighborhood green-space. Nick’s career is currently aimed at demonstrating ways in which the kitchen, garden and health classroom can all mutually inform and reinforce one another.
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Terry Hempleman
Terry Hempleman has worked as an actor with the Guthrie, Children’s Theater Company, The Jungle, Park Square, Then Thousand Things, Penumbra, and many more. He has directed for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, and assistant directed for Ten Thousand Things. He produced and designed the site specific project American Sublime. He moved to Minneapolis in 1991 and loves living here.
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Maggie Scanlan
Maggie Scanlan holds a B.A. in Theatre from the College of St. Benedict and an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Minnesota. She has been a part of the Twin Cities theatre community for over 20 years, first as an actress and then as a director. She has worked with The Jungle Theater, Eye of the Storm, Mixed Blood, Frank Theater, Minnesota Festival Theater, and The History Theater among other and was a core member of the the Theater Exchange – a British-American company formerly of Minneapolis. In 2005 Maggie founded Nightpath Theatre Company. Scanlan co-designed and directed all of Nightpath’s past productions including The Devils, The Balcony and Measure for Measure. She recently directed Theatre Unbound’s production of How I Learned to Drive.
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