INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Kara Eggers (they/them) is a queer intimacy theatre maker based in Southeast Minnesota. With a passion for creating inclusive theatre experiences, Kara’s work focuses on fostering supportive and empowering environments on stage. A strong advocate for consent-based and trauma-informed practices, Kara's approach to theatre-making is heavily influenced by their training with the Advocacy Center of Winona. This training has deeply informed their work, emphasizing the importance of support, respect, and mutual understanding throughout the creative processes.

DIRECTOR - ROMEO AND JULIET

H. Adam Harris is a director focusing on heart-forward, textually rigorous, imaginative productions of classics and new work. His directing credits include the world premieres of Heritage at North Carolina Black Repertory and 5 at The Jungle Theater, both by JuCoby Johnson. Other work: Snow White and The Incredible Book Eating Boy at South Coast Repertory; Redwood at The Jungle Theater; Luna Gale and How It’s Gon’ Be with Underdog Theatre Company; Tick Tick...Boom at Chance Theater. He has directed readings and development workshops with IAMA Theater Company’s Emerging Writers and New Works Festivals and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Black Theater, Theater Mu, Theater Latte Da, History Theater, and Exposed Brick Theater. He is the Artistic & Audience Engagement Associate at South Coast Repertory and Board Co-Chair at Ten Thousand Things. More at hadamharris.com.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - DIRECTOR - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Doug works nationally as a director, fight choreographer, actor and certified intimacy director. In 22 seasons at GRSF, Doug played roles including Henry in Henry V, Stephen Price in African Company Presents Richard III and Thomas in Venus in Fur. He directed productions including Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Cymbeline and Shakespeare in Love. Directing credits include Minnesota Opera, Austin Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Madison Opera and Pittsburgh Opera. Doug was the first intimacy director at the Metropolitan Opera with productions including Grounded, Dead Man Walking and Fire Shut Up in my Bones. Other intimacy direction credits include Guthrie Theatre, San Diego Opera and Minnesota Opera. He choreographed fights for the world premier of Silent Night at Minnesota Opera (which won a Pulitzer Prize for music) as well as productions for companies including Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Kansas City Opera, Children’s Theater Company and the Seattle Police Department. Doug is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the University of Washington.

VOICE/TEXT COACH

Terry Weber (Voice/Text Coach) has worked regionally as voice/text/dialect coach at Great River Shakespeare festival (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, The Tempest), PlayMakers Rep (Assassins, Cabaret, Opus), Round House Theatre (Charming Billy, The Picture of Dorian Gray), Utah Shakespeare Festival (Othello, Cyrano, Two Gentlemen of Verona), Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, Pericles), North Carolina Stage Company (The Dresser, The Syringa Tree), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Merry Wives of Windsor), Clarence Brown Theatre (Around the World in 80 Days, A Shayna Maidel, Wrens, Our Country’s Good, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Secret Rapture, A Christmas Carol, Assassins, The Secret Garden, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Country Wife, Oliver!), and the Vermont Stage Company (A Child’s Christmas in Wales). Terry is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre (retired) at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and former Artistic Director of The WordPlayers.