Season artwork by Karl Gfall.
Welcome to the 2026 season of Great River Shakespeare Festival!
Thank you for joining us as we step into a beautiful new space and embark on a new journey here at The ARC. This year especially, I’m reminded of the magic that happens when passionate artists, dedicated volunteers, and this amazing community come together to not only make art but truly create magic.
This season, the plays A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles, Prince of Tyre will serve two very different purposes, but hopefully you will find something to connect with in both of them. GRSF's Artistic Director Doug Scholz-Carlson is this year directing A Midsummer Night's Dream, which will connect the current moment of this festival with our new home here at The ARC, showcasing some of the beautiful historic drops living in this building. Pericles, directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs, will take us on a journey through faraway lands and back home again, through storms and shipwrecks and the meeting of strangers. Both productions are about transportation - internal and external - and the magic and adventure inherent in setting out on a journey.
I am grateful to this community for journeying with us to our new home at The ARC. Since we took up management of the building last fall, we have seen what can happen when the arts in Winona have a building to call home: River City Dancers, Theatre du Mississippi, Frozen River Film Festival and Sandbar Storytelling Festival have brought hundreds of people together to fill this space with laughter, dancing feet, applause, joy, friendship and community.
Thank you for embarking on this journey with us as we set sail for new shores, wondrous forests - all in the comfort of our new home.
Gratefully,
Kris Blanchard, Chair of the Board of Directors
At the same time, the supernatural world of the fairies is in chaos. The dance that keeps the seasons in balance has been upset by Oberon’s insistence that the fairy Queen, Titania, obey his will. Titania has other ideas.
Also in Athens, a group of tradespeople are creating a play. What they lack in theatrical experience, they make up for with imagination and passion. Like every theater artist in history, they grapple with how to tell a story that their audience will find inspiring and moving.
The solution for all these characters is to go into the forest. The forest in Shakespeare is always the world of nature - the irrational world of magic and dreams. When we go to the forest, we get lost, we fall in the mud, we fight and love with passion, we say things we might later regret, and we are changed. Returning from the forest, we see the world “with parted eyes, when every thing seems doubled.” We may see the world less clearly, but we are more fully present in it.
In the forest, our characters find the kind of love that wouldn’t be possible when things are neat and orderly and expected. They challenge themselves and their compatriots. They find “concord in discord,” community in striving together.
Returning from the forest, we sometimes need artists to remind us what we experienced. While our small group of theater artists has few grand credits to their names, they found some magic in the forest, and as artists, they know how to bring it back to Athens.
In 2004, community leaders invited a different, ragtag bunch of theater artists to found a Shakespeare Festival in Winona. It was the next step in a long tradition of embracing artists and making the arts a part of this community. This season, Great River Shakespeare Festival moves into a new home in a building that is filled with a history of ritual and enchantment. I can’t imagine a better place to continue to grapple with these plays, search for the unexpected, fall in the metaphorical mud and hopefully come out with a little magic.
Welcome to our new home. Join us as we continue to dream.
Doug Scholz-Carlson, Artistic Director
Life doesn’t unfold as we expect it to - especially not for the characters in this play. We begin in Athens, home of Socrates and Plato, a society firmly grounded in rational thought and familiar hierarchy. Wives are subservient to husbands, Dukes rule with unquestioned authority, and fathers choose their daughters’ partners, but the younger generation is pushing back against the familiar order.
Helena/Flute.........………….........Annie Barbour*
Oberon/Lysander/Snug...........Benjamin Boucvalt*
Demetrius/Snout.....………….......Diana Coates*
Puck/Egeus...........…………….....Michael Fitzpatrick*
Peter Quince OR Bottom..........Tarah Flanagan*
Hermia/Starveling.........…….......Develyn Jayan
Titania/Hippolyta...………...........Melissa Maxwell*
Theseus/Peter Quince OR Bottom....William Sturdivant*
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.
Boyu Chen (Puck/Egeus/Quince),
Lizzie Coy-Bjork (Helena/Thisby/Mustardseed),
Kevin GilL (Theseus/Lysander/Oberon/Snug),
Leah Schattenman (Titania/Hippolyta/Demetrius/Snout/Peaseblossom),
Dharma Wyatt (Hermia/Starveling/Cobweb/Quince).
UPDATED JULY 9, 2026
Director................……………….Doug Scholz-Carlson
Voice/Text Coach....……..........Andrew Carlson
Katie Cunningham
Scenic Designer.........…….......Karl Gfall
Costume Designer.....……......John Merritt
Asst Costume Designer.……..Thomas Rowe
Lighting Designer.......…….......Avery Reagan**
Assistant Lighting Designer....Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz**
Sound Designer.......……...........Matthew Tibbs**
Fairy Song by……………………….Diana Coates
Props Designer....……...............Karl Gfall
Intimacy Director...................Annie Enneking
Stage Managers...........….......Patrick Lanczki*
Mackenzie Smith*
Samantha Greene*
Rachel Winengar
Production Manager.........……......Kara Eggers
Carpenter/Crew Supervisor.........Alyssa Cahan
Prop Shop Supervisor...……..........Karl Gfall
Props Apprentice….......,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.Noah Butcher
Technical Director............…………..David Rudi Utter
Scenic Apprentice............………......Shannon Daly
Charge Artist.............………..…….....Gamma Lister
Head Electrician..........……………....Collin Hall
Lighting Apprentice...........………....Jackson Hainer
Sound/Lighting Technician...........Elijah Warrington
Sound/Media Supervisor.......…....Bailey Fenn
Costume Shop Supervisor............Heather Hirvela
Jr. Draper/First Hands........…........Lee Nixon
Aisha Bader-Ortega
Wardrobe Supervisor.........……......Eli Summers
Costume Crafts Artisan............Brittany Staudacher
Overhire Stitcher..............…….....Jenn Oswald
Costume Apprentices........…….....Lili Ducy
Morgan Ryals
Fight Captain........…………….......Benjamin Boucvalt*
Assistant Stage Manager..............Rachel Winenger
Pericles, Prince of Tyre was wildly popular during Shakespeare’s lifetime and for generations after. It was among his most frequently performed works, reopening theatres after periods of closure, plague, and cultural upheaval. That history feels fitting. Few plays concern themselves so completely with what it means to endure.
At its heart, this is a story about survival: about losing one’s way and continuing forward nonetheless. It is a story of storms—literal, emotional, and spiritual. Its characters are shipwrecked, displaced, separated from those they love, and forced repeatedly to confront a world that often feels arbitrary and unjust. Yet they persist.
For centuries, the play has puzzled scholars and critics because it refuses to behave like other Shakespeare plays. It moves across continents and years, shifts between comedy and grief, myth and reality, song and spoken word. But perhaps Pericles is only troublesome when we insist that it become something it was never trying to be. Seen on its own terms, it is expansive, strange, funny, deeply moving, and profoundly human.
This production embraces that spirit. Rather than treating Pericles, Prince of Tyre as merely a puzzle to solve, we approach it as a living folk tale—one carried through music, movement, memory, and storytelling; a tale passed from voice to voice, generation to generation. Through light, sound, physical storytelling, and song, we invite you into a world that exists somewhere between dream and memory, where grief and wonder often occupy the same space.
Ultimately, Pericles, Prince of Tyre offers something deceptively simple: hope. Not the easy certainty that everything will be fine, but the harder-earned belief that even after unimaginable loss, healing remains possible. That after the longest night, morning still comes.
As our song reminds us:
It is perhaps an important thought to carry with us as we navigate the storms of our own lives.
Shaun Patrick Tubbs, Director, Pericles
Dionyza/Lychorida.................Annie Barbour*
Cleon/Lysimachus.................Benjamin Boucvalt*
Thaisa/Leonine...........…….....Diana Coates*
Antiochus/Simonides...........Michael Fitzpatrick*
Thailard/Cerimon................Tarah Flanagan*
Marina.........………………........Develyn Jayan
Helicanus/Gower..….….......Melissa Maxwell*
Pericles..........……………….......William Sturdivant*
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.
Boyu Chen (Antiochus/Simonides/Lysimachus/Pirate),
Lizzie Coy-Bjork (Lychorida/Knight/Pirate/Lord)
Kevin Gill (Pericles/Pirate/Knight/Sailor),
Leah Schattenman (Helicanus/Thaisa/Leonine/Diana/Thaliard/Bawd),
Dharma Wyatt (Marina/Dionyza/Cerimon/Fisherman/Knight/Pirate).
UPDATED JULY 15, 2026.
Director...........………..…......Shaun Patrick Tubbs
Text Coach.........……….........Andrew Carlson
Katie Cunningham
Scenic Designer.........…….....Karl Gfall
Costume Designer.......…......John Merritt
Asst Costume Designer.…...Thomas Rowe
Lighting Designer......….....Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz**
Asst Lighting Designer...........Avery Reagan**
Sound Designer..........…........Matthew Tibbs**
Song composed by……………Shaun Patrick Tubbs
Props Designer........…...........Karl Gfall
Intimacy Director...................Annie Enneking
Fight Choreographer..............Benjamin Boucvalt
Stage Manager.....……............Abbi Hess*
Production Manager.........……......Kara Eggers
Carpenter/Crew Supervisor.........Alyssa Cahan
Prop Shop Supervisor...……..........Karl Gfall
Props Apprentice….....……………….Noah Butcher
Technical Director............…………..David Rudi Utter
Scenic Apprentice............………......Shannon Daly
Charge Artist.............………..…….....Gamma Lister
Head Electrician..........……………....Collin Hall
Lighting Apprentice...........………....Jackson Hainer
Sound/Lighting Technician...........Elijah Warrington
Sound/Media Supervisor.......…....Bailey Fenn
Costume Shop Supervisor............Heather Hirvela
Jr. Draper/First Hands........…........Lee Nixon
Aisha Bader-Ortega
Wardrobe Supervisor.........……......Eli Summers
Costume Crafts Artisan............Brittany Staudacher
Overhire Stitcher..............…….....Jenn Oswald
Costume Apprentices........…….....Lili Ducy
Morgan Ryals
Fight Captain........…………….......Benjamin Boucvalt*
Dance Captain……………………….Tarah Flanagan*
Assistant Stage Manager..............Rachel Winenger
Like many nonprofits, Great River Shakespeare Festival’s temerity, effectiveness, and longevity is not due to a single factor. The festival benefits from donors. We charge for tickets to create income. We hire proficient, talented artists. We train the next generation of professional theater folk. And we partner with other organizations throughout the community. No single pillar supports the festival. Collaboration is not only an artistic tenet, it is how we continue to breathe and grow as an organization.
Just as we cannot survive without monetary or artistic support, Great River Shakespeare Festival would fall flat without the support of its corps of volunteers: the Friends of Will. As a new organization in 2004, the festival benefited from a small group of Winonans who immediately identified that such a festival would need volunteer people-power. Thus began the Friends of Will, and the group has continued to grow over the last twenty years of the festival, and will continue to do so in the future thanks to the passion of its current members.
We at the festival are so incredibly grateful for the thousands and thousands of hours the Friends of Will have donated to the festival for two decades. From airport pickups to artist housing to tech meals, the Friends of Will keep us safe, sheltered and fed. In the costume shop, in the front of house, and in the office, the Friends of Will consistently join in on the theater-making process and become our colleagues, our co-workers, and most of all our friends. The Friends of Will know that to be a community, to have difficult conversations, and to create beautiful, challenging, inspiring, and magical art, we all need some help from our friends.
Like many nonprofits, Great River Shakespeare Festival’s temerity, effectiveness, and longevity is not due to a single factor. The festival benefits from donors. We charge for tickets to create income. We hire proficient, talented artists. We train the next generation of professional theater folk. And we partner with other organizations throughout the community. No single pillar supports the festival. Collaboration is not only an artistic tenet, it is how we continue to breathe and grow as an organization.
Just as we cannot survive without monetary or artistic support, Great River Shakespeare Festival would fall flat without the support of its corps of volunteers: the Friends of Will. As a new organization in 2004, the festival benefited from a small group of Winonans who immediately identified that such a festival would need volunteer people-power. Thus began the Friends of Will, and the group has continued to grow over the last twenty years of the festival, and will continue to do so in the future thanks to the passion of its current members.
We at the festival are so incredibly grateful for the thousands and thousands of hours the Friends of Will have donated to the festival for two decades. From airport pickups to artist housing to tech meals, the Friends of Will keep us safe, sheltered and fed. In the costume shop, in the front of house, and in the office, the Friends of Will consistently join in on the theater-making process and become our colleagues, our co-workers, and most of all our friends. The Friends of Will know that to be a community, to have difficult conversations, and to create beautiful, challenging, inspiring, and magical art, we all need some help from our friends.
Friday Matinees at 1:00pm
The festival can accommodate any accessibility needs at any performance with advanced notice. However, if you are looking to join with community who share your accessibility needs, Friday matinees are the time for you.
The first two Friday matinees are designated as Fidget Friendly performances. For anyone who may struggle to sit quietly through an entire performance, these are the shows to attend!
The final two Friday matinees of the season will be interpreted in American Sign Language (ASL) and audio-described live for the blind (via headset). Those who would benefit from these services are encouraged to discuss their needs with the box office personnel when ordering tickets so that special seating requests can be accommodated.
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Gifts in Memory & Honor of Dear Ones
We extend thanks to those who have left gifts to honor/remember loved ones. This list represents gifts received between June 6, 2025 and June 5, 2026. Gifts received after June 5 will be recognized in the 2027 program.
BOARD CHAIR
Kris Blanchard
Vice President, VA CCN Deputy Program Manager, Logistics Health, Inc.
VICE-CHAIR
Paul Mundt, Attorney, Legal Aid (retired)
TREASURER
Alan Leonhardt, CFO, Peerless Chain (retired)
SECRETARY
Mary Alice Anderson, Media Specialist, Winona Area Public Schools (retired)
DIRECTORS
Mary Adams, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer; TCF Bank (retired)
Cherisa Broadwater, Owner, Cherisa's Skin Care Spa; Adjunct Professor, Minnesota State College Southeast
Gary Diomandes, Theater Professor Emeritus, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Diane McNally Forsyth, Professor, Winona State University Department of Graduate Nursing
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Anna Sibenaller, Foundation Community Coordinator, Winona Health
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YEAR-ROUND TEAM
Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz | Co-Associate Artistic
Director
Kris Hipps | Finance Associate
Melissa Maxwell | Co-Associate Artistic
Director
Eileen Moeller | Director of Operations
Doug Scholz-Carlson | Artistic Director
Aaron A. Young | Managing Director
SEASONAL TEAM
Michael Opiola | Box Office Associate
John Ringlien | Marketing & Video Specialist
Rae Peter | Company Manager
Willa Krase | Box Office Manager
August Ringlien | Box Office Associate
Laurie Ziliak | House Manager
Andrew Carlson | Director of Education
David Rudi Utter | Lead Teaching Artist, Shakespeare for Young Actors (SYA)
Michael Fitzpatrick | Teaching Artist, SYA
Annie Barbour | Teaching Artist, Will's Power Players and Will's Creative Drama
Teaching Assistants
Jack Bartlett
Claire Gannon
Sophia Jazaeri
Jordyn Richter
Kaelyn Rothe
Caroline Stanton