Dona
Werner
Freeman
Actor, Director, Teacher
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ABOUT ME!
I began my professional stage career as a member of the Guthrie Theater Acting Company and have worked as an actor at numerous local and regional theaters.
The central work of my career has been as Theater Artist-in-Residence at St. Olaf College.
I’ve also taught acting at a variety of institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, The Guthrie Theater, and Detroit’s Attic Theatre.
Among the many places I’ve pursued actor training practices include BADA (The British American Drama Academy), Shakespeare & Company, and Chicago’s Moving Dock Theatre.
While at St. Olaf, I directed over twenty plays including Mother Courage and Her Children, Eurydice, Recent Tragic Events, and a wide variety of Shakespearean works.
ABOUT ME!
I began my professional stage career as a member of the Guthrie Theater Acting Company and have worked as an actor at numerous local and regional theaters.
The central work of my career has been as Theater Artist-in-Residence at St. Olaf College.
I’ve also taught acting at a variety of institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, The Guthrie Theater, and Detroit’s Attic Theatre.
Among the many places I’ve pursued actor training practices include BADA (The British American Drama Academy), Shakespeare & Company, and Chicago’s Moving Dock Theatre.
While at St. Olaf, I directed over twenty plays including Mother Courage and Her Children, Eurydice, Recent Tragic Events, and a wide variety of Shakespearean works.
ABOUT ME!
I began my professional stage career as a member of the Guthrie Theater Acting Company and have worked as an actor at numerous local and regional theaters.
The central work of my career has been as Theater Artist-in-Residence at St. Olaf College.
I’ve also taught acting at a variety of institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, The Guthrie Theater, and Detroit’s Attic Theatre.
Among the many places I’ve pursued actor training practices include BADA (The British American Drama Academy), Shakespeare & Company, and Chicago’s Moving Dock Theatre.
While at St. Olaf, I directed over twenty plays including Mother Courage and Her Children, Eurydice, Recent Tragic Events, and a wide variety of Shakespearean works.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Credits
Acting
Guthrie Theater | Summer Vacation Madness by Carol Goldoni - Rosina | dir. Garland Wright
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Frank Theater | Quartet by Heiner Mueller - Mertuil | dir. Wendy Knox
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Hidden Theater | Iphengnia & Other Daughters by Ellen McLaughlin - Clytemnestra | dir. Annelise Christ
Highway 19 Productions | Collected Stories by Donald Margulies - Ruth | dir. Sarah Rasmussen
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St. Olaf Kelsey Theater | The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams - Amanda | co-dir. with Lauren Bartelt
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Directing
St. Olaf Kelsey Theater | As You Like It by William Shakespeare | 2011
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Theater in the Round | Anne of Green Gables adapted by Sylvia Ashby | 2014
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St. Olaf Kelsey Theater | Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht | 2017
Teaching
St. Olaf College | Theater Artist-in-Residence | 1997-2018
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University of Minnesota | Adjunct Faculty/Director of Graduate Acting Teaching Assistants | 1990-1997
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Attic Theater, Detroit | Director of Outreach Education and Instructor | 1986-1989