A Midsummer Night's Dream at Rustic roots winery!

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  Charles Fraser has been an actor in Minnesota for thirty years.  He performed in Marine on Saint Croix last December in Frosted Glass Creative's A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play.  At the Zephyr Theatre, he acted in It’s a Wonderful Life, Mamma Mia!, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a company member of Yellow Tree Theatre.  He has also worked with the Guthrie Theater, Six Points Theater, History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Rochester Civic Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Mixed Blood Theatre, Jon Hassler Theatre, Actors Theatre of Minnesota, Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Playwrights’ Center, and Illusion Theatre, among others.  He received an Ivey Award for his work in Driving Miss Daisy at the Jungle Theatre.  Outside of Minnesota, he has acted at the Lincoln Amphitheatre in Indiana, Door Shakespeare in Wisconsin,  New Stage Theatre in Mississippi, and aboard Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Magic. He has appeared in a variety of commercials and small films, including Hinkleton, Pull, and The Completely Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation of a Regular Joe. Charles is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 

  Peggy O’Connell was most recently seen in A Frosted Glass Production of The radio drama A Christmas Carol. On Broadway & the first National: Mickey in My One & Only. Film and TV: recently Bebe in “Merry Kiss Cam” on Hulu. Doris on Northern Exposure. Regional Theater: The Guthrie, The Zephyr, History Theater, Chanhassen, La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Ave Music Theater, Seattle Children’s Theater, Sacramento Music Circus, Papermill Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Houston TUTS, The Intiman, Utah Shakespeare, Arizona Theater Company, and many more. Awards Best Actress in a Musical Tucson, Kudo award Twin Cities Critics circle Best Actress in a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical Seattle Times.

    Alanna is pleased to make her debut with Frosted Glass Creative as Mustardseed in this summer’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Alanna grew up in Fargo, ND where she first developed her passion for the performing arts. She enjoyed many opportunities to grow in her artistry at Fargo North Theatre, Barnum’s Acting Studio, and Trollwood Performing Arts School. She then moved to New York City where she attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and earned a certificate in musical theatre performance. Alanna now lives in Minneapolis where she has just received her bachelor's degree in music business from North Central University.

  Stephen is a Stillwater local actor. He has performed in many shows around the cities including being Joseph from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast, Pepper from Mamma Mia, and now Snout from Midsummer.

He is very excited to be able to join such a fun Cast of actors to bring such a magical show to life!

 Chad Bracewell (25 years) has been in several plays and musicals since he was a child. Born in Ontario, Canada, he moved to Stillwater, MN from California in 2014. Chad’s favorite part of performing is making friends and improving his acting abilities. In his spare time, he loves playing the drums, listening to music, rocking out on his front porch (while playing guitar), and decorating his house for Halloween and Christmas. He also enjoys performing and dancing with Curio Dance Studio, being a farmer at 21 Roots Farm, attending events at The Valley Friendship Club, riding horses at River Valley Riders, working at Walmart and Kowalskis, selling merch at his brother’s shows, walking his dog, Charley. He graduated from St. Croix Preparatory Academy in 2017.

  Erich Feist (Lysander) is ecstatic to be working with Frosted Glass Creative this summer! Before moving to Minneapolis, he co-founded People For Theatre in Bemidji, MN, produced The Short Play Project, and helped develop new works with Voices of the Earth: Short Play Festival, and more recently The Playwright’s Center. Erich is pursuing a degree from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program and is headed to London this fall to train with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other credits include Footloose (Paul Bunyan Playhouse), Pericles, Dance Nation, Hamlet, and R&H Cinderella.

  Amy Eckberg is a Stillwater local with a passion for theater and film. She received her BFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program in 2021 and has been actively pursuing a stage and screen career since graduating. Some of her favorite roles over the years include Electra in The Oresteia, Theresa in Circle Mirror Transformation, and Cosette in Les Misérables. 

  Haley McCormick Jenkins is a recent transplant to the Twin Cities by way of Salt Lake City, Utah where she has performed on stages across the state for more than 25 years and Philadelphia where she received her BFA in Acting from The University of the Arts. Since arriving in Minneapolis last summer, she has been seen in Dangerous Productions All Your White Darlings for the Twin Cities Horror Fest and Lakeshore Players Calendar Girls. 

Pat O’Brien Returned to the Twin Cities fourteen years ago after twenty-five years in L.A. and New York. He’s been in dozens of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Pleasantville, Stuart Little, Intolerable Cruelty, and Forget Paris.

He’s guest starred in dozens of TV shows including E.R., C.S.I., The West Wing, Monk, Reba, Home Improvement, Married With Children, Sabrina, The Wonder Years, Night Court, and, (if you’re around 40) was Mr. Dewey on Saved By The Bell.

Stage credits include shows with the New York, New Jersey, and Los Angeles Shakespeare Festivals; The Pasadena, Cleveland, and La Jolla Playhouses; The Arizona Theatre Company, The Old Globe in San Diego, the Arena Stage in D.C., and many theatres in and around the Twin Cities. And for the last twelve years he’s been touring his productions of Underneath The Lintel, Whisper Into My

Good Ear, and Tom Stoppard’s Heroes.

In 2010 he was awarded the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire Lifetime Achievement Award.

  Gabriel Diehl is happy to be making his Minnesota stage debut with Frosted Glass Creative's production of Midsummer Night's Dream.  A graduate of Texas State University's theatre program, his past credits include Hector Bravo in Aloe Entertainment's upcoming feature film, Vera; King Oberon in Austin Shakespeare's 2022 staging of Midsummer Night's Dream at Zilker Park, and in Conifer, Colorado as Colonel James Arbuthnot for StageDoor Theater's production of Murder on the Orient Express.  He would like to dedicate this performance to his new fur baby, Dora 

  Vivian Kampschroer is a recent University of Minnesota graduate with a degree in Theatre Arts and Filmmaking. Vivian has been a part of The Emerging Professionals Ensemble for the past 4 years and is excited to spread her fairy  wings with Frosted Glass Creative. She is overjoyed to be a part of this production of Midsummer, and can’t wait to share the magic!