maggie's mission
Founded in 2009 by the husband and wife team Brad and Rachel Richardson, Maggie’s Farm Theater is a performance art company that provides entertainment, multi-generational engagement, and educational opportunities within the St. Louis Park community and Twin Cities area.
Maggie’s mission is to present a fresh vision of American popular culture rooted in our common past, connecting diverse audiences with a shared appreciation of the power of art.
Since the beginning, each Maggie season is built with increasing artistic challenges and programming growth to serve the community with various levels of access by developing a thoughtful repertoire that appeals to a wide range of ability, while offering material that ignites the artist and satisfies the theatergoers in our area.
Maggie’s mission is to present a fresh vision of American popular culture rooted in our common past, connecting diverse audiences with a shared appreciation of the power of art.
Since the beginning, each Maggie season is built with increasing artistic challenges and programming growth to serve the community with various levels of access by developing a thoughtful repertoire that appeals to a wide range of ability, while offering material that ignites the artist and satisfies the theatergoers in our area.
The little theater rejuvenation
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In a bold step of a 7-year relationship with the Lenox Facility and SLP District personnel, Maggie’s Farm Theater has furthered its partnership with the St. Louis Park Community Education to collaborate on a focused effort to recreate a practical theater environment in the Little Theater; to heighten the profile of the Community Center and provide a much needed, centrally located, culturally-enriched service to the community, while providing a home for our St. Louis Park based performance group, Maggie’s Farm Theater.
We have achieved our Phase I refurbishing goals of painting the space’s interior walls, installing performer-friendly flooring, and creating a warm environment with fabrics, sconces, and furniture. Maggie’s Farm Theater signage was installed on the exterior brick wall at the nearby entrance of the building and interior signage in the hallway outside the Little Theater. Funds for these activities were generously provided by the Sunrise Rotary Club of St. Louis Park, and with paint donated by our local Jerry’s Hardware Store. The installation was executed by an energetic team of advisory board member volunteers. As we launch our 7th season this September, we continue to reach out to the community, local businesses, and our patrons to help us cultivate our blossoming, 48-seat home. |
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Awards and recognitions |
production team |
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SLP Arts & Culture Grant 2010
- Readers Theater Launch SLP Arts & Culture Grant 2011 - Script Reading Launch Metropolitan Regional Arts Council - Community Arts Grant 2012 -The Skin of Our Teeth (multi-media production) Sunrise Rotary Foundation 2014 - Little Theater Renovation (Phase I) Metropolitan Regional Arts Council - Capitol Grant 2016 - Theater Lighting System |
- Artistic Director- Brad Richardson*
- Executive Director- Rachel Richardson* - Books Alive! Director- Rachel Richardson Coordinator- Debbie Strand - Business Manager- Mark Schwartz* - Live Music Coordinator- John O'Loughlin* - Community Engagement- Thom Miller* - Company Photographer- Tanya Villano - Designers Wardrobe- Anna Tift Specialty Costumes- Nancy Tellent-Royce Design Consultant- Kathy Wolfbauer* - Script Reading Series- Brad & Rachel Richardson - Website Design/Social Media- Troy Richardson* - Fundraising Coordinator- OPEN - Box Office Assistant- OPEN - House Manager- OPEN - Technical Director- OPEN - Lighting Designer- OPEN * denotes Advisory Board member |
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Brad & Rachel Richardson | Co-founders
612-269-0180 PO Box 26743 | St. Louis Park, MN 55426 maggiesfarmtheater@comcast.net 
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St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts serves as Maggie's fiscal agent. Click here to make a donation designated to Maggie's Farm Theater. Help support local theater.
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