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OUR MISSION
The Winding Sheet Outfit makes carefully crafted new work based on historical lives and old stories.
We invite the audience to feel seen, be moved, and leave the theater yearning to learn more. about The Winding Sheet outfit
In 2012, Amber Bjork and Kristina Fjellman put together their first collaboration on Birds of Passage for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Since then, they choreographed dances, participated in parodies, held private seance performances, and--with the help of Megan Campbell Lagas, Brigid Kelley, and Kayla Dvorak Feld--created the Tiny Clandestines.
The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines ran for two seasons--September of 2013 (thanks to an Irrigate Grant through Springboard for the Arts) and once a month over half a year in 2015 (thanks to a Saint Paul Arts Challenge Grant through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation) . It returned at the beginning of 2018 as part of the Art Shanty Projects on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. In 2017, The Winding Sheet Outfit came back to the Minnesota Fringe Festival with The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox, which won the encore slot in its venue and a critic's pick award from Twin Cities Arts Reader. The show was remounted for a limited engagement run in November 2017. The next year, Blood Nocturne premiered at the Fringe and won three Golden Lanyard Awards from Minnesota Fringe voters, as well as Best of Fringe from Twin Cities Arts Reader. In 2019, You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear took home two Golden Lanyard Awards from the Minnesota Fringe. The same year, TWSO made their debut at the Twin Cities Horror Festival with a new piece about Lewis Carroll entitled ...And What Alice Found There. In 2020, TWSO produced their first live-streaming show When Your Love Sets You On Fire, made for Twin Cities Horror Festival's 9th season taking place online. And their first in-person show after the pandemic was a remount of Blood Nocturne at the 2021 TCHF. They have produced one short film, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies specifically for FringeMiss, an artist-led fundraiser of online performances to benefit Minnesota Fringe when COVID-19 shut down the festival and live theater as we know it. And they have produced one full-length film, The Darger Project aka the Darger Project for the 2021 Minnesota Virtual Fringe Festival. In 2022, they returned to the Minnesota Fringe, premiering a new show--ÅRSGÅNG: What You Follow Follows You--at the annual festival. Their first collaborative project happened at the Twin Cities Horror Festival where they joined up with Special When Lit to present Stabby Stab Stab based on the Slenderman stabbing of 2014 Waukesha Wisconsin--a sold-out performance that inspired a remount for the 2023 Minnesota Fringe Festival. In 2023 they will appear at TCHF for a fifth time, this time to remount Marie-Jeanne Valet Who Defeated La Bete du Gevaudan. Amber Bjork -- founding memberAmber is a Twin Cities-based actor and director who seeks out theater that is a little more off-kilter and a little more challenging. She has worked with several companies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, most notably with Theatre Pro Rata where she was an artistic associate and company member for eight years. She has directed almost all of the productions in The Winding Sheet Outfit's history, as well as By the Bog of Cats, The Minotaur, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Elephant's Graveyard and T Bone N Weasel for Theatre Pro Rata, 600 Years, Marie-Jeanne Valet Who Defeated La Bete du Gevaudan for Sandbox Theatre, Iphigenia and Other Daughters for Theatre Unbound, Turn Signals for Freshwater Theatre, Tempests for Tedious Brief Productions (co-director under Noe Tallen), and others. She has performed with all of these companies as well as Transatlantic Love Affair, Nimbus Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, and others. She has created and performed short pieces for Sandbox Theatre's Suitcase series and the Fringe Orphans series at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Amber was a 2018 MN Theater Awards Honoree in Exceptional Performative Direction for The Winding Sheet Outfit's The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox. Amber was named one of the 2019 Artists of the Year by CityPages for her work with The Winding Sheet Outfit. In 2020, Shanan Custer named Amber a "magical person." Amber considers this her greatest honor to date. Amber's education includes a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, a four year education in mime, movement, storytelling and puppetry from Masque Theatre and School, and various workshops and intensives with SITI Company, Sandbox Theatre, Kari Margolis, and Jon Ferguson. Kristina Fjellman -- Co-founder
Kristina is a visual artist and performer and is drawn to creative projects that will combine both of these passions. She has exhibited her sculpture in venues around the Midwest and Twin Cities and was a recipient of a Jerome Fiber Art Project Grant for 2010-2011 at the MN Textile Center. Her performance work includes: Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, Five Fifths of A New Hope, The Tick-Tock Shanty, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, Sunset Seance, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies, ...And What Alice Found There, You are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear, The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox, The Theater of the Tiny Clandestines (2013, 2015, and 2017), word/move, Birds of Passage and Five Fifths of the Sorcerer's Stone with The Winding Sheet Outfit; Works In Progress My Life Is All But Over with Red Eye Theatre; and with Sandbox Theatre: In The Treetops, 600 Years, War with the Newts, The Horse, Bird, Monkey, and the Dancer, Suitcase, This Is a World To Live In, and Killer Inside as a performer, and recently as Project Lead for The Golden Record Project.
Kristina is a graduate of the College of St. Catherine with a MAED in Art and Theater Education, is the co-founding member of The Winding Sheet Outfit, and an ensemble member of Sandbox Theatre. Most recent projects include: Årsgång; What You Follow Follows You with The Winding Sheet Outfit, and an art exhibition at Artistry's Inez Greenberg Gallery last June 2020. core winding sheet collaboratorsMegan Campbell Lagas: Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, The Tick-Tock Shanty, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies, ...And What Alice Found There, The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox, The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines (2018, 2015, 2013), word/move, Five Fifths of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Birds of Passage
Kayla Dvorak Feld: Stabby Stab Stab, Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, Five Fifths of A New Hope, The Tick-Tock Shanty, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, Sunset Seance, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies, ...And What Alice Found There, You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear, Blood Nocturne, The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox, The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines (2018, 2015) André Johnson, Jr: Stabby Stab Stab, Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, The Tick-Tock Shanty, Five Fifths of A New Hope, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear, Blood Nocturne, The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox Derek Lee Miller: Stabby Stab Stab, Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, The Tick-Tock Shanty, Five Fifths of A New Hope, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, When Your Love Sets You On Fire, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies, You are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear, Blood Nocturne, The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines (2018) Boo Segersin: Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, The Tick-Tock Shanty, Five Fifths of A New Hope, The Darger Project aka The Darger Project, Sunset Seance, That Time Napoleon Was Attacked by Bunnies, ...And What Alice Found There, You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear, Blood Nocturne, The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox Past winding sheet collaboratorsMark Benzel: Birds of Passage
Heather Bunch: ...And What Alice Found There Julia Carlis: The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox Clara Costello: ...And What Alice Found There Emily Dussault: Blood Nocturne Mandi Johnson: Birds of Passage Brigid Kelley: The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines (2013), Five Fifths of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Matthew Kessen: Arsgang: What You Follow Follows You Sam Landman: Stabby Stab Stab, Five Fifths of A New Hope, You Are Cordially Invited to The Life and Death of Edward Lear Theo Langason: Five Fifths of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Birds of Passage Dan Linden: Five Fifths of A New Hope, You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear Nissa Nordland: Stabby Stab Stab, ...And What Alice Found There Brian O'Neal: Five Fifths of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Birds of Passage Kaitlen Osburn: ...And What Alice Found There Tony Rydberg: Birds of Passage Joshua Swantz: Årsgång: What You Follow Follows You, Blood Nocturne, Birds of Passage Mark Sweeney: The Theatre of the Tiny Clandestines (2015) |
