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Four women in Pasadena, California. A Holocaust survivor and math teacher for 20 years shares her wartime experience in the classroom; one student’s mother fights against this and ignites racist incidents; a researcher discovers archival documents revealing WWII evil that her boss wants to keep hidden; and a young Asian student recounts traumatic experiences in the community. Although each speaks from different moments in time, they’re part of the same larger story.
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SATURDAY'S OPENING NIGHT!
The Messenger is produced at Six Points Theater as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other Partner Theaters are Palm Beach Dramaworks, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Shrewd Productions, Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit nnpn.org  
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DOORWAYS
• How Do Actors Prepare for Challenging Themes?
Tuesday, March 11, after the 1 p.m. performance
With actors Julia Isabel Diaz, Laura Esping, and Ashley Horiuchi.
• Why Do People Become Racist?
Wednesday, March 12 after the 7:30 p.m. performance
With panelist Frank Hornstein who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003-2024. His parents survived the Holocaust. His grandmother died in Auschwitz. And panelist Yuichiro Onishi, Associate Professor of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota.
• Are Current Times Encouraging Hate?
Thursday, March 20, after the 7:30 p.m. performance
With panelist Rabbi Esther Adler, Mount Zion Temple, St. Paul.
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Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Family Fund
Individual Producers
Mark and Gail Bender Satz
Producers Circle
Barbara Brooks and Rick Friede
Renae and Phil Goldman
Alex and Marni Tselos
CAST
Julia Isabel Diaz (Gracie, 1969) is delighted to be making her Six Points Theater debut! She is a
singer and actress committed to spreading joy, inspiring confidence, and enacting change through her work as a performing artist. Julia has trained and performed with several theaters across the Twin Cities including Artistry MN, Guthrie Theater, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Latté Da, Minnesota Opera, Ten Thousand Things Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Teatro Del Pueblo, Illusion Theater, and Nautilus Music-Theater.
Laura Esping (Georgia) is a Twin Cities actor and educator last seen at Six Points Theater in Sisters in Law playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Since moving to the Twin Cities, she has performed with many local theaters including At the Foot of the Mountain, In the Heart of the Beast, The Jungle Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Illusion Theatre, Pillsbury House, Penumbra Theatre, Full Circle Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Yellow Tree Theatre and the Guthrie Theater. As an educator, Laura has taught theater at Concordia College and served as a teaching artist in many venues including area theaters, high schools, prisons, and treatment centers. Laura holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of Minnesota. She is honored to be back at Six Points Theater working on this new and very timely play with these assembled artists.
Ashley Horiuchi (Annie, 2020) is very excited to be making her Six Points Theater debut! She is an actor and teaching artist based in the Twin Cities, originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. Her recent credits include Theater Mu (Hells Canyon), TigerLion Arts (The Buddha Prince), and Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio (Troilus and Cressida).
Tracey Maloney (Angela,1993) is happy to be making her Six Points Theater debut. She has worked at many theaters around town, including Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, The Moving Company, Pillsbury House Theatre, Ten Thousand Things Theater, Mixed Blood Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, and more. She is a proud teaching artist with Upstream Arts.
PRODUCTION ARTISTS
Faye M. Price (Director) is thrilled to be making her directorial debut at Six Points Theater. She is the former co-Artistic Producing Director and co-Center Director of Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis, where she helped to lead the transformation of Pillsbury House and Pillsbury House Theatre, into a one-of-a-kind, center for creativity and community. At the award-winning Pillsbury House, she brought some of the country’s most challenging and exciting living playwrights to the Twin Cities. She has performed on many national stages and was a founding acting company member of both Mixed Blood Theater and Penumbra Theatre. As a production dramaturg at the Guthrie, Faye collaborated on over 30 productions. Other recent dramaturgical work includes the McCarter Theatre Center and Berkley Repertory Theatre (Bulrusher), the Guthrie Theater (Skeleton Crew) and the Broadway production of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical recently at Studio 54. At Park Square Theatre in St. Paul, Faye directed the world premiere of Nina Simone: Four Women, and most recently The Gin Game, History Theatre (A Crack in the Sky), the Kennedy Center (The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963), and Macalester College (Angels in America: Millennium Approaches). She's been awarded the McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, and the August Wilson Fellowship.
Michael Hoover (Scenic Design) returns to Six Points Theater after designing Torch Song, Sisters in Law, Two Jews Walk Into A War...,The People's Violin, Promise of America, O my God!, Shul, Actually, The Last Schwartz, Natasha and the Coat, Collected Stories, We Are the Levinsons, The Whipping Man, Dai (enough), Bad Jews, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, among others. Michael has designed for Guthrie Theater, Theater Latté Da, History Theatre, Torch Theatre, Girl Friday Productions, and Yellow Tree Theatre. Most recently, he was the Lead Scenic Artist at the Guthrie Theater.
A. Emily Heaney (Costume Design) is pleased to return to Six Points Theater, after working on The Moneylender’s Daughter and The Wanderers. At Fortune’s Fool Theatre, she recently costumed the world premiere of Cold Planet, and Warm Heart. She has costumed shows for theaters around the Twin Cities, including Park Square Theatre, Lakeshore Players Theatre, Gremlin Theater, Walking Shadow Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and Theatre in the Round. Regionally, she worked for Paul Bunyan Playhouse in Bemidji and Pioneer Place in St. Cloud. Emily is the National Costume Rental Coordinator at Norcostco in Golden Valley.
James Eischen (Lighting Design) made his debut at Six Points Theater with Sisters in Law. He's worked in Medora, N.D., for the Medora Musical; History Theatre (Superman Becomes Lois Lane), and national tours for Jekyll & Hyde and Ring of Fire. Numerous productions at Troupe America, Lyric Arts Anoka, Normandale Community College, Umbrella Collective, Old Log Theatre, Duluth Playhouse, Lyric Opera of the North, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He taught at UMD where he received his BFA.
Reid Rejsa (Sound Design) returns to Six Points Theater having previously worked on Uncle Philip’s Coat, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Church and State, Family Secrets, Shadow of the Valley and King of the Kosher Grocers. He has worked in audio as part of the Twin Cities theater community for over 30 years at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Jungle Theater, Guthrie Theater, Theater Mu, Mixed Blood Theatre, and Children's Theatre Company. Reid is currently the Sound Director at the Children's Theatre Company.
Rick Polenek (Property Design) returns to Six Points having previously designed props for Survivors - 2025, Survivors - 2024, The Moneylender’s Daughter, Sisters in Law, Two Jews Walk Into A War…, Shul and The Whipping Man and scenery for Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Chanukah in the Dark and The Wanderers. Rick has been active in the Twin Cities’ theater and design communities for over 50 years as a scenic designer, exhibition designer, commercial art director and college instructor. Recent projects include Stage North Theatre Company (Mauritius) and for Concordia University (Anastasia).
Tom Burgess (Projection Design) is pleased to be returning to Six Points Theater after working on The Wanderers, Sisters in Law, Groupthink and Chanukah in the Dark. Tom has been a scenic designer, technical director, and properties artisan for several Twin Cities theatre companies over the years. He is faculty and the Technical Director at Normandale Community College where he has taught for the last 18 years.
Brady Whitcomb (Technical Director) is returning to Six Points Theater having worked on Just for Us, Torch Song, The Moneylender's Daughter, and Sisters in Law. Other theaters he's worked with include: Stages Theatre Company, Lakeshore Players Theatre, SOAR Regional Arts, Cross Community Players, and Bunce Performing Arts. Brady works as a Scenic Designer and Technical/Build Director for multiple Twin Cities theaters and schools. In addition to being a scenic designer, he is also an artist of many mediums including photography, mixed media, and animation.
Becca Kravchenko (Stage Manager) returns to Six Points Theater after working on Survivors - 2025, Survivors - 2024, Just for Us, Torch Song, and Sisters in Law. She has taken on multiple roles in the Twin Cities theater community including that of carpenter, electrician, and stagehand. Some of the companies she has worked with in the past include Park Square Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Theater Mu, Guthrie Theater, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from Augsburg University.
Samantha Fairchild (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to make her debut with Six Points Theater! She's been a stage manager and ASM at various companies across the Twin Cities, including Wonderlust Productions, Playwrights' Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Old Log Theatre, Theatre in the Round, Minneapolis Musical Theatre, and Classical Actors Ensemble. Samantha's acted in multiple shows at Old Log Theatre, Classical Actors Ensemble, and Theatre Coup d'Etat and works at TigerLion Arts as their Organizational Associate. She was a special education teacher for 5 years before doing freelance theater full-time.
Jenny Connell Davis (Playwright) is the Playwright in Residence and Literary Manager at Palm Beach Dramaworks, where she is responsible for their annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays. Recent plays include Scientific Method (Jeff Nominee for Best New Play), The Messenger (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), Matinicus: A Lighthouse Play (Outstanding New Play, Orange County Theater Guild), and Anton Chekhov Is A Tasty Snack. Her stage plays been developed or produced with the O'Neill, The Playwrights’ Center, ACT (Seattle), the Araca Group, The Gift Theatre, Stage Left and ATC (Chicago), Ars Nova, Asolo Rep, NAATCO, Theater Mitu, NYSF, Shrewd Productions, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Impact Theatre, Chance Theatre, SPACE at Ryder Farm, among others. She has been a finalist or semi-finalist for Seven Devils, BAPF, the Nicholl and the Heideman Awards, a 3-time honorable mention on the Kilroys list and has been twice-nominated for both the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Lark/PONY fellowship. In addition to Palm Beach Dramaworks, she has been commissioned by Chance Theater, Penfold Theater, and Ars Nova. Jenny served as the in-house writer at Emmy-award-winning Baobab Studios, and her short films have screened at festivals worldwide. She is an Affiliate Artist with the Playwrights’ Center, former member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and a recipient of grants from Ars Nova, ScriptWorks, The Playwrights' Center, and the Network of Ensemble Theatres.
LOCATION
Highland Park Community Center
1978 Ford Parkway St. Paul, MN 55116
Free and easy parking
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