Give our Regards to Minneapolis
The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship had its name in lights for a one-night-only performance just outside Minneapolis, at the beautiful new Burnsville Performing Arts Center.
We are proud to have been invited to this new state-of-the-art performing arts center.
Produced by Joe Skelly of On-Site Authors, the event featured a reading of the play by two talented actors, Shelly Reed (Val) and Jennifer Steiskal Johnsen (Lilly), who literally gave voice to our characters–and brought them to life!
We had a brief rehearsal in the dressing room before heading out into the black box theater.
Joe immortalizes the authors who check to see if they have food in their teeth.
For us it was a thrill, and for the audience (we are told) it was a deeply satisfying theatrical/literary experience.
Jennifer Steiskal Johnsen (Lilly) and Shelly Reed (Val)
Following the reading we answered questions about the book and ran an impromptu Recipe Club meeting with audience members, who shared their own stories of food, family, and friendship.
A Recipe Club meeting followed the staged reading of the book.