IRVIN COULEE

by Laurie Flanigan Hegge

Meet the playwright!

LAURIE FLANIGAN HEGGE is a playwright, bookwriter, lyricist, and theatre artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her play PRICK premiered at the Edinbourgh Festival and London's West End last year. Her musicals include LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS (co-writer, book & lyrics with Jacinda Duffin and composer James Kaplan), SEE JANE VOTE (book & lyrics with music by James Kaplan, HORMEL GIRLS (book & lyrics with music by Hiram Titus), TWENTY DAYS TO FIND A WIFE (book & lyrics with music by Marya Hart), SWEET LAND, THE MUSICAL (lyricist, co-writer book with Perrin Post, music by Dina Maccabee), BOXCAR (book and lyrics, music by James Valcq) and DIRTY BUSINESS (book & lyrics, music by Robert Elhai.)

April 28th & 29, 2025

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TINY EDENS

by Tira Palmquist

Meet the playwright

TIRA PALMQUIST is based in Southern California, and is known for plays that merge the personal, the political and the poetic – such as Two Degrees, which premiered at the Denver Center, and PRIME produced at the Guthrie in 2018 and is available through TRW Plays. Her newest play The Body’s Midnight premiered at Boston Court Pasadena in April 2024 (a coproduction with IAMA Theater Company).

Tira’s other new plays include Memory of Winter (a play continuing her series of plays about Minnesota, and about climate change) and King Margaret, an adaptation of the Henry VI cycle was featured in the 5 Directors, 5 Plays reading series with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, July 2021.

Other plays: The Worth of Water, Safe Harbor, The Way North, Ten Mile Lake, Age of Bees, And Then They Fell and This Floating World.

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The readings will performed at Park Square Theatre’s Andy Boss Thrust Stage, 20 W 7th Pl, St Paul, MN 55102 and will be followed by post-show conversations with the playwrights where the audience will be encouraged to offer their observations on the play’s impact.

PRIME Voices; The Playwright Series is FREE but reservations are required.

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