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Events


Coming up ...
July 19, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Turtle Town Books and Gifts, Nisswa
July 26, 12-2:00 p.m. at Once Upon a Crime, Minneapolis
July 29, 6:30 p.m. at Big Pine Books, Perham
August 4, 6:00 p.m. at The Bookstore at Fitgers, Duluth, time t.b.d.
October 11, 11:00 a.m.at the Wadena Pubic Library

 

 

April, 2025

April 26, 11 - 1:00 pm. at Beagle and Wolf Bookstore, Park Rapids

 

Launch at the Otter Tail County Historical Museum, Fergus Falls

"The Thirteenth Crime: The Ghosts of Injustice in Frontier Otter Tail County" 

Rocket Science Press, Winona, MN

 

Regional premiere of "Water from Snow," a contemporary musical

Book and lyrics by Janet Preus

Music by Janet Preus, Robert Elhai and Fred Steele

Bemidji, MN

 

December, 2024

Production of "Hank & Jesus," Prairie Wind Players

Barrett, MN

 

September , 2024

Host for Headwater Open Mic and Coffeehouse

Bemidji, MN

 

August 13, 2024

Featured performer at The Watershed's Songwriter Night

Walker, MN

 

July 25-29, 2024

Music Director for

"Something Rotten" at Mask & Rose Theatre, Puposky

 

January 24, 2024

Loonbird Cafe Songwriters Circle (https://mudsong.net/loonbird.html) 

Table for 7, Bemidji

 

Labor Day Weekend, 2022

A concert reading of "Water from Snow" at Mask & Rose Theatre, Puposky (www.maskrose.com) 

 

Oct. 9, 2021

Washington, D.C.-area Transformation Theatre will produce a virtual reading of wth: Welcome

to Hell, Please Choose from the Following Options with Deaf actors and Deaf director in

September 2021, drawing on resources from nearby Gallaudet University.

 

Oct. 3-4, 2021       

Public reading of Water from Snow. (bookwriter, songwriter/ lyricist) This contemporary musical

set in small-town Minnesota is in development with composer/arrangers Robert Elhai and Fred

Steele.

 

Jan. 13-14, 2020        

Selections from Water from Snow featured in Nautilus Music Theater's Rough Cuts series

(Minneapolis, Minn.) www.nautilusmusictheater.org

 

April 2019      

It was a standing-room-only crowd at Otter Tail County Historical Society Museum for a sneak

peak at Lillie's Ghost and a discussion about this period in the county's history.

https://www.otchs.org/

 

October 2019 

Presentation at the Historical Writers of America Conference in Colonial Williamsburg. Va.

http://historicalwritersofamerica.org/ about genre-blending in Lillie's Ghost.

 

March 2019   

Snip, Snap, Snute (bookwriter, co-lyricist, co-composer), was one of two new musicals chosen

for Pantochino Productions POW! Festival in West Haven, Conn.

 

June 2018       

wth: Welcome to Hell, Please Choose from the Following Options (playwright, co-producer) a

play about emotional and verbal abuse, received a professional production in Minneapolis in

collaboration with ThinkSelf, an organization that provides services for deaf and hard-of-hearing

adults. Co-played by hearing and deaf actors, it was a fully accessible theater experience for deaf

and deaf-blind audiences and sold out the run.