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.
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.