AUDITION NOTICE Walking Shadow Theatre Company is hiring actors for our upcoming immersive drama Zerolands, a play with puzzles. We are currently accepting video audition submissions through September 8, with in-person callbacks September 11-13. Rehearsals will start October 2, for an anticipated opening in November. ABOUT THE SHOW Zerolands is a cross between theater and escape room. It is a live, scripted performance with actors; it’s also an immersive, interactive experience for a small audience who function as a main character, exploring a detailed enviro ..read more

Walking Shadow celebrates the artistic career of co-founder Amy Rummenie! Effective November 1, 2022, Amy has stepped away from being Walking Shadow’s Co-Artistic Director.  Amy says, “Working with Walking Shadow has been one of the very best things I’ve done in my life. I’ve had the chance to work with the best of friends, creating both work and a community that overwhelms me with warmth and pride. It’s also created a better, more rounded Me, and I’ll be taking that support, love, and belief in my ideas and vision to… to whatever the next thing will be.” About Amy Rummenie Amy Rummenie ..read more

Walking Shadow has staged several immersive theatrical puzzle events, such as Cabal and Reboot. We call these activities Plays with Puzzles. These shows often get compared to an Escape Room and for good reason! Both of them involve many of the same elements: A team of attendees An immersive environment Interactive puzzle elements Working together to accomplish a goal What is an Escape Room? In an Escape Room the goal is time-sensitive. Participants are trying to solve puzzles and unlock the secrets of the room before time runs out, usually after 60 minutes. This means players often wor ..read more

Walking Shadow is honored to receive this Best-of-2022 award from EscapeTheRoomers for REBOOT: An Online Play With Puzzles. EscapeTheRoomers plays over 1000 games around the world each year! The post Best Overall “Live-Hosted Game” of the Year appeared first on Walking Shadow Theatre Company ..read more

Walking Shadow condemns all violence against, and hatred towards, the Asian American/Pacific Islander community. Following the murder of eight people in Georgia, including six women of Asian descent, the AAPI community has been left reeling. The echoes of this violence resonate strongly throughout the United States, and through our city in particular. The underlying toxic prejudices that gave shape to this violence are part of our culture. This one event in Atlanta is highly visible, but is not isolated: anti-Asian hate is all too common, and we all have a duty to stand against it. If you aren ..read more

1926 Pleasant directed by Amy Rummenie, puzzles by David Pisa August 3 – 13, 2006 at the 1926 Condos Part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival “It’s a puzzle — literally. And you get to help put it together. There are two threads and many pieces to this intriguing, enigmatic trip through an unfinished condo at 1926 Pleasant Av. S. One part of the ghost story has the audience putting together large boxes, small clues and scraps of paper in search of a mystery. The other strain follows two actors who are playing out the increasingly spooky and macabre aftermath of a long-ago fire in this building ..read more

Saboteur story and puzzles by David Pisa directed by Amy Rummenie July 9 – August 3, 2011 “Universal Hydro Solutions” 2010 East Hennepin Ave An explosive summer event with a suspicious man, a woman with a secret identity, and a relationship full of traps. Play along in a dangerous story of espionage and romance combining theatrical elements and unique hands-on scenes. Discover the clues. Solve the puzzles. Unfold the mystery. Saboteur was a live performance in which the audience participated in the action of the show by doing large-scale, hands-on puzzles. I ..read more

On Memorial Day, George Floyd was murdered at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. This horrible act of brutal injustice happened at the corner of 38th and Chicago Avenue, in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis. Our city. Our neighborhood. Our home.  Many of you have reached out to ask if we’re okay. We appreciate your concern, but things are not okay here. And they never have been.  What’s happening in our neighborhood is emblematic of what’s happening in every neighborhood in the nation. American society has been built upon the land, labor, and lives of ..read more

At Walking Shadow Theatre Company, we believe that the core of our artform is more than the text, the actors, the stage, or the design (although those things are important!). At its core, we believe that theatre is a shared experience with other people. Whether you’re attending a digital play, participating in an online puzzle event, or simply engaging a friend in artful conversation, in this strange time of social distancing, we’ve been inspired by all the ways people have found to stay connected with each other. And just as we did with Beowulf, we will continue to find ways to ..read more

Under the current circumstances, with Minnesota on lock-down due to COVID-19, we are putting Cabal on hiatus, and postponing our 16th Anniversary Fundraiser and upcoming production of Red Mayor. After a delightful and productive script workshop for Red Mayor last month, we were scheduled to begin rehearsals next week. We’ll be honest, we considered whether it would work to rehearse the play using videoconferencing (it wouldn’t), but even solving that, there’s the pesky question of getting people in the same room for performances… We do not currently have more information about when this ..read more