Keith Bridges is a playwright, director, and the founder of Harbor Repertory Theater. He has directed many new plays and workshops of new plays, most recently he directled 2 productions of "Surge" by Chris Stezin in Los Angeles and Minneapolis (at the Fringe festival), and a workshop of "Iddy and O" by Richard Washer, in Washington, DC. He was the founder and artistic director of Charter Theater in Washington, DC, where he directed many new plays, including "Sleeping and Waking" and "what Dogs Do" by Chris Stezin; "Of a Sunday Morning" by Richard Washer; "A House in the Country" by Peter Coy (winner of two Helen Hayes awards); Allyson Currin's "Church of the Open Mind" (a Helen Hayes award nominee); "The Taste of Fire" by Paul Donnelly (Helen Hayes Award for best actor); the critically acclaimed production of John Walch's "Circumference of a Squirrel"; as well as the Dropping the Cow comedy sketch shows: "Fat Gay Jew", "Fear Itself", "Sacred Cows" and "The Rule of Three". His writing includes the critically acclaimed production of "Lie With Me" at Mutineer Theatre in Los Angeles; the Charter Theatre productions of "F.U. (Forgive Us... what'd you think we meant?)"; "Princes Peanut's Rainy Day" ; "Monkeyboy"; and "Watching Left" (nominated for a Helen Hayes Award); as well as "The Coward and the Glory" at Totem Pole Playhouse; "Finding Tony", and "Our Lady of Sandwich" produced at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts ART Company. He teaches and directs workshops and readings of new plays all over the country and is a founder of the annual Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Labor Day Festival. He lives in Plymouth with his super-awesome family.
Robert Baril has been writing and performing comedy in the Twin Cities since 2009. In 2017, his debut album 'Sex and Politics' was released on this very record label, and his radio show 'Laughing Matters with Robert Baril' has been playing on the AM 950 airwaves for the last six years.
Rachel Bridges is delighted to be a part of Harbor Rep and to be working with her creative partner - in theater and in life - Keith Bridges. In a previous chapter of her life, Rachel was a founding company member of Charter Theatre as well as a company member with Horizons' Theatre, both in Washington, DC. Additionally, she enjoyed working with playwrights on developing new plays for nearly a decade through Stages at Signature Theatre. Rachel has performed on many stages in the DC metropolitan area and throughout the United States as well as in a few cable network infomercials that she hopes you've never seen. Since relocating to the Twin Cities in 2015, she has had the pleasure of performing, developing and leading workshops and serving on the Board of Lake Harriet Players (lakeharrietplayers.org), a theater ministry of Lake Harriet United Methodist Church. Rachel also works for Georgetown University where, in addition to a few other things, she oversees wellbeing and creativity programs for faculty and staff.
Neal Patrick Peterson is a screenwriter, playwright, and engineer living in St. Paul, MN. His written work blends drama and comedy with an occasional pinch of satire sprinkled in. He’s inspired by the pursuit of telling stories others are reluctant to discuss – invoking laughs, discomfort, inspiration, and connection along the way.
Patrick Coyle just completed work on his third film, THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, a film noir that unifies around the 2007 collapse of the 35W Bridge. The film was produced by MCAD alum Katelyn Haugdahl and has been picked up for distribution by Landmark Theatres.
In 2009, he released his second feature film, INTO TEMPTATION, starring Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto, and Brian Baumgartner. INTO TEMPTATION premiered at The Newport Beach Film Festival where Sisto won a best acting award. The film played theatrically in seven cities and has been released throughout North America by Millennium Entertainment, on Showtime, and on the Encore Network. Coyle's first feature film, DETECTIVE FICTION, based on his award-winning stage play, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and won awards at the Newport (RI) International Film Festival and the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. DETECTIVE FICTION was released theatrically by Landmark Theatres and played for two years on the Sundance Channel.
Coyle wrote, directed, and acted in all his films. He also writes plays and screenplays, winning the 2006 McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship for his original script, BROKEN BOW, and a 2014 MN Artists Initiative Grant and a Legacy Grant for THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. He acted as artistic director of The Original Theatre Company from 1999 to 2005, directing three new plays and two festivals of original one acts.
Tiffa Foster dropped out of her college theater program in the fall of 1999 and switched to studying bioethics, Mandarin, and Tibetan. Then she became an HIV/STD-test counselor in San Francisco, an ESL teacher, an acupuncturist and herbalist, traveled a bunch, and was a department chair at a small university. She taught chemistry and physics, too! It was fun! Then in the winter of 2019, she randomly decided to take a writing class. Since that fateful day, her plays have been performed in the UK, Washington state, and Minnesota. If the world ever gets back to normal, theaters in Connecticut, Texas, and British Columbia have selected and will be performing some of her pieces later this year.
Following a stint editing a newspaper, The Carbondale Times, from 2004-2007, Bryan moved to Minneapolis and has since been self-employed as a freelance writer, standup comedian, and proofreader. He is always on the lookout for new opportunities to perform as well as to write and edit in a wide array of fields, from entertainment to marketing to more traditional journalism. He has appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and is a regular performer at Acme Comedy Co. as well as clubs and other venues across the country.