The Wild Webster County Fair!
Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery
413 N Webster St
Red Cloud, NE 68970
United States
Join us for the premiere of an original play featuring local children who attend the Valley Child Development Center! Each summer, area youth spend a week composing, writing, and designing a play to perform at the Red Cloud Opera House with teaching artists from Blixt Arts Lab–stay tuned for more details as the cast and crew create their masterpiece.
This year, Blixt teaching artists will also offer a free theater workshop to all interested children ages 6-12 at 4:00 p.m. at the Red Cloud Opera House. Food will be provided to workshop participants following the activity.
The Friday evening performance is free to the public, but a suggested donation of $10 is appreciated. Donations can be made in person at the event, or attendees can make a one-time donation online before the show. All proceeds go to the Valley Child Development Center.
The performance will be followed by a milk and cookies reception and an auction of original artwork made by our local students. Parents, grandparents, caregivers, and community members are encouraged to bid on framed prints of beautiful artwork created by our budding artists!
Thank you to Brad and Nancy Sherwood for their generous support of this youth program.
About Blixt Arts Lab
Established in 2015, Blixt Arts Lab provides innovative programming, education, and high quality arts experiences to communities across Nebraska. Past projects include Winter Without Mama, The Dream Switch, and Captain Soapman. This is the fifth visit to Red Cloud for Blixt artists, who have led youth theater workshops at the Red Cloud Opera House since 2020.
Reanna Rohrer
Reanna Rohrer is trained in Mental Health First Aid through First Aid Arts and served as an Educational Consent-Based Theatre Intern under Matt Denney, a teaching artist associated with Intimacy Directors and Coordination Professionals and the founder of Consent Creatives in Arizona. Currently, they reside in Denver, CO as a traveling actor and teaching artist, having taught over 10,000 students across the Midwest in states such as Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and more. Re completed a service year with ArtistYear, an Americorps organization focused on inequalities in the arts for K-12 students. Previously, they served as the Director of Education with Blixt Arts Lab in Lincoln, NE. They hold a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Nebraska Wesleyan University, with a focus on Musical Theatre, Playwriting, and Theatre Leadership. Reanna has performed across the Midwest with notable roles including Ivy in Bare: A Pop Opera, Peggy Sawyer in 42nd St, Florence (U.S.) in Chess the Musical, Martha in Spring Awakening (Stage Award Nomination), Jo March in Little Women, and Middle Alison in Fun Home. Reanna’s main focus is on fostering creativity and community through a top-notch quality process. They’re here to learn and grow alongside individuals, and is fully committed to a collaborative approach.
Shannon Chinn
Shannon Chinn is a Nebraska-based director, playwright, and teaching artist. After earning her B.F.A. in Directing from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2022, her career expanded into theatre education with a strong focus on youth engagement. She recently completed her fourth year as co-director of the theatre program at Raymond Central Jr/Sr High School, where she directs both NSAA one-act play productions and spring musicals. Past directing credits include The 146 Point Flame, Singin’ in the Rain, The SpongeBob Musical, and The Addams Family. As a playwright, Shannon’s works have been performed across high school and university stages throughout Nebraska. Her play To Thine Own Self Be True was workshopped through Omaha’s Rose Theater as part of the 2022–2023 Sharing Our Stories Program and culminated in a public staged reading and is currently available for licensing through Gitelman & Good Publishers. Other works include Two Steps Back (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2021), The Tempest’s Tale (Raymond Central, 2023), and The Fall of Lafontaine Manor (Raymond Central, 2024). In addition to her theatre work, Shannon served as an educator at the Lincoln Children’s Museum over the past year, facilitating day camps and after-school programs for children ages 5–9, where she incorporated STEAM-based activities to promote hands-on learning and imaginative play. This is Shannon's 4th year helping teach BLIXT Art's Lab's Build a Play camp in Red Cloud.
Anna Scott
Anna is a recent graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan with her BFA in musical theatre. She has worked with Blixt for two years now as an intern teaching artist through school, in which she worked closely with faculty and peers to bring theatre to the youth of Lincoln, and teach weekly theatre clubs. She is a passionate theatre artist with recent credits as Annabeth Chase in Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Ensemble in Cinderella, Player 7 in Pippin, and Bertha Hunt in The Hello Girls. She is also a passionate teaching artist. Anna is inspired every day to see kids getting to fully explore their creative minds and create a safe space to be themselves. She hopes to spread her love and passion for musical theatre to kids, and she continues in with her journey as a teaching artist.