Jon Micheels Leiseth is thrilled to serve as Theatre B’s Artistic Director. He’s drawn to the company’s commitments to theatre as fundamental and the arts as essential, to ensemble, and to creating new works and reimagined existing works that ignite conversation and action; conversation and action that contribute to the transformation of our perspectives, our lives, and our communities.
Theatre B credits include directing What the Constitution Means to Me (upcoming), This Random World, The Roommate, and the ND reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at the Fargo Theatre as part of the national premiere. He also acted in Ellis Island: The Dream of America, B’s collaboration with the Fargo Moorhead Symphony.
Regional professional credits (acting, directing, improvising, and devising) include Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop, Guthrie, Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Ten Thousand Things, and 15 HEAD – a theatre lab, his artistic home for nearly a decade. In addition, Leiseth has worked as a teaching theatre artist for 25+ years, teaching students from grade school to grad school with Century College, College of St. Catherine, Liquid Labyrinth (MT), Moorhead High School, SteppingStone, the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and more. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula and has trained with Anne Bogart, Sojourn, North American Cultural Laboratory….
Jon is married to Tessa Moon Leiseth and they have two fabulous young adult children and one beloved dog, named Thula (TOO-lah). The whole family enjoys travel, exploring food, reading and all kinds of storytelling.
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