Sandbox Theatre

09/11/2026

The MN New Theater Conference is looking for proposals 🔥

😃 Interested in presenting at the 3rd annual Minnesota New Theater Conference taking place at the on January 16-17?

🎭 We are looking for proposals for a 90 minute workshop, skillshare, talk, simulation, or panel discussion around the topic of creating new theater. Past presentations have included: grant writing, juggling, puppetry, art vs facism, opera, viewpoints, inclusive audition practices and more. Currently presenters are volunteering their time as a peer share with the entire conference free for all to attend. Proposals are due October 9th.

🔗 You can submit your proposal to this Google form:
https://forms.gle/HXzWUBYoUCjPbiAKA

📧 If you have questions you can direct them here:
[email protected]

❓Who Are We?
This two day conference was created by theater folks looking to connect, play, and share skills, resources, knowledge around creating new collaborative theater. Sometimes we can get really siloed and stuck in our ways, and we want to cross-pollinate our ideas, joy, rage, resilience, and resistance. Because we want to help tend a healthy art ecosystem, and encourage and inspire each other.

🌱 We’re a small group of volunteers hoping to create a little structure around a big playdate. (Incidentally, if you wanna join in imagining and implementing all of this in any way big or small you can email us at [email protected]).

09/09/2026

Exciting News from MN New Theater Conference:

🎭 Our next dates for the third annual MN Theater Conference are set!

🗓️ Mark your calendars for two days of free workshops, networking, and panel discussions revolving around creating original collaborative theater:

January 16-17, 2027 at

Want to get involved? Here’s two ways:

1️⃣ Volunteer! We need people who want involvement big or small: ranging from joining the planning committee to helping run a shift of greeting folks during the conference. We also are looking for folks that love to market, design, and promote. Interested?

Reach out to us at:
[email protected].

2️⃣ Present! We are currently requesting proposals for presenters. Past years have included things like: articulated puppets, grant writing, viewpoints, art vs. facism and more. Have something you’d like to share or start a discussion about?

Pitch it on this Google form (Due October 9th):

https://forms.gle/hFpT7yXsv6AsEnm46

So excited to gather and play!

05/27/2026

May has been full of workshops and here’s just a taste of all the fun we’ve been having. It’s always fun to get in the sandbox with new friends and play!

05/20/2026

Announcing a special free 2-hour Aerial integrated workshop in collaboration with Lucid Movement!

7-9pm
Tuesday May 26th


No experience necessary!

Lucid Movement is a practice Sandboxer Evie developed with their friend and colleague Sarah Zuber. Through guided movement, art prompts, and collaborative exploration we coax our internal critic to quiet for awhile and find the joy of flow and play.

In this session, we’ll find an interplay of movement on the silks with writing, drawing, and mindful embodiment.

Please dress to move, bring a yoga mat if you have one available, and a notebook and writing utensil.

Class size is limited and will be first come first serve. So if you are interested in attending go to the Lucid Aerial sign-up link in the comments. Please also reach out if you have questions.

05/11/2026

Free flying! Catch Sandboxer Evie with her Swingset at 825 Arts for May 19th’s Art-BQ. She’ll be there to help people give it a try!

Our next Art BQ is Tuesday, May 19th from 6–8PM! Pull up for good vibes, creative energy, and FREE food. In partnership with the Frogtown Neighborhood Association, we’re bringing community together.

Along with a Frogtown Forum, this Art-B-Q features a special guest artist! Evie Digirolamo of The Swingset, who has been hosting Aerial arts classes at 825 Arts this past month, will be presenting her gravity-defying art form.

Come connect, create, and celebrate the art in our neighborhood. All are welcome! Learn more at 825arts.org

04/22/2026

Sandboxer Evie will be co-leading another Lucid Movement in Minneapolis this Sunday! A place to gather, play, and be curious.

Evie developed this practice with Sarah Zuber as a way to use devising and movement as care for ourselves and community.

They guide people through movement exploration, stream-of-conscious writing prompts, and theatrical devising. No experience necessary.

You can learn more and sign up here:

https://forms.gle/er4uZityiYYj5R6s7

✨ Meet the facilitators and creators of Lucid Movement:

🌱Sarah Zuber

Sarah Zuber E-RYT 500, YACEP
Sarah works as a trauma informed yoga teacher in a clinical setting, is a mover and artist, a singer and somatic educator. She has been a registered yoga teacher since 2013 and is an Alexander Technique Teacher. She loves supporting her students to expand their sensory awareness and present moment experience, undo patterns of tension and imbalance, and to embody their most essential expressive self. Sarah also loves gardening and learning about plants, hiking with her dog Clover, reading, and making music and art and community with others.

🌱Evelyn Digirolamo

Evie Digirolamo (she/they) is a physical theater practitioner and teaching artist based in the Twin Cities, and they have been making spaces for health equity through the arts for over 15 years. She has practiced with Sandbox Theatre since 2012 where they use generative practices and collaborative process to create new work. Evie also founded the aerial theater The Swingset, which explores dynamic movement as storytelling and empowerment. As a teaching artist, she has received training in drama therapy techniques and uses expressive arts to communally practice expanding: access, advocacy, bodily autonomy, balanced relationships, personal boundaries, healthy risk taking, process grief and change, and spread the joy of expressing ourselves together. The Art of Relationships curriculum she wrote in collaboration with Upstream Arts has been used in schools and day centers all over the metro area.

04/20/2026

Sandbox family members are producing a cabaret this Saturday with professional Twin Cities musicians. One show only. It’ll be a night of resilience, resistance, and celebrating the power of community.

04/17/2026

We got to work with Ajuawak back on the Golden Record Project and he was such a generous, inventive, hilarious collaborator. So exciting to see all the amazing film and projects he creates (Including the voice of Han Solo in the Ojibwe Star Wars!) Here’s a chance to see his latest film!

04/10/2026

Hope to see you Monday! Another chance to gather, play, and make! Exploring viewpoints, generating movement and text, and devising ✨

04/10/2026

🐦‍🔥We had so much fun at our first workshop
😃We still have room for you to join us!
📝Reserve your free spot today
🌱No previous experience needed

🗓️Dates through May 5th are currently open for folks to reserve a spot in advance (you may choose to attend 1 or multiple). Class size will be kept small because we will only be working with one person at a time on one aerial silk. Each class will keep 5 spots available for walk-ups. You can find the google form to request to reserve a spot in our bio on IG or by going to this link: https://forms.gle/iKThZu79zkvLs5nG9. You will receive an email informing you if your reservation is confirmed or if we are full.

🦋About the workshops:

The aerial branch of Sandbox - The Swingset - is again taking flight. Thanks to the generosity of the Minnesota Regional Arts Council, we are able to offer these FREE beginner aerial trainings. This training is for anyone! We love to use aerial arts to explore story and to feel playfully powerful. Come play and surprise yourself.

You’ll be guided with one-on-one instruction by our resident aerialist Evie Digirolamo who has trained and choreographed performers in the aerial theater productions: Little Pilot, Houdini, Bone Mother, The Matrix (for the 5/5 Fringe Fundraiser), Snow Queen, and Charlotte’s Web. Evie believes you are the expert of you and loves to find adaptations for each person that feel exciting and empowering, and she insists that you’ll be surprised by what you can do.

May 16th and May 18th are going to be longer workshops with exploring how aerial silks can be used theatrically. Past explorations have included depicting setting, emotional journeys, relationship dynamics, projections, puppetry and clowning.

Young folks welcome as well, but will need to be accompanied by a guardian who can sign a waiver for them to participate.

We’re also very excited to be hosted by 825arts and connecting with their vibrant arts community! Hope to see you there!