Janely Rodriguez joins CTC Acting Company

Janely Rodriguez will join CTC’s Acting Company, beginning with the 2023-2024 Season.

Rodriguez has enjoyed roles in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Annie; Cinderella; Spamtown; and Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Musical at Children’s Theatre Company. She has also performed in productions with other organizations in the Twin Cities, including Hello, Dolly!at Theater Latté Da and Iphigenia at Aulis presented at Ten Thousand Things Theatre. Other credits include Man of La Mancha at Asolo Repertory Theatre; Nick’s Famingo Grill and The Ghosts of Lote Bravo at Alliance Theatre); and Thumbelita and Schoolhouse Rock Live! At Birmingham Children’s Theatre). Rodregues holds a B.F.A. from Brenau University. “We are thrilled to welcome Janely Rodriguez into our Children’s Theatre Company Acting Company,” said Artistic Director Peter C. Brosius. “Janely started at CTC as a performing apprentice and has since been cast again and again. She brings a huge talent, an incredible energy and a giant heart to all of her work and we are delighted to welcome her.”

“As one of the very few theatres in the entire country to support and maintain a professional acting company, we know well the gift of having an ensemble who work so brilliantly together, trust each other, challenge themselves and our actors, mentor and guide our apprentices and our student actors and bring powerful and delight theatre to our audiences year after year. The history of so much of the greatest theatre in our history from Shakespeare’s Globe to the present day is the history of committed and dedicated ensembles. We are proud to have an Acting Company that brings so much to our audiences and our community,” Brosius said.

CTC’s 2023-2024

Season of seven productions features two world premieres, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress and Babble Lab, the international sensation Cookin’ from South Korea, the only Minnesota stop of the national tour of The Carp Who

According to the affidavit, surveillance video captured Little entering the Masjid Al-Rahma mosque minutes before the fire.

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Animal Stories from Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the return of last year’s sold out production of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the 3-time Tony Award®-nominated musical A Year With Frog and Toad, and the wildly inventive Alice in Wonderland

Full season subscriptions and renewals for the 2023-2024 Season are now on sale and can be purchased online at https:// childrenstheatre.org/shows-andtickets/subscribe-and-save/ or by calling the ticket office at 612.874.0400.

Currently, the World Premiere of An American Tail the Musical is playing at CTC’s UnitedHealth Group Stage thru June 18, 2023.

Tickets may be purchase online at childrenstheatre.org/ AmericanTail or by calling the ticket office at 612.874.0400.

Ticket prices start at $15.

Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) is the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for young people and serves a multigenerational audience. It creates theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire for more than 250,000 people annually.

Relations, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he was at Masjid Al-Rahma at the time, discussing the previous day’s fire with an imam.

CTC is the only theatre focused on young audiences to win the coveted Tony Award® for regional theatre and is the only theatre in Minnesota to receive three Tony® nominations (for its production of A Year with Frog and Toad). CTC is committed to creating worldclass productions at the highest level and to developing new works, more than 200 to date, dramatically changing the canon of work for young audiences.

CTC’s engagement and learning programs annually serve more than 93,000 young people and their communities through Theatre Arts Training, student matinees, Neighborhood Bridges, and early childhood arts education programs. ACT One is CTC’s comprehensive platform for access, diversity, and inclusion in our audiences, programs, staff, and board that strives to ensure the theatre is a home for all people, all families, reflective of our community. childrenstheatre.org or try to attack other mosques.

Masjid Al-Rahma mosque.

Little’s mother told investigators she recognized her son in video surveillance photos from the arsons and vandalism, according to an affidavit filed in support of the federal criminal complaint. She also said she strongly suspected that Little was involved in several unreported arsons.

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Investigators later found cardboard, metal canisters designed to hold olive oil, and an odor consistent with gasoline in the third-floor hallway of the mosque, the affidavit said. The hallway and stairwells on both ends were damaged.

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic should always be starting from, and we should go higher.”

The “Bring It Home” rental assistance program would receive $46 million, less than half of what the House initially sought and roughly a third of

“We were literally talking about the other incident” when someone told them the mosque they were in was on fire, Hussein said. “I could not believe it. Then I went up there and saw the smoke and fire.”

The affidavit alleges that a day earlier, Little lit a cardboard box on fire in a bathroom of the Masjid Omar Islamic Center. An employee the Senate’s original proposal. In the agreement, but less than the House sought are:

 $90 million to establish a community stabilization program to preserve naturally occurring affordable housing through interrupted Little and chased him out of the building. Little’s mother also told law enforcement officials that her son “extensively harassed a Muslim female,” including by sending her a photo of the Quran in a toilet, according to the affidavit. State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, of Minneapolis, a Muslim and Somali American, said in an interview with the AP that people in the community have been frightened that the person who lit the fires would come back acquisition or rehabilitation, a $60 million drop;

 $65.54 million for homelessness prevention, a $30 million decrease;  $40 million for homeownership investment grants, half of what was sought;

 $39 million for the

“It’s alarming.

It’s scary for the community,” she said. She is pursuing legislation to expand data collection on hate crimes that she hopes will address the issue. Instead of leaving it solely to law enforcement to report data on bias crimes, the legislation would direct the state Department of Human Rights to also collect data from community organizations, school districts and individuals who might not report such incidents to law

Greater Minnesota workforce housing development, $5 million below the House offer; and

 $10 million for manufactured home lending grants. The House sought $25 million.

The Senate agreed to allocate $50 million to establish a stable housing organization relief fund — double the original House-only provision — that would go to nonprofits experiencing significant detrimental financial impact due to loss of rental income, increased expenses, etc.

Other major financial stipulations include:

 $200 million in new, one-time funding for the housing infrastructure program;

 $120.85 million — $95 million in new money — enforcement. The provision is part of a broad public safety budget proposal being considered by the Legislature.

Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Trisha Ahmed on Twitter: @ TrishaAhmed15 for local housing needs, namely the economic development and housing challenge program; and

 $20.5 million in new money to expand a workforce homeownership program. The two bodies had already agreed on $74.26 million for housing infrastructure bonds debt service.

Rep. Brian Johnson (R-Cambridge) is “disappointed” in the agreement, particularly because of what he believes is inadequate funding for workforce housing and lack of oversight for nonprofits. “This isn’t free money. This is tax dollars that was overpaid by the citizens of Minnesota to the point of $17.5 billion.”