Heather Nielsen joined the Project Success team in 2022, after relocating back to Minnesota mid-pandemic. She worked with organizations like the Guthrie Theater and Adventures in Cardboard and SPA while making Minneapolis her home after living in Brooklyn, New York for ten years. While in NYC, she engaged in education that prioritized social justice and created community based art and theater. She taught Fourth Grade at Friends Seminary in Manhattan, as well as directing class plays, co-directing Middle School theater, and creating original work with the Creative Arts Team Youth Theater. Other highlights were co-creating the Newtown Creek Puppet Parade and Pageant in Brooklyn, exploring the polluted waterway’s past, present, and future with its young residents, earning her Masters in Applied Theatre through CUNY-SPS, and taking Educational Theatre classes at City College. Prior to moving to New York, Heather lived in Vermont and Minnesota and focused on experiential education, conservation, and youth leadership with both the Vermont and Minnesota Conservation Corps. Heather graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN with a BA in Environmental Studies and a focus on theater and social change. She loves exploring Minneapolis and St. Paul in search of good food, great art, or out-of-the-way shops.
Músicos favoritos:
Prince, David Bowie, Tribe Called Red, The National, Beyoncé
Si tuvieras que elegir una canción que sonaría cada vez que entraras a la habitación, ¿cuál sería?
Un día encantador de Bill Withers
Libros favoritos:
Leyendo el paisaje boscoso de Tom Wessels, Birchbark House de Louise Erdrich, B es para Brooklyn de Selina Alko
Películas favoritas:
La princesa prometida, Los Tenenbaums reales,
Comida favorita:
¡Todos los fideos! Pasta, fideos de arroz, soba, ¡qué rico!
Cita favorita:
“Todos lo hacemos mejor cuando todos lo hacemos mejor.” Paul Wellstone
Asignatura favorita en la escuela:
Coro, biología, teatro, arte, artes del lenguaje.
Experiencia teatral favorita:
Ver el desfile y festival del Primero de Mayo de HOTB por primera vez y darme cuenta del poder de los ENORMES títeres, la celebración comunitaria y el ritual.
Tu destino de vacaciones definitivo:
Marruecos
Si pudieras tener un superpoder, ¿cuál sería?
Poder 'ver' la historia de un objeto o edificio antiguo tocándolo o sosteniéndolo
La persona más influyente en tu vida/maestro o mentor favorito:
¡Mi mamá! Me inculcó una profunda curiosidad por la naturaleza y me enseñó a ser amable y amorosa.
¿Qué querías ser cuando crecieras?
Un actor o un veterinario