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Biograph
Shá Cage is Co-Artistic Director of Trú Rúts Endeavors which seeks to bring artistic endeavors to fruition. She is Development Director of Minnesota’s first resource organization dedicated to poets and spoken word artists, The MN Spoken Word Association (MNSWA) and is founding and co-Managing Director of female theater collective, MaMa mOsAiC as well as a company member of Pillsbury House Theater and Pangea World Theater.
Shá has been a Twin Cities based multidisciplinary artist since ’96. Art as a multifaceted entity has served as her creative vessel for creating and invoking change, particularly surrounding female issues. She is a graduate of Macalester College and has worked with a variety of area theatres including: Penumbra Theater, Illusion Theater, Theatre De La Jeune Lune, The National Theater For Children, The Saint Paul History Theater, Alchemy Theater, and Steppingstone Theater.
She has appeared in commercials, printwork, industrials and short films and was a core member of Sistahs in Struggle; a female collective which used interactive performance theater as a tool to educate and heal.
She is currently writing her first full length solo play and is co-writing (with MaMa mOsAiC), Making Medea, an adaptation of the classical text of Medea. With mOsAiC she was recently in commission with Pillsbury House Theater creating their third original work, The Bi Show, which ran at the theater May 10-25th 2002. She was seen last in MaMa mOsAiC’s The Bi Show and multimedia piece, The Menstruation Project; also Penumbra Theater’s Conflama . She is currently an artist in residence with the Playwright Center’s Many Voices Program through June 2003.
In 2000 Shá was commissioned by Pangea World Theater to created an experimental movement/spoken word/video performance, Birth Spirit Songs, with e.g. bailey, exploring their journeys to Afrika. With KFAI radio, she is Co-Executive Producer of an annual spoken word series, Words Will Heal The Wound: A Celebration of Community Through Poetry, in honor of National Poetry Month. In 2001 she served as dramaturge on Pangea World Theater’s adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel No Longer at Ease to the stage.
Her visual art has been exhibited locally in community centers and cafés in the past 2 years; and her short film, fragments, which addresses homelessness has been seen locally as well. She is currently co-curating of an African Art Exhibit in collaboration with Intermedia Arts organization to be produced in March of 2003. She is currently in pre-production for Réflection, a short film which she wrote and filmed with e.g. bailey.
Most recently, Shá received the prestigious 2003 Forcast Public Arts individual grant and with MaMa mOsAiC Shá is the recipient of a 2001 Jerome Foundation’s Collaborative Arts Grant as well as a 2001 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant. They are also the recent recipients of an ING collaboration grant to work with musical composer, Malo Adams and multidisciplinary artist, e.g. bailey to create original music and video for The Bi-Show production.
In 2001, she co-produced Singers of Daybreak, a dialogue on the art of Spoken Word. With MNSWA she is the recipient of a 2001 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council; Community Arts Grant, a 2001 Jerome Grant, and was recently awarded the 2002 Minneapolis City Arts Grant.
In addition to acting, producing and organizing with Trú Rúts Endeavors and MNSWA, writing with MaMa mOsAiC, and working with Pangea Theater, Pillsbury’s Breaking Ice Company, Shá is a poet and painter, and teaches kids theater and movement.
Shá has been a Twin Cities based multidisciplinary artist since ’96. Art as a multifaceted entity has served as her creative vessel for creating and invoking change, particularly surrounding female issues. She is a graduate of Macalester College and has worked with a variety of area theatres including: Penumbra Theater, Illusion Theater, Theatre De La Jeune Lune, The National Theater For Children, The Saint Paul History Theater, Alchemy Theater, and Steppingstone Theater.
She has appeared in commercials, printwork, industrials and short films and was a core member of Sistahs in Struggle; a female collective which used interactive performance theater as a tool to educate and heal.
She is currently writing her first full length solo play and is co-writing (with MaMa mOsAiC), Making Medea, an adaptation of the classical text of Medea. With mOsAiC she was recently in commission with Pillsbury House Theater creating their third original work, The Bi Show, which ran at the theater May 10-25th 2002. She was seen last in MaMa mOsAiC’s The Bi Show and multimedia piece, The Menstruation Project; also Penumbra Theater’s Conflama . She is currently an artist in residence with the Playwright Center’s Many Voices Program through June 2003.
In 2000 Shá was commissioned by Pangea World Theater to created an experimental movement/spoken word/video performance, Birth Spirit Songs, with e.g. bailey, exploring their journeys to Afrika. With KFAI radio, she is Co-Executive Producer of an annual spoken word series, Words Will Heal The Wound: A Celebration of Community Through Poetry, in honor of National Poetry Month. In 2001 she served as dramaturge on Pangea World Theater’s adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel No Longer at Ease to the stage.
Her visual art has been exhibited locally in community centers and cafés in the past 2 years; and her short film, fragments, which addresses homelessness has been seen locally as well. She is currently co-curating of an African Art Exhibit in collaboration with Intermedia Arts organization to be produced in March of 2003. She is currently in pre-production for Réflection, a short film which she wrote and filmed with e.g. bailey.
Most recently, Shá received the prestigious 2003 Forcast Public Arts individual grant and with MaMa mOsAiC Shá is the recipient of a 2001 Jerome Foundation’s Collaborative Arts Grant as well as a 2001 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant. They are also the recent recipients of an ING collaboration grant to work with musical composer, Malo Adams and multidisciplinary artist, e.g. bailey to create original music and video for The Bi-Show production.
In 2001, she co-produced Singers of Daybreak, a dialogue on the art of Spoken Word. With MNSWA she is the recipient of a 2001 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council; Community Arts Grant, a 2001 Jerome Grant, and was recently awarded the 2002 Minneapolis City Arts Grant.
In addition to acting, producing and organizing with Trú Rúts Endeavors and MNSWA, writing with MaMa mOsAiC, and working with Pangea Theater, Pillsbury’s Breaking Ice Company, Shá is a poet and painter, and teaches kids theater and movement.