GUILLOTINE CITY

Leo Dreis AKA Marvelous is a composer, pianist and community organizer based in the twin cities. Leo is the founder/ director of The Cherry Pit, an artist collective that hosts jam sessions, classes and events for artists in the Twin Cities. Leo writes his own music, and performs frequently across the midwest, and has supported other notable acts such as XINA, Mike Kota, Cameron Wright, and Freaque. His debut single "Rainbow Boy" is available everywhere. Cherry Pit Jam sessions take place every Wednesday night @Berlin in downtown Minneapolis.

Erik Abramsen (he/him): New York: Down with the Most Beautiful of the Flock (Teatro Latea/NYTF) Regional: Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist (Pride Films and Plays), The Haunting of Hill House (THEATREX) Film: Sergei and the Apprehensive Fool (Independent), The Whale (Independent) Training: MFA, George Washington University/STC Academy; BA, Carleton College; BADA Midsummer in Oxford

Sasha Blinnikova (she/her) is an actor, performer, experimental movement facilitator, and lighting technician. She has worked with Commutator on many projects, most recently as LITTLE GOBLIN BOY in The World’s Tiniest Haunted House and SIGOURNEY WEAVER (a cat) in Detective Chunk, the Multiverse, and Me. As you can see, she has quite the range! Sasha is also a producer and actor with performance groups Virginia Twins and Experience Cult Research Group. She trained at Carleton College (BA) and the Moscow Arts Theater (via National Theater Institute). Thank you all for being here!

Sam Weisberg (he/him) is a director, performer, occasional dramaturg, and daytime sommelier based in Minneapolis, MN. Sam holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Emerson College, and has worked locally with Ten Thousand Things, Frank Theatre, Blue Water Theatre Co., and the Playwrights' Center in various capacities. Occasionally, he is a tubist with Di Bayke Klezmer Band, and was most recently seen at Open Eye playing in the house band for last year’s Full Moon Puppet Show. He is also a founder and co-director of Commutator Collective, and has been involved with most of the plays, films, dance parties, and other fracas produced under its umbrella over the last eight years. More Sam is available at commutatorcollective.org/sam.

Allison Young (she/her) is a full-time school counselor and a sometimes actor in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Guillotine City is her third production with Commutator Collective, most recently playing a variety of puppets in Detective Chunk, the Multiverse, and Me.  Also, sometimes she directs middle and high school theatre productions at her place of employment. The themes of this show hit strikingly close to home- Allison is immensely grateful to anyone fighting fascism and for the opportunity to create art as an act of resistance. 

Marge J. Buckley is a playwright and painter based in Minneapolis, MN. She is a 2025-26 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at the Playwrights’ Center in St. Paul, and the Playwright-in-Residence at Commutator Collective. She graduated from Emerson College in 2017 with a BFA in Acting. Her play The Earth Room premiered at Boston’s Fresh Ink Theatre in 2019. Her Commutator Collective productions include “Detective Chunk, the Multiverse, and Me”, “Grainville Cereals Incorporated”, and “Phylloxera!” Marge’s text experiments with theatrical form in order to examine radical systemic change. More about Marge at margebuckley.net

Emmet Kowler (he/him) is a storyteller and problem solver. Lately, he’s a video producer for Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, a company member of Theatre Pro Rata, and proprietor of Sloppy Discs Video Rental. emmetkowler.com