STAFF
lukas brasherfons | associate artistic director
Lukas is a director/dramaturg based in Minneapolis. At SYT, he has directed The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, as well as the Dream Project audio dramas of Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His dramaturgical endeavors include work with American Players Theatre, Writers Theatre, the Iowa NewPlay Festival, the Den Theatre, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co, Next Theatre, Raven Theatre, Mercury Players, Broom Street Theater, Chicago Dramatists, and Northlight Theatre. Lukas has a BFA in Acting with a minor in Stage Combat from Columbia College Chicago; as well as an MFA in Dramaturgy from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow. He will direct next summer’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Crane Theater in Minneapolis.
MARIA SIGNORELLI | Managing director
Maria joined SYT as Managing Director in 2021. She has worked in the Twin Cities stage manager, actor, and theatre arts educator, including GREAT Theater Summer Camps, Red Bird Theater, Rough Cut Shakespeare Company, Collective Unconscious Performance, and The Grumble Theater. She has also taught creative writing for teens and adults at The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art (through a partnership with Pathways), STAR Academy and Planet Homeschool Co-Op. She is the co-founder of YAPride.org, a website dedicated to supporting and promoting Young Adult novels that feature LGBTQIA+ characters. Maria holds a BA in Theater from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
LOGAN VERDOORN | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Logan has worked nationally and internationally as an actor, director, and educator, with a particular focus on Shakespeare in translation, cross-cultural collaboration, physical theatre and devised work. Before joining SYT in 2016, Logan was Theater Coordinator at New York University Berlin, where he created award-winning student programming featuring original, multi-lingual productions with students from NYU and local Berlin high schools. Logan has worked locally with theatre companies including Girl Friday Productions, Frank Theatre, Minnesota Jewish Theatre, and the Gremlin Theatre among others. Logan holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.