Michelle Thorson

Raised on a working cattle ranch on the edge of The Badlands, Michelle Thorson went on to live in Bogota, Barcelona, and Basque Country, later to motorcycle through over half a dozen contiguous nations along the Pan-American Highway. Her first formal introduction to the theatre was at Yale, where she created and chronicled an AIM-involved Lakota character, which, to her surprise, received rave reviews and murmurings amongst the Yale faculty. It was they who told her, that wherever she decided to move, she "must go somewhere where she can act". As a result, she immediately drove to the Rocky Mountains with a gal from Maine whom she'd never met before, and "got pregnant" with her "seventh child" to be Edna Louise on stage in the Ed Graczyk modern classic, "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean". She has since focused her writing on rural-urban and cross-cultural themes, producing, writing, and directing such pieces for the stage on both coasts. While producing pieces she