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Acclaimed "Refugee Nation" TeAda theater company back in Minneapolis for "Global Taxi Driver" show

Intermedia Arts and Minnesota’s performing arts community welcomes back Los Angeles-based theater company, TeAda Productions. As part of the Global Taxi Driver project, TeAda’s ensemble invites artists, community members with taxi stories, and taxi drivers to a free story-gathering and theater-making workshop Monday, August 12th, 7pm-10pm at Intermedia Arts. These stories and local taxi driver interviews will provide a jumping off point for TeAda’s week-long residency at Intermedia Arts and will culminate in a work-in-progress performance of Global Taxi Driver on Saturday, August 17th, 2-4pm, and will include a 30-minute panel discussion moderated by Sandy Agustin. The audience will also be given the opportunity to share their own taxi stories, which will be considered for inclusion in the developing production scheduled to premiere at Intermedia Arts in April 2014. Ensemble members include Ova Saopeng, Shyamala Moorty, Saymoukda Vongsay and Robert Karimi, directed by Leilani Chan.   Taxi Story Workshop:  Monday, August 12; 7-10 PM Global Taxi Driver work-in-progress performance: Saturday, August 17; 2-4 PM Both events at Intermedia Arts: 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN …