Sod House Theater Presents "Five More Minutes"

@ The YES! House | 726 Prentice St, Granite Falls

6:00 - 9:00PM

Doors at 6:00PM, Show at 6:30PM

Tickets are available on a sliding scale: $10-$25

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Join us at The YES! House on Thursday, August 22nd doors 6PM, show at 6:30PM, for a Sod House Theater Production "Five More Minutes", created and performed by Joy Dolo and Luverne Seifert.

Don and Myrna are a loving couple who love to travel to magical new lands despite having a limited budget. Where they travel is limited only by their imagination. Join Sod House Theater co-creators Joy Dolo and Luverne Seifert as they perform a beautiful and uplifting story of how an elderly couple finds happiness even during the most challenging of times.

For Five More Minutes, Sod House Theater is partnering with Adenike Ademola, MSW. Ademola focuses on improving the well-being of the aging population, caregivers, and communities through health education and strengthening their access to significant resources. After working in healthcare since 2017, Ademola received her master’s degree in trauma-informed clinical social work from Winona State University in 2024. She is a program coordinator at Senior Community Services, and is also a social work intern at Alzheimer’s Association, where she has conducted dementia education, co-facilitated dementia programs, and developed valuable partnerships to support individuals living with dementia, caregivers, families, and the public. Ademola will support the project with the presentation and connection of materials for awareness and screening resources.

Artist Bios:

Luverne Seifert is co-artistic director of Sod House Theater and has been acting and directing professionally for over 30 years. He received a National Fox Fellowship for distinguished achievement in 2017, a Mcknight Fellowship for Theater Artists in 2003 and an Ivey Award in 2009 for his Performance as Phillip K Dick in 800 Words. He is currently a Senior Teaching Specialist in the Department of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota where he has been teaching for 15 years. He has acted nationally at South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, Arizona Rep, Trinity Rep, The La Jolla Playhouse, Arts Emerson, The Wilma Theater, The New Victory Theater in addition to performing locally with The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theater and Ten Thousand Things. He is certified in European clowning at The Burlesque Center for Clown in Lacarno, Switzerland and at The Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Etampe, France.

Joy Dolo is a theater artist based in Minnesota. She has worked on stages all over the Twin Cities and beyond for over a decade. She is a co-founder of Blackout Improv, the first all black improv group in MN. She Hosts American Public Media’s podcast “Forever Ago”, a history show for kids! She is a writer/performer for APM's Smash! Boom! Best! She is recognized through City Pages as 2018 Artist of the Year, an Ivey Award, and a MN Theater Award. Forever Ago received an Ambi nomination and was awarded a silver medal through Signal Awards.

This event series is supported in part by grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council made possible by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.