Ann Schulman's children's theatre productions include Peter Rabbit & Co. and Riding the Rails, both composed by Gary Rue. She is currently under commission by Stepping Stone theatre to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale. Ann's adult plays, Conversations About Hannah and Eternity, were produced by The History Theatre. She is currently working with Somali poet Said Salah Ahmed on Peace and Milk. Her work-in-progress, Composing Ellen, was a Jerome and Minnesota State Arts Board finalist and a PlayLabs semifinalist. Ann is a graduate of the SUNY-Purchase Acting Conservatory, studied acting with Uta Hagen, and is a member of Equity and SAG. She is also the wife of Bruce Field and mother of Benjamin.
A performer and composer, Gary Rue has been playing music for audiences throughout the western hemisphere since the mid-’60s, beginning with various town halls in the upper Midwest and graduating to East Coast “tent” tours that included the Big Apple (Carnegie Hall as music director and duet partner for Gene Pitney) and on to far-flung points in Canada and the Caribbean. Early along the way, Rue began writing music of his own and was rewarded with some of his songs being recorded by (among others) Nick Lowe and Helen Reddy, as well as many prominent regional artists. He is the author of nearly 80 scores for music theatre, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales, which toured the U.S. and China with Dallas Children’s Theater. Rue is also a 2010 Minnesota Music Hall of Fame inductee and an active touring musician and educator.
