About the Time Take Artists

Marisha Chamberlain is a playwright, poet and fiction writer. Her plays have been staged nationally and internationally, notably Scheherazade, which won the FDG/CBS Regional and National Awards, and was produced in London at the Soho Poly, and in Toronto at the Canadian Playwright’s Theater. She has adapted numerous works for the stage, notably Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, commissioned and premiered by the Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis. Her first libretto, Meeting at Seneca Falls with music by Carol Barnett premiered in the Minnesota Orchestra’s 1998 Sommerfest. Her book of poems, Powers, won a Minnesota Voices Award and publication by New Rivers Press. Chamberlain’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.

Laura Crosby is a portrait and documentary photographer. Issues she has documented include Minnesota's homeless youth, youth prostitution, physically challenged and disenfranchised youth, and the American Image Industry. She has exhibited in more than ten solo exhibitions and over 30 group exhibitions. Her photographs were used in the PBS Nova documentary entitled "Dying To Be Thin.” Crosby is published regionally, nationally and internationally.

Libby Larsen is one of America's renowned living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 200 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores. Her music has been praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and vigorous contemporary American spirit. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including a 1994 Grammy as producer of the CD The Art of Arlene Auger, an acclaimed recording that features Larsen's Sonnets from the Portuguese. The first woman to serve as a resident composer with a major orchestra, her works are widely recorded on such labels as Angel/EMI, Nonesuch, Decca, and Koch International. She is a cofounder of the American Composers Forum.