Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis Announces New Core Company

Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) has announced a new Core Company, artists who serve as regular collaborators and artistic partners, expanding the theater’s longtime Acting Company to include additional artists.

The new Core Company includes actor Antonisia (Nisi) Collins, sound designer Melanie Chen Cole, actor and director Dean Holt, actor Autumn Ness, actor Reed Sigmund, actor Chauncy Thomas, and choreographer Christopher Windom.

In CTC’s 2026-27 season, Collins will appear in Pinocchio and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Chen Cole will be the sound designer for Twelve Kinds of Ice; Holt will appear in Pinocchio, Princess Kay of the Milky Way, and School of Rock The Musical, and will direct and act in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Ness and Sigmund will appear in Pinocchio, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Princess Kay of the Milky Way, and School of Rock The Musical; Thomas will appear in Pinocchio, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and School of Rock The Musical; and Windom will choreograph School of Rock The Musical.