The New Quorum Welcomes McKnight Fellows January 2023

The New Quorum is a proud recipient of the McKnight Artist Residencies Consortium, a partnership between Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) and the McKnight Foundation. The New Quorum was one of 15 residencies selected from a competitive pool of residencies worldwide. The multi-year regranting partnership provides direct support to artists to attend residencies and to residency programs to host artists. The consortium is designed to build equitable capacity in the artist communities field and connect McKnight Artist Fellows with national and international residency opportunities.

 

Chad Heslup (aka Longshot)

Chad Heslup (aka Longshot) is a rapper, producer & actor hailing from the Midwest.  Born and raised in Chicago, IL. & now residing in Minneapolis, MN, Longshot has a sound & style unique to his own.  Having worked with producers such as Jake One, Lazerbeak of Doomtree, The Molemen out of Chicago & TGIK, Longshot has proven to be a masterful songwriter.  A 2021 McKnight Fellow, Longshot also has acted in multiple theater productions in Chicago and Minneapolis.  Through his art Longshot’s aim is to connect with people and, hopefully relate with the myriad of human emotions we deal with day to day.

 

 

Cristina Luzárraga

Cristina Luzárraga is a Minneapolis-based playwright originally from New Jersey whose dark comedies tend to feature unruly women and an exploration of the grotesque and uncanny. She was a 2021-2022 McKnight Fellow and former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays include Critical Distance, Millennialville, Havana Syndrome, and La Mujer Barbuda (2019 Screencraft Stage Play Winner, produced at Blank Theatre in LA). She is an alum of The Second City Conservatory in Chicago, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood collective, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group. Her full-lengths have been developed with Playmakers Repertory Company, Teatro LATEA, and IATI Theater; her short plays have been featured in the 2020 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival and published in anthologies by Smith and Kraus. BA: Princeton; MFA: Ohio University