Gregory C. Anderson, CPA, is Executive Managing Principal of Ellerbe Becket, an international architecture and engineering firm. Greg has been active in numerous non-profit organizations, but has a particular interest in Mu’s mission because his family has blended in the Korean culture through adoption. Not a “stage dad” in any sense, Greg has taken an active interest in his daughters’ passion for acting and dance. He cheerfully rejoined the Mu Board as Treasurer in 2005.

Jeff Chen is a Vice President in the middle market practice at Lazard, where he provides merger and acquisition advisory services for a wide variety of companies in industrial products, chemicals, technology, energy, building products, consumer products and environmental industries. Prior to joining Lazard, Jeff was a business development manager at 3M Company. Prior to 3M, Jeff worked in the energy and power investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. Earlier in his career, Jeff served in operational and entrepreneurial roles. He served as a technical director at Plug Power, where he assisted in the company's IPO; and he also was a project manager at Thermo Electron Corp., where he helped spin out a new company.

Jeff grew up in New Jersey, and lived in California, New York, and Massachusetts before settling in Minnesota, when his spouse became a faculty member at the University of MN. Jeff has been active in Asian American organizations on the East and West Coasts, and is excited to be a Board member of Mu Performing Arts. Jeff has two very active children who enjoy music and theater.

Don Eitel has worked in the arts non-profit world in both creative and administrative capacities. His most recent work was as the Development Associate, Assistant to the Artistic Director at Park Square Theatre, a mid-sized company based in St. Paul, MN. He is also a Founding Member and former Artistic Managing Director of Starting Gate Productions in the Twin Cities, a small, dynamic theatre company which was awarded “Best of the Twin Cities” for small theatre in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine in 2004. He was a music teacher at the East Metro Music Academy and has had earlier corporate experience in a variety of roles (Assistant Product Manager and Assistant to VP of Sourcing) with Paper Magic Group, Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance.

Kaohly Her has been a professional in the finance industry for over 14 years. Most recently, Ms. Her was a Relationship Manger with American Express providing business consulting service for American Express clients. Additionally, she managed key relationships with community partners such as the Arts & Business Council, Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association and Minnesota Hospitality. She is currently pursuing an MBA from Northeastern University out of Boston, MA.

Ms. Her has had a long history working with the community in a variety of capacities. Ms. Her served on the American Express Volunteer Council, Co-Chaired the American Express Employee Development and Talent Management Committee and worked with Human Resources to help with their minority recruitment efforts. Outside of American Express, Ms. Her was a Board Member of Women’s Association of Hmong and Lao, mentored inner city youths through the St. Paul, Minnesota School MEP program, and Vice President of Hmong National Development (HND). Currently Ms. Her is the Chair of the JJ Hill Montessori School Site Council, Vice Chair of Support Our Schools and recently appointed to serve on the Saint Paul Human Rights & Equal Economic Opportunity Commission.
Ms. Her is the wife of Kong Her, a Portfolio Manager at Allianz Life and adjunct finance professor at Metropolitan State University, and mother of two beautiful girls named Taylor and Ayden.

Sunny, as she is known to most people, was adopted from Seoul, Korea, at 11 months old in 1970. She is proud to be part of the Korean adoptive community and works with younger adoptees on issues of self esteem. She has taught at the Korean Institute of Minnesota and at several of the Korean culture camps. Sunny is also dedicated to the arts and the community in which she lives. She is the recepient of a St. Paul Companies L.I.N. (Leadership in Neightborhoods) grant. She has served on several boards, including Children's Home Society and The Korean Quarterly. Sunny has been involved with Theater Mu since 1997. She originally worked with Mu's outreach program performing an autobiographical monologue, "My Story". Later, she and Rick Shiomi collaborated to write the book for "The Walleye Kid". Sunny is honored to be part of the Mu Performing Arts Board of Directors, as this is an exciting time of growth, artistically and operationally, for the organization. In her professional life she is the Development Officer at the Minnesota Private College Council, Fund and Research Foundation. Sunny is also proud to be partner to Jeff, mother to Joseph, Thomas, and Patrick!

Stephan Longthe Kieu was born in Saigon. His mother was a pharmacist and owned a pharmacy; his father was a math teacher and doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Stephan was enrolled in the National Music Conservatory from 1972-1979. He is the oldest of 5 siblings. In 1979, at the age of 16, he escaped succesfully from the communist regime and fled for freedom with 45 other people on a small fishing boat. Out of water, food, and fuel, the boat was rescued by a World Vision ship and resettled in the USA as refugees. Stephan joined his aunt and uncle's family in Fridley, MN, finished high school, and put himself through the U of MN studying computer science. He has been working in the Information Technology field since 1986. Stephan currently resides in Minneapolis and works as a Technical Consultant at Ecolab Inc. When not working, Stephan enjoys active travel, cooking & entertaining friends. From time to time, he enjoys a competitive game of squash or attending performing arts events with his spouse, Julie.

Daniel Sach Le immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Vietnam. Learning English from ‘Sesame Street’, Dan spent his early life interpreting for many of his non-English speaking relatives to assist them with the many obstacles they faced in assimilating to American life. His father, Le Van Sach, was a strong role model as he served as the Southeast Asian Relocation Coordinator for Vietnamese, Hmong & Cambodians for Governors Wendell Anderson, Rudy Perpich and Al Quie. Daniel graduated from the U of M with a B.S. in Economics and J.D. from William Mitchell in 1997. During that period, he also performed with Theater Mu as an actor and stage manager. Today Dan serves on the Theater’s board of directors. He then spent nearly years with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services working with poor and indigent clients on a variety of legal issues. Dan then became the community prosecutor for the St. Paul City Attorney’s office working on specific criminal and ‘quality of living’ issues of the city’s residents. Thereafter Dan served as an assistant City Attorney for the City of Maplewood in prosecution and civil matters with the firm of Kelly & Fawcett, P.A. At Murphy Law Firm, Daniel blends his litigation background with transactional practice areas to ensure clients excellent legal solutions for their respective needs.

Thomas Lee is the Minnesota Bureau Chief for MedCity News. He previously covered food, banks, and emerging/growth companies for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He has also written for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, and China Daily USA.

Lee also serves as Minnesota chapter president for the Asian American Journalists Association.

Since her retirement in 2007, Dorothy has enjoyed exploring the many possibilities open to a “lady of leisure.” Her 36 year career as Executive Director of Reuben Lindh Family Services had not left much time for Dorothy to pursue her deep appreciation of the arts. Now she has time and energy to do that.

Dorothy’s formal education for a life-long career in community service began at the University of Wisconsin, continued at the University of Minnesota where she pursued an M.A. in Special Education. IN 1989, she completed the Leadership in Public Policy Program at the Humphrey Institute at the U of M. Honored with many awards, Dorothy cites the Bush Fellowship – Early Childhood Education as an especially rewarding one.

In her role as Founding Director of Reuben Lindh, Dorothy began expanding the concept of services. The organization that was a day activity center for handicapped children in South Minneapolis began to include populations traditionally overlooked, adding services for the entire family, offering parenting classes, multi-cultural programs, and establishing a Southeast Asian Family Service Pre-School. As needs arose, Reuben Lindh Family Services responded. Today it is a dynamic organization serving children and families in Hennepin County.

In a recent interview talking about the luxury of retirement, Dorothy explained her decision to join the Board of Mu Performing Arts: “I believe you really get to know people when you know and understand their culture. To me that culture is best expressed in the performance of their art in all its forms. That’s where the stories are and that is what is so very rewarding. Mu Performing Arts is an extraordinary opportunity for me to be well rewarded.

As a playwright and director, Rick Shiomi has been one of the leading figures of the Asian American theater movement since the early 1980's.
Relocating to Minnesota in the 1990's, he was one of the founders of Theater Mu and is presently the Artistic Director of the company under its current name,Mu Performing Arts. Mr. Shiomi's plays include the award winning Yellow Fever, Rosie's Cafe, Uncle Tadao, Play Ball, Mask Dance, The Tale of the Dancing Crane and Song of the Pipa. He also co-authored the book for The Walleye Kid: The Musical. Yellow Fever has been produced off-Broadway, in Japanese in Tokyo and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Mr. Shiomi has had his plays produced by the major Asian American theater companies: Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco, Pan Asian Repertory in New York and East West Players in Los Angeles. Yellow Fever has also been published in the U.S. and Canada and Mask Dance appears in Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing, published by Rutgers University in 2001. He has also written screenplays for film and television including the Canadian award winning dramatic series ENG.Mr. Shiomi's directing credits include Mask Dance, Theater Mu's first full-length production, The Walleye Kid, The Tale of the Dancing Crane, Song of the Pipa and Maui and the Soul of the Sun. He has also directed at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco and at Interact Theater in Philadelphia.

As a Taiko performer, Shiomi began his career in the late 1970s with Katari Taiko in Vancouver, Canada. In the early 1980s, he studied and performed with the San Francisco Taiko Dojo under Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka. In the 1980s, he also performed with Soh Daiko of New York, the San Jose Taiko Group and Wasabi Daiko of Toronto. He is the founder and former artistic director of Mu Daiko, the professional taiko ensemble within Mu Performing Arts. As an individual taiko performer he played in the Ragamala Music and Dance Theater production of The Return of the Rain Seed and was awarded a MSAB Cultural Collaborations grant to create a taiko and bharatanatyam performance with Ragamala Music and Dance Theater. Mr. Shiomi's other activities have included serving on the Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Pluralism Advisory Committee, as a board director at the Metropolitan Regional Arts
Council, and on the Ordway Cultural Advisory Committee. He is an Alumni Member of the Playwrights' Center and he has served on numerous panels for the above bodies, for private foundations and on the steering committee for the Asian American Theater Festival planned for 2007. Mr. Shiomi received an Award for Leadership and Excellence in the Arts from the State Council of Asian Pacific Minnesotans in 2001 and the Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Vision in 2008.

Stuart Weeldreyer is an Account Executive for Visions Inc., a Native American owned Integrated Marketing Company. Visions is a full service agency and commercial printing company with a specialty in 1 to 1 Marketing and PURLs.

Stuart has spent his entire life in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area. Like many others who were raised here, he is acutely aware of the need to understand other cultures and people. Stuart has been serving on the board of MU Performing Arts for over a decade.

Married and the proud father of two small children, Stuart is constantly on the go. The home life is shared with two dogs, two cats and a horse. His interests include making house payments and carving out time to spend with family.