Barbara Kingsley I love stories. They keep me company, make me laugh and think and cry and sigh. Everybody has a story to share and my favorites are the ones playwrights forge into plays. I've performed in plays across the country but Minnesota has been my home for the past 27 years. I started playing with Ten Thousand Things in 1996 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and it opened a world I had never known nose to nose with audience, no barriers all on a journey together. It was bold and heady and something I can never get enough of. There we were in small spaces, without the usual trappings of a staged production. Emperor of the Moon, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Tempest, The Furies, King Lear and The Good Person of Szechwan I got to share all these with great folks who claim no notion of what theater is 'supposed to be' and they laugh and hoot and weep and speak out with honest response to a really good story. How great is that!?!