MSUM Theatre Arts Director Craig Ellingson didn’t come out as gay until he was an adult; now he champions LGBTQIA+ voices in scripts and on stage By Tracy Briggs, The ForumJune 30, 2024 Editor’s note: This is the final story in a series of profiles featuring LGBTQIA+ artists in the community during Pride Month, celebrated each June. MOORHEAD — Craig Ellingson […]
LGBTQ+ faculty of the MSUM campus: Please attend the Fall Organizational Meeting of MSUM’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer + (LGBTQ+). This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the focus and direction of LGBTQ+ faculty on campus. The LGBTQ+ Caucus is charged with addressing matters of concern to and the equitable treatment of LGBTQ+ faculty. The caucuses are meant […]
Craig Ellingson, Professor of Theatre, and IFO representative on the statewide LGBTQ+ Issues Committee, is seeking MSUM self-identified faculty members who would like to be part of ongoing LGBTQ+ discussion and activities here on campus. This involvement would also include other IFO statewide initiatives. The committee seeks to create spaces where support and action can assist in the recruitment and […]
MSUM Theatre Arts faculty Craig Ellingson and Julie Adams recently performed with MSUM students Jeanna Zenz, Joseph Schwartz, and Kyler Rayhill in a short concert for the Fargo Fine Arts Club.
By: John Lamb, INFORUM Moorhead – Forty years after Stephen King introduced the shy, high school senior, “Carrie” packs more of a punch than ever before. Craig Ellingson, who directs Minnesota State University Moorhead’s production of the musical version of the story, says with the recent attention paid to bullying, audiences see “Carrie” in a new light. “It’s very timely […]