A native of Albert Lea, MN, Eva Barr is an organic farmer and independent theatre artist now living on DreamAcres Farm outside Wykoff. Having graduated from Northwestern University in 1988 and subsequently co-founded Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, she took off to really learn something of the world through further study, travel, and experience.  Curiosity took her to farms and families in Central America, Europe, and Africa, and brought her back to Minnesota to establish DreamAcres with her partner, Todd Juzwiak, her two sons, Chester and Stanley, and numbers of other worthy hands over the years.  Flourish Summer Camp in Arts and Agriculture, est. 2003, is an outgrowth of Barr's passion for grappling with (seeking to more deeply understand) the project of being a human being on this planet physically through theatre/performance work and growing food.  She sees performance work as fuel for the spirit, and vegetables as food for the body, both essential.  Flourish manifests all that she would have desired in a summer camp...and each summer the camp reveals itself to be more than she'd ever imagined.

Malia Burkhart is a Multi-disciplinary Performance Artist, Singer-Songwriter / Musician, Visual Artist, Somatic Massage Therapist, and Arts-Educator. She lives, works, creates, and organizes in Minneapolis, MN.

Dustin Haug grew up in southern Minnesota and attended St. Olaf College. Although he was very active in the dance department and spent a good deal of time studying chemistry, he earned a BA in Visual Art in 2000. He move to Seattle, WA after graduation and began working with KT Niehoff’s lingo dance theater in 2002, creating and performing in several evening-length works, including Speak to Me, Relatively Real, and Inhabit. In the summer of 2007, Dustin moved back home to Minnesota. Locally, he has shown his own work at The Walker Art Center’s Choreographer’s Evening, Zenon’s Dance Zone, Choreographer’s Evening at the Ritz, Bryant Lake Bowl, and SPCPA’s Evening of Dance. He has also had the pleasure of working with numerous local choreographers such as Body Cartography Project, Rosy Simas Danse, Patrick Scully, Maggie Bergeron and Dancers, and Chris Schlicting. Dustin joined Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES in 2013 to create and perform in the evening-length work The Main Street Project. He has taught modern dance and contact improvisation at Zenon Dance School since 2008.  He is also a licensed public high school teacher working at St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists (SPCPA) where he has taught dance, chemistry, and physics and is the academic coordinator.

Kelly Jo Haug is a lifelong musician who studied vocal music at Luther College. She sings and plays the piano, ukulele, and enjoys writing music. She lives in Saint Paul, MN with her husband and 6-year-old daughter. She spends her days as a paraprofessional at Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and as a birth Doula in the Twin Cities.

Stan grew up on Dreamacres and participated in Flourish all through his youth before studying improv at The Second City in Chicago. He now coaches and performs with improv teams in minneapolis and works in the field where music and videography meet.

Nikhil Saxena has been a musician and Flourish participant for many years. He has experience performing and working with choirs, a cappella groups, rock bands, and other assorted musical ensembles. He writes and produces original music in the twin cities and attends Flourish each year to teach music and songwriting. Nikhil plays guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, clarinet, as well as various other musical instruments and gladly helps campers develop instrumental and musical skills.