Building shared leadership at Theater Mu: Service, Sustainability, and Community in the Twin Cities

Send a textWe welcome Theater Mu’s new artistic director, Fran, and managing director, Anh Thu, for a candid talk about service-driven leadership, sustaining bold art in a tight funding climate, and building trust as co-leaders. The conversation moves from search lessons to advocacy, legacy, and why creating new stories matters for AAPI communitiesWe talk openly about money from sunsetting grants, consolidating foundations, and why “profit for nonprofit” thinking matters when artist labor is too often treated as an afterthought. Together they map how a theater rooted in AAPI stories responds to immigration raids, visa barriers for artists, casting controversies, and local tragedies without losing artistic ambition or community trust.