Noa Carlson

Noa Carlson dabbles in many realms. She is a proud theatre-maker, actor, stage manager, and biologist. She feels blessed to work in theater in Tlingit Aani as the Arts Administration Fellow at Perseverance Theatre. Born and raised in St. Paul, MN, she found great interest in all things theatrical, beginning as an actor in her middle school production of The Music Man to stage managing her high school’s production of Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings. In college, she excitedly embraced theater as a means of community gathering and healing after performing as lady in brown in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. In her senior year, she explored what it takes for land to become home by exploring themes of migration, creation stories, and indigeneity through her one-woman play A Land Unknown, Remembered. She is grateful to have worked with Penumbra Theater and Mixed Blood Theatre in the Twin Cities on projects related to Black racial healing and community work, and is excited to spread Theatre Alaska’s production of A Christmas Carol to many of our Juneau communities this holiday season!