Originally from Denmark, Per Brask is a writer, dramaturg, translator, and a Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Winnipeg where he has taught since 1982.

He's been artistic director of Playwrights' Workshop and the Saidye Bronfman Centre Theatre, both in Montreal , and has directed plays at several theatres.  While he lived in Montreal he also taught at The National Theatre School and at Concordia University .

Brask has published poetry, short stories, drama, translations, interviews and essays. He has written a number of radio dramas for CBC Manitoba. His books include Power/lessness (Turnstone Chapbooks,1987), Duets (with George Szanto, Coteau, 1989), DramaContemporary: Scandinavia (ed., PAJ, 1989), Double Danish (ed. and trans., Cormorant, 1991), Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit and Sami Theatre (ed. with William Morgan, Johns Hopkins UP, 1992), Essays on Kushner's Angels (ed. Blizzard Publishing, 1995.) and A Sudden Sky, poems by Ulrikka S. Gernes (co-ed. and co-trans. with Patrick Friesen, Brick Books, 2001). 

Janeen Kobrinsky

Originally from Winnipeg, Janeen Kobrinsky has studied English and Theatre at the University of Winnipeg and Judaic Studies at the University of Manitoba.  Kobrinsky graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1994 with a BFA in painting.  She has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards.  She has exhibited her work from Fargo to Jerusalem.

Kobrinsky is presently employed as the Lay Rabbi of Temple Beth El in Fargo.  She maintains a studio in the downtown area and continues to paint and collaborate with Per Brask.

Kobrinsky and Brask have exhibited their ongoing collaborative work at the  University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03, at Heaven Art and Book Café in Winnipeg , at the Jewish Museum in Winnipeg , at Nine Artists Gallery in Fargo, at the Fergus Falls Community College Gallery in Fergus Falls Minnesota and most recently at the Memorial Union Gallery at NDSU.

They are about to embark on a new collaboration ... pirkei avot ... the wisdom of the ancestors.