Andrew Kreider
Michiana ChroniclerAndrew Kreider was born and raised in London, England. He moved to Elkhart over twenty years ago, but somehow never totally lost his accent. Most weeks you will find him somewhere in the bowels of the Lerner Theater in Elkhart, where he works as a tech and as the audio and lighting designer for Premier Arts.
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For years, I have wanted to own a jukebox. You know, one of those rounded, neon-lit rocket ships with names like Wurlitzer. Or perhaps a glass-topped…
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This last week I was finally let go from my job – not my regular 9 to 5 you understand, but from my side gig - as a personal shopper. It was always for a…
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The snowy weather has had me inside the last couple of weeks, with time on my hands to read. This is the time of year I often turn to poetry, and as has…
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There’s an old country song by Dan Hicks, “How can I miss you when you won’t go away?” To me, that’s 2020 in a nutshell.At the theatre, we are in the…
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It was twenty-five years ago. Pastor Duane Beck of Belmont Mennonite Church had just done a funeral for a young man in the neighborhood who had died from…
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It’s a good day in our house. I just received a new 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle in the mail. It’s a Star Wars one, a happy conglomeration of posters from…
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As I look back at the past twelve months, I realize that 2019 was the year of the bad joke. In the middle of work, of play, of family changes, of national…
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I’ve been working on maps recently. It all started with Lara Trump. A few weeks ago she suggested that the average American would need to Google “Who are…
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A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit in on a singing lesson with a well-known voice teacher. It was like stepping back in time. The walls of her…
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It’s a rainy Sunday, and I have dragged my adult daughter to an origami class. It is, after all, her birthday; and in our family, we really know how to…