Name: Meet the Playwright & Director of 'Can't Drink Salt Water'
Start: 2026-02-09T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Missoula Public Library

Meet the Playwright & Director of 'Can't Drink Salt Water'

FREE & OPEN TO ALL
Monday, February 9 at 6:30 PM in Cooper Room A at Missoula Public Library (4th Floor)
Join us for an artist talk with the playwright – Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, and the director – Meghan Finn, of Montana Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of Can't Drink Salt Water (Feb. 14-22), produced in partnership with UM School of Theatre and Dance.
Hear about the process of writing and re-working this amazing script, which has been years in the making, and the directorial vision bringing it to fruition onstage.
ABOUT KENDRA
Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, Theatre and Film Artist: Kendra, an enrolled member of Lummi Nation, is based in Missoula, MT. She co-founded MT+NYC Collaborative, and directed two of the company's first productions before co-writing with Ciara Griffin and performing the titular role in “The Buffalo Play”, which enjoyed its premiere in NY in the 2019 season at The Tank. Her film work has screened at Sundance, SXSW, NY Human Rights Watch Film Fest, and other festivals around the world. She won best actor in NBC/Universal Pictures Short Cuts Film Festival. The New York Times once called her “a skilled collaborator.” As an actor, NY theatre includes both off and off-off Broadway venues. Regional work includes a national tour as Shelby in Steel Magnolias for Montana Rep, and other productions in LA, OR, and MT.
Kendra developed a theatre and storytelling workshop at N'Kwusm Salish language school with William Yellow Robe, Jr., has created and implemented curriculum for Missoula County Public School’s Sparks program on Native American Studies using theatre in education techniques, and has presented work as a keynote speaker and panelist at national and international conferences on personal storytelling, race, creative writing, Indian child welfare, and literary study. She helps facilitate annual writing retreats for all genres with MT+NYC Collaborative.
ABOUT MEGHAN
Meghan Finn is a director of theater and film and an Artistic Director at The Tank, a New York City-based nonprofit theater. In 2020, she accepted an OBIE Award for The Tank’s excellence in service to artists.
As an artist herself, Meghan’s focus is contemporary playwriting and hybrid collaborations with visual artists and experimental writers. She has directed over 60 fully-staged theatrical productions since moving to New York in 2003.
Meghan’s work is critically-acclaimed and frequently featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Wall Street Journal and others. TimeOut NY recently called her, “the tiger in The Tank.”
Her directorial work has been seen at The Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner Center, Powerhouse Theater, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo Jumex Mexico City, Canadian Stage Toronto, Clubbed Thumb, HERE, The Brick, The Bushwick Starr, Soho Gallery, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, PS122, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, Montclair State, New Georges, The Flea, Canadian Stage, Carnegie Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, the Great Plains Theater Conference, The King’s Head Theater London, the MAC Belfast, the Roes Theater Athens, and for OnSTAGE! Festival in Rome/Milan and others.
In 2024, Meghan founded RE/VENUE NYC, a project inspired by The Tank’s legacy of making space for artists. She is currently working through RE/VENUE NYC alongside The Tank to help theaters bounce back after the pandemic while serving more artists and building new audiences for culture throughout New York City.
Meghan Finn directed the OBIE Award-winning KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA by Ariel Stess in 2024. She is the recipient of a 2023 Prelude Frankie Award, a 2020 Brooklyn College Theater Department Alumni of the Year Award, and a 2021 Lucille Lortel Visionary Award from The League of Professional Theater Women, and a 2024 Recipient of The David Prize for extraordinary New Yorkers. BA University of Southern California, MFA Brooklyn College.