Background
Hart was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and raised in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Robert Hart, a mechanical engineer, and Nancy VanSteenhuyse Hart, a medical laboratory technician.
Hart was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and raised in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Robert Hart, a mechanical engineer, and Nancy VanSteenhuyse Hart, a medical laboratory technician.
She attended high school in Rochester, Minnesota, where she was involved in music and theater.
Hart"s early career was in arts administration, at the Affiliated Arts Agencies of the Upper Midwest, now Arts Midwest, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She also worked as a freelance journalist, contributing theater reviews and arts features at the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Skyway News among other publications. She also served as the on-air theater critic for Minnesota Public Radio"s "Midmorning" program
