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Amie Root

A Caffeinated Creative

Artistry

Amie Root is a multifaceted artist. She is a playwright, actor, fight director and teaching artist. She strives to tell stories, full of joy and poignant truth, ending in a finale of hope. Contact her today if you wish to invite growth and positivity to your classrooms, theatre spaces, productions and projects.

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Playwright

As a playwright, Amie attempts to centralize stories of queerness, womanhood, and adventure. Often, her plays use comedy to reveal small truths about the humanity that connects us all. Follow the link below for more.

Theatrical Violence

Amie Root is also a full time traveling Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor. She is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. For more information on opportunities to work with Amie in stage combat click the link below or contact her today.

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Movement

Amie also has a love of movement, puppetry and dance. She has been a dancer since the age of 5. Continued her love and study of movement, dance, physical comedy and puppetry in college. Today, it is one of her great joys when she gets the opportunity to perform any physical theatre and dance.

About

Amie Root is a movement, stage combat and theater pedagogy teacher, fight director, playwright and actor. She travels across the country teaching and working in professional and educational theatre. You can find her new works such as “A Pirate’s Life for She” and “kEgal Games” on The New Play Exchange. Amie is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors with whom she is an official mentor. Amie has been the resident Fight Director of Unto These Hills since 2020. She has been an instructor for California State University - Summer Arts program for over a decade. Additionally, she is the founder and coordinator of the two-week Central IL Stage Combat Teacher Trainer (CISCOTT). Amie has her BA in drama from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Directing at Western IL University. 

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A conversation with Amie Root

"I have been able to earn a “full-time” living from my creative work, but I feel compelled to say that the majority of the time we equate “success” as a professional artist to being able to solely work in the arts. This is a toxic lie." - Amie Root

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