Amie Root
A Caffeinated Creative
Artistry
Amie Root is a multifaceted artist. She is a director, 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.
Director
As a director, Amie prioritizes collaboration and the uplifting of each unique voice in the process. She believes fundamentally in creating art as a collective. Her favorite projects are those that have room for exploring between the lines with movement, puppetry, music, and a shifting of perspective. Follow the link below for more.
Movement & Dance
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 choreograph and/or perform physical theatre and dance.
About
Amie Root is a director, a movement, stage combat and theater pedagogy teacher, a fight director, a playwright and an 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.
