Amie Root
A Caffeinated Creative
Artistry
Amie Root is a multifaceted artist. She is a director, playwright, actor, fight and intimacy director and educator. 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 multifaceted artist; she is a director, playwright, actor, fight and intimacy director and educator. Amie is President of the Society of American Fight Directors and a Certified Teacher who has toured the country creating theatre for the last fifteen years. She is the founder and lead instructor of the Central Illinois Stage Combat Teacher Trainer and creator of the Associate Instructor Training Program (AITP) cultivating opportunities for new teachers of stage combat. She recently directed Comedy of Errors (Starling Shakespeare Company), Coriolanus (Western IL Univ.) and The Mad Ones (Western IL Univ.). She was the Fight and Intimacy Director for Ironbound (Forward Theatre), Hamlet and Henry IV Part I (Utah Shakespeare Festival) and Misery (Peninsula Players), and Fight Director for Twelfth Night and The Heart of Robin Hood (Door Shakespeare), She Kills Monsters (Univ. of Southern Miss), five seasons with Unto These Hills (Cherokee, NC) and others. As a playwright, you can find her new works centered on women and queer characters at New Play Exchange including “A Pirate’s Life for She” and “Kegel Games”. Amie has her BA in drama from UW Stevens Point and her MFA in Directing from Western IL University.
