Amie Root

Bio

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 the UW Stevens Point and her MFA in Directing from Western IL University.