Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
Artistic Director and Lead Teacher Vashon Island ShakesKIDS!
Chronology of ShakesKIDS! productions edited, and directed:
2012 Twelfth Night, Or What You Will ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2012 Romeo And Juliet ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2013 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS! @ The Strawberry Festival
2014 The Tragedy Of Macbeth ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2014 Much Ado About Nothing ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2015 Hamlet ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2015 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2016 The Tempest ShakesKIDS! @ SPOKE
2016 King Lear ShakesKIDS! @ SPOKE
2017 The Winter’s Tale ShakesKIDS! @ VCA
2018 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS @ Chautauqua Chasen 5th
2018 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ShakesKIDS! @ VCA
2018 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2019 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS @ Chautauqua Chasen 5th
2019 Julius Caesar ShakesKIDS! @ O Space
2019 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2020 Romeo and Juliet canceled by the pandemic. I maybe should have pushed through with it, but I didn’t want to be the person who got everybody killed, it was early days. I regret canceling it. I learned a valuable lesson.
2021 A Midpandemic Dream ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2022 12th Night, Or What You WIll ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2023 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2014 -2014 The Harbor School, Vashon Island, WA.
-Teacher, Shakespeare Studies.
2016-2020 VASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
-Artist In The School, Shakespeare Studies and Performance.
2014 - 2016 UMO Ensemble, Seattle, WA
-Assistant Director, Fail Better at ACT Seattle and NYC Fringe Festival
2003 - 2007 St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
Writer ,Director, Teacher Collegiate Players; Moraga, CA, St. Mary’s College.
Writer in charge of creating an adaption into stage play of the poetry of Marie De France (with Daveed Diggs). Directed a professional production of personally authored adaptation of The Bacchae presented by Collegiate Players onstage at St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA. Guest Lecturer for Barry Horwitz English Literature class. Lead the discussions of All My Sons, Arthur Miller; Venus, Suzan-Lori Parks.
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, CA 2002 - 2004 Teacher and Director of curriculum which included: Voice and Speech, Text Analysis, Discovering Shakespeare, Movement, Acting. All classes designed for Shakespeare Studies. Directed youth productions at the Summer Camp and Midnight Shakespeare programs including the following shows: 12th Night, or What You Will ; Romeo and Juliet; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dead Ends; Shakespeare’s Magic; 12th Night, or What You Will. 12th Night was in collaboration with The East Bay Conservation Corp Players Presented at The Black Rep in Berkeley, CA.
Theatreworks, Palo Alto, CA 2002
Assistant Director to R. Kelley, Artistic Director,, Palo Alto, CA.
Book of Days, R. Kelley, Director
Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
Noleverage Productions/ Vital Signs, NYC. New York City, NY 1998 - 1999
Co- Founded and Co-Produced with Heather King. A theatrical production company working to provide opportunity for women in the performing arts. Shows produced included: Crimes of the Heart; Endgame;
Fefu and Her Friends; and Platonov.
The Actors Center New York City, New York City, NY 1998
Special Event Assistant Producer 1998 New Leagues Actors Presentation Michael Miller, Producer..
AWARDS
Sylvia Deutscher Kushner Scholarship; NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Jewish Foundation for Education of WomenScholarship; NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
California Arts Scholar 1989; presented by the State of California.
EDUCATION
New York University Tisch School for the Arts
Master of Fine Arts, 2001.
Webster University Conservatory for Theatre Arts
B.F.A, 1994.
Public Theatre
The Shakespeare Lab; John Barton Workshop, Observer-ship.
The Actors Center
Lloyd Richards, Michael Langham, Ron van Lieu, Peter Francis James.
Saratoga International Theatre Institute NYC
Tina Landau
American Conservatory Theatre, Young Conservatory
San Francisco
California Arts Academy
Cal Arts
Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
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14/14 Company Various Vashon Center For The Arts
Hamlet Migration Hamlet Elizabeth Klob Open Space, Vashon Island.
14/48 Company Various Vashon Center For The Arts
Proof Claire R. Kelley Theatreworks Palo Alto CA.
Twelfth Night Olivia Mark Harrison Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Tempest Miranda Gaven Cameron-Webb Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Private Lives Louise Scott LaFebre New Harmony Theatre, IN.
The Gates of Hell Anna James DePaul Theatre for a New City, NYC
Crimes of the Heart Babe Lydia Radziul Producers’ Club, NYC
Large Bodies of Water Heather Caught in Our Acts 42nd St. Theatre, NYC
Conjuring the Moose Elizabeth G. Swartz Expanded Arts, NYC
Recovering the Dark Anne G. Paris The Kitchen, NYC
The Undoing Sister Soul Osiris Hertz HERE
Baal Young Girl Osiris Hertz HERE
Mid Summer Hermia Yevgeny Arye NYU Tisch MFA
The Waiting Room Victoria Julia Gibson NYU Tisch MFA
The Philistines Polya Liviu Ciulei NYU Tisch MFA
The Hostage Ropeen Michael Sexton NYU Tisch MFA
The Mysteries Noah’s Wife Bart Sher NYU Tisch MFA
Arms and the Man Catherine Ethan McSweeny NYU Tisch MFA
All My Sons Ann Liviu Ciulei NYU Tisch MFA
Twelfth Night Viola Eleanor Holdrige NYU Tisch MFA
Television
The Guiding Light Waitress CBS-TV
All My Children Reporter Interviewing Erica ABC-TV
FILM
LOST Woman(Lead) Heidie Elise Beaver Multi Festival Screenings
Indulgence Abigail (Lead) Brian Schreider
Opus 4 Louise Premier Films
Chronology of ShakesKIDS! productions edited, and directed:
2012 Twelfth Night, Or What You Will ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2012 Romeo And Juliet ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2013 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS! @ The Strawberry Festival
2014 The Tragedy Of Macbeth ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2014 Much Ado About Nothing ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2015 Hamlet ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2015 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @ Ober Park Dance Room
2016 The Tempest ShakesKIDS! @ SPOKE
2016 King Lear ShakesKIDS! @ SPOKE
2017 The Winter’s Tale ShakesKIDS! @ VCA
2018 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS @ Chautauqua Chasen 5th
2018 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ShakesKIDS! @ VCA
2018 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2019 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ShakesKIDS @ Chautauqua Chasen 5th
2019 Julius Caesar ShakesKIDS! @ O Space
2019 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2020 Romeo and Juliet canceled by the pandemic. I maybe should have pushed through with it, but I didn’t want to be the person who got everybody killed, it was early days. I regret canceling it. I learned a valuable lesson.
2021 A Midpandemic Dream ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2022 12th Night, Or What You WIll ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2023 As You Like It ShakesKIDS! @Links Production @VHS
2014 -2014 The Harbor School, Vashon Island, WA.
-Teacher, Shakespeare Studies.
2016-2020 VASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
-Artist In The School, Shakespeare Studies and Performance.
2014 - 2016 UMO Ensemble, Seattle, WA
-Assistant Director, Fail Better at ACT Seattle and NYC Fringe Festival
2003 - 2007 St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
Writer ,Director, Teacher Collegiate Players; Moraga, CA, St. Mary’s College.
Writer in charge of creating an adaption into stage play of the poetry of Marie De France (with Daveed Diggs). Directed a professional production of personally authored adaptation of The Bacchae presented by Collegiate Players onstage at St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA. Guest Lecturer for Barry Horwitz English Literature class. Lead the discussions of All My Sons, Arthur Miller; Venus, Suzan-Lori Parks.
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, CA 2002 - 2004 Teacher and Director of curriculum which included: Voice and Speech, Text Analysis, Discovering Shakespeare, Movement, Acting. All classes designed for Shakespeare Studies. Directed youth productions at the Summer Camp and Midnight Shakespeare programs including the following shows: 12th Night, or What You Will ; Romeo and Juliet; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dead Ends; Shakespeare’s Magic; 12th Night, or What You Will. 12th Night was in collaboration with The East Bay Conservation Corp Players Presented at The Black Rep in Berkeley, CA.
Theatreworks, Palo Alto, CA 2002
Assistant Director to R. Kelley, Artistic Director,, Palo Alto, CA.
Book of Days, R. Kelley, Director
Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
Noleverage Productions/ Vital Signs, NYC. New York City, NY 1998 - 1999
Co- Founded and Co-Produced with Heather King. A theatrical production company working to provide opportunity for women in the performing arts. Shows produced included: Crimes of the Heart; Endgame;
Fefu and Her Friends; and Platonov.
The Actors Center New York City, New York City, NY 1998
Special Event Assistant Producer 1998 New Leagues Actors Presentation Michael Miller, Producer..
AWARDS
Sylvia Deutscher Kushner Scholarship; NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Jewish Foundation for Education of WomenScholarship; NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
California Arts Scholar 1989; presented by the State of California.
EDUCATION
New York University Tisch School for the Arts
Master of Fine Arts, 2001.
Webster University Conservatory for Theatre Arts
B.F.A, 1994.
Public Theatre
The Shakespeare Lab; John Barton Workshop, Observer-ship.
The Actors Center
Lloyd Richards, Michael Langham, Ron van Lieu, Peter Francis James.
Saratoga International Theatre Institute NYC
Tina Landau
American Conservatory Theatre, Young Conservatory
San Francisco
California Arts Academy
Cal Arts
Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
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14/14 Company Various Vashon Center For The Arts
Hamlet Migration Hamlet Elizabeth Klob Open Space, Vashon Island.
14/48 Company Various Vashon Center For The Arts
Proof Claire R. Kelley Theatreworks Palo Alto CA.
Twelfth Night Olivia Mark Harrison Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Tempest Miranda Gaven Cameron-Webb Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Private Lives Louise Scott LaFebre New Harmony Theatre, IN.
The Gates of Hell Anna James DePaul Theatre for a New City, NYC
Crimes of the Heart Babe Lydia Radziul Producers’ Club, NYC
Large Bodies of Water Heather Caught in Our Acts 42nd St. Theatre, NYC
Conjuring the Moose Elizabeth G. Swartz Expanded Arts, NYC
Recovering the Dark Anne G. Paris The Kitchen, NYC
The Undoing Sister Soul Osiris Hertz HERE
Baal Young Girl Osiris Hertz HERE
Mid Summer Hermia Yevgeny Arye NYU Tisch MFA
The Waiting Room Victoria Julia Gibson NYU Tisch MFA
The Philistines Polya Liviu Ciulei NYU Tisch MFA
The Hostage Ropeen Michael Sexton NYU Tisch MFA
The Mysteries Noah’s Wife Bart Sher NYU Tisch MFA
Arms and the Man Catherine Ethan McSweeny NYU Tisch MFA
All My Sons Ann Liviu Ciulei NYU Tisch MFA
Twelfth Night Viola Eleanor Holdrige NYU Tisch MFA
Television
The Guiding Light Waitress CBS-TV
All My Children Reporter Interviewing Erica ABC-TV
FILM
LOST Woman(Lead) Heidie Elise Beaver Multi Festival Screenings
Indulgence Abigail (Lead) Brian Schreider
Opus 4 Louise Premier Films
I am privileged to work with a myriad of talented people in my work. Most recently Christine Nelson working the Chorus, Mary Lawrence conducting the music, and Carolina Silva crafting the set design aspects. All conducted by Dr. Thomas Elliot. Cheers!
