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Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel ​

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Aimée Nicole Lewis van Roekel
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EXPERIENCE
    
Vashon Island ShakesKIDS!                              2009 - 3/2020 
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: Much Ado About Nothing 
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor:  The Tragedy of Macbeth
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: Romeo and Juliet
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: 12th Night or What You Will
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: Hamlet
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: The Tempest
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor:  King Lear
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor:  Caesar
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: Romeo and Juliet 2020

After the plague:
-Director, Teacher, Script Editor: A Midpandemic Dream 2021 (Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.)
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The Harbor School, Vashon Island, WA.                        2014 -2014
-Teacher, Shakespeare Studies.
VASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT                        2016-2020
-Artist In The School, Shakespeare Studies and Performance
UMO Ensemble, Seattle, WA                                2014 - 2016
-Assistant Director, Fail Better at ACT Seattle and NYC Fringe Festival
St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA                    2003 - 2007 
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.
Professional Actress                                                                                                                                                                       1994 - present
Worked as a professional union (AEA) actress in New York City and regionally performing in Theatre, Films, and Television. Please see last page for more details. 
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   (415) 713-5520​

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Hamlet Migration           Hamlet            Elizabeth Klob                               Open Space, Vashon Island.
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











 


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Alex Drissel

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Alex is a professional actress and singer. She is the frontwoman for several bands in the Seattle area. She also Assistant Teaches with Aimée, Shakespeare Studies and Performance. She runs her own Introduction to Musical Theatre class, as well as heading the Religious Education program at The Universalist Unitarian Church of Vashon Island. 

Jeffrey Currier

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Artistic Consultant
Jeffrey Currier has been an arts advocate, performer, producer, and enthusiastic audience member for over four decades. A multi-instrumentalist from an early age, he was a principal member of the Cincinnati Youth Symphony and studied classical flute and clarinet at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a teenager. In 1989, he left CCM to pursue a musical theater degree at Webster University in St. Louis, MO, where he was seen as Jack in Into the Woods. As a professional actor, he has performed at the Meadowbrook Theater in Michigan, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater and Columbia Theater in Missouri, in roles such as Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank, Jesus in Godspell, and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors.  He performed the role of Dennis in the bluegrass gospel musical Smoke on the Mountain, at the Arkansas Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse, and on the first national tour (directed by Alan Bailey). In 1994, having picked up guitar and mandolin, he co-founded the NYC-based folk band “The Fixins.” In 1997, he moved to Austin, Texas, and worked on the management side for top Texas acts Asleep at the Wheel (10-time Grammy Award winners), Cooder Graw, and Jerry Jeff Walker, serving as Executive Producer for JJ’s 2004 release, Jerry Jeff Jazz. Jeffrey returned to New York in 2005, landed a job in the hedge fund world, graduated from Hunter College, completed an Olympic length triathlon, and produced an autobiographical one-man cabaret, Back Up the Beanstalk, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. In 2012, he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he works as a project manager for a boutique investment firm, and hopes to produce music and perform again in the very near future.


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