Amie Root

Amie Root is a multifaceted artist. She is a director, playwright, actor, fight and intimacy director, and teacher. Amie is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and has toured the country creating theatre for the last fifteen years. She recently Directed The Mad Ones and Assistant Directed The Garbologists (Western Illinois University). She has been the Fight and Intimacy Director for 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 Mississippi), five seasons with Unto These Hills (Cherokee, NC) and others. She was a teaching artist for the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) for four years. Amie has her BA in drama from the UW Stevens Point and is pursuing her MFA in Directing at WIU. www.Amieroot.com