ANNIE G. LEVY

Annie G. Levy is a New York based director, collaborative artist and educator who frequently works with Mythology and Ritual. Characterized as highly visual, movement-based and poetic, her work spans from unpacking esoteric ideas to telling familiar and re-imagined stories for inter-generation audiences. She creates Theatre that unearths and explores social issues both within and for specific communities, working to find the universality of any and every story.

Annie is the co founder of warner|shaw, a theatre incubator and breeding ground. Her projects with warner|shaw include SIX SEEDS: The Persephone Project, a collaborative piece exploring the myth of Persephone and its relevance to contemporary womanhood, TREE ARMY: The CCC Project, a piece exploring the lives of young men and women who were employed by or otherwise involved with The Civilian Conservation Corps and THE LATVIA PROJECT, a piece about personal mythology and national identity.

Her selected other New York credits include the off Broadway premiere of NURSE! a solo show, written and performed by acclaimed performer Lisa Hayes, examining a nursing strike through many different angles and from many different voices, GOMORRAH (HERE Arts Center), THE B FILE (78th Street Theatre Lab), BECOMING ISRAEL (Storahtelling) and THE JEWBIRD (Stanford Meisner Theatre and Untitled Theater Company #61). Annie’s International credits include The Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh, Scotland), Discoteca di Storia (Rome, Italy) and Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada).

Annie is a founding member and the resident director of the Northwoods Theatre Company where her past credits include THE JEWISH WIFE by Bertolt Brecht, The HERO OF KABUL by Marc Goldsmith, SHARON IS MY NAME by Daniel J. Kelly, as well as several ensemble created pieces including GARDEN. WALK. WONDER. (based on the respective poetry of Ra’hel, Charles Reznikoff and Shel Silverstein) and HARVEST (based on the mythology of Bob Dylan).

As an assistant director, Annie has worked with Beth Links on the world premiere of Arlene Hutton’s play AS IT IS IN HEAVEN which opened at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before opening in New York. She assisted director John Dillon on the premiere of VORKUTA and recently assisted director Tracy Young on Luis Alfaro’s BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER as part of the 2008 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season. She was the Associate Director of the 2009 off Broadway hit CIRCUMCISE ME, staring Yisrael Campbell, directed by Sam Gold

Annie graduated magna cum laude from Barnard with a BA in Theatre where she was awarded the Kenneth James Prize for excellence in Theatre. She earned her MFA in Theatre with a concentration in Directing from Sarah Lawrence. She is the recipient of a Steven Spielberg Fellowship in Theatre Arts Education, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival directing assistantship and is a 2010 LMCC Uptown/Downtown Artist. Annie is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, an associated member of SDC and is the co-founder Sweet: Actors Reading Writers, a monthly series bringing poetry/prose writers and actors together. She is currently an adjunct professor of theatre at Pace University and a teaching artist with the Manhattan New Music Project and The NYC Student Shakespeare Initiative.