Annie G. Levy

Northwoods Ramah Theatre Company: Resident Director and Education Coordinator
Northwoods Ramah Theatre Company is an ensemble group dedicated to creating and developing new work relevant to the Jewish experience at all ages. An open rehearsal method infuses the work with energy from the community as the work develops, creating a deeper connec­tion between audience and artists. The process does more than serve the community, the community serves the process. By treating source texts as it would sacred texts and working them into the script, Northwoods Theatre Company aims to make the connection between the story and Jewish teachings more apparent and accessible.

Past Northwoods Ramah Theater presentations included:

2005 - THE UNDERWATER PALACE - Created from a kabalistic folk tale

2006 - THE JEWBIRD - Based on the short story by Bernard Malamud

2007 - THE HERO OF KABUL by Marc Goldsmith
THE JEWISH WIFE by Bertolt Brecht

2008 – GARDEN – Based on the poetry of Ra’hel
WALK – Based on the poetry of Charles Reznikoff
WONDER – Based on the poetry of Shel Silverstein

2009 - KNIGHT OF ONIONS, KNIGHT OF GARLIC - Based on the HN Bialik short story
HARVEST - Based on the mythology of Bob Dylan
BUT FIRST, FINISH PLANTING - An outdoor adventure

SIX SEEDS: THE PERSEPHONE PROJECT: Creator and Director
An ongoing collaborative project exploring the myth of Persephone. Working with a group of six women, SIX SEEDS: THE PERSEPHONE PROJECT is a collaboratively created theater piece specifically exploring the myth of Persephone as well as its roots and relevance to contemporary girlhood and womanhood. It is simultaneously a contemporary retelling of the myth of Persephone, an exploration of the origins of the myth and a consideration of how this myth continues to inform the feminine collective unconscious, perpetuating itself from antiquity to the present day.

Hot Girl on a Bike Music Video: Director
Music Video for Avi Fox-Rosen's 'Hot Girl on a Bike,' off of his CD, "Welcome to the Show."

Hwy Rachel: Founding Member
HWY Rachel is a traveling performance collective founded in 2006 by a group of theater and dance artists, writers, and educators. The group comes together on a yearly basis to create socially conscious performance experiments that explore space and place through a unique creative process. The group creates work via inquiry and exploration of specific sites and communities and the inhabitants, morphology, history and future of each place and space in which they take up residency.

o Our 2006 piece, We’re Doing This Again for the First Time, performed at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, was a site specific performance created in a three-story thrift store turned alternative arts space in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The piece was an exploration of race, feminism, religious culture, the KKK, Truth and Reconciliation, and the Greensboro Massacre of 1979

o In 2007, the group, in residency on an urban farm in Austin, Texas, created A Mexican Duck and a Texan Duck…. The piece was based on research into border politics, interviews with illegal immigrants, citizens of Mexico, citizens of American border towns, and the troupe’s personal experiences, and the exploration of our unique site.

o In 2008, the group developed Someone Says You're in the Wrong Place My Friend, You Better Leave, in residency at New York Studio Gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A site-specific performance that looped three times through the gallery, the piece explored the immigrant history and current economic and cultural diversity of the neighborhood by following the stories of five characters: a biblical Cain-turned-clown, a rainbow-obsessed Ophelia, Einstein in Robin Hood tights and the throws of discovery, a doe-eyed Cinderella, and a Fortuneteller with a penchant for spitting and never quite closing up shop.

Storahtelling: Resident Director and Senior Company Member
Storahtelling is a radical fusion of storytelling, Torah, contemporary performance art and traditional ritual theatre.

Annie has directed over 10 shows for Storahtelling, including BECOMING ISRAEL, an exploration of the name ‘Israel’ and its political and personal relevance, that is now touring nationally. Examining the mythical and historical origins of Israel and its current place in the Jewish American collective unconscious, BECOMING ISRAEL examines the intersection between individual identity and collective memory, inviting audiences for a closer look at the legacy of Israel in a global reality.