Aimée Michel
Simon’s Rock at Bard CollegeProfessor Michel has directed and taught theater for over 30 years. Her interest in theater is inherently political and her work has focused on the sociological and political roles that theater plays in a community. For 12 years she was Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival directing Shakespeare and developing new work for the stage. She created Shakespeare Alive, an outreach program to LA schools which offered a traveling show, a production on Tulane's campus and workshops for teachers on teaching Shakespeare. Ms. Michel was Artistic Director of the Directors Project in NYC. She was a Boris Segal Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, a curator director at the NY Theater Workshop and a participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She is co-editor of The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights 1970-2020.
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