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 is the founder and lead instructor of the Central Illinois Stage Combat Teacher Trainer and creator of the Associate Instructor Training Program (AITP) found at many regional stage combat workshops. She recently Directed Comedy of Errors (Starling Shakespeare Comp) and The Mad Ones (Western IL Univ.). She was 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 Miss), 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. As a playwright, you can find her new works centered on women and queer characters at New Play Exchange including “A Pirate’s Life for She” and “Kegel Games”. Amie has her BA in drama from the UW Stevens Point and is pursuing her MFA in Directing at Western IL University. www.Amieroot.com