Annie G. Levy

Annie Levy is a New York based director, collaborative artist and educator. 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.

In 2002, Annie directed 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. Selected other New York credits include GOMORRAH (HERE Arts Center) THE B FILE (the 78th Street Theatre Lab), THE JEWBIRD (Sanford Meisner Theatre and Untitled Theater Company #61) VOICES OF AFRICA (Estrogenius, The Manhattan Theater Source) and PUMPKINS FOR SMALLPOX (Vital Theatre). Annie’s devised work includes SIX SEEDS: THE PERSEPHONE PROJECT at the Old Stone House and The White Box Theatre and THE CREATION OF COMFORT AND CHANCE at the Makor Visionaries Festival. Annie’s International credits include The Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh, Scotland), Discoteca di Storia (Rome, Italy) and Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada).

For the past two years, Annie has been the resident director of Storahtelling where she has directed over 10 traveling shows, including BECOMING ISRAEL, an examination of the intersection between individual identity and collective memory, which continues to tour nationally.

Annie is also a founding member and the resident director of the Northwoods Ramah Theatre Company where her past credits include THE JEWISH WIFE, by Bertolt Brecht, THE HERO OF KABUL by Marc Goldsmith and company created THE UNDERWATER PALACE (based on a kabalistic folk tale), THE JEWBIRD (based on the short story by Bernard Malamud) and GARDEN. WALK. WONDER. (based on the respective poetry of Ra’hel, Charles Reznikoff and Shel Silverstein).

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.

Annie is the recipient of a 2003 Steven Spielberg Fellowship in Theatre Arts Education and an Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2008 directing assistantship. Member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She 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.