Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard talks with Jemma Alix Levy, Theatre Director and Associate Professor of Acting and Directing at Washington and Lee University about Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

JEMMA'S BIO

Jemma Alix Levy is an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing at Washington and Lee University and has directed professionally for over 25 years. She earned degrees from Amherst College, the University of Chicago, and Mary Baldwin University’s program in association with the American Shakespeare Center, and she completed The Juilliard School's now-defunct graduate directing program. Levy’s directing work has won critical acclaim across the US and internationally, including for her own companies, Runamuck (Austin, TX), and Muse of Fire Theatre Company (Evanston, IL). Before her arrival at Washington and Lee University, Jemma taught theatre and directed at Webster University's Conservatory of Theater Arts (MO), Wabash College (IN), Roosevelt University Chicago College for the Performing Arts (IL), Mary Baldwin University (VA), and The Brearley School (NY). Levy has also written adaptations based on the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and two-time National-Book-Award-nominee Howard Norman. She is a certified Consent-Forward Artist. www.jemmalevy.com

Support for this program has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: John O. and Victoria C. Kirby Fund, Frederick W. Jaqua Fund, The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, Broward County Cultural Division and a grant from The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ community foundation.