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Jamie Roach

  • Actor
  • Playwright
  • Applied Theater
  • Contact

EDUCATION/APPLIED THEATRE

Jamie works with multiple New York-based theatre and corporate companies, using theatre as a tool for development including The New Victory Theatre, Lincoln Center Education and New York Theatre Workshop. Through the company, Performance of A Lifetime, he has assisted as an actor/coach with such companies as The Federal Reserve Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jamie co-created and co-led a playwriting program at the Bowery Men’s Homeless Shelter and has helped facilitate physical acting courses with prisoners at Fishkill Correctional Facility. Jamie can also seen performing year-round with the theatre company, Accomplice, that customizes experiences for company team-building, working with clients such as Disney, Facebook, Google and Goldman Sachs.


Jamie is also co-founder of Alive Worldwide - an Organization that specializes in creating socially conscious theatre and film, and a theatrical street movement called, Give Love New York, designed to promote acts of kindness, generosity and connection between New Yorkers.

 

EXPERIENCE

Lincoln Center Education

Teaching Artist, 2015-present

Will co-create and facilitate curriculum for young adults to understand and perform Shakespeare’s plays

 

New Victory Theatre

Teaching Artist, 2014-present

Lead workshops and facilitate classes of up to 35 in arts in education programming

Create curriculum  in teams of 5, for 50 fellow Teaching Artists to use in classrooms

 

New York Theatre Workshop

Teaching Artist, 2014-present

Lead workshops and facilitate classes of up to 35 in arts in education programming

Create curriculum for the workshops

 

Performance of A Lifetime, Inc., New York City

Teaching Artist/Facilitator 2012-present

Act in role, using improvisation as a teaching tools for personal and professional development                             

Assist in leading exercises and games and providing feedback and modeling to clients in workshops

 

Bowery Men’s Homeless Center

Curriculum Designer/Teaching Artist 2014-present

Co-Created and co-implemented a seasonal acting/writing residency at this homeless shelter

https://youtu.be/rGHLgyCHml8

 

Rehabilitation through the Arts

Co-Facilitator/Volunteer 2015-present

Helped facilitate physical acting and improv classes at Fishkill Prison

 

Our Time, New York City

Teaching Artist  2013-2014

Facilitated a playwriting and acting residency for youth and teens who stutter

Directed the plays, which they performed before  a live audience

 

PS. 11 Playwriting Residency, New York City

Teaching Artist Assistant 2013-present

Training through Circle In the Square’s Teaching Artist Training Program

Guiding third grade students through a scaffolded 3-month residency to write their own plays

Performing the finished plays at Circle In the Square on Broadway

 

Possibility Project, New York City

Assistant Director Intern 2009-2010

Assistant Directed a 9-month after-school program for NYC high school students,

Fostered dialogue and scene work on social issues, leading students to write, perform and tour an original musical.

 

Roundabout Theatre Company, New York City

Education Assistant 2009-2010

Assisted 4 colleagues in communication, coordination and administrative support of programming

Coordinated payroll for roster of 40 teaching artists, tracked and organized all invoices and expenditures

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