Aaron Clements-Levin was the Executive Artistic Director of Bridges Stage Company, which presented the West Coast premiere of Edmund White’s Terre Haute at ACT Theatre in 2014.
From ‘99 to ‘02 he was Executive Director of Bridges Int’l Repertory Theatre, for which he directed David Hare’s A Map of the World, Israel Horovitz’s The Primary English Class, and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. In 2005 he directed Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Seattle Shakespeare Company.
He has directed both modern and classical plays throughout the U.S., including the New York premieres of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Workroom (N.Y. Drama Desk Award nomination) and Ted Whitehead’s Old Flames (4 Villager Theatre Awards). He was the first American theatre director to work with the famous Sovremennik Theatre of Moscow, Russia.
Mr. Clements-Levin was trained as an actor by Mira Rostova (Montgomery Clift’s teacher), studied in London under actors and directors of The National Theatre of Great Britain and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (B.F.A. in Acting) and the University of Washington (M.F.A. in Directing).
His new quartet of acting books,“Passing It On: A Dialogue on Acting” will be used in the class (prior to publication). He has taught acting to both beginners and professionals for over 47 years.
Spring Session acting classes.
