Amir Levi

Amir Levi was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised in Atlanta, Georgia where at a very young age started showing interest in theater when he won the title role in his school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While studying at Interlochen Arts Institute, he won an award for his portrayal of Karl in East of the Sun and West of the Moon. At the age of 12, Levi performed to great acclaim, the part of the boy solo soprano in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Yoel Levi, as well as the role of David the Shepherd Boy in Honneger's King David with the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra under Robert Shaw. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where under the direction of Dance Department Director Sara Rudner, his choreography and dance skills developed further. Other schooling includes the British American Drama Academy in London as well as the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, Connecticut. The Michael Howard Studios in New York, New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, and the Atlantic Theater Conservatory and Atlantic Theater LA. While living in NYC, Levi created a dance company, The Poisonous Ladies, which performed at several spaces including Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Green Space, and more. He also danced with Ann & Alexx Make Dances, and Philippa Kaye Company. LA credits include the role of Fox in Wood Boy Dog Fish with Rogue Artists Ensemble (Garry Marshall Theatre); Peter Lorre in Something Truly Monstrous at the blank; Baby Albert in The Behavior of Broadus with Sacred Fools & Burglars of Hamm, in co-production with Center Theater Group; Nervous Clown in Four Clowns (Best Physical and Dance Theater Award, Hollywood Fringe 2010), at South Coast Repertory and Sacred Fools, as well as a US tour, Robin Hood at South Coast Rep., Absolutely Filthy (Sacred Fools, Top of Fringe and Best Comedy, Hollywood Fringe 2013), The Phantom Tollbooth (Mainstreet Theatre), Amir Levi: Bound to You (Rockwell: Table & Stage), The Chrome Warrior (Lyric-Hyperion), Male Matriarch (Long Beach Playhouse), Amir Levi: Closer to Myself (The Coterie at the Renaissance Hotel), Balm in Gilead (Coeurage), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Urban Theatre Movement). Amir is the co-founder, co-producer, co-curator of a theatre action called We The People. We The People is a bi-monthly movement that puts out a prompt with guidelines and then brings in as many diverse voices as possible. All proceeds from each We The People night go to a local non-profit. Other credits include: New York: Male Matriarch (FringeNYC 2011), Te Busco (45Bleecker), Age of Pie (Atlantic Theater Conservatory), Turning (Working Man's Clothes). Atlanta: Narrator in a concert version of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Yoel Levi, as well as with the Ann Arbor Symphony and Arie Lipsky; Mrs. Forrest in Psycho Beach Party (WTF Workshop); the Narrator for Peter & the Wolf as well as the lead Raccoon for the world premiere of Joshua Penman's Raccoon Tune (also with the Ann Arbor Symphony). Amir is a proud non-binary actor.