Addie is a geographically polyamorous, multidisciplinary writer and theatre maker currently living in Detroit, MI. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, where she studied under the tutelage of Tina Satter, Anne Washburn, Elana Greenfield and Haruna Lee. In New York, her work has been featured at the Tank, the Brick, Theatrelab and Joe’s Pub. She has been in residence at the New Harmony Project (2024) and the index freiraum artist residency in Zurich, Switzerland (2022). Awards include the Rona Jaffe Playwriting Fellowship, the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, and a 2024 developmental commission from the Hearth Theater.
Addie’s work is firmly rooted in the ensemble tradition, meaning, among other things, that she is at home in multidisciplinary collaborations, loves to write for big casts, and knows her way around a puppet. She was an original core company member of Ragged Wing Ensemble in Oakland, CA, with whom she wrote and produced nine new plays between 2010 and 2020. Other roles she held in the ensemble included director, performer, grant writer, company manager, and youth ensemble instructor. She participated in the opening and running of The Flight Deck, a shared arts space in downtown Oakland, from 2016-2020.
As a theatre practitioner, Addie considers herself a student of the small, the slow and the inefficient. She is inspired by theatre’s potential to open up spaces that resist the values of digital life. She believes in and is working towards a theatre that leans more fully into these values. She dreams of an ecosystem where artists are supported in making plays as acts of deep localism while maintaining connection to a geographically broader network of other artists, ideas and conversations.