CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & COMPANY MEMBER

2018 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2016 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2017 TUTALab: The Man Who Turned into a Stick (Director)
2017 Gentle (Assistant Director, Movement Director)
2016 TUTALab: Have a Seat (Director)
2016 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2015 Music Hall (Movement Director)
2014 The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret) (Movement Director)
2014 The Jewels (Movement Director)
2013 The Silent Language (Choreographer)

Aileen Wen McGroddy is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director, educator, and producer of live events. Her work is imaginative, inclusive, and playfully experimental, coming from a robust background in physical theatre and a deep commitment to hospitality. She grew up outside of New York City, went to college at the University of Chicago (2010), and lived and worked in Chicago until moving to Providence, RI for her MFA in Directing from Brown-Trinity (2022). She is currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and the BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. She is currently directing A Christmas Carol at Trinity Rep.

Past work includes: The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Throwback Island, On The Y-Axis, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (Writing is Live); Or, and Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); A Hero’s Journey, The Hunting of the Snark, Robin Hood, and The Pied Piper (The Forks & Hope Ensemble); The Whiskey Radio Hour, Wake: A Folk Opera, Kodachrome Telephone and Sign of Rain (The Whiskey Rebellion); Gentle, The Edge of Our Bodies, Music Hall, The Anyway Cabaret (TUTA); The Nose and Reika and the Wolves (Mudlark Theatre and YASI at Trinity Rep); and In This Final Century (Theatre-Hikes).

She has directed readings for The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Yale Drama Prize, Northern Stage, and Babes with Blades. She has assisted at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Trinity Rep, Court Theatre, The Actors’ Gymnasium, The Hypocrites, and The House Theatre of Chicago.