Addie was raised by farmers, house painters, meditators, and real-life radicals in Charlotte, Michigan. She has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Double Edge Theatre, and recently received her MFA from Brooklyn College, where she was under the tutelage of Tina Satter, Anne Washburn, Haruna Lee, and Dennis Allen II. In NYC, her work has been produced at the Tank, the Brick, and Joe’s Pub.
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 2018. 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.