about…
AMINA KHELIF is a new york based director of new and developing works, with a focus on femme & queer-lead pitch-black comedies or anything strange, fun, and important.
Amina creates theatre that explores multiplicity of identity, stickiness of female relationships, and absurdity of late-stage capitalism through creative, accessible language and embodied movement in worlds slightly off-center from our own.
As an arab american, she is particularly passionate about illuminating complex, humanizing understandings of MENASA and immigrant experiences that honor and reflect the friends, classmates, teammates, crushes, enemies, and family that she grew up with. Much of her work has focused on the imperative need to protect reproductive rights, and excavates nuanced experiences of queerness. She leans on the power of catharsis in theatre to activate audiences, forge community, and open new avenues of understanding to ultimately affect social change.
She has experimented with the form through immersive, interactive, and multi-media productions, and has attacked such projects as a director, producer, intimacy coordinator, movement director, devisor, & actor.
Amina holds a BFA in Theatre & Performance from Emerson College.
Amina is a process-based director who is emphatic about leading with empathy in all of her work, believing that the best work comes from supportive, warm environments that foster experimentation and “serious play”. She is passionate about treating actors as equal collaborators and is a huge proponent of bringing your “full self” to a room. To that end, she is committed to creating equitable, safe, and accountable rooms.
She remains in awe of the wisdom of The Body and encourages trusting work from it through the Michael Chekhov Technique, Mary Overlie’s 6 Viewpoints, Action Theatre, and the Linklater Voice Method.