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roxwach@aol.com
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Over 41
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White
About / Bio
Roxanne currently serves as the Executive Director for Shelterbelt Theatre, www.shelterbelt.org, Omaha’s home for new plays. She hopes to ignite interest in not just seeing new plays, but supporting the page to stage process. A multifaceted artist, she has performed, designed and directed for many Omaha stages over the past 50 years, including work with BroadStreet Productions, Chanticleer Theater, Dundee Dinner Theatre, Omaha Community Playhouse, Omaha Symphony, Opera Omaha, Quincy Productions, Shelterbelt Theatre and SNAP! Productions. She participated in New Visions/New Voices 2018 at the Kennedy Center, and then directed Mary Kathryn Nagle's "Return to Niobrara" at The Rose in 2019. Favorite productions she’s directed include "Fun Home" (Omaha Community Playhouse), "Untitled Series #7," "Thank You For Being A Friend: The Unauthorized Golden Girls Musical" and "My Occasion of Sin" (Shelterbelt); "Hand to God," "A Perfect Ganesh" and "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" (SNAP! Productions), "She Loves Me" and "Quilters" (Dundee Dinner Theatre), "Free to Be You & Me" (PCOC), "Vagina Monologues" (Little Apple Productions), "Lend Me a Tenor" (Chanticleer Theater), "Nine" (BroadStreet Productions, with GPTC and Arthur Kopit), and an original staged version of Bach’s Cantata No. 82 (Midland College). She has written two youth musicals with composer Jay Atwood, "The Purple Pomegranate" and "Faith." A TAG life member and past-President, she has received numerous TAG Awards nominations and won several including Special Event Production, Director/Musical, Director/Comedy and Drama, New Script and Supporting Actress/Musical. Roxanne is a member of International Centre for Women Playwrights. Roxanne was honored with the Master Teacher Alumni Award from Midland College for her work in theatre, as well as recipient of Bob Roberts TAG Board Recognition Award and Norm & Louise Filbert TAG Lifetime Achievement Award. She also is the Executive Director of Compassion Omaha, www.compassionomaha.org. She is pleased to have been a part of GPTC since its inaugural year.
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