Ava Roy

Ava Roy is the Founding Artistic Director of We Players, founded in 2000. Her unique style of dynamic, site-integrated performance aims to highlight the historical and natural treasures of local landscapes and encourage new ways of experiencing and appreciating these places. She holds a Stanford University BA (2003) in a self-designed major: Ritual and Performance in Aesthetic Education. Since 2008, she has pioneered unique partnerships with the National Park Service, the California State Park system, San Francisco Recreation and Parks, and other municipal and regional park sites, creating spectacular immersive performances throughout the Bay Area. Inspired and guided by Shakespeare since her teenage years, Roy has explored many characters from the canon, ranging from Juliet to Henry V, Mercutio to Lady Macbeth. In addition to her love of Shakespeare, classic literature, historic sites, crumbling buildings, and majestic natural landscapes, Roy is a fan of espresso, salt spray, and sunshine. She’s interested in light and shadow, the sea and the sky, things that sparkle, and in small daily actions repeated with care and attention over time that build resilience, stamina, and joy. Roy is a yoga teacher and a sailor, and in her next life plans to live in the ocean.

Member:

• We Players

Projects:

• Adventures with Alice at Montalvo