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Amalia Adiv is an actor, writer, educator, and a proud mom working in the arts. She is most passionate about bringing stories to life that unearth the messiness of motherhood and the complexity of Jewish identity.
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As an actor, Amalia was recently seen onstage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center and with Colorado Shakespeare Festival's educational touring company. In 2023, she joined Fiasco Theater's Free Training Initiative cohort in New York. Amalia holds an MA from NYU in Educational Theatre, with an emphasis on Applied Theatre and verbatim interview theatre, and holds a BA in Jewish Studies and Theatre from City College of New York.
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Amalia's solo play, Rendezvous Way, has been shared at the Barrow Group and Barn Arts Collective Artists Residencies and is still in development. Amalia is currently in the research and draft phase of new play about birth, for which she has already conducted 20+ interviews with women about their birth experiences.
Amalia has conducted research and written curriculum for the Verbatim Performance Lab, and has appeared as an actor in multiple Lab projects including Of a Certain Age, "The Serena Williams Project," and "Portraits US: COVID 19." She is a member of Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's 2023-2024 Writers Group which will debut short works in the summer of 2024.
With a background in early childhood, Amalia has a passion for engaging young children in performing and storytelling. She develops classes for preschool aged children that use process drama and imaginative play to foster social and emotional growth. Amalia also teaches research based theatre and verbatim workshops to students of all ages.
Outside of theatre, Amalia is a certified pre and post-natal coach. She works with women during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum to better understand, appreciate, and care for their changing bodies.