A 2024 Martha Boschen Porter Prize/Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Fellow, Aimée is a Professor of Theater and Head of the Theater Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Aimée has been writing, directing, and teaching theater both professionally and at colleges and universities for over 30 years. Her interest in theater is inherently political and her work as a theater director has focused on the sociological and political roles that theater plays in a community. She was Artistic Director at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 12 years. Before New Orleans Aimée was Artistic Director of the Directors Project in NYC and has also directed in theaters throughout the US. She was a curator director at the NY Theater Workshop and participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Aimée has an ongoing collaboration with Arts University Plymouth in the United Kingdom where she regularly teaches writing workshops. Her book, The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights 1970–2020, co-edited with a colleague, was released in 2020.