Annika Ahlgrim
Mountain View,CA
Summary
Understanding and compassionate team player possessing versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh, creative perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions. Will be relocating to the San Luis Obispo area for the right position.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Facility Supervisor
The City of Mountain View
10.2023 - Current
- Supervise clients while using the venues
- Maintain event and show notes, keeping track of start and end times of each performance and day
- Communicate effectively with directors, stage managers and house managers
- Manage unforeseen events, like power outages, and communication with fire and police officials
- Supervise stagehands in lighting/sound tech, load-in and strike
- Facilitate effective communications between all parties in the building
- Practice good customer service
- Monitor venues
- Enforce policies
- Provide first aid
- Prevent and mitigate risks
- Ensure the equipment and facility are used properly
Nanny
Private Family
06.2020 - Current
- Supervise playtime, both indoor and outdoor, including biking and day trips
- Managed time
- Prepared meals
- Drive children to and from activities
- Oversaw appropriate school and life behavior throughout school and recreational time
Founder, Founding Member
Épine Noir Society
05.2020 - Current
- Produce play readings
- Manage a membership website
- Organize two online discussions a month to discuss art, philosophy, ideas, history and science
Website Designer
Website Design
03.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: Remote
- Design websites to client's specifications
- Create beautiful, graphically pleasing pages
- Consider the human and the brand that human wants to develop and promote in order to create a website that is unique and identifiable
- Remote
Producer, Stage Manager
Kimberly Clouse
11.2021 - 11.2021
- Produced and stage-managed staged reading of a new play Marion's Fire
- Managed and organized music cues, actors, time, food and beverages and audience
Literary Council Member
Playwrights Foundation
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Read 25+ new plays to help narrow down and choose 6 finalists for the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Reader
Playwrights Foundation
11.2019 - 01.2021
- Company Overview: Remote
- Read 15+ full-length plays as part of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation 2020 National Committee
- Subsequently completing a feedback form for each play in order to choose which plays the Playwrights Foundation will support in the coming 2020-2021 season
- Remote
Barista
Starbucks
02.2020 - 03.2020
- Practice good customer service
- Prepare drinks according to a recipe
- Operate point of sale system
- Practice health and safety in a food context
Teaching Artist
TheatreWorks
09.2019 - 12.2019
- Taught the Young Playwrights Project curriculum to a class of 13 young people in grades tenth to twelfth
- Lead exercises with the goal of writing 10-minute plays
- Advise and edit the student's work, culminating in eight fully produced staged readings with professional directors and actors
Artistic Fellow
Playwrights Foundation
01.2019 - 04.2019
- Company Overview: San Francisco, CA
- Assisted Artistic Director Amy Mueller with administrative and casting
- Composed and edited emails for nationally and internationally known theater practitioners from across the country with invitations, information and role offers
- Organized the office and acted as personal assistant to the Artistic Director
- San Francisco, CA
Guest Teacher for Shakespeare Lesson/Drama Advisor
Waldorf School of the Peninsula
02.2019 - 02.2019
- Prepped lesson for 7th graders on Shakespeare
- Presented biography of Shakespeare
- Lead iambic pentameter demonstration and study
- Coached students in acting, projection and rehearsal practices
- Managed classroom
Teaching Artist
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
10.2018 - 12.2018
- Company Overview: Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K
- In a team of three, led groups of 15-30 school children ages 7 to 14 from all over the United Kingdom in a three-hour Shakespeare workshop
- Lead the creation of a scripted adaptation of all of Shakespeare's plays, effectively giving the children a practical knowledge of Shakespeare's life and work
- Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K
PGT Research Placement Shakespeare and D/deaf Children
University of Birmingham
06.2018 - 09.2018
- Company Overview: Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K
- Assisted Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall with her research pertaining to D/deaf children and Shakespeare
- Assisted with a Research and Development week by scribing and participating while developing new exercises and content for the RSC's Rehearsal Room Toolkit
- Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K
Extended Care Kindergarten Teacher
Seattle Waldorf School
09.2016 - 06.2017
- Company Overview: Seattle, WA
- Supervised up to 20 students
- Developing and implementing tools to communicate professionally with co-teacher, class teachers and parents about individual students and duties
- Lead circles
- Told stories
- Supervised indoor and outdoor play
- Assisted the children, including multiple with behavioral disorders, in the development of invaluable tools to communicate with peers and develop as individuals
- Seattle, WA
Morning/Afternoon Extended Care Supervisor and Summer Camp Counselor
Seattle Children's Theater
06.2016 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: Seattle, WA
- Effective communication practices with parents, camp counselors and supervisors
- Organized medical and health and safety forms
- Seattle, WA
House Manager
Cornish College of the Arts
09.2014 - 05.2016
- Company Overview: Seattle, WA
- Opened the house
- Managed box office
- Made announcements to the audience about health and safety and other pertinent information
- Communicated with stage managers, Production Managers, directors, actors before and after the show
- Seattle, WA
Drama Advisor/Director/Assistant Director/Assistant Teacher
The Waldorf School of the Peninsula
05.2009 - 06.2015
- Company Overview: Los Altos/Mountain View, CA
- Advised and assisted class teachers in directing A Midsummer Night's Dream (2X); the Sound of Music; Almost, Maine; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Fiddler on the Roof; and The Taming of the Shrew
- Enforced administration policies and rules that governed students
- Discussed assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts and helped to maintain order in the classroom
- Los Altos/Mountain View, CA
Education
MA - Shakespeare & Creativity
University of Birmingham
Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K.09.2018
B.F.A. - Theatre & Original Works
Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle, WA05.2016
High School Diploma -
Waldorf School of the Peninsula
Mountain View, CA06.2012
Playwriting Workshop -
Dramatists Guild
10.2023
Playwriting Intensive -
Dragon Theater
09.2021
Skills
- Quick-learner
- Relationship building
- Microsoft Office
- Google Suite
- Graphic design
- Website Design
- Event management
- Team coordination
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Attention to detail
- Dependable and consistent
Websites
Timeline
Facility Supervisor
The City of Mountain View
10.2023 - Current
Producer, Stage Manager
Kimberly Clouse
11.2021 - 11.2021
Literary Council Member
Playwrights Foundation
01.2021 - 04.2021
Nanny
Private Family
06.2020 - Current
Founder, Founding Member
Épine Noir Society
05.2020 - Current
Website Designer
Website Design
03.2020 - Current
Barista
Starbucks
02.2020 - 03.2020
Reader
Playwrights Foundation
11.2019 - 01.2021
Teaching Artist
TheatreWorks
09.2019 - 12.2019
Guest Teacher for Shakespeare Lesson/Drama Advisor
Waldorf School of the Peninsula
02.2019 - 02.2019
Artistic Fellow
Playwrights Foundation
01.2019 - 04.2019
Teaching Artist
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
10.2018 - 12.2018
PGT Research Placement Shakespeare and D/deaf Children
University of Birmingham
06.2018 - 09.2018
Extended Care Kindergarten Teacher
Seattle Waldorf School
09.2016 - 06.2017
Morning/Afternoon Extended Care Supervisor and Summer Camp Counselor
Seattle Children's Theater
06.2016 - 12.2016
House Manager
Cornish College of the Arts
09.2014 - 05.2016
Drama Advisor/Director/Assistant Director/Assistant Teacher
The Waldorf School of the Peninsula
05.2009 - 06.2015
B.F.A. - Theatre & Original Works
Cornish College of the Arts
High School Diploma -
Waldorf School of the Peninsula
Playwriting Intensive -
Dragon Theater
MA - Shakespeare & Creativity
University of Birmingham
Playwriting Workshop -
Dramatists Guild
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