Heidi Schmidt
HEIDI SCHMIDT is a dramaturg, director and teacher. Her dramaturgy credits include Colorado Shakespeare Festival (The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, King Charles III, King John, Julius Caesar, Equivocation, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Richard III, Inspector General), Denver Center Theatre Company (Rattlesnake Kate, Oklahoma!, Disgraced, The Christians, Tribes), Local Theater Company (Faith), and Curious Theatre Company (Roe, Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures). Her directing credits include CU Boulder (Picnic, Melancholy Play), Dirtyfish Theater (Wedding Cake Vodka), CSF Education (Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, As You Like It) and readings for Curious New Voices, Athena Project and Paragon Theatre Company. Her administrative position credits include CSF, Local Theater Company, Repertory Dance Theatre (Salt Lake City), and Women and Theatre Program. As an all-around theatre maker, she has designed props for Curious Theatre, presented pre-show talks at the Arvada Center, served as voice coach for CSF’s Camp Shakespeare, and performed in a devised ensemble piece on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Schmidt holds a PhD in Theatre History, Criticism, and Dramatic Literature from CU Boulder. She serves as CSF’s Outreach Specialist and Resident Dramaturg and regularly teaches after-school Shakespeare classes for kids, teens and adults.