LOCAL ARTIST
LIFELONG PASSION AIMEE GREENBERG CREATES ART AND FINDS HER VOICE IN THE THEATER by JENNIFER FRAKES | photo by Tabitha Jackson Photography
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heater is a lifelong passion for Carlsbad resident Aimee Greenberg. She began acting as a teen, and has been a performer ever since. “I auditioned for Fiddler on the Roof and got the role of Chavah at Woodland Junior High School in East Meadow, NY. I was 13. After that I was hooked,” stated Aimee, who received formal theater training in New York City from theater icons Sandy Meisner, Stella Adler, Wynn Handman, and Bill Hickey. Aimee also directs, writes, produces, and is an educator in the theatric arts. Over the course of her career in the theater, Aimee has received multiple awards and fellowships, including the Susan B. Komen award for her work facilitating expressive arts workshops with breast cancer survivors and publishing a book based on the work entitled “Changing the Face of Breast Cancer.” “I am honored to have been given the opportunity to use theater to build bridges of communication and help create life scripts with cancer survivors, runaway teens, battered women, migrant children, and many others. I have also been privileged to receive a generous fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to study and perform Japanese theater and dance in Tokyo. This was perhaps the most exciting and culturally stimulating experience of my career,” said Aimee. She encourages all those in the arts to find their own voice and create original material. In the 1990s, Aimee came to San Diego to teach at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and Cal State University San Marcos. It was during this time that she met her husband, Tom Call. Tom works for Raytheon AST as an engineering fellow. He is a former Air Force pilot, flies bi-planes for Fun Flights in Carlsbad, and is a black belt in Aikido. Aimee and Tom have two daughters, Lily (19) and Avalon (16). Lily attends UC Berkeley, is a political science major, and last summer worked as a program officer for the Samuel Lawrence Foundation. Avalon is a sophomore at Sage Creek High School. She has worked at local professional theaters, acted in three of her mother’s plays, and will be playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at Sage Creek this spring. “Together Lily and Avalon acted as ‘The Shakespeare Sisters’ and performed for four years in the San Diego Society Shakespeare Festival for which they both received the Outstanding Actress award,” related Aimee proudly.
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Aimee Greenberg Theater artistic director as well as writer, performer, director, producer, and educator Bressi Ranch Reading, writing, painting, viewing films, gardening, yoga, swimming, and museums Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad Beach, Trader Joe’s, the views in Bressi Ranch, Leo Carrillo Ranch, The Dove Library and the adjacent art gallery
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