Aubrey Marie Seader is an actor, singer, director, and producer based in Bloomington, Indiana. Aubrey is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Off Night Productions. She has a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an MA in Arts & Cultural Management from King's College London.
Born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Aubrey has lived, studied, and performed in New York City, New Jersey, and London, England. Most recent performance work includes Catherine in Prooffor Off Night Productions, Ellie in Women in the Woods(a 4-episode, site specific radio play, commissioned by Cardinal Stage Company), Jess in Lost Letters (by Creighton Irons), and as part of the ensemble for Babylon: Beyond Borders, directed by Ruthie Osterman, at The Bush Theatre in London.
Aubrey is the Artistic Director of Off Night Productions, a Bloomington, IN-based women-led theatre company producing contemporary theatre and music on "off-nights" (Sunday-Tuesday) of the traditional performance week. Aubrey produces, directs, and occasionally performs in Off Night shows. She most recently co-directed a sold out run of Steel Magnolias with Cassie Hakken (ONP Associate Artistic Director),produced and directed for the company's first play reading festival (In Her Words: A Celebration of Female Playwrights), and produced the company's first cabaret Off Night Cabaret: Love Songs, Reimagined. Coming up in August, Aubrey will direct Madeleine George's eco-comedy Hurricane Diane for the company. Before Off Night Productions, Aubrey created and co-produced the Hijabi Diaries Podcast, and theIvy Tech Storytelling Series.
Aubrey is also an arts researcher. She is interested in the use of theatre as a therapeutic tool, in both community and clinical therapeutic settings, for people with mental illnesses. Her masters thesis was on "The Long-Term Impact of Applied and Community-based Theatre on the Peace-building Process in Northern Ireland."
Aubrey has been studying classical and contemporary voice for over 10 years. Videos of Aubrey's singing work are available on the Performance Videos page.
"Having worked as a director of film, television, commercials, and theater, for over 35 years, I have to say that working with Aubrey Seader has been like working with a very seasoned professional. Each day that I have worked with Aubrey, she comes to work with great enthusiasm, insight, and most notably, her very own uniqueness." - David Anspaugh, director of films "Rudy," "Hoosiers," on working with Aubrey in "Spring Awakening."