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Roger is a movement designer/director, embodied acting coach, and screen-motion-stage artist investigating the mixed reality of Black-queer-aspec experience through the synthetic and somatic. Ellis is the original director-choreographer of Nikki Lynette’s afrogoth musical Get Out Alive. Current projects include documusical series Happy Songs About Unhappy Things (co-director), the series Emergency Contact (creator-director), and the augmented reality performance installation Interstitial (co-creator). Ellis has worked across the US with Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series, Sacramento Music Circus, American Music Theatre Project, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, and San Diego Repertory. Work includes Ephemera by Overlie-Treanor-Black (dancer - Stella Adler NYC), Curious Incident… (movement director - Horizon), and AntigoneNOW (choreographer - Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre). Ellis’ work is anchored in the conceptual grit of xenoqueer and xenofeminist theory. Extended study with Fay Simpson (Lucid Body), Stephen Wangh (Acrobat of the Heart - Grotowski), Mary Overlie (Six Viewpoints), Deborah Black, Sophia Treanor, Wendell Beavers (Developmental Movement), and Erika Berland (Experiential Anatomy). MFA San Diego State University; BA Oklahoma City University. Ellis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University. Since 2018, Ellis has been the head of the movement area for Northwestern’s MFA Acting Program. IG: @rogerellis Roger is an independent movement coach, movement director and operator of Lucid Body Chicago. Roger has also taught courses in movement for the stage, acting through song, musical theatre scene study, music theatre dance, and collaborative devising process at Marymount Manhattan College, the University of the Arts Summer Institute, NYC's Professional Performing Arts School, and Lucid Body Institute, NYC.Software: Logic, Premiere, Photoshop, WebAdvisor, Stagewrite, Microsoft Office, Google Docs Suite.