Aimee McCoy

Aimee McCoy

she/her/hers

Oracle of Synthesis
[Director of Membership Services]

aimee@alternateroots.org

Aimee McCoy is Co-founder of The Artizen Company (TAC), a theater and film company based in Georgia. Since 2013, she has served as managing director and co-artistic director, regularly taking on the roles of creator, director, producer, filmmaker, actor, and educator. She has jointly directed and produced TAC’s original Immersive Reality presentations A Taste of Artizen (2013), Kuzaa (2013), The Procreation Parade (2014), Silent Encounters (2015/2016), Strange Fruit (2017), and I’m Pregnant! And I Don’t Know Who the Momma Is! (2018). Also, a filmmaker, Aimee directs and produces all of TAC’s film projects. McCoy is a founding member of the Atlanta based creative collective SeedWorks, an agile lab that offers space and focused time to take a creative offering to the next phase of development. She also sits on the board of PushPush Arts a local Atlnata arts organization. Aimee is a proud graduate of Agnes Scott College. She is a committed voting member of Alternate ROOTS who began as her ROOTS journey as a general member in 2014. She became an Alternate ROOTS Artistic Management Fellow in 2017/2018, joined the staff as an administrator 2019, promoted to Operations Manager in 2020, and now steps into the newly created role of Director of Membership Services. A lifelong learner dedicated to creating positive change, Aimee is thrilled to return to work with the amazing ROOTS Community in this new capacity!

Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in communities of place, tradition or spirit. We are a group of artists and cultural organizers based in the South creating a better world together. As Alternate ROOTS, we call for social and economic justice and are working to dismantle all forms of oppression—everywhere.