Vivienne Claire Luthin is a professional actor and teaching artist based in NYC. A 2019 graduate from Webster University with departmental honors, a BFA in Acting, and a Minor in Music, Vivienne has worked with the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Piknik Theatre. In addition to performing, Vivienne has 9 years of teaching experience as a director, designer, and teacher. In 2021, Vivienne created theatrical curricula specific to the needs of Steamboat Springs’ high school, middle school, and Montessori school. Vivienne works as a teaching artist of TADA! Youth Theater, a drama desk award-winning non-profit youth theater, bringing musical theater to NYC public schools. As Artistic Director, Vivienne believes Piknik Theatre can become the center for world premieres of new works and community based theatre that strives to inspire imagination, invoke curiosity, and shift societal norms . Vivienne believes educational theater and the performing arts are vital to the human experience and inspire empathy, teamwork, imagination, self-expression, organization, and the joy of what it means to be alive.