Arden Phanes (they/xie/zir)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Assistant Director - Phamaly Theatre Company
So Your Mom and Dad Broke Up - Co Director - Bewilderness Theatre Company with The Denver Fringe Festival
Anatomy of a Suicide - Phanes World Theatre
The Bad Seed - UNCG Workshop and Directing 1
Daytrips - UNCG Workshop
Once - UNCG Workshop
The Midnight Mart - Playwright - Phanes World Theatre
Nuptial Nightmare - Playwright - Musing Snails
The Horrors That Persist - Playwright - Phanes World Theatre
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
I worked with an agency by going to schools and teaching theatre improv classes. I managed classrooms of 10-14 students of varying ages and engaged them in self-planned lessons on improv and theatre arts.
May 2012 - May 2017
Engage students of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds, and ages in art-based learning.
Teach students skills to help them further an acting career.
June 2018 - August 2018
My responsibility was to assist a teaching artist with engaging students of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds, and ages in art-based learning.
Stage Management and Technical Directing - Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company
Basic Directing for Theatre with Selena A Naumoff - Wheat Ridge Theatre Company
Stage Manager - No Body To Murder - JCC PLUSS Theatre Camp 2026
Stage Manager - We Are The Tigers - Shifted Lens Theatre
Stage Manager - Macbeth - Knights of the Tempest
Assistant Stage Manager - The Legend of Anne Bonny - Two Cent Lion
Production Design - Funny As A Crutch - Phamaly Theatre Company
Ongoing Independent Contractor - City of Northglenn Arts and Humanities
Stage Manager - A Manny for Us - Wheat Ridge Theatre Company
Props Designer and Manager - Shrek JR. - Northglenn Arts Center
Scenic Carpentry and Painting - Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief - Northglenn Arts Center
Stage Manager - Triumph of Love - Wheat Ridge Theatre Company
Stage Manager - Ideation - Wheat Ridge Theatre Company
Stage Manager - Open Doors - Hannah Kahn Dance Company
Set Designer, Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Set Builder, Board Operator and Stage Manager - Anatomy of a Suicide - Phanes World Theatre Co.
Stage Crew - Joe Turner’s Come and Gone - UNCG
Set Building Crew - Hairspray - UNCG
Set Building Crew and Stage Crew - She Kills Monsters - UNCG
Stage Manager - The Rabbit Hole - NLT
Stage Manager - Nunsense Jamboree - NLT
Set Building Crew - The Crucible - NLT
THEATRE
Ensemble - Machinal - Miscreant Theatre Company
Performer - The Horrors That Persist - Phanes World Theatre with the Denver Fringe Festival
Janna - The Grey Suit Society - Greensboro Fringe Festival
Flavius/Clown 1 - Julius Caesar - Cardboard Box Ensemble
Marya - The Government Inspector - UNCG
Martha Cratchit - A Christmas Carol - Kernersville Little Theatre
Josephine March - Little Women - Neuse Little Theatre (NLT)
Mary Warren - The Crucible - NLT
Zaneeta Shinn - The Music Man - NLT
FILM
Lana - Refraction by Fausto Barrionuevo
Janice - Stern and the Wild Ones by Nathan Gjerstad
Mera - The Helpers by Christopher Metz
Mary - Submersion by Sky Tilley
Casey - Noir or Never by Ian McKay and Sarah Mize
Annabelle - Dead End? By Jacob Bowers
Wardrobe Assistant - Miss Holmes - Phamaly Theatre Company
Costume Designer/Wardrobe Supervisor - Dixie Swim Club - Kernersville Little Theatre
Costume Designer - Anatomy of a Suicide - Phanes World Theatre
Makeup Crew - Heathers, Twelfth Night, Hairspray - UNCG
Wig Handler - Twelfth Night - UNCG
Costume Crew - Cabaret, Twelfth Night - UNCG
Makeup Artist - Anatomy of a Suicide, Stern and the Wild Ones by Nathan Gjerstad
Zombie Hand MUA - UNCG Student Film
August 2014 - May 2018
I completed an entire four years at UNCG and earned my Bachelor’s degree with focuses in performance, stage directing, stage managing, costuming, and set building. I also have a minor in dance performance.
Beginner in American Sign Language.
Familiar with food allergy regulations and precautions.
CPR training.
Proficient experience working with disabled humans.
Valid driver’s license.
I possess a bachelor’s/four-year degree for theatre from a university.
Studio training in dance performance (ballet, jazz, hip-hop, acrobatic and musical theatre styles.)
Formal vocal coaching from Julie Stewart.
Mindfulness: Nature, Art, and the Global Human Experience. This was a study abroad program in which I studied theatre in an immersed environment in London and Wales, UK. I focused my study in directing under Michael Attenborough. I also focused on the Perdekamp Emotional Method (P.E.M) – Ask me about it!