Rowan Octavia Lommel grew up in a family of theater professionals. Her mom was a Yale-trained theater director and Alexander Technique teacher, and her father is an Old Vic-trained actor and Alexander Technique teacher.  As a child, her life was illuminated by plays ranging from Shakespeare to Moliere to Chekhov. Starting in high school, she participated in actor-created theater. She was a theater major at Smith College, and afterward, she received extraordinary training in actor-created physical theater at the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater. Locally, she worked at the Ojai Playwright's Conference and assistant directed a production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. She held internships at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater Projects in Los Angeles as well as with acclaimed avant-garde theater companies Mabou Mines and the Wooster Group in Manhattan. When not doing theater with Richa and her son Maxwell, Rowan is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and professor at Antioch University. She is excited to be a part of The Living Theatre and looks forward to continuing to contribute in meaningful, creative, and fun ways.