Actor
I once heard an interview with the actor Robert DeNiro, in which he was asked why actors seem to age more slowly than others. His answer? “We spend most of our time in the present.”
This is one of the greatest experiences of acting, the time onstage living absolutely in the present moment. We listen, hear, and feel without any preconceptions or expectations of what might happen next. Another character inhabits our being and they are whoever they are - my own personality can only stand aside and observe. I am very selective about the roles I accept, because living in another person’s skin for a length of time changes your own life in large and small ways.
I learn so much from my characters - forgiveness, wonder, love.
Onstage is the place I feel most safe, and most alive.
“What works for acting works for life. To act brilliantly, to live fully, requires nothing less than the complete investment of your entire soul.”
Watch an excerpt from The Niceties
The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, is an explosive play focused on race, starring Genevieve Aichele and Malikah McHerrin-Cobb, and directed by Catherine Stewart. It was produced in partnership with the Office of Community, Equity and Diversity based at the University of New Hampshire.
The Odd Couple
Mitty!
Blithe Spirit
Faith Healer
The Primary Primary!
Eleemosynary
Eleemosynary
It's A Wonderful Life
The Odd Couple
Genevieve in Doubt
Testimonials
Aichele is bright in the ensemble, yet her solos are devastatingly dark. She carries much of the show’s dark energy surprisingly well, controlling and modulating it. – The Wire (Jacques Brel)
In Aichele’s excellent hands, Madame Arcati is brisk, forthright, jauntily competent, and eminently charming...And her séance manner is a treat: In full dark, her voice – calling the spirits, singing, placating a spirit child with a cold – is rich, surprising, and completely endearing. All in all, Aichele’s Arcati is absolutely a delight. – Portland Phenix (Blithe Spirit)
Genevieve Aichele’s Madame Arcati is perfectly over the top – as she should be. Aichele clearly revels in the role, is deliciously eccentric, and thoroughly entertaining. – The Edge (Blithe Spirit)
Genevieve Aichele delivers the most satisfying segment…Grace is a broken woman, mind rattled, barely holding on; and Aichele is she. Solo, center stage, with sparse movement, Aichele makes every gesture, intonation and facial movement authentic and fixating. It’s the actress’s finest performance. – The Edge (Faith Healer)
Sister Aloysius’ (Genevieve Aichele) soul has been sucked into a vacuum, her mind contorted by a less than democratic power structure, her body wrapped in a dust-gathering frock and her faith, warped by a sense of illusive purity. Aichele’s layered and organic performance channels the seductive nun-terrorist. She need only flash her glowering blue eyes to haunt and manipulate any doe, buck or lion under her gaze. – Spotlight (Doubt)
Genevieve Aichele as Janine and Malikah McHerrin-Cobb as Zoe are perfect. Everything about the two women is right: facial gesture, movement and the body language that signals their relationship and individual personalities. Both are superb at the micro signal, a hardening of the face, a lift of a brow, or the intonation in a line’s delivery. Both performances are a delight to watch….“The Niceties” will have you resist one figure, then the other, then both, and, above all, it will make you question. For an intense, challenging play done beautifully, this one is your ticket. – The Edge (The Niceties)
Acting Awards
Spotlight Award Nominee for Best Actor, Faith Healer, 2011
Spotlight Award Nominee for Best Original Production, Resurrection, 2005
New England Theatre Conference Award: Outstanding Achievement in American Theatre, 2002
Artist Fellowship Grant, NH State Council on the Arts, 1983 & 1984
