Enough!
What performing my own story taught me about the grief our bodies carry long after we think we’ve moved on.
Amy Does Improv
A journalist and performer writes about improv, motherhood, ambition, family and the strange process of making art from a life.
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The Show Must Go On—but Before That, I Have Many Other Jobs
I wanted to make a solo show. I did not realize I was also signing up to run a small, financially precarious media company.
"Dude, What’s a Spleen Anyway?"
What I learned about shame and comedy while recording voiceovers for my solo show.
Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy of Good
It's a draft, it's only a draft
See Condemned to a Life
A darkly funny solo show with puppets about learning to love myself and other people for who they are.
We Mother One Another
On being raised by many women, becoming a mother myself, and learning to ask for help
The Circle of Life
On traveling around Europe with my five-year-old, The Lion King, a System of a Down concert, and what we do with the past
The Kindness of Others
On traveling through France with my five-year-old, accepting help, and realizing that Trust No One was not actually a great life plan.
Why I Chose to Share My Story
In the departures terminal at O’Hare, my daughter started stretching, a stranger joined in, and I remembered that courage is contagious.
Scenes from a Photoshoot
What it means to think about a solo show through images
The Cardboard World of Condemned to a Life
How one set piece made of cardboard multiplied
When You're Smiling
On brain scans, puppets, New York City, and the unexpected places life can take you when you stop hiding.
Nothing to Hide
The importance of normalizing the parts of life we tend to connect to shame.
Good Art Requires Support. Please Consider Supporting Mine.
I wrote a letter to the judge at my brother's sentencing. Then I turned it into a show. This is that story. (cue the Law & Order music)
I Work in the "Footwear Department"
And that might be why good things are happening in spite of me
My Solo Show Is Going to Broadway (Not in the Waiting for Guffman Sense)
Condemned To A Life is headed to United Solo on 42nd Street, and Conversations We Can’t Have is heading to Impronale in Germany.
Originally published in Inspire The Mind
Today marks 27 years since the car accident that changed my life. This piece I wrote about improv and brain recovery still rings true.
To Amsterdam and Beyond!
On accidental puppetry, cultural curiosity, and showing up
My "Field of Dreams" Moment
In which I learn to build something new and see where it takes me
Conversations We Can't Have
But I like to talk so I've found a way to do this and call it art because that is what it is.