Amie Brockway
Theater Director/Writer/Teacher/Performer/Administrator
P. O. Box 959, Margaretville, NY 12455
Phone: 914-586-1660
Producing Artistic Director, THE
OPEN EYE THEATER, 1984-Present
At The Open Eye Theater in the Catskills: Has devised a new play development
program using local talent and Open Eye professionals working together.
Has directed fully staged performances: (Those marked with * were
in residence with The Roxbury Arts Group.)
- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM *, William Shakespeare
- THE NIGHTINGALE *, William E. Black and Amie Brockway
- ACROSS THE PLAINS*, Sandra Fenichel Asher
- SELKIE*, Laurie Brooks Gollobin
- AND THE TIDE SHALL COVER THE EARTH*, Norma Cole
- TALES OF HILL AND HOLLOW '95*, Catskill Mtn. Writers
- TALES OF HILL AND HOLLOW '96, Catskill Mtn. Writers
- THE WOLF AND ITS SHADOWS*, Sandra Fenichel Asher
- TALES OF HILL AND HOLLOW '94*, Catskill Mtn. Writers
- WINTER IN THE CATSKILLS AND OTHER DELIGHTS, Catskill Mtn. Writers
Has directed numerous developmental reading performances in residence
with THE ROXBURY ARTS GROUP including:
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN ONE-ACTS: "Pipe Dreams", Evelyn Ellsworth
"Swan Song", Ellie Serena; THE BOG WITCH,Anne V. McGravie;
NO ONE'S HOME, Philip Potak; A LIAR'S STEW, Mark Rosenwinkel;
ACROSS THE PLAINS, Sandra Fenichel Asher; I WILL SING LIFE, Sandra
Fenichel Asher; SELKIE, Laurie Brooks Gollobin; BLUEPRINTS FROM
SPACE, Mark Leiren-Young; READING LOUIS, Walt Vail; ONCE IN
THE TIME OF TROLLS, Sandra Asher; AND THE TIDE SHALL COVER THE EARTH,
Norma Cole; THE WISE MEN OF CHELM, Sandra Asher; AMBER WAVES,
James Still;
At The Open Eye Theater In New York City:
Has produced more than forty mainstage plays; fifteen touring productions;
eight Eye on Directors Festivals; and dozens of readings and workshop presentations
of plays in development.
Has directed more than twenty premiere productions including: AND THE
TIDE SHALL COVER THE EARTH, Norma Cole; EAGLE OR SUN (AGUILA O SOL),
Sabina Berma ; GARDINIA'S 'N' BLUM, Nicholas A. Patricca; ANGALAK
(Joseph Campbell Award), Walt Vail ; A CIRCLE ON THE CROSS, Thomas
C. Jones; THE ODYSSEY, from Homer; THE WISE MEN OF CHELM, Sandra
Fenichel Asher; SCAPIN,from Moliere
Devised Theater Orientation and Transition Project for adult basic education
students in New York City, and program of arts-ineducation workshops and
residencies for schools in New York City and Delaware County, NY, and surrounding
areas.
Regional:
Directed premiere production of ACROSS THE PLAINS at The Coterie, Kansas
City, MO.
Has directed developmental reading performances:
- IUPUI, National Youth Theater Playwriting Symposium, 1993
- IN THE GARDEN OF THE WITCH by Bryan Williams
- IUPUI, National Youth Theater Playwriting Symposium, 1995
- SELKIE by Laurie Brooks Gollobin
- NEW VISIONS/NEW VOICES at The Kennedy Center, 1995
- ACROSS THE PLAINS by Sandra Fenichel Asher
University and Summer Stock:
Has directed more than a dozen plays and musicals including:
- SUBURBAN NEWS by Nora Glickman, CUNY
- OKLAHOMA, Hofstra
- SCENES FROM AMERICAN LIFE by A. R. Gurney, Rutgers
- THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH by Lanford Wilson, Rutgers
- A FUNNY THING....FORUM, Theater-by-the-Lake
- STOP THE WORLD...., Theater-by-the-Lake
Related Professional Experience:
- Editor TYA TODAY 1990-1994;
- Literary Consultant at Mount Sequoya
- New Play Retreat; Panelist for the Playwrights Center inMinneapolis;
- Guest Lecturer at NYU and Hunter College;
- Acting Teacher at Creative Theater Unlimited and The Hun School, Princeton,
NJ;
- Private classes and workshops New York City and Catskill Mountains;
- Script Reading Circle-in-the-Square, ManhattanTheatre Club, Theatre
at St. Clements;
- 1990 Artistic Director Exchange to Soviet Union;
- 1992 US Delegate to 22nd Danish Children's Theatre Festival
- 1996 Panelist AATE National Conference;
- 1996 Panelist ASSITEJ World Congress, Rostov-on-Don,Russia.
Publications:
- THE ODYSSEY (stage adaptation), Dramatic Publishing Company
- (Scheduled for Fall 1997); "Theatre for Survival or A Playwright's
- Opportunity", The Dramatists Guild Newsletter, February 1997;
"They
- Might Be Elves", American Theatre, September 1993.
Awards:
- 1994 Performers at Work "Artistic Visionary" Award
- 1991 Paul Green Foundation Award
Professional Training:
- SHAKESPEARE & CO., January '97 Intensive
- GENE LASKO, Acting
- MASON GROSS, Rutgers: MFA Directing
- SUNY, Purchase: BFA Acting
Member:
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers; The Dramatists Guild;
Past Co-President League of Professional Theater Women/NY; Board Member
1990-1996 ASSITEJ/USA (International Association of Theaters for Children
and Young People, US Chapter); Founding Member NYC Family Theatre Consortium;
Member Catskill Women's Network.