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biography
AMY STOLLER is a woman of many parts, only some of them on-stage. She has been literary manager of an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company, casting director for a Brooklyn Shakespeare company and an American musical-in-progress, director of New York workshops and readings, and production manager of two one-acts that journeyed from the US to Scotland. Along the way, she served as contributing editor for an interactive multimedia program in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and as senior writer for a literary guide of which one critic opined, “This book could save your sanity.”
She has also been distinguished as Freelancers Union’s very first Member of the Week.
As an actor, Amy has played leading and featured roles Off-Broadway at the Open Space Theatre Experiment and Theater of the Open Eye, in numerous Off-Off-Broadway productions with companies including the New Rude Mechanicals (company member, two years), Distilled Spirits Theatre, Theater Ten Ten, and the Shaw Project (on whose Board of Advisors she now sits); and in regional theatres including the McCarter Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and GeVa.
She began coaching informally when fellow students at an acting studio, impressed by her dialect skills as an actor, asked her for help with their accents for classwork. After she left the studio, her former teacher recommended her to a director as a production dialect coach. The gamble paid off with a successful production, and in 1995 a new professional career was born!
selected credits
NEW YORK CITY: Mint Theater Company: Resident Dialect Designer/Coach and occasional Dramaturge; production highlights include The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (2009 Drama League Award nominee Julia Coffey); The Madras House, featuring Roberta Maxwell, George Morfogen, Laurie Kennedy, and Jonathan Hogan; Soldier’s Wife (2006 Drama Desk Award nominee; dramaturgy only); Echoes of the War starring Frances Sternhagen and Richard Easton; The Daughter-in-Law (2004 Drama Desk Award nominee); The Voysey Inheritance. Second Stage: Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Leonard Foglia. Keen Company: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pearl Theatre Company: Toys in the Attic (New York Times Critic’s Pick), directed by Austin Pendleton; I Have Been Here Before. Drama League DirectorFest: Six productions, most recently The Lover, by Harold Pinter. FringeNYC: The Miss Education of Jenna Bush, multiple award-winner starring Melissa Rauch. Summer Play Festival: How Love is Spelt by Chloë Moss. New York Musical Theatre Festival: The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. Distilled Spirits Theatre: Northanger Abbey (2000 OOBR Award) and Innocent Diversions, both by Lynn Marie Macy.
TOURING: Doctor Dolittle; Cheer From Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical (Co-Director); Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn and Her Pen.
REGIONAL: World premieres of Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, Coming Home, by Athol Fugard, directed by Gordon Edelstein, and A Civil War Christmas, by Paula Vogel, directed by Tina Landau, all at Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT; Flora, an Opera, directed by John Pascoe and composed by Neely Bruce; new editions of Let Me Down Easy at American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Austin, TX. Also Diana of Dobson’s, at Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield, CT; Freud’s Last Session (George Morfogen in title role), Educating Rita (title role); Hobson’s Choice; The Secret Garden, all at Peterborough Players, Peterborough, NH.
PUBLICATIONS: Author, “The Value of English Money in The Voysey Inheritance,” in Harley Granville Barker Reclaimed (2007), Publisher: Granville Press; Author, “Teaching Consonants Through a Straw,” in Voice and Speech Review 6 (2009), Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Author, “Marni Nixon: More Than You Know,” in Voice and Speech Review 3 (2003), Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Author, Internet Resources for Voice and Speech Professionals, Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Senior Writer, The New York Public Library Literature Companion (2001), Publisher: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster); Contributing Editor, Multimedia Hitchcock (1999), Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
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