Amy Drake

Amy Drake, playwright/dramatist. The Kilroys List 2020, Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2020, Yale Writers’ Workshop, member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, member of The Theater Makers Studio, former Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America, former Board member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights. SAINT UNDER GLASS received a Julia’s Reading Room reading from The League of Professional Theatre Women. Her play, SOMEWHERE I CAN SCREAM was selected for Off-Broadway residency at The Players Theater. Appeared in the regional Emmy-winning episode of Columbus Neighborhoods: Clintonville. Her one-act play EYES LIKE OPAQUE GEMS won Most Popular Play in the MITF Short Play Lab. Best Director award from Theatre Roundtable Columbus for Evelyn Williams’ NIGHT MUST FALL. Public and conference speaker. Author. M.S. Marketing and Communications, Franklin University. M.A. Liberal studies/English, Ohio Dominican University.  Education includes writing workshops in the Cambridge University International Program, Reed Hall, Paris, and playwriting at Kenyon (College) Summer Institute.

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.amydrake.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/amy.drake3
TW: @amydrake1018

MORE ABOUT ME
I keep doing theater because I enjoy telling stories and get a thrill watching them come alive on the stage. I believe live theater will come back after the pandemic passes and I keep writing and studying theater to be ready with new and refined material when it does.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
After a recent Julia's Reading Room Zoom reading of my play SAINT UNDER GLASS I am busy rewriting passages with an eye toward future staging. I am also writing the libretto to a chamber piece on Emily Dickinson.

KEYWORDS
Historical. Current events. Drama. Comedy.