Amy Salloway

Actor/writer Amy Salloway has been called “hilariously self-loathing”, “gifted at creating comedy from pain and embarrassment”, and “the queen of self-deprecation”, and she takes all of that as a huge compliment. Amy was born in Boston, grew up in Milwaukee, and has lived most of her adult years in Seattle and Minneapolis. Much of her acting and writing work has been in the areas of issue-oriented, children’s and educational theatre, which explains why her resume is filled with roles like "Mosquito #2", "Spawning Salmon" and "Broccoli". In August of 2003 Amy created her first solo show, Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, about body image, sex and frozen food, which debuted in the Minnesota Fringe Theatre Festival and made Lavender Magazine’s annual ‘Best of’ list for “Best Solo Performance”. Since then, she’s written two more shows – 2005’s "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!" (about adolescence, angst, and Jewish summer camp), and “Circumference” (based on her year-long quest to get gastric bypass surgery) in 2006/2007 – and now all three pieces tour to Fringes, solo festivals, theatres, performance events and booked gigs in the US, Canada and beyond. Their cumulative stops have included the UNO Festival in Victoria, BC; Oh Solo Mio in London, ON; Cape May Stage’s Flying Solo Series; Open Stage Theatre in Harrisburg, PA; the Manhattan JCC; Six Figure Theatre’s Artists of Tomorrow series in NYC; Fresno’s Rogue Festival; the Baltimore Creative Alliance; the Columbus GLBT Theatre Festival (where Amy won “Best Script” and “Best Solo Show”); the International TeatroNetto Festival of Solo Performance in Jaffa, Israel; the Actor’s Theatre of Minnesota, and the Fringes in Thunder Bay, Halifax (Best of Venue), Ottawa, Orlando, Cincinnati (Critic’s Pick),Victoria, Vancouver (Pick of the Fringe), the Berkshires and Winnipeg (Best of Fest, twice).

Amy’s performed her work on MPR and CBC radio; she’s also been an instructor and playwright for Interact Center for the Arts – a theatre company for artists with disabilities -- where she served as lead writer for two company-developed musicals: “Future Perfect”, and “The Broken Brain Summit”. She was awarded a VSA Artist Recognition Grant in 2007.