Amy Salloway

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 grew up in Milwaukee, got a BA in Theatre and Sociology from the U of MN, 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, after developing spoken word pieces and monologues at Minneapolis performance venues like Patrick’s Cabaret, Balls and HotBed, Amy created her first solo show, Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, about body image, sex, and frozen food, which premiered in the Minnesota Fringe Festival and  made Lavender Magazine’s annual 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” (tales of size, sweat, and exercising your demons) in 2006/2007 – and now all three pieces tour to Fringes, solo theatre festivals, performance events and booked gigs in the US and Canada.  Their cumulative stops have included the UNO Festival in Victoria, BC; Cape May Stage’s Flying Solo Series; Open Stage Theatre in Harrisburg, PA; 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 Solo Comedy”, and “Best Original Script”); the Actors Theatre of Minnesota Fringe Invitational here in St. Paul, and the Fringes in Thunder Bay, Halifax (Best of Venue), Ottawa (Top 5 Must-sees), Orlando, Cincinnati (Critic’s Pick),Victoria, Vancouver (Pick of the Fringe), the Berkshires, and Winnipeg (Best of Fest).

When she’s not working on solo shows, Amy substitute teaches at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, acts in other people’s plays, babysits, and portrays practice patients like “Woman With Migraine” and “Woman About To Give Birth” for the U of MN Medical School. To talk to her about anything, ask her more about all this, or offer her the respite of a financial cushion in these lean and trying times, please feel free to email: 
amysalloway@mindspring.com
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Amy Salloway belongs to a rare and crafty class of clowns: she writes comedy as deftly and as perceptively as she performs it. To see her shows is to wonder which to admire more -- her original ideas or her warm, winning revelation of them.” – Cincinnati CityBeat