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Amy Woodruff
Height: 5'3" · Hair Color: Brown · Eye Color: Green · Training: Intensive courses with Dah Teatar, Odin Teatret, Shakespeare & Company, and Vortex Rep Theatre · Special Skills: Sleeping · Hometown: Acadiana · Born: 7/11/1973 · College: Goddard College - MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (08-present); McNeese Univ - BA in Theatre (91-98)
Amy Woodruff is a Louisiana theatre artist specializing in actor-created intermedia performance. She holds a BA in Theatre from McNeese University, and she is currently pursing an MFA at Goddard College's innovative low-residency Interdisciplinary Arts program in Vermont. Woodruff has trained with Dah Teatar of Serbia and Odin Teatret of ...Read More
Amy Woodruff is a Louisiana theatre artist specializing in actor-created intermedia performance. She holds a BA in Theatre from McNeese University, and she is currently pursing an MFA at Goddard College's innovative low-residency Interdisciplinary Arts program in Vermont. Woodruff has trained with Dah Teatar of Serbia and Odin Teatret of Denmark, and from Shakespeare & Company of Massachusetts and Vortex Repertory Theatre of Austin, Texas. She created Theatre Louisiane, Inc. in New Orleans in 1999, an artistic laboratory where she has launched a variety of provocative, critically-acclaimed performance pieces.
Her works have been seen at New Orleans spaces such as the Voodoo Mystère, Zeitgeist, the Pickery, the State Palace Theatre, and the Dramarama festival at the Contemporary Arts Center. Woodruff has received artist grants from the Louisiana Division of The Arts and the Jazz & Heritage Foundation of New Orleans, and her projects are fiscally sponsored by the NYC artists' service organization Fractured Atlas. She has appeared as a Guest Artist in her multimedia stage adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann" at McNeese University Theatre, and in her one-actor project "dis+graced" at the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival in Canada. She is also a member of Four Humours Theatre Company of New Orleans, and New Orleans magazine honored Woodruff and her collaborating artists from Theatre Louisiane as "People to Watch" in 2006. At this time she is performing and developing her original mixed media solo work "Moon Cove," which has which has been seen in Louisiana and in Vermont, and she is appearing in the multi-state collaborative visual art and performance installation, the "Our Lady of Sorrows Project," which has been thus far been presented in Vermont and Maine. Her current solo installation work consists of the video projection + performance projects "fleetinghosts" and "The Delusion Gown."
A tenth-generation Louisianian of Cajun French and Cherokee Indian heritage who grew up along the prairies and rice fields of the Mermentau River Basin, Woodruff is the first member of her family to graduate from college. Woodruff began lessons in folk violin in 2007. In the early 1990s she spent two months in the Republic of Panama working as a photographer’s assistant, and in 2004 she attended the United Nations World Theatre Congress in Tampico, Mexico on a Louisiana Division of The Arts mini-grant.
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