Creativity in Captivity

AMY GORDON: Amy-G Whiz


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An Olivier award-winning physical comedian who has worked in theatres, films, tv, festivals, circuses, cabarets, burlesque and variety shows in over 40 countries, and performed her material in 6 different languages. Forged from vaudeville stock, classical training, and an endless international tour circuit, Amy G is a deluxe weirdo extraordinaire.  Her credits include two of her own shows at Broadway's New Victory Theatre (Writer/Asst. Director/Lead in AntiGravity's Crash Test Dummies, and Daredevil Opera Company's Cirkus Inferno), Sydney Opera House, The Kennedy Center, Adelaide International Festival, Festival International de Teatro de Bogota, Montreal's TOHU, Macau Centre for the Arts, and Taipei, Hong Kong and Okinawan Arts Festivals.  As co-director and co-star of the Daredevil Opera Company, she created and toured original pyrotechnic physical comedy shows for 6 years, doing over 600 shows in 33 different countries. In NYC, Amy’s many solo shows (Entershamement, Round She Goes, Loving Abroad, and On A Roll) have played at Joe's Pub, Dance Theatre Workshop, Symphony Space, The Deluxe at Spiegelworld, The Duplex, NY Intl Clown Theatre Festival and the Bard Spiegeltent. Internationally, she has performed solo shows in theatres around the UK including London's Hippodrome and Southbank Centre, Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe, Australia: Adelaide & Melbourne Cabaret Festivals, Ireland: Bosco Theatre, Germany: Dresden's Schaubudensommer, France: Versailles Festival de Rocquencourt, Antibes FestiFemme, Austria: Vienna's Metropol, Stadtsaal and Innsbruck's Festival of Dreams, Czech Republic: UFFO, and the Seychelles: Kempinski Resorts. She lives in Red Hook, NY with a husband but calls any place with keys and a bicycle (or Vespa, or rollerskates, for that matter) home.

 



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