When Amy was fourteen she decided she loved theatre so much she’d better learn how to sing. She has trained with various teachers in Ballarat before moving to Curtis Bayliss in Melbourne. She sang as a choral scholar at Collins St Baptist Church, and was a member of VoxSynergy in 2002. Now she is pursuing a singing career professionally.
Amy’s training and teaching experience demonstrates her love for all the varied aspects of performance. In 2006 she completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Drama & Theatre Studies and Classics, and went on to complete her Honours specialising in performance-based research within Classical Studies. Following this she undertook a year of full-time dance training at Dance Factory. She has worked as an auditioner for the National Institute of Youth Performing Arts and a teacher for Acting Antics, but her favourite teaching position was the two and a half years she spent at Fresh Youth Theatre, where she wore many hats: Creative Assistant, Pastoral Carer, Production Coordinator, Theatre Manager (which included writing and directing half of a double bill about gender, entitled Do You Know Her?) and Workshop Facilitator.
Amy’s experience in the entertainment industry includes work for various profesional companies including interactive murder-mystery shows, performances at youth events with Fresh Youth Theatre, and M.C.-ing the 2006 O-Week Carnival at Monash University. She has also performed in My Fair Lady with ACT Inc., The Gondoliers and Princess Ida with Savoy Opera Company, Silly Season and POETS Day with Monash University, and Into the Woods with the Just So Society in her semester abroad at St Andrews University, Scotland. In 2009 she founded her own organisation, Storytellers, which seeks to express and explore faith through performance.
Performance is her all-consuming passion and she looks forward to singing with your kids in Tony Bones shows! And provided that doesn’t keep her too busy, in 2010 she will also be appearing in the Melbourne Opera Chorus, as well as teaching ballet to preschoolers and drama to school-aged children with Brightstars Academy. |
