Amy Berryman's play WALDEN will make its New York premiere at Second Stage in fall 2024 directed by Whitney White. WALDEN debuted on the West End in 2021 as a part of Sonia Friedman's RE:EMERGE Theatre Season, directed by Ian Rickson and was also produced in 2021 at Theaterworks Hartford, directed by Mei Ann Teo (NY Times Critics Pick). Her other plays include ALIEN GIRLS (O'Neill Finalist), THE NEW GALILEOS (O'Neill Finalist), THREE YEAR SUMMER, EPIPHANY (Shakespeare's New Contemporaries Finalist, O'Neill Semi-Finalist), and THE WHOLE OF YOU (commissioned by Rising Phoenix Rep). Her work has been developed at theatres all across the US including Premiere Stages, People's Light, Bay Street Theatre, Portland Stage, PROP Thtr, Samuel French OOB Festival, City Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre...
Amy Berryman's play WALDEN will make its New York premiere at Second Stage in fall 2024 directed by Whitney White. WALDEN debuted on the West End in 2021 as a part of Sonia Friedman's RE:EMERGE Theatre Season, directed by Ian Rickson and was also produced in 2021 at Theaterworks Hartford, directed by Mei Ann Teo (NY Times Critics Pick). Her other plays include ALIEN GIRLS (O'Neill Finalist), THE NEW GALILEOS (O'Neill Finalist), THREE YEAR SUMMER, EPIPHANY (Shakespeare's New Contemporaries Finalist, O'Neill Semi-Finalist), and THE WHOLE OF YOU (commissioned by Rising Phoenix Rep). Her work has been developed at theatres all across the US including Premiere Stages, People's Light, Bay Street Theatre, Portland Stage, PROP Thtr, Samuel French OOB Festival, City Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Landing Theatre, Caltech, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Valdez Theatre Conference, AMiOS, Barrington Collective, and Eden Theatre Co.
The short film she wrote, co-produced, and starred in, YOU ARE EVERYWHERE, won Best Short Drama in the LA Short Film Festival 2018.
As an actor, Berryman was seen off-Broadway in Jessica Dickey's THE CONVENT, directed by Daniel Talbott with Rattlestick/Rising Phoenix Rep/Weathervane, as well as Greg Kotis' LUNCHTIME at the Brick, and Erin Courtney's I WILL BE GONE in the Humana Festival.
She has roots in Washington State and West Texas, and now splits her time between NYC and LA.