Amy E. Witting

Amy E. Witting

AMY E. WITTING finally admits she is from New Jersey although now resides in Tudor City, New York. She received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College & MFA from Hunter College where she studied under Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, & Mark Bly.

Her plays include Archipelago (PlayPenn Development Conference, Haas Fellowship), Anne Page Hates Fun (American Shakespeare Center World Premiere),...
AMY E. WITTING finally admits she is from New Jersey although now resides in Tudor City, New York. She received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College & MFA from Hunter College where she studied under Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, & Mark Bly.

Her plays include Archipelago (PlayPenn Development Conference, Haas Fellowship), Anne Page Hates Fun (American Shakespeare Center World Premiere), The House on the Hill (CATF World Premiere, Atlantic Theater Inaugural Launch Commission, NNPN Showcase, The Kennedy Center ACTF/NNPN MFA Alumni Playwright Workshop), A Bad Night (NY Rep Workshop, MTC Creative Space,), The Midnight Ride of Sean & Lucy (Roundabout Underground, Semi-finalist O’Neil Playwrights Conference), & Day 392 (The Kennedy Center ACTF/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, Hunter Playwrights Week, Kilroy’s List).

Her work has received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, NEA Grant, Queens Council on the Arts Grant, and Anne Freedman Grant. She has been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Weissberger Award, Stavis Award, and Theatre Visions Award. Her plays have been developed at Atlantic Theater, The Lark Play Development Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Pipeline PlayLAB, Tofte Lake Center, Roundabout Theatre Space Jam, National New Play Network, Abingdon Theatre, NewYorkRep, and The Kennedy Center. She is under commission from NewYorkRep and OB Theatre Company. While she is not writing she is busy learning from her many students, curating original student work, and drinking many cups of delicious tea. Leading with love is her most important credit.

Plays

  • The House On The Hill
    Cousins Alex and Frankie haven't spoken in ten years since a single devastating moment shattered their lives and families. After a decade of trauma, can a new birth help them heal at last?
  • Archipelago
    Three individuals isolated in their own pain come together in hope of raising each other up before tearing each other down.
  • A Bad Night
    A Bad Night is a documentary theatre project that reveals the complex portrait of acquaintance rape and consent as told by real interviews from survivors, detectives, attorneys, and others affected by what is a problem of escalating proportions.
  • Anne Page Hates Fun
    Anne Page didn’t always hate fun. Now unsmiling and unmarried, Anne, her seriously ill friend, her foreign exchange student, and her neighbors in Windsor, New Hampshire protest marriage, risk their hearts, confront loss, and celebrate life. Romance, humor, and a loving portrait of contemporary small town life blend in this new play inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  • Eleven Shades of Blue
    Four women in search of a missing piece of themselves meet on the Coney Island boardwalk. Through their unlikely adventures, each learns to let go of her past and move forward alone, together.
  • There’s Never a Gavin: The True Story of a Disco Roller Skater
    At the center of an abandoned roller rink, a disco ball holds the secrets of Missedcreek, New Hampshire. Davidson Rothkin, a man of faith, has disappeared leaving behind his loved ones to search for their own sense of belonging. When his youngest son Gavin befriends Claire, their innocent hope for greater meaning brings a flicker of life back into a forgotten town.
  • The Midnight Ride of Sean & Lucy
    Most one-night stands end with a walk of shame. This one ends with a lockdown. Last night, Boston-dwellers Sean and Lucy drank their sorrows away together after the bombing of the marathon put the city on edge. They never expected to see each other again, let alone get stuck in Sean’s kitchen making small talk while police search for the suspects outside. A couple of strangers and a very strange circumstance...
    Most one-night stands end with a walk of shame. This one ends with a lockdown. Last night, Boston-dwellers Sean and Lucy drank their sorrows away together after the bombing of the marathon put the city on edge. They never expected to see each other again, let alone get stuck in Sean’s kitchen making small talk while police search for the suspects outside. A couple of strangers and a very strange circumstance make for a surreal morning that the pair will never forget.
  • Road Veins
    Road Veins is the story about a brother and sister travelling in an RV across the country after their father’s untimely death. Laura Lee, just shy of eighteen, is being dropped off at her eccentric aunt’s house in New Jersey by her older brother Duckie. Along the way they rediscover their love for each other and begin to understand the definition of family.
  • Day 392
    Three lost souls. A Texas Waffle Lodge. Can they break free from their own captivity?
  • victor
    Audra, slowly approaching her fortieth birthday, is trapped insider her mind and her apartment with a mouse named Victor. As she succumbs to the comfort of Victor she falls further down a rabbit hole of despair. As Victor continues to eat at Audra's subconscious, a decision has to be made. Audra must decide to live a life of isolation or embrace the love from the other misfits she meets along the way.
  • G.I Joe Jared
    In this delightful one-act, two women realize the importance of friendship through a random blind date, G.I. Joe tarot cards, and a couple vodka sodas.
  • 36 Hours
    Four years after a brief rendezvous Annie and Patrick reunite at Heathrow Airport and discover how life-changing 36 hours can be.