AMY LANDIS (nee Amy Lammert) graduated from the A.R.T. Institute in 1994(Acting) and lived/worked in New York City for many years. Amy relocated to Pittsburgh where she earned her M.F.A. in Acting from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University in 2008. At the American Repertory Theatre, Amy appeared in the World Premiere of Paula Vogel’s Hot’N’Throbbing (Layla) directed by Anne Bogart and in Ron Daniel’s production of The Cherry Orchard understudying Claire Bloom as Ranevskaya. Favorite Institute productions: The Oresteia Project (Electra) directed by Francois Rochaix, and The Sojourner (Mariah), a devised piece created with Spencer/Colton Dance Co. Recent: (2011) Amy appeared as Wendy in Peter Sinn Nachtreib’s Hunter Gatherers at Bricolage Production Company directed by Jeffrey Carpenter, (www.webbricolage.org). Her performance as As Anne Warwick in The Queens at the Pittsburgh Playhouse REP Company earned “Best Actress” honors in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette “Performers of the Year” annual awards feature (2010). Also at the Pittsburgh playhouse, she played The Woman in Death Of A Salesman, directed by the playwright’s son Robert A. Miller (2008) and played Robin in the World Premiere of the musical Eastburn Avenue (2009). Other Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre - Racing Demon (Frances); Quantum Theatre- A Mid Summer Night’s Dream (Helena) and Anna Karenina (Dolly); Carnegie-Mellon New Play Festival - The Only Gift (Star) and The Samaritan (Kitty Genovese); Pittsburgh Public Theatre - The Comedy of Errors (Luciana, with A.R.T. grad Nat DeWolf), The Bird Sanctuary (covering performances for Hayley Mills opposite Elizabeth Franz); For the Public Theatre’s “Public Exposure Series”- directed by Kyle Brenton, Amy performed in Victoria Stewart’s (playwright ’95) Hard Ball and in Mat Smart’s Hand, Foot, Arm, and Face. Other regional: - Meadow Brook Theatre - The Glass Menagerie (Laura); W.H.A.T. - Oleanna; Centenary Stage Co.- The Innocents (Miss Giddens), Scotland Road (Winifred); Fulton Opera House - Pride & Prejudice (Jane), Mother Hicks (Ricky); The Independent Eye- Conrad Bishop’s production of Under Milk Wood, and several full length co-devised plays over five seasons with director Camilla Schade. Actors’ Company of Pennsylvania - The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia); Gretna Playhouse - Rumors (Claire), Noises-Off (Poppy); Seven Angels Theatre (CT)- Scotland Road (Winifred). New York/Off-Broadway: Waiter, Waiter and David Edelstein’s (’94) Feed The Monkey (w/ Lauren Graham) directed by Nela Wagman for Watermark Theatre Co./The Ohio; Kirsten in Playing With Fire at Lincoln Center Salon (co-producer); The Classic for New York Playwright’s Lab/West Bank Café. International: Tennessee Williams’ Auto Da Fe at the annual Teatro Corto Festival, Arezzo, Italy. Recent Film: Mrs. Ostrow in the Miramax feature Adventureland directed by Greg Mottola (2009). Amy has been a teaching Artist at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre for six years working in a number of education programs including the Annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest, and directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night for the Shakespeare Summer Intensive. She also serves on the faculty of the CLO Academy of Musical Theatre and has taught Acting at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music and Voice/Speech at Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts. Degrees: B.A. in Drama, Chatham College (1984); Certificate in Acting, A.R.T. Institute at Harvard (1994); M.F.A. in Acting-Point Park University (2008).
