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Amy Conroy

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Born in County Kerry, Amy Conroy is an actor and playwright. Her first radio play, Hold This, was recorded and broadcast on RTE Radio One in September 2010. Her first stage play,I heart Alice heart I, won the Fishamble Award for New Writing in the 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival and transferred to the Peacock Theatre in February 2012. Her second show, Eternal Rising of the Sun, won the Best Female Performer Award when it premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2011. Her performance as Gina Devine also earned her a nomination for Best Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2011. In September 2013, Amy and her company HotForTheatre presented Break, that combined spoken word, music and text. Set in an Irish secondary school it exposed and interrogated the failures and triumphs of our education system. Between 2011-2014, Amy was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute resource sharing initiative.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director HotForTheatre

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Break Amy Conroy
Eternal Rising of the Sun Amy Conroy
Far Away From Me Amy Conroy
I Heart Alice Heart I Amy Conroy
Luck Just Kissed You Hello Amy Conroy
Stone Soup Amy Conroy Niamh Lawlor Joe Moylan

Actor

Play Title Playwright
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Arthur Riordan James Joyce
Bernarda's House Veronica Coburn Federico García Lorca
Blowfish Veronica Coburn
Break Amy Conroy
Citysong Carys D. Coburn
Eternal Rising of the Sun Amy Conroy
I Heart Alice Heart I Amy Conroy
Luca
Luck Just Kissed You Hello Amy Conroy
My Son My Son Veronica Dyas
Mysteries 2000 Fergus Linehan (1) Brendan Kennelly Michael McCaffery Deirdre Purcell Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Johnny Hanrahan Joseph O'Connor (1) Pat Kinevane Gavin Kostick Michael Scott (2) Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Declan Gorman Joe O'Byrne Derek Chapman Aidan Mathews
Playboyz Martin Sharry John Millington (J.M.) Synge
The Blanch Ciarán Taylor
The Countrywoman Elizabeth Kuti
The Gist of It Rodney Lee

Director

Play Title Playwright
Far Away From Me Amy Conroy
Inspired by The Princess and the Pea.
I Heart Alice Heart I Amy Conroy

Director & Dramaturg

Play Title Playwright
HERE & NOW (i live here now) Veronica Dyas
Looking Deadly Niamh McGrath Keith Singleton

Associate Artist

Play Title Playwright
My Son My Son Veronica Dyas

Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's The Mother.

Dramaturg

Play Title Playwright
My Son My Son Veronica Dyas

Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's The Mother.