Amy Brown's performance career has encompassed stage and screen,
acting, dance, and song. In addition to starring in several independent
feature films, short and student films, television, and industrials,
she has frequently performed in theatre and burlesque shows. Amy's
best-known film to date is The Rockville Slayer, a thriller starring
Joe Estevez and scream queen legend Linnea Quigley. In this
internationally-distributed film, Amy has a supporting role as an
escaped mental patient. Her last feature was Take-Away Spirit, a
Chinese ghost and vampire movie for New York's One Shot Productions.
Amy began acting in school productions and community theatre in Waco,
Texas. Her interest in acting deepened in high school, when she had
leading roles in plays such as The Odd Couple (Female Version) by Neil
Simon and the title role in David Mamet's The Poet and the Rent. An
early highlight was the Holocaust drama No Fading Star, in which Amy
played a Jewish boy hiding in a convent while preparing for his Bar
Mitzvah. For this challenging role, Amy adopted a masculine look and
learned to speak passages in Hebrew. She fondly recalls when, at a
state one-act play competition, she alarmed several people when
entering the girls' restroom while in costume.
Amy spent a year at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where her
favorite experience was acting in renowned director Mark Lord's
surrealistic production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. However,
homesickness brought Amy back to Texas and she completed her BFA degree
in acting (graduating summa cum laude) at Texas Christian University,
studying under such respected teachers as Forrest Newlin, George Brown,
and Margaret Loft. Performance highlights there included the role of
Sister Martha in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and dual leading roles in
the gender-bending student production Breakfast Serial, in which Amy
played a male serial killer who preys upon younger boys. Another
experience was performing in Andy Dick's Circus of Freaks, a disturbing
stage show directed by and starring the controversial TV star Andy
Dick. Amy also forayed into directing with Djuna Barnes's The Dove. She
was a founding member of New Studio Theatre, a group of students who
explored avant-garde, surrealist, and Dadaist plays and writings,
focusing on the theories of Antonin Artaud. The group gave some
memorable performances before disbanding due to artistic differences.
Although her background was in theatre, the majority of Amy's
professional acting career has been in film. In addition to a mental
patient, her roles have included an amnesiac pursued by a hit-man (Dawn
of Twilight), a woman tormented by a killer (Mute), a goth girl
(Caffeine Headache), smart-mouthed artist (Getting To Know You),
leukemia patient (an award-winning performance in Diva Star),
300-year-old witch (Dr. Deadly's Theatre of Horrors), vampire victim
(Blood Party), accidental murderer/zombie victim (How To Dig Your
Own Grave), cheerleader (Pot Zombies), murderous housewife (You Can
Have It!), French translator (The Sadness Will Last Forever), and
Natalie Portman fan (Fandom). She has also lent her voice-over talents
to several nationally-aired anime cartoon shows. Amy studied film
acting with Michele Condrey at R.E.A.C.T. in Dallas (where she was
named the studio's top actor for summer 2004).
Amy returned to the stage to star in Goose Dance in Fort Worth and the
Comedy Killers murder mysteries in Dallas. She has worked with the Rose
Marine and Hip Pocket Theatres and the Butterfly Connection. She was an
original member of a popular burlesque troupe. Never losing her passion
for the dark and avant-garde, she hopes to focus her career in
independent projects that will surprise, disturb, and deeply affect the
audience. She is fluent in French and is an amateur pianist and
harpsichordist. Her hobbies include art, web design, watching Seinfeld
and Star Wars, and caring for her many cats. A vegetarian since age
thirteen, Amy is an adamant supporter of animal rights.
