Amy Drake

Amy Drake

Film/Video / Theater/Performance / Playwriting

Amy Drake, MA, MS. Broadway investor, screen writer, playwright/dramatist, producer, and actor. The Kilroys List, Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, Yale Writers’ Workshop. Member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, Theater Makers Studio, Dramatists Guild, LMDA, Theater Resources Unlimited, P.A.G.E.S., PDMP. Film writer and actor. Conference speaker. Producer of short films GUELLEN, KS (NYC) and SHOWDOWN IN AMHERST (writer/producer), which was a quarter finalist in the Sunvale screenplay competition.

Appeared in regional Emmy-winning TV episode of Columbus Neighborhoods and numerous commercials. Playwright of SOMEWHERE I CAN SCREAM, selected for residency at The Players Theatre, NYC. Audience Favorite SHOPPERS PARADISE, NYC Short Theatre Festival. EYES LIKE OPAQUE GEMS, Most Popular Play, MITF Short Play Lab. Producers PRO Inner Circle Award. Best Director Award Theatre Roundtable Columbus (OH) for NIGHT MUST FALL. IABC Winner of the Silver Quill of Excellence award in web writing. Alumnae of summer programs at Univ. of Cambridge, Reed Hall, Paris, and Kenyon (College) Summer Institute in playwriting. Represented by Heyman Talent.


Upcoming Events

SHOWDOWN IN AMHERST, film screening at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Canzani Screening Room, located at 60 Cleveland, Ave., Columbus, OH 43215. The screening will be held on Thursday., February 22, 2024, with a reception at 6:00 pm, screening at 7:00 pm, followed by a panel discussion and two short student/faculty films. SHOWDOWN IN AMHERST is a film about Emily Dickinson's historic meeting with her Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her literary mentor, who did not accept her work as "real poetry" during her lifetime. The film was narrated by Chuck Cooper. The screenplay by Amy Drake was a quarter finalist in the Sunvale screenplay competition.

Images
Amy Drake: Crabapple Night
Amy Drake: Eyes Like Opaque Gems
Amy Drake: Somewhere I Can Scream
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Videos

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