Amy Staats

Amy Staats is a writer, actor, director, producer, and a 2018 Tow Playwright in Residence through the Atlantic Theater Company. 

The world premiere of Amy’s play EDDIE AND DAVE had an extended run off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater and co-starred Amy in the role of ‘Eddie Van Halen.” 

Her one-act play, THROWS OF LOVE, has received multiple productions and is the winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Other plays include BAT KITTY (The Momentum Festival); I HOPE SHE’LL BE OKAY (New Works Now) and HANDS (developed at ATC and SPACE at Ryder Farm). As an actor, Amy most recently performed the lead in the Broadway production of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY (u/s three performances). She is a resident artist at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and SPACE on Ryder farm (RIP), an affiliated artist with New Georges, and a semi-finalist at Sundance Theater Lab and The O’Neill Playwrights Festival. Her Russian spy/gymnastics dramedy DEFECTED is in development with Olivia Wingate (MO Studios) and Wren Arthur (Olive Productions).