Amy Brown
Actor
E-mail: amy@shane-arts.com

BIO

Amy Brown has recently returned to live theatre performance after starring in several independent feature films, short and student films, television, and industrials. She currently stars in Take-Away Spirit, a Chinese ghost and vampire feature for New York’s One Shot Productions, which will have international distribution. Amy’s most well-known film to date is The Rockville Slayer, a thriller starring Joe Estevez and scream queen legend Linnea Quigley, also distributed internationally. In this film, Amy has a supporting role as an escaped mental patient. In recent years, Amy starred in Dawn of Twilight as an amnesiac pursued by a hit-man and Mute as a woman tormented by a killer. She is represented by Linda McAlister Talent (http://www.mcalistertalent.com/headbook/Brown,_Amy.htm).

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. She completed her BFA degree in acting (graduating summa cum laude) at Texas Christian University. 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. 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.

Although her background was in theatre, the majority of Amy’s professional acting career has been in film. Her roles have included a goth girl, smart-mouthed artist, leukemia patient, 300-year-old witch, vampire victim, accidental murderer-cum-zombie victim, cheerleader, and Natalie Portman fan. She has also lent her voice-over talents to several nationally-aired anime cartoon shows. Amy studied film acting with Michele Condrey at REACT in Dallas (where she was named the studio's top actor for summer 2004).

Amy has greatly enjoyed her return to live performance since the fall of 2005, when she began performing in a variety of Comedy Killers shows for Shane-Arts. She is fluent in French and is an amateur pianist and harpsichordist. Her hobbies include web design (the hub of her websites is http://amybrown.net), watching Seinfeld and Star Wars, and caring for her many cats. A vegetarian since age thirteen, Amy is an adamant supporter of animal rights.

ACTING RESUME

STAGE

FILM and TELEVISION *denotes feature film

EDUCATION and TRAINING

SPECIAL SKILLS

* Core Ensemble Member, Shane-Arts (Dallas, TX)
* Named R.E.A.C.T.'s Top Actor by Michele Condrey (Summer, 2004)
Current Passport
updated 3/14/06