Amy Berryman is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teaching artist originally from Seattle by way of West Texas. Her play “Walden,” produced by Sonia Friedman and directed by Ian Rickson, premiered on London’s West End in May 2021. “Walden” was also produced at TheaterWorks in Hartford in August 2021, directed by Mei Ann Teo, and received a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Other full-length plays include “The New Galileos” (O’Neill Finalist 2019); “Three Year Summer;” and “Epiphany, Or What Would
You?” (finalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, O'Neill Semi-Finalist 2020). Her work has been developed at Premiere Stages, Kitchen Dog, Caltech, East 15, Portland Stage, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and AMiOS, among others. Amy has recently received a commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and is developing her pilot, “Abstinence Only,” with Phenomenal Content.