Amy Brienes
212-636-9619

Height 5’3 AFTRA Blue-Green Eyes
Weight 120 Medium Brown Hair

New York Theatre

Camp Holocaust Marina Present Theatre
Youngblood Goes Down Christy/Karla NY Fringe Festival 2001
Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet) Anje Camera Obscura Theatre
The Merchant of Venice Portia Center Stage, N.Y.
Three Classics Galatea, Iris LaMama E.T.C. (Andrei Serban)
Of Pointed Hats & Pasta Makers Jessie Ensemble Studio Theatre
The Brute Mrs. Popov Access Theatre
War and Pizza Various Trilogy Theatre
The King Stag Smeraldina Access Theatre
Camp Holocaust Marina La Tea Theatre
My T.V. Show The Boss Avignon Festival, France, NY Fringe Festival
No Exit=The Form of Space The Valet Malta Festival, Poland
Othello (Shakespeare Project) Desdemona Horace Mann Theatre
A Winter’s Tale Mopsa Horace Mann Theatre
Three Sisters (Chekhov Project) Natasha Horace Mann Theatre
Fefu & Her Friends Sue Horace Mann Theatre
Life is a Dream Death Horace Mann Theatre

Regional Theatre


The Importance of Being Earnest Gwendolyn Vassar Powerhouse Theatre
Top Girls Pope Joan Vassar Powerhouse Theatre
Blue Window

Libby

Vassar Powerhouse Theatre

Film/TV


A Holiday Affair Melanie (Lead) Ma & Pa Pictures (Brooklyn Film Festival 2000, Audience Award, Best Feature Film)
As the World Turns Fashions Patron CBS
Saturday Night Live Screaming Teenager NBC
Obit Bride (Lead) Columbia Graduate Film
Abusing the Archetype Jen (Lead) Columbia Graduate Film
The Tram Amanda (Lead) Hunter College Film
Puzzled April (Lead) NYU Film
Lucy Lucy (Lead) Vassar Film
Mirror, Mirror Esther (Lead) Vassar Film

Training


Columbia University, M.F.A.
Vassar College, B.A., Departmental Honors, Acting Prize

Acting, Movement, Voice: Priscilla Smith, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff
Shakespeare: Ada Brown Mather
Mask/Commedia/Clown: Isabelle Anderson, Gregor Paslawsky
Speech: Patricia Norcia
Yoga and Indian Dance: Dolphi Wertenbaker
Suzuki Training: Ellen Lauren
Movement & Voice: Les Kurbas Theatre of Ukraine
Monologue workshop: Jordan Thaler
Television/Soap Acting: Linda Laundra
Commercial: Ken Lazer