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 |