AMY E. WITTING is an actor, writer, and educator living in Tudor City, New York. Her work explores complicated grief, the longing for connection in a world tailored for isolation, and how love, poetry and magic can anchor the human experience. Most recently, she received a NYFA Artist Grant for her project, You’re The Reason I’m Still Here, -  a documentary theatre piece chronicling the stories of twelve college students coming of age in a post-COVID world. The play with music is sscheduled to have a NYC workshop production in March 2025.

Other plays include Our Father (Irish Rep Development Reading, semi-finalist Premiere Stages and O’Neil), The House on the Hill (Atlantic Theater Inaugural LAUNCH Commission, NNPN National Showcase, CATF World Premiere), The Midnight Ride of Sean & Lucy (Roundabout Underground Workshop featuring Elisabeth Moss & Bryce Pinkham, Semi-finalist O’Neil Playwrights Conference, Archipelago (PlayPenn Development Conference, Haas Fellowship), and Day 392 (The Kennedy Center ACTF/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, Hunter Playwrights Week, Kilroy’s List). She was the winner of the 2019 inaugural Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries prize for her play Anne Page Hates Fun, which had its world premiere at The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia.

Her work has received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, NEA Grant, Queens Council on the Arts Grant, NYFA Grant, and Anne Freedman Grant. She has been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Weissberger Award, Stavis Award, and Theatre Visions Award. She was the 2016/2017 Inaugural Artist-In-Residence at Abingdon Theatre Company under the artistic direction of Tony Speciale.

Her plays have been developed at Atlantic Theater, The Lark Play Development Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Manhattan Theatre Club, Pipeline PlayLAB, Tofte Lake Center, Roundabout Theatre Space Jam, National New Play Network, Abingdon Theatre, NewYorkRep, and The Kennedy Center. Amy received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College & MFA from Hunter College. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, affiliated artist with National New Play Network, and founder of aWe Creative Group.

When she is not writing she is busy learning from her many students as a Teaching Artist at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Strike Anywhere. She also is very fortunate to have the opportunity to be an adjunct professor at Long Island University in the Theatre Department. Leading with love is her most important credit.