Amy Gorelow
Personal WebsiteContrary to her accent, Amy was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up, her career choices were, in order of preference:
- actor
- bass player
- pilot
- medical researcher
- FBI agent, and
- bass-playing-beachside-tiki-bar-owner.
She went with #1, graduating in 2000 with a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Guilford College in North Carolina.
She studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1998, taking classes in acting and directing, design, stage movement, ballet, Russian theatre history, and voice. In 2004, she attended the Stanislavski Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where in addition to acting, she continued studying Russian stage movement. This led to the opportunity to return to Moscow, this time for a 4-month movement intensive at the Moscow Art Theatre and Shukin Schools, studying under Andrei Droznin.
Immediately following her return, she fled Atlanta for Chicago, where she's found a home at Piccolo.
Past roles in Piccolo productions include:
- Daisy the Cow in Jack and the Wild Goose Chase
- a tragedian in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Camellia and Pirate #2 in Sinbad
- Dottor Graziano delle Cotiche in Lust, Lies, & Marriage
- comedian in Vaudeville & Vixens
- Katherine of Aragon in Six Dead Queens (her personal favorite, EVER)
- Margherita in Low Pay? Don't Pay!
- Spirit Dos, Peasant Dva, Wench Shtayim, and Phillip the Cow with the lovely Vanessa Hughes in Robin Hood: The Panto!
Other favorite roles include Alma/Marija in Ambition Facing West, Masha in The Seagull, Mrs. Voynitsky in Uncle Vanya, Betty in The Devil's Gateway, Sally in Blessed Assurance (world premiere), Celia in A Hatful of Rain, Ginny in Funny Valentine, Mrs. Hawkins and Redruth in Treasure Island, and Wilbur in Charlotte's Web.
She has been a pirate clown Prankster at Navy Pier, has played the bass for several Piccolo and independent productions and is the writer of In Like Flint, a webcast coming this summer from Piccolo Theatre.
