Amy Reade

Amy is a theatre director. She trained at the Estonian Academy of Theatre in MA Contemporary Physical Performance Making and has a BA in English Literature from UCL. Her work includes: ’Women Who Rage’ a dance-theatre piece (Kanuti Gildi Saal Estonia); two short plays for ‘Playlist’ (Royal Court); ‘All of Us’ (Bread & Roses); ‘TART’ (Galway Theatre Festival); ‘SENSE’ (St Pancras Crypt - site specific & promenade); and ‘Not the End of the World’ (Cockpit). As Associate and Assistant Director: ‘The Tempest’ dir. Deborah Warner (Ustinov); Pinter’s ‘The Homecoming’ (UK Tour), Zawe Ashton’s ‘For all the Women’ dir. Jo McInnes (Hackney Showroom).

She was Assistant Producer for Theatre Royal Bath Productions including producing ‘Oleanna’ dir. Lucy Bailey (West End), ‘Copenhagen’ dir. Polly Findlay (UK Tour) and ‘Blue/Orange’ dir. James Dacre (UK Tour). Her play ‘WALLS’ won LSDF and was long-listed for Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award in Edinburgh. Amy was a founding partner of Good Chance Theatre in the Calais ‘Jungle’ Refugee Camp and went on to be Creative Consultant on ‘The Jungle’ directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin at the Young Vic, West End and St Ann’s New York. She is an Artistic Associate of Good Chance.