Ms. Amy Guerin
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Theatre
Women’s,
Gender,
and Sexuality Studies Coordinator
Biography
Amy Guerin is a faculty member with the UAH Theatre Program. Along with her colleague, Dr. Chad Thomas, Amy is also the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Huntsville Shakespeare. She previously taught at Texas A&M University. In 2009, Amy’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a collaboration with A&M’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering showcasing flying fairy robots alongside human actors, was featured in Wired Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and on NPR, and NBC News. She has also directed Lend Me a Tenor, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Conduct of Life, Bus Stop, Measure for Measure, An Ideal Husband, Tartuffe, Machinal, I and You, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, tempOdyssey, She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, and Oh The Humanity, And Other Good Intentions. Amy received her BFA in Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, and her MFA in Directing from the University of Houston.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Personal Blog
Education
- M.F.A., Theatre Directing, The University of Houston, 2006
- B.F.A., Theatre, University of Oklahoma, 1998
Credits
- 2009 MasterMind Award
- 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Article
- 2015 Presentation at TAMU X
- 2016 Book Chapter Publication
Expertise
- Contemporary American Theatre
- Contemporary Acting Technique
- Non-Realist Directing Practice
- Arts Entrepreneurship
- Ensemble/Devised Work
- Deconstructionist Theatre Studies
- Contemporary Playwriting
- Script Analysis