Amy Schwabauer

Amy Schwabauer is a Cleveland based actor and playwright.  She focuses on creating work that champions women and tells the unheard stories of those on the margin. A comedic writer, who is currently creating new myth stories and parodys of the ancient stories we’ve all been told.  Recent credits include: Performing her one woman show “This is NOT About My Dead Dog” at the Borderlight International Theatre and Fringe Festival Cleveland (July 2019); Collaboratively writing with Jeremy Paul to create her performance of ‘Virgil’ in the “INFERNO: an explorable remix of Dante’s Inferno” at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts (October 2019); Presenting her latest work in progress “The Prettiest Little Burden” at the Vessel in PEI, Canada as part of “The River Clyde Pageant” (June 2019); Touring "The Events of the Warren County Fair as Observed by a Young Astronaut", a table top, toy theater adventure co-written and co-performed with Mike Geither, directed by Karin Randoja (2015-2018); Playing ‘Feste’ in “Twelfth Night” with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival (2018). She was a featured writer in ‘Cleveland Drafts 2019’ with a staged reading of her comedic draft “Divine Intervention”. In 2017, she was named Cleveland’s Best Actress by ‘Cleveland Scene Magazine’s Best of Cleveland Awards’ for her performance in “This is Not About my Dead Dog” originally produced by Playwrights Local and directed by Dale Heinen.  She has created, written and performed in numerous short plays and performance installations for Cleveland Public Theatre’s Pandemonium, select favorites include: “Release Your Cracken” performed with Michael Randall and her solo installation “Ariadne’s Closet” (2017, 2018).  In 2016, she studied Sketch Comedy Writing at The Second City Theater in Chicago. She is a graduate of Cleveland State University’s Theatre Arts Program. You can learn more about Amy at:   www.AmySchwabauer.com  @instaschwabs