Kentucky Shakespeare Staff

Amy Attaway

Amy Attaway, Associate Artistic Director

amy@kyshakespeare.com

Amy proudly serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare and the facilitator/director of Shakespeare with Veterans. She’s directed Macbeth, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II, and Henry V in Central Park, as well as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility at the Bomhard Theater; The War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead at Louisville Public Media, Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses at Ky Shakes HQ, and the spring tours of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar.

She was co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Theatre [502], where she directed the regional premieres of The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, River City, Red Speedo, Auctioning the AinsleysBroadsword: a heavy metal play and Futura, as well as the world premiere commissions The Two Lobbyists of Verona and The Stranger and Ludlow Quinn. She spent five seasons as Associate Director of the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she directed several commissioned works in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, including Sleep Rock Thy Brain, Oh, Gastronomy! and TheEnd.

Amy is a graduate of the University of Evansville, and lives in Louisville with her fantastic husband and daughter and a growing menagerie of rescued pets.