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Amy Marschak, the founder of The Human Theatre Company has been named as The North Pole Poet Laureate, Santa's Official Poet! To see her on the news and have her perform personalized improv Christmas poems and tell stories from the North Pole virtually, through Zoom, Google Meet, Skype or your favorite platform go to VirtualHolidayParties.org or if you would like her to perform a virtual poetry-gram (like a singing telegram but with personalised improv poetry) for birthdays and other special occasions go to VirtualBirthdayParty.org
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Amy Marschak has been writing plays since she was in second grade. Her first play, "The Bad Cherry" was inspired by her father when he bit into a bad cherry and spit it out the window of his moving car. This 'bad cherry' wound up flying into the face of an innocent pedestrian. While this was quite unlucky for the pedestrian, it did begin Amy's playwriting career. Though this play was never produced due to the perfectionist spirit of the second grader, it did give her much to practice. When Amy reached Paris at the age twenty-two, her play "Subway" was produced
and was extraordinarily well received.
Then, after a stop in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, she moved to
Boulder, Colorado and began The Human Theatre Company with a play she
workshopped called "Ask Me How I Feel." She has since
written; "Tears From My Heart" and "an Angel Cried A Tear
Last Night." All three of these plays have received critical as
well as audience acclaim. She has also written a poetry book called
"Poetry For All Those Breathing" which is in its fifth
printing. Her most recent play co-written by Don Tapia is "Angels and Other Love
Stories," is her first comedy and was also quite well received. |
Subway (writer, director, producer) Paris, France. A play about different scenes that occur on a New York City subway car.
Why Me? (co-writer) Los Angeles, CA. Interviewed kids in juvenile halls, halfway houses and housing projects about their experiences with gangs and helped rewrite script.
Ask Me How I Feel (director, writer, producer, act) San Francisco, CA, Orlando, FL, Boulder, CO, Carbondale, CO. Created play about people's journeys back to themselves.
Tears from My Heart: A Memorial
to My Lost Works (director, writer, producer, act) Boulder, CO, Wiinpeg, MB. A
play created in memorial to thousands of pages of my scripts, poetry and
stories which were destroyed.
Poetry
For All Those Breathing (write) Collection of my poetry. Currently in
fifth printing.
The Money Tree (write)
Children's book.
On the Streets (director) NYC,
NY. Shot footage of Eugene, a homeless man who washed car windows.
Berlin in Lights (producer) Limelight and Village Gate, NYC, NY. A musical review of original German Cabaret acts such as those seen in the movie "Cabaret".
Ralph Nader Presidential
Campaign (Corporate Clean-Up Crew) National Tour. Media relations, lead rallies, house parties and political
theatre.
Jonathan Hager (PR) Boulder,
CO. Boulder City Council elections.
University of Colorado, USC, UCLA, Pierce Valley College Hillel, Rocky Mountain School, LA Free Clinic.
TOP Picks of Fringe, -CBC-
Winnipeg,
Awarded Edmonton Fringe Festival
(Largest Festival in North America)
Network Theatre Extension, Pick
of the Fringe, -Edmonton Journal.
WLUW (radio news staff) Chicago,
IL.
Numerous radio interviews about
Plays on stations throughout Canada and the USA.
First Cut (interview) San
Francisco, CA. KRON Channel 4. Discussed "Ask Me How I Feel."
TV interviews in Seattle,
Colorado, Edmonton and Kelowna.
The President's Weak End (Fran
Spear) The Improv, Santa Monica, CA. A benefit for ADA directed by
Judy Chaiken, with Ed Asner, Diane Ladd and Jim Morris.
Reunion (Rachel) NYC, NY. Performed at public high schools and
discussed after respect for the different.
Ishi (little Ishah) Museum
of Natural History, Chicago. A play about Ishi the last Yahi Indian.
Bintel Brief (Rachel) Chicago,
IL. A play about the problems of Jewish immigrants.
National High School
Institute (Cherubs) Northwestern University, Evanston. IL.
Piven Theatre Workshop (Improvisational story telling) Bum and Joyce
Piven, Evanston, IL.
New York University (drama and film) Circle-in-the-Square and
Experimental Theatre Wing, NYC, NY and Paris, France. Sight and Sound
Production and Documentaries.
Notable Teachers: David Mamet Anne Bogart, George Stoney, Nick Tanis,
Liz Swados, Evangeline Morphos, and Ed Kaye-Martin.