Amy Evans attended Goldsmiths College in London in 2001 where she pursued an MA in Theater Arts with a concentration in Writing for Performance. By the end of her studies, she had completed her first full-length play (Achidi J’s Final Hours, 2002 Verity Bargate Award winner), was invited to join the Bloomberg Writers’ Group, and was commissioned by Context Theatre Company UK to write Whisper, a play about immigration politics and asylum seekers in Britain. After receiving her MA, she relocated to Berlin where she began teaching a seminar in performance writing as a tool for social change at Humboldt University.

In 2004, Achidi J’s Final Hours premiered at the Finborough Theatre in London to critical acclaim. Amy moved to New York where she joined the HB Playwrights Foundation Writers’ Group in 2004, and her play The Next Question was produced at HB Studios in their 2005 festival of new short plays. Her full-length scripts received readings at venues including the Tenement Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, the Culture Project, Playwrights’ Horizons, the New Group and the Joseph Papp Public Theater. She has had residencies at BRIClab in Brooklyn, Hedgebrook Women Writers’ Retreat, and the Institute of Cultural Inquiry Kulturlabor in Berlin. Meanwhile she has continued the work she began at Humboldt, traveling to the University of Missouri at Columbia, Oberlin College in Ohio, and back to Berlin to give workshops on various aspects of political theater.

Amy continues to collaborate with London-based companies and practitioners on work that responds to the current political climate, including military recruitment in the United States (The Big Nickel, commissioned by the National Youth Theatre in 2005) and race and identity in Germany (UnStoned, commissioned by NYT in 2006). Her play Many Men’s Wife was produced as part of a festival of short plays at the Tricycle Theatre addressing the genocide in Darfur and was later published in the volume How Long is Never? (Josef Weinberger Publications, 2007). She is currently at work on a stage play based on the life of Nina Simone and an historical drama about the 1741 New York slave insurrection. She is based in New York.