Amy Eaton - Writer, Performer, Director, Producer & Coach
Photo: Jean Lamont
Coaching & Directing
Live Lit Workshop & Showcase!
Thursday evenings 7-9 pm
July 9- August 13
Logan Square area (contact for specifics)
$275 including showcase
sliding scale available
Live Lit is a uniquely Chicago art form. While you can find storytelling, improv, stand up and open mics throughout the country, you will only find Live Lit here in Chicago.
While Live Lit can be mistaken for all of these things, at it’s heart, it is simply an essay that has been crafted and thought through that is then performed, rather than read, onstage. Like storytelling, it can draw on the personal. But it can also include the political, the esoteric, historic, scientific, philosophical as well.
Workshops will include writing within and outside of time together, feedback, and coaching, both on more effective language and performance skills. There will be snacks because writing is hungry work.
Questions?
Contact Amy
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Select Published Work, Live Lit and Solo Performance
What Now?: 20x2 Chicago
My Brother Was A Real Dog: Mulberry Literary
Turning Point: Lancaster Story Slam-HippoCamp Edition (1st place)
In Memoriam: Miss Spoken
Pass vs. Fail: Write Club Chicago
My Generation: Miss Spoken
Butter Up Bacon: The Stoop
Unfinished Business: Louder Than A Mom
Birds vs Bees: Write Club Chicago
Change of Heart: Fillet of Solo with Tellin' Tales Theater
Of A Certain Age: Miss Spoken
Fairy Godmother: The Coachella Review
Road Trip: Miss Spoken
System vs Chaos: Write Club Chicago
Phobia: Tellin' Tales Theater
Inside vs Outside: Write Club Chicago
Letting Go: Fillet of Solo with Tellin' Tales Theater
13 Grandmothers:RhinoFest
Honor Thy Mother: Blue Rider Theater
Photographs of My Mother: Links Hall
Interviews
With me by Katie Johnston in Mulberry Literary
With Megan Stielstra in Hippocampus Magazine
With Jeannine Ouellette in Hippocampus Magazine
With Davon Loeb in Hippocampus Magazine
Directing, Arts Ed Work and General Bossiness
Co-DirectorWhat Are You, Lily Be?: Lily Be for Fillet of Solo
Live Lit Workshop: Creative Light Factory
Red Flags: Tekki Lomnicki for Fillet of Solo
HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Non Fiction Flash Panel (Fail and Get Back Up)
B&E Open Mic Workshop with Feedback with Lily Be and Amy E
Andy's Summer Playhouse: Personal Narrative workshops
URLife Storytelling Game show Co-Host
Urban Gateways Residency Artist
Director-Pigeons With Teeth
Director- Blurred Vision (Tekki Lomnicki)
Artistic Director/Founder: Mudlark Theater Company
Artistic Director: Evanston Children's Theater
Gallery 37 Residency Artist
Thunder Rd Ensemble Company member
Nature of the Beast Ensemble member
Abiogenesis Company member
What else?
I have a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College with a Writing minor. I have been a singer/songwriter, a tap dancer, a modern dancer, and an actress too. I can run a light board and knit a hat. I'm still looking for bandmates for my all-mama punk band "The Contractions" so we can finally play "PUT DOWN THAT STICK!" I have two sons, two cats, and a really tall husband.
