Amy Woodruff

Amy Woodruff is a Louisiana artist specializing in actor-created intermedia performance. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from McNeese University, and she is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College's innovative low-residency Interdisciplinary Arts program in Vermont. Woodruff has trained with Dah Teatar of Serbia, Odin Teatret of Denmark, Shakespeare & Company of Massachusetts, and Vortex Repertory Theatre of Austin, Texas. Her performances have been seen at New Orleans spaces such as the Voodoo Mystère, Zeitgeist, the Pickery, the State Palace Theatre, and the Dramarama festival at the Contemporary Arts Center. Woodruff has received artist grants from the Louisiana Division of The Arts and the Jazz & Heritage Foundation of New Orleans, and her works are fiscally sponsored by the NYC artists' service organization Fractured Atlas. She appeared as a Guest Artist in her multimedia stage adaptation of Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann at McNeese University Theatre, and in her one-actor project dis+graced at the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival in Canada. At this time she is performing and developing her original mixed media solo work Moon Cove, which has been seen in Louisiana and in Vermont, and she is appearing in the multi-state collaborative visual art and performance installation, the Our Lady of Sorrows Project, which has been presented in Vermont and in Maine. Her current solo installation work consists of the video projection + performance projects fleetinghosts and The Delusion Gown. Her diverse media, which she fuses in various ways in her artworks, include: performance, the creation of handmade garments, performers' objects, photography, media projection, and video art.