Amy Conroy is an actor, playwright, and theatre maker.
Her first radio play, Hold This, was recorded and broadcast on RTÉ Radio One in September 2010. Her first stage play, I ♥ Alice ♥ I, won the Fishamble Award for New Writing in the 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival and has enjoyed sold out runs in the Dublin Theatre Festival, the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre Dublin, and has toured extensively worldwide. It is published by Oberon.
Her second show, Eternal Rising of the Sun, won the Best Female Performer Award when it premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2011. The show enjoyed successful runs in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012, Fringe World in Perth, Australia, and a staged reading in Sydney Theatre Company.
In September 2013, Amy and her company HotForTheatre presented Break, which combined spoken word, music and text in Dublin Fringe Festival. Luck Just Kissed You Hello premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2015, concluded a sell out run for the Dublin Theatre Festival later the same year, it was nominated for Best New Play in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2016 toured nationally and was recently restaged in The Peacock.
Her most recent play, The Boy Who Talked to Dogs, a commission by Australian theatre company Slingsby and co-pro with Draiocht, premiered at the Adelaide Theatre Festival 2021, toured Australia and was programmed in Dublin Theatre Festival 2023.
Amy has performed in countless productions over the years, including Citysong, directed by Caitriona McLaughlin (Abbey Theatre and Soho Theatre, London), for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019; Holding (ITV) directed by Kathy Burke; and Every Brilliant Thing, directed by Andrea Ainsworth (Peacock/National Tour).
She directed Me Sara (Priming the Canon) for the Abbey Theatre, which played in the Peacock and toured nationally; Looking Deadly (Dublin Fringe – National tour); Here and Now by Veronica Dyas, and Sham (Gúna Núa) in the Belltable.
