Amy Kidd is an actor and playwright who trained (in acting) at The Lir Academy, Dublin.
Amy’s debut full-length play, Breaking, was produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company this year, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, under the direction of Jim Culleton.
She is currently working on her next play, for which she is in receipt of Arts Council Funding and supported by The Abbey, the Irish Theatre Institute and FringeLab.
Amy is also a founding member of emerging Irish theatre company Anseo Anois Theatre, with whom she has worked primarily as an actor, but also as a collaborating artist on the writing & development of new plays and as a director.
Acting credits with the company include: Neesh in Keeping Vigil by Oonagh Wall, Alex in Wild by Jenna Kamal (co-production with Rumble Theatre), Aisling in Paler Still by Oonagh Wall (written in collaboration with the cast) and, most recently, Sylvia in the Irish Première of The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell.
Other theatre credits include: Sarah Curren in A Beauty That Will Pass (Rathfarnham Castle), Jess in Love and Money (SarahMann Company, Brighton Fringe), Mary in The Last (DifferenTTheatre, touring production), Beatrice in Inferno21: Dante’s Masterpiece Reimagined (Verdant Productions/The Lyric Belfast), Sweetheart in But You Stopped Their Hearts (ReBoot 2020/The International Bar) and Young Woman in You Can Leave At Any Time (Dublin Theatre Festival 2019).
TV includes Sanctuary (Season 2).
Other screen work includes the shorts Bad Beat (dir. Elena Walsh O’Brien), Grind (dir. John Francis Skally), The Wedding (dir. Fiona Stout) and Short Stay (dir. Ruth Meehan). All short films.
