Amy Berryman is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teaching artist originally from Seattle by way of West Texas. Her play “Walden,” produced by Sonia Friedman and directed by Ian Rickson, had its world premiere on London’s West End in May 2021. “Walden” recently premiered off-Broadway in 2024 at Second Stage directed by Whitney White, and was also produced at TheaterWorks in Hartford in August 2021, directed by Mei Ann Teo (New York Times Critic’s Pick). Other full-length plays include Alien Girls (O'Neill Finalist 2024) “The New Galileos” (O’Neill Finalist 2019); “Three Year Summer;” and “Epiphany, Or What Would You?” (Finalist Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, O'Neill Semi-Finalist 2020). Her work has been developed at Premiere Stages, Kitchen Dog, Caltech, East 15, Portland Stage, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and AMiOS, among others. Amy is a Macdowell Fellow and is under commission from Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Little Island.