Featured Performer of the Week: Amy Quint

Amy Frances Quint is an actress, voiceover artist and co-founder of Quattro Gatti Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre group dedicated to producing original, ensemble-based, genre bending work for performance in the US as well as abroad. Amy is American but was born and raised in Rome, Italy. She considers herself an Italian girl in New York or an American girl in Italy (depending on the day!) She has performed, produced and written for venues in New York, regionally and internationally including The Cherry Lane Theatre, LaMAMA, The Ohio Theatre, 59E59, Baltimore Arts Project, The Dublin Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Amy is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. She is a member of the Frog and Peach Shakespeare Company, where she recently appeared as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. Amy can be heard as the narrator of the audiobook "Family Pictures" by bestselling author Jane Green (available March, 2013.) She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two much-loved cats.

Where you Might Have Seen Her (select credits)

With Frog and Peach Shakespeare Company - The Taming of the Shrew (Kate,) Measure for Measure (Isabella,) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena,) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia,) Twelfth Night (Olivia,) Macbeth (1st Witch, Lady MacDuff,) As You Like It (Audrey)

NYC & Regional - No Escape (Kairos Italy Theatre,) Radio Deluxembourg (Quattro Gatti,) The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Havel Festival & Baltimore Arts Project,) The Man With the Flower in His Mouth (NY Fringe,) Improvisation (Ionesco Festival,) Byron & Emily Go To Work (Quattro Gatti,) The Three Sisters (Stella Adler Theatre.)

International - Byron & Emily Go To Work (Quattro Gatti/Dublin Fringe,) Radio Deluxembourg (Quattro Gatti/Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

1) What are you working on right now?

Workshopping a brand new piece with Quattro Gatti Theatre Company and getting ready to start rehearsals for Titus Andronicus with Frog & Peach Shakespeare Company.

2) What has been your professional biggest accomplishment so far?

My biggest professional accomplishment so far...can I list two? First would be co-founding my own theatre company, Quattro Gatti Theatre Co, and producing two entirely original, ensemble-based pieces both in New York City and at the Dublin & Edinburgh International Fringe Festivals. Second would be performing a brand new translation of Vaclav Havel's The Increased Difficulty of Concentration for Mr. Havel himself.

3) Share your funniest or worst audition moment

Worst audition moment: was helping a director cast for a play (for once I was on the safe side of the audition!!!) when the actor we were auditioning pulled out a KNIFE and began stabbing the rehearsal table! Absolutely terrifying. The police showed up minutes later as it turns out the actor had jumped the turnstile and evaded security in the lobby when he came in. Drama...indeed!

4) What's your dream role?

I am absolutely in love with Shakespeare and Chekhov and am lucky to have been given a crack at some of my dream roles written by those authors. There are still so many others I'd love to get my teeth into, it's impossible to narrow it down to one or two. I hope to create some new dream roles in the future with my theatre company too.

5) If you weren't a performer, what would you be?

If I weren't a performer I would probably run a stray animal shelter or be spray-painting baby seals neon green somewhere.

6) Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years?

In 5 to 10 years I see myself doing what I do now, but bigger and better! I hope to be splitting my time between New York and Italy and enjoying a successful career in theatre and voiceover. I'd love to establish working relationships for my theatre company with performing and presenting organizations all over the world so we can foster New York-bred work and bring it to audiences everywhere.

7) Where can people find you online?

You can find me online at www.amyfrancesquint.com

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