AMY BATY | WRITER
WRITER
ON STAGE
Dramaturge
I had the pleasure of creating this deeply affecting and personal piece about Alzheimers with the director and choreographer, Benoit Swan Pouffer.
The Guardian appreciated the dramaturgic detail.
RENEWABLE MOVES
Dramaturge.
It was a pleasure to work with Corey Baker on this important piece about renewable energies performed at COP26.
LAS DIVINAS
Writer.
A punk, feminist cabaret about a world in which women disappear...
In development with the glorious Las Divinas and Micka Luna.
OUT OF JOINT - STOCKROOM
I was one of the final 12 short listed writers (from 750) for a place in Out of Joint's Stockroom. Stockroom is a writer's room for 5 writers, working collaborativley, to make new work for the company over an 18 month period.
THE LAST MANICURE
Writer. Selected by Bitter Pill Theatre.
Podcast performed by Miriam Margolyes
Harriet is 78 years old. She gets her nails done so she can sit opposite Tien (who is too young to mention). Today is the day Tien takes her to the back room…A dark comedy about hope, need and the brutality of growing old.
Assistant Director and Contributing Writer
Two sisters are forced to flee their home. A modern day fairytale combining film, animation and dance. Directed by Kibwe Tavares in association with Rambert and performed at The Royal Opera House in Jan, 2020.
I was one of the 23 short listed writers (from 450) for the 10 available places on this year long programme. Judged on some of my new and unproduced work.
HONE AND STROP
Writer. Selected for Anima Theatre's PLACE TO BE.
Wax, razors, blood and piss. A look at gender performance in a Turkish Barber. Performed at The Vaults Festival and The Rosemary Branch Theatre.
HAND
Writer and Director
A little look at the part women have to play in female stereotyping. Performed at The Cockpit Theatre by Dorothy Cotter and Rachel Salisbury.
THICKER THAN WATER
Writer. Full length play with 14 characters.
What does motherhood look like in the future? And who stands to gain from its reinvention?
Longlisted twice for the Papatango New Writing Prize and by Pint Sized Plays. Public Reading in 2018.
SANS ELLE(S)
Writer and Director. 60 minute piece in French.
Two best friends are brutally separated by their mothers. It is shocking how suspicious we can be of female relationships and the power that they hold.
Performed at Theatre de la Jonquiere, Theatre du Temps, Theatre de Berthelot and L'art Studio in Paris. Received Arts Council funding for Young Talent.
WILD LIVES
Writer, Director and Producer
If we think it's our pets that are dependent on us. We're kidding ourselves.
Performed at the Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival in 2016.
SOCIAL ANIMALS
Writer, Director and Producer
A shit storm of social paranoia.
Performed at the Edinburgh Free Fringe in 2014. Featured in Fest Magazine's perfect day.
FURIEUSES
Actor and Contributing Writer
Based on a the real life experiences of an escort and performed at The Darius Milhaud Theatre in Paris in 2012.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
GRAB
Writer. Full length play in development.
Maire runs pub quizzes and has abortions. Lola uses infidelity websites and has a baby. Piers is busy fucking them both and congratulating himself about it. How do women reconcile 'Good things come to those who wait' and 'Seize the day'? 2 sayings coined by Great Men.
CUT
Writer. Full length play in development
It's a new play about Arash, he is 13 and sick of it and scared and took a knife into school. I guess it's also about government cuts to education and prejudice and adolescence. I have workshopped the play with Anima Theatre@The Bodega and Director, Tiana Linden.
IN MY DRAWER
I am always writing and reading and collaborating
Countless short plays, films and ideas are waiting to find an outlet. Most of them are about mothers and daughters, ageing and fear and death. Cheery? I actually like to think I'm quite funny. I am hugely inspired by place, be it a nail salon, a barber's, a bus route or a neighbour's sitting room.