Amy is a Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based performer, playwright, producer and educator. She is Co-Artistic Director of Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Productions and plays Jasp in the Dora and Canadian Comedy Award-winning clown duo Morro and Jasp, with whom she has co-created 12 original plays and toured the globe. Amy has a passion for Theatre for Young Audiences and her most recent performance was at Young People’s Theatre in You and I, Maja Ardal’s show for walking babies. Other favourite credits include James and the Giant Peach, Cinderella: A RATical Retelling (Dora Award), The Invisible Girl, Hana’s Suitcase (Young People’s Theatre), Here to Hear (Carousel Players), Of Mice and Morro and Jasp (Manitoba Theatre for Young People), Weather the Weather (Theatre Columbus), Pride and Prejudice (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Bar Mitzvah Boy, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, November (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), Bright Lights (Theatre Brouhaha). Amy assistant directed Emily’s Piano and Annie at YPT and The Dog and the Angel with Theatre Columbus. She has been a writer-in-residence at Factory Theatre, a Resident Artist Educator at YPT, a mentor with the AMY Project and the Paprika Festival, and is now the proud mother of 2 young audience members, Sadie (4) and Pearl (2).
Amy Lee
Theatre for Young Audiences