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Amy Kowalczuk (she/her)

Amy is an actor, director, puppeteer, and performing arts educator with over 80 credits across theatre, film, cabaret, and education. Originally a Musical Theatre artist (training with Queenie van de Zandt at the Australian Musical Theatre Academy), Amy has performed leading roles in musicals and plays alike since 1997. Amy holds a BA/BEd and; a Master of Theatre and Performance (awarded at the high distinction level) and most recently earned a TAE qualification through CIT, in order to transition to teaching in the VET sector. In 2022, she founded Alchemy Artistic, directing the (multi award winning) work; Gordon Grahams’ The Boys. A seasoned performer, she’s toured locally, nationally and internationally, including representing Australia at the Mondial du Theatre in Monaco (as Nell Gwynn in Playhouse Creatures for Pigeonhole Theatre) and touring for NIDA (2013). Over the last 18 months you may have seen Amy’s work as; Dr Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Polina in Seagull, Meryl in Bombshells, Queen Margaret in King Henry VI, Magdalena in The House of Bernarda Alba, Henrietta in Present Laughter and Portia/Calpurnia/Strato in Julius Caesar. She also reprises Goldilocks annually at The Q and recently directed Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at The Mill Theatre, Dairy Road. She is the recipient of several Canberra Critics Circle Awards, individually (for both acting and directing) and for her work within small ensembles. As an original Everywoman for her beloved Everyman Theatre, she has performed in Pool (No Water), GOD, Home at the End, The Burning, Company, Holding the Man and as Sandra Gangel in the 2022 ACTHub season production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing. For Everyman Artistic Director Jarrad West, she has also appeared in; Casanova, Hairspray and Absurd Person Singular. Amy is delighted to be with her home team once more and to get a little closer to Jesus this Christmas time. 2026 is already in the works for Amy, who will be returning from a nine year musical theatre semi-retirement, by playing the role of Rona in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the Canberra Philharmonic Society. She also will be reprising her role as Meryl in Bombshells for Echo Theatre.

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