AMY DRAKE, Playwright

Award-winning Writer, Producer, Broadway Investor.
Available for commissions.

2020 KILROY’S LIST, 2020 KENNEDY CENTER PLAYWRITING INTENSIVE, YALE WRITERS' WORKSHOP
20 plays performed, 16 conference talks, 12 TV commercials

SAINT UNDER GLASS

Margaret of Cortona is a simple 13th century Italian farm girl swept away by a handsome nobleman. When he is murdered Margaret is taken in by a kindly friar, experiences religious visions and ecstasies, and works miracles. Her body still shows no decay. Is she a mystic?

RIFE’S REVOLUTION

Scientist and inventor, Roy Rife, develops a microscope which can detect live cancer cells and a device which can explode the diseased cells with vibration. Support by his psychic business partner, a medical examiner, and Mamie, his Chinese American wife Roy battles the head of the AMA who repeatedly shuts down his lab. Will his discoveries be lost forever?

SOMEWHERE I CAN SCREAM

Olympic gold medal winner turned professor, James Snook is accused of murdering Theora Hix, his medical-student lover in 1929. Evidence is fondled and a confession is beaten out of the accused. Was it cold-blooded murder or an act in self-defense?

Awarded a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for a video recording of the play Emily Dickinson Remembers.

Writer and Consultant for Hire

My qualifications:

  • Broadway Investor
  • Award-winning playwright
  • Award-winning director
  • The Kilroys’ List
  • Award-winning business writer
  • Selected for Off-Broadway residency
  • Selected for The Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive Yale Writers’ Workshop
  • Studied creative writing at Cambridge University UK
  • Studied playwriting at Kenyon College Summer Intensive
  • Conference Speaker on Theater History

Member of:

  • The Theater Makers Studio
  • League of Professional Theatre Women
  • Dramatists Guild
  • ASCAP
  • Columbus Arts Marketing Association (CAMA)

M.S. Marketing and Communication
M.A. Liberal Studies/English

Services:

  • Web content
  • Press releases
  • Social media posts
  • Script writing
  • Email blasts
  • Surveys
  • Dramaturg
  • Public Speaker