Acting Fellow
Amy Ippolito (she/her) is originally from Manorville, New York. She received her BA in Dance and Theater from Manhattanville College, then earned her Master of Letters and Master of Fine Arts from Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and Performance program, where she was an Acting Concentration. With her MFA company, she played Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Volumnia and Cominius in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, and Estela in Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs. Other credits include Isabella in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure with Northeast Stage, and Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Lady Anne in Shakespeare’s Richard III with East End Mobile Theater, for which she received a 2021 Broadway World Award for Best Supporting Actor. She has also performed with Long Island’s Shakespeare in the Park and taught theater for elementary and junior high school productions.
With the American Shakespeare Center, Amy has been an Acting Fellow in As You Like It, Eurydice, A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Thrive, Or What You Will, The Tempest, Pericles, and Une Tempête. For ASC Theatre Camp, she served as Residence & Directing Assistant and as assistant director of Mucedorus and Julius Caesar, and she worked with the ASC Drama Club on Jack Cade. While learning lines, Amy enjoys crocheting and a cup of peppermint tea.
Ruhl’s wildly imaginative bittersweet comedy Eurydice reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus’s infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bride, but through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost life.
Awash in wit and exuberant in a bedrock belief that love conquers all, this beloved Shakespeare comedy races toward a happy ending and four – count them, four – weddings.
This beloved tradition—an audience and company favorite—returns!
This mordantly funny adaptation tilts The Tempest on its head, approaching the story of Prospero and Caliban from a post-colonial perspective.
A good man confronted by evil and loss, Pericles is driven to the sea again and again in this epic tale of heroism and the quest for love.
Political exile, revenge, and magic meld in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, capped by a master manipulator’s calculated lesson in the folly of hatred.
An epic tale about the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, in which gender-nonconforming 18th-century herb woman Jeanne Baret sets out on an 11-year voyage across lands and seas.
Sea-tossed siblings set out for adventure in this laugh-out-loud look at gender, love and longing.