Amy Trigg
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Amy is an actor and writer from Essex. She trained at Mountview where she was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course.
Her theatre credits as an actor include: The Little Big Things (West End – 2024 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical), Medea (West End), Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me (Kiln Theatre/Paines Plough), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), Measure for Measure (RSC), Goth Weekend (The Stephen Joseph Theatre/Scarborough/Live Theatre, Newcastle), The Who’s Tommy (Tour), The Glass Menagerie (Nottingham Playhouse), Shakespeare Within The Abbey (Westminster Abbey with Shakespeare’s Globe), The Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe), Fusion (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), The Joy of Dance (Lyric Hammersmith) and Sadler’s Wells Takeover Weekend (The National Theatre’s River Stage).
Her screen credits include: Babies (BBC), The Couple Next Door (Season 2, Channel 4), Such Brave Girls (season 1 and 2, BBC), Amandaland (BBC), Death Valley (BBC), Grace (ITV), Father Brown (BBC), Everything Now (Netflix), The Reckoning (BBC), Unforgotten (ITV), Casualty (BBC), The Other One (BBC), Feel Good (Netflix), Unprecedented (BBC/Headlong), Stella (Sky One), Doctors (BBC), ReCall Me Maybe (FT Drama), Pas De Deux (Resource Productions), Luther: The Fallen Sun (Netflix) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal).
She can be heard in Chloe’s Ark (BBC Radio 4), The A-Z of Things: A is for Award (BBC Radio 3), Found (45North) and Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me (Audible).
As a writer, Amy’s theatre credits include: Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me (Kiln Theatre and tour – winner of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020), It’s Not Like It’s Illegal (Theatre Royal Stratford East as part of their ‘Burn It Down’ series) and Burnt at the Stake (Shakespeare’s Globe as one of thirteen anonymous writers). She is the book writer for a new musical adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir The Diving Bell and The Butterfly in collaboration with Laurence Connor and Charli Eglinton. Amy is currently on attachment with the National Theatre.
For TV, Amy has written on Toxic Town (Netflix) and Ralph and Katie (BBC). Amy has original projects in development with Chapter One, Studio Canal, Little Door, Channel 4 and BBC. Writers’ rooms include work for CBeebies and The Bureau.
Her TV training includes: BBC TV Drama Writers’ Programme 2021, 4Screenwriting 2021, BBC Drama Room 2020/21, BBC Writers’ Access Group 2020/21, the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group 2020/21 and BBC Children’s New Voices 2020.
Amy’s essay An Ode to Improv (and Poehler and Fey) features in the book Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies), curated by Scarlett Curtis and published by Penguin. She won Colchester New Comedian of the Year 2016 for her one woman sketch The Rebrand.
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