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Heebs and Dweebs

Amy Salloway — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:30:56 GMT

[b][/b] Minneapolis actor/writer and frequent Fringe fave Amy Salloway ([b]“So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!”, “Circumference”[/b]) breaks her solo-show-with-a-plotline tradition for a moment to offer up [b]"Heebs and Dweebs" [/b]-- a casual and eclectic batch of Jewish, true-ish stories that you definitely don't have to be a Yid to enjoy or relate to! From a short-lived conversion to Catholicism in first grade to high school life stuck at the "Math Boys" lunch table to a meditation on the sacred intersection of Guilt and Food, Amy shares her personal highlights of Jewish dorkiness. "Salloway is smart, funny, fearlessly candid, and generously endowed with talent" - The Georgia Straight. "Endlessly clever and accessible" - Cincinnati CityBeat. "...disarmingly intimate; a comic tour-de-force." - The Ottawa Citizen.

[u][b]Upcoming Performances:[/b][/u]

Guess what? HEEBS AND DWEEBS is getting an amazing and exciting renovation, and is going to appear at both the Ottawa JCC AND the Ottawa Fringe Festival this summer, with a DIFFERENT combination of true-ish, Jewish stories in each location! (Think of the Ottawa Fringe "Heebs and Dweebs" as the general release, and the JCC "Heebs and Dweebs" as the Director's Cut!) Because the show was originally designed to be a rotating collage of stories, there's enough Heebiness and Dweebiness to spread around! :-D Come to one show, or BOTH!

[u]The TEST RUN! of the all-new "Heebs and Dweebs" will happen:[/u]

[size= 14.0px][b]Sunday, June 14th, 2 pm NOT at the Sabes JCC anymore -- but at -- Hillel on the U of MN Campus! [/b]1521 University Ave. SE Minneapolis, 55414[/size]

(Please remember that this is really an open rehearsal, with no lights or sound, for the purposes of getting audience feedback. Thanks!)

"HEEBS" at THE SOLOWAY JCC OF OTTAWA (Salloway at the Soloway! How can you beat that, people?) 21 Nadolny Sachs Private Ottawa, ON Tuesday, June 16th, 7:30 pm [url=http://www.jccottawa.com/]http://www.jccottawa.com[/url]

[url=http://www.jccottawa.com/][/url] "HEEBS" at THE OTTAWA FRINGE FESTIVAL Venue 3, Studio Leonard Beaulne Thursday, June 18, 6:30PM Friday, June 19, 8:00PM Saturday, June 20, 5:00PM Sunday, June 21, 3:30PM Monday, June 22, 9:30PM Tuesday, June 23, 8:00PM Tickets $10.00 with a Fringe button (613) 232-6162 http://www.ottawafringe.com

"Heebs" at THE WINNIPEG FRINGE FESTIVAL (just added!)

Venue #8, Rachel Browne Theatre in the Crocus Bldg.

211 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg

Thu July 16, 1:00 PM

Fri July 17, 11:45 PM

Sun July 19, 7:00 PM

Mon July 20, 6:45 PM

Wed July 22, 10:45 PM

Thu July 23, 1:45 PM

Fri July 24, 9:45 PM

$9.00/ $8.00 students/seniors with a Fringe button

MTC Box Office -- 174 Market Ave.

Call 204.942.6537 or Toll free 1.877.446.4500

http://Www.winnipegfringe.com

[u]NOTE:[/u] "Heebs and Dweebs" replaces "My Sister Used To Be Anne Frank" in the Ottawa Fringe Festival; "Anne Frank" will debut at a later date. [u][b]Past Performances:[/b][/u] [b]Spirit In The House Festival, February 27-March 8, 2009[/b] [b][/b]Part of the [b]Spirit In The House Festival of faith-related performance[/b], with sponsorship from the [b]Rimon Jewish Arts Fund[/b] (thanks, Rimon!) February 27-March 8, 2009 www.spiritinthehouse.org Www.amysalloway.com

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image: Heebs and Dweebs rehearsal in Minneapolis, 6/09

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

image: "Heebs" in rehearsal, Minneapolis, 6/09.

Circumference

Amy Salloway — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:01:21 GMT

[i]It is then, as Ms. Gleby is announcing to the entire gym class that I’ve scored lower on the Presidential Physical Fitness Test than any student in the history of Cheese Creek Junior High, “lower even that the retards”, she barks, that I decide it. I can’t take this anymore. My body and I are getting a DIVORCE. Oh, it can hang there below my chin if it really wants to, but I will no longer speak to it or look at it or even acknowledge its presence. We are finished. Forever. Okay, I guess we might need to share custody of my mouth, cuz of nutrition and all, but other than that, I will live the rest of my life as a head. A floating head. That won’t be so bad…right?[/i] The Ghosts of Gym Teachers Past meet the Fear of Fitness Centers Present and the Obsession with Weight Loss Future in this new solo play about size, sweat…and exercising your demons. From the creator of the hit touring plays[b]“Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?”[/b] and [b]"So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!”, "Circumference" [/b]takes a raw, honest and hilarious look at the ways we're led to love, loathe, reject and respect our bodies. [i]“ A MUST-SEE: poignant, sensitive and hysterically funny.” [/i] – The St. Paul Pioneer-Press [i]“Salloway is that rarity, an equally talented writer and performer… hilarious, honest, and unsparing, with a great sense of pace.” [/i] -- Calgary Herald [i]“Appealing and marvellously funny…you can also add brave and original.”[/i] – The Ottawa Citizen [i]“(She) has a gift for detail, a technician's skill with words, and a dead-on instinct for finding humor where others might mine only darkness.” [/i] – City Pages [b]For CLIPS of "Circumference", visit:[/b] [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/IlaughedIcried][b]Amy's YouTube Page![/b][/url] [u] [b]UPCOMING PERFORMANCES OF "CIRCUMFERENCE":[/b][/u] [b] [/b]Check back for updates! :D [u]PAST PERFORMANCES OF "CIRCUMFERENCE":[/u] Open Stage Theatre of Harrisburg's [b]FLYING SOLO FESTIVAL[/b] Harrisburg, PA June 26-28, 2009 [b]THE BERKSHIRE FRINGE FESTIVAL[/b] Great Barrington, MA [url=http://www.berkshirefringe.org/]http://www.berkshirefringe.org[/url] August 5-9, 2009 [b]THE EDMONTON FRINGE FESTIVAL[/b] Edmonton, AB [url=http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/]http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca[/url] August 13-23, 2009 University of Rhode Island February 19, 2009 [b][b][url=http://www.sixfigures.com/]Six Figures Theatre[/url]'s Artists of Tomorrow Festival[/b][/b] [b][b]New York, NY[/b][/b] [b][b]December 10-13, 2008[/b][/b] [b][url=http://www.sixfigures.com/][b][/b][/url] [b]The Victoria Fringe Festival[/b] Victoria, BC August 21-31, 2008 www.intrepidtheatre.com [url=http://Www.victoriafringe.com][b]www.victoriafringe.com[/b][/url][/b] [b][url=http://Www.victoriafringe.com][b][/b][/url] [b]The Calgary Fringe Festival, Calgary, AB[/b] [b]August 1-10, 2008[/b] [url=http://www.calgaryfringe.com][b]Calgaryfringe.com[/b][/url][/b] [b][url=http://www.calgaryfringe.com][b][/b][/url] [b]The Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Winnipeg, MB[/b] [b]July 16-27, 2008[/b] [url=http://www.winnipegfringe.com][b]Winnipegfringe.com[/b][/url][/b] [b][url=http://www.winnipegfringe.com][b][/b][/url] [b]The Piggyback Fringe, Wakefield, QC[/b] [b]June 29-30, 2008[/b] [url=http://www.piggybackfringe.ca][b]Piggybackfringe.ca[/b] [/url][/b] [b][url=http://www.piggybackfringe.ca][/url] [b]The Ottawa Fringe Festival, Ottawa, ON[/b] [b]June 19-29, 2008[/b] [url=http://www.ottawafringe.com][b]Ottawafringe.com[/b][/url][/b] [b][url=http://www.ottawafringe.com][b][/b][/url] [b]The Her-icane Festival of Women's Theatre[/b] Regina, SK May 30-31, 2008[/b] [b] [b]Stage North Theatre, Washburn, WI[/b] May 3, 2008[/b] [b] [b]Old Arizona Studio, Minneapolis, MN[/b] April 4-12, 2008[/b] [b] [b]The Space: A Center for Creativity, New Richmond, WI[/b] March 22, 2008[/b] [b] [b]The Lowry Lab Fringe Invitational, presented by Actors Theatre of Minnesota, St. Paul[/b] Sept. 29th - October 12th, 2007[/b] [b] [b]The Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN[/b] August 2-12th, 2007[/b] [b][b]The Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax, NS[/b] September 1-10, 2006[/b]

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Some Stuff About Me.

Amy Salloway — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:21:42 GMT

[b]Amy Salloway[/b] has been called "hilariously self-loathing", "gifted at creating comedy from pain and embarrassment", and "the queen of self-deprecation", and she takes all of that as a compliment. Amy grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduated Summa cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa in Theatre and Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and has lived most of her adult years in Seattle and Minneapolis. In August of 2003, after developing spoken word pieces and monologues at Minneapolis performance venues like Patrick's Cabaret, Balls and HotBed, Amy created her first solo show, "Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?", which debuted in the Minnesota Fringe Theatre Festival and made Lavender Magazine's annual 'Best of' list for "Best Solo Performance". Since then, she's written two more shows - 2005's "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!", and "Circumference"in 2006/2007 - and now all three pieces tour to Fringes, solo festivals, theatres, performance events and booked gigs in the US, Canada and beyond. Their cumulative stops have included the UNO Festival in Victoria, BC; Oh Solo Mio in London, ON; Cape May Stage's Flying Solo Series; Open Stage Theatre in Harrisburg, PA; StageNorth Theatre in Washburn, WI; Six Figure Theatre's Artists of Tomorrow series in NYC; the Manhattan JCC; Fresno's Rogue Festival; the Her-icane Festival of Women's Theatre in Saskatoon; the Baltimore Creative Alliance; the Columbus GLBT Theatre Festival (where Amy won "Best Script" and "Best Solo Show"); the International TeatroNetto Festival of Solo Performance in Jaffa, Israel; the Actor's Theatre of Minnesota, and the Fringes in Thunder Bay, Halifax (Best of Venue), Ottawa ("Must-See Show"), Orlando ("Must-See Show"), Cincinnati (Critic's Pick), Calgary ("Top 5 Shows To See"), Victoria, Vancouver (Pick of the Fringe), the Berkshires, and Winnipeg (Best of Fest 2006 and 2008). Amy is currently working on a new solo production, "My Sister Used To Be Anne Frank", about sibling rivalry, which will debut sometime in 2009.

Amy's performed her work on MPR's "In the Loop" and CBC's "Definitely Not The Opera", and as part of the new Twin Cities monologue collective Rockstar Storytellers. She's also been a substitute theatre instructor and playwright for Interact Center for the Arts - a theatre company for artists with disabilities -- where she served as lead writer for two company-developed musicals: "Future Perfect", and "The Broken Brain Summit", which won a 2008 Ivey Award for Originality. She was awarded a VSA Artist Recognition Grant in 2007.

Amy's shows can be booked by contacting [b]Stephanie Schroeder[/b] at [b]Pushy Broads Consulting:[/b]  [url=http://www.pushybroadsconsulting.com]http://www.pushybroadsconsulting.com/[/url]    [b]stephanie@pushybroadsconsulting.com   718-902-8467[/b]  or through Amy herself: [b]amysalloway@mindspring.com  612-298-5772[/b]   OH! And video clips are located at: [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/IlaughedIcried]http://Www.youtube.com/user/IlaughedIcried[/url] Thanks for your interest!!

image: Amy, December 2008

image: Amy in Uptown, Winter 2008

image: Five degrees outside in the winter of 2008.

image: Women's Press "Best of" issue -- I advertised Crafty Planet!

image: Amy at Balls Cabaret, 12/15/07 (photos by Erika Loen)

image: Amy, April 2007

image: Amy, March 2009

image: Headshot, May 2009, by Craig VanderSchagen.

image: From the Rockstar Storytellers photoshoot, by Craig VanderSchagen.

So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!

Amy Salloway — Sat, 21 May 2005 20:28:59 GMT

Amy Salloway, creator of the hit solo shows, [b]"Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?"[/b] and [b]"Circumference", revisits the world of adolescence, angst and Jewish summer camp with....[b]"So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!"[/b] Milwaukee, 1986. Amy has a plan for her 15th summer: Transform from total dorkwad to Material Girl. Build This City on rock and roll. And pine for Ross Buckman until he sees her True Colors shining through. Instead, her parents ship her off to “freakishly Jewish” Camp L’Chaim, where “even the mosquitoes wear yarmulkes!” How do you survive when you’re the pork chop in an all-Kosher world? [i]“A MUST SEE. … both kick-ass funny and achingly poignant, often at the same time.”[/i] – Cincinnati CityBeat [i]“An endearingly funny coming of age story…sharply witty and packed with teen spirit from start to finish." [/i] -- The Vancouver Globe and Mail [i] [i]“★★★★ …energetic and hilarious…you’ll relate regardless of summer camp experience or religious persuasion. Salloway’s story is universal and charming enough to win anyone over.”[/i] -- CBC Manitoba “Utterly brilliant!”[/i] – The Halifax Herald [b]For CLIPS of "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!", visit:[/b] [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/IlaughedIcried][b]Amy's YouTube Page![/b][/url] -------------------------- [b][u]Where can you see "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!"?[/u][/b] [b][/b][/b] The Swift Current Chautaqua! Lyric Theatre, Swift Current, SK Saturday, July 11th 9:00 pm (double-bill with Sound and Fury) Sunday July 12th, 2:00 pm Check back for more info soon! [b] --------------------------- [b][u]Past "Herschel" performances include:[/u][/b] * The 2005 Atlantic Fringe, Halifax, Nova Scotia * The 2006 Rogue Performance Festival, Fresno, CA * Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD * The Loring Playhouse, Minneapolis, MN * UMN Hillel, Minneapolis, MN * Temple Bet Shalom, Minnetonka, MN * Stage North Theatre, Washburn, WI * The Oh Solo Mio Festival of Solo Performance, London, ON * The 2006 Cincinnati Fringe, Cincinnati, OH * The 2006 Ottawa Fringe, Ottawa, ON * The 2006 Winnipeg Fringe, Winnipeg, MB, (Best of the Fest) * The Columbus JCC, Cincinnati, OH * The Baltimore Creative Alliance * The Jewish Museum of Maryland * UNH Hillel, Durham, NH * UU Congregation of Nashua, Nashua, NH * Temple Torat Yisrael, Cranston, RI * Camp Massad, Winnipeg, MB * The 2007 Orlando Fringe, Orlando, FL * The Ottawa JCC, Ottawa, ON * The 2007 Berkshire Fringe, Great Barrington, MA * The 2007 Victoria Fringe, Victoria BC * The 2007 Vancouver Fringe, Vancouver BC (Pick of the Fringe). * The 2008 International TeatroNetto Festival of Solo Performance, Jaffa, Israel * Beth Jacob Congregation, Regina, SK * Temple Shaare Zedek, Montreal QC * The Manhattan JCC, NYC * The Park Theatre, Hayward, WI[/b] [b]* Congregation B'nai Emet, St. Louis Park, MN[/b] * UMass-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

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image: Amy Behind Tree (OFFICIAL "Herschel" marketing photo)

image: "Herschel" at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2006

image: "Herschel" in performance at the MN Fringe, 2005

image: 'Herschel" in performance at the MN Fringe, August 2005.

image: "Herschel" in performance at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, 2006

image: Vancouver Fringe tech rehearsal, Sept. 2007, taken by Dan Fairchild.

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Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?

Amy Salloway — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:06:25 GMT

Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat? Amy's having one of those LIVES. Her uterus is rebelling, her perfect sister is destined for stardom, her boyfriend won't give her a kidney, and the body-image workshop she signs up for becomes a surreal lesbian adventure. Will this be another night spent wandering the frozen foods aisle? Or somehow, can a single, spherical girl figure out where she fits? In this first solo show from actor/writer Amy Salloway, seven "mostly true" stories meld into an unflinching portrait of the search for love, affirmation and acceptance...and what happens while they're all taking a REALLY long time to show up. "Best solo performance of 2003" says Lavender Magazine. "A MUST SEE", say the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Cincinnati Enquirer.. And from the Ottawa Citizen, "Appealing and marvelously funny...you can also add brave and original." UPCOMING PERFORMANCES of "Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?": [i]None right now, but check back later![/i] -------------------- [b]"Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?"[/b] debuted in the Minnesota Fringe Festival in the summer of 2003, and has gone on to be performed in and at... * Bedlam Studio's 2003 Best of the Fest, Minneapolis, MN * The 2004 UNO Festival of Solo Theatre, Victoria, BC * The 2004 Thunder Bay Fringe Festival, Thunder Bay, ON * The 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN * The 2004 Atlantic Fringe, Halifax, NS * The 2004 Vancouver Fringe, Vancouver, BC * The 2004 Artists of Tomorrow Festival, NYC, New York * Breathe In, Sing Out Benefit, Minneapolis * The 2005 Cape May Stage Flying Solo Festival, Cape May, NJ * The 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Cincinnati, OH * The 2005 Berkshire Fringe, Great Barrington, MA * The 2006 WomenSpeak Series, OpenStage of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA * The 2006 Columbus National GLBT Theatre Festival, Columbus, OH * Rainbow Resources, Winnipeg, MB * The 2007 Ottawa Fringe Festival, ON

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Teaching and Workshops

Amy Salloway — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:17:49 GMT

In addition to touring solo shows, I often offer workshops, classes and residencies, which can be booked together with a show, or as a stand-alone event. Potential workshop topics include: • Writing for your own voice • Beginning memoir • Monologue and storytelling basics • Turning personal story into solo performance • The Matt Smith Check-In Workshop (a 3-6 hour series of group and solo improv exercises designed to generate original performance material by discovering the emotional themes, links and currents in your daily life) • Improvisation – long or short form, basic to advanced • Scene study • Monologue coaching • Augusto Boal Theatre of The Oppressed exercises. In October of 2006 I taught a half-day Theatre of the Oppressed workshop to Environmental Science educators in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This workshop was designed to give teachers ways to incorporate theatre games and activities in their classroom curricula. It was absolutely tons of fun, and was, for me, an opportunity to rediscover how much I LOVE Boal work. I would embrace any opportunities to teach and lead Theatre of the Oppressed workshops in Minneapolis or elsewhere -- ToTO is one of the richest, most connective, most unintimidating ways I can think of to get theatre people and non-theatre people alike working together, thinking creatively, and using all parts of their brains to invent, create, explore and problem-solve.

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The Advice People

Amy Salloway — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:15:06 GMT

The Advice People is "philanthropic street entertainment" in the tradition of Lucy, from Peanuts -- remember "Psychiatric Help, 5 cents"?. The Advice People sit in pairs of two, and will listen to your question and give you their best advice -- since there's two of them, their opinions may or may not match! You pay a nickel, or whatever you think that advisement was worth. The Advice People have advised at Pride, May Day, the Powderhorn and Loring Park art fairs, the Fringe Festival, Dunn Brothers Cafes, and many other events. We've addressed everything from 'What city should I move to next?" to "I'm not sure if it's too soon or not to invite a third person into my primary relationship" to "My cat has dry skin". We're way cheaper than therapy, and available for parties! :-) Look for The Advice People at May Day in Powderhorn Park, Sunday May 3rd,2009, starting about 12:30 pm!!

image: The Advice People, May Day, 2002(?)

image: The Advice People, May Day 2009

image: Amy and Kai advising, May Day 2009

image: Amy and Lynnette advising, May Day 2009