highlights of work
highlights of work ::
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2008-present: Woodruff's most recent undertaking is ShadowWood, a sci-fi/horror web series set in Central Louisiana's vast Kisatchie National Forest. The first episodes were written in 2019; production should begin soon.
Woodruff's other recent original project was Moon Cove, a ghostly multimedia folktale from Louisiana's Cajun prairie. The acclaimed show is fictional solo theatre about Woodruff's real ancestors, using projection of digital imagery and handmade objects/garments, and is an epic story of the heartbreak, tragedy, and resilience of an Acadiana family. Most recently onstage in 2016, the show debuted in 2008 and has been presented at six New Orleans spaces, and once in Vermont. In November 2012 as part of Moon Cove, Woodruff (née Thibodeaux) performed a 20-hour overnight marathon installation event in a rural Cajun cemetery, in which she examined, explored, and digitally documented the fading "La Toussaint" (All Saints/All Souls) mourning traditions of South Louisiana.
2018: Woodruff can be seen in the music video for legendary New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' song "Saints Friends," which was filmed in July 2018. The video was released on the New Orleans Saints' Instagram page (IGTV) to open their football season. Earlier that year she appeared with the Hercules Radio Players as part of their weekly old-time radio show on WAMF 90.3 New Orleans.
2014: She appeared in the classic play Woyzeck at the Old Ironworks on Piety Street in the Bywater, which was staged by NO Space theatre group as their inaugural production, and was sold-out for all three showings. This was followed up that same year by NO Space's original show Not Haunted, a site-specific work performed in an abandoned CBD hotel. 2010-2012: Her guerilla-style, rather scandalous "reality" performances as the resurrected incarnation of infamous Weimar-era dancer Anita Berber, collectively titled Todtänz, appeared online and in person, at New Orleans' Marigny-Bywater locations such as the AllWays Lounge and The Hatchery. 2010: Woodruff appeared as an avant-garde addition to several events by local burlesque troupes Haus of Vigilante and Rev. Spooky LeStrange's Billion Dollar Baby Dolls, incorporating poetry, movement, and her signature handmade costumes into short collage-style performance art pieces that examined sexuality, death, and those places where the two intersect. The performances occurred in the French Quarter at Rubyfruit Jungle and the Dragon's Den. 2008-2011: Woodruff holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Performance Art from Goddard College of Vermont. During her study, she created a variety of performances, installations, digital video shorts, collaborative works, and handmade garments and sculpture. The most prominent of these were The Our Lady of Sorrows Project (2009), fleetinghosts (2009-2010), and My Log Will Have Something to Say About This (2010). 2007-2019: She worked with Four Humours Theatre of New Orleans on several occasions as an associate artist. Her appearances with them included More Lovely & More Temperate (Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 2019 / Southern Rep Theatre, 2018 / Valiant Theatre, 2017) Feeding the Moonfish (2011), Verbatim Verboten (2010), Brewed (2008), and Uncle Vanya (2008). 2007: Woodruff trained with the renowned theatre companies Dah Teatar of Serbia and Odin Teatret of Denmark, during their residencies in New Orleans. 2005: Woodruff trained under Ann Mahoney, MFA in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. 2004: Woodruff received a grant from the Louisiana State Division of the Arts to travel to the UN World Theatre Conference (UNESCO-ITI) in Tampico, Mexico. early 2000s: Woodruff was featured in a series of national radio commercials for Voodoo Rain Beverages, and was a lead in an educational video for Syndistar, Inc. 1999: Woodruff trained with Shakespeare & Company of Massachusetts, during their visit to Tulane University. 1999-2006: Woodruff founded the New Orleans-based indie performance group Theatre Louisiane, Inc. in 1999. Under her artistic directorship, TL staged a diverse range of works consistently until 2006, at which point the core artists were scattered in the aftermath of the hurricanes of 2005. Since then, the organization has remained semi-dormant, with Woodruff occasionally using Theatre Louisiane, Inc. for business purposes as an operating moniker. Under the auspices of TL, Woodruff performed, directed, designed, and was primary administrator (grant-writing, personnel management, financial oversight, marketing, website design). Woodruff and the other artists of TL were named "People to Watch" by New Orleans Magazine for 2006-07. Woodruff's work with TL includes The Insanity of Mary Girard (2013), dis+graced (2006; it toured to the Montreal Fringe Festival in Canada), The Music of Erich Zann (2001 & 2005), and more (many of which were critically-acclaimed, and one of which was grant-funded by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation). 1991-1995: Woodruff began her work as a performing artist over 30 years ago during her completion of a BA in Theatre from McNeese University of Louisiana. Major roles included Wagner in a rock musical version of Faustus (1995), Cecile de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1994), and Nena in the Louisiana premiere of The Conduct of Life (1993). During this time she also completed an extensive training internship with VORTEX Rep Theatre of Austin, Texas. professional memberships: These have included the Contemporary Performance Network, Fractured Atlas, Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Honors Society, Theatre Communications Group, and the Educational Theatre Association. All photographic images & certain logos used on this website are the property of Amy Woodruff & may not be used without consent. Web design by Amy Woodruff.
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