AMY E. WITTING is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and educator living in New York City. Her work explores complicated grief, the ache for connection in an increasingly isolating world, and the ways love, language, magic, and small acts of kindness shape how we endure. Her plays often sit at the intersection of intimacy and social consequence, inviting audiences to listen closely—to silence, to memory, and to what is left unsaid.
She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for You’re the Reason I’m Still Here, a documentary theatre work centered on twelve college students coming of age in the aftermath of COVID. The play, featuring original music by Tom Kitt and Adam Gwon, received a workshop production at City Center / Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II in 2025.
Other plays include The House on the Hill (Atlantic Theater Company LAUNCH Commission; world premiere at CATF), which is currently being adapted into a feature film; The Midnight Ride of Sean & Lucy (Roundabout Underground); and Day 392 (Kennedy Center Workshop). She was the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Prize for Anne Page Hates Fun, which premiered at the American Shakespeare Center and is currently being adapted for television, and a recipient of a Clifford Odets Commission for Old Friend Who Just Met. She has served as a Playwright-in-Residence at Abingdon Theatre Company under the artistic direction of Tony Speciale and as an Artist-in-Residence at Queens Public Library through Roundabout Theatre Company, curating original community work in conversation with David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face.
Current projects in development include Make All Girls in Charge (M.A.G.I.C.), an original commission from NewYorkRep examining the intoxication loophole through questions of gender, power, and accountability; the play will receive a public reading in Spring 2026. She is also developing an Irish trilogy—Archipelago (PlayPenn Development Conference; Haas Fellowship), Our Father (Irish Repertory Theatre Script Club), and It’s a Long Way—drawing on more than twenty years of travel to Ireland and exploring inheritance, displacement, and the pull of place.
As an educator, Amy works from the belief that every story matters. Her teaching practice is grounded in trauma-informed pedagogy and centers voice, choice, and consent in the creative process. She works with English language learners, survivors of suicide and sexual assault, and writers across a wide range of ages and experience levels, from students in higher education to artists engaged in one-on-one coaching. Her work centers on helping individuals translate personal loss into voice and story, and on guiding writers as they adapt lived experience from the page to the stage—sharing the scar, not the wound.
She holds degrees from Ithaca College and Hunter College, is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an affiliated artist with the National New Play Network, and the founder of aWe Creative Group. She teaches with Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Strike Anywhere, and serves as an adjunct professor at Greensboro College. Her practice—on the page, in the room, and in community—is guided by rigor, listening, care, and a belief that leading with love is her most important credit.