AMY MEYER (she/her) is a director, actor, circus arts practitioner, historian, and teacher. She has worked professionally in Boston for over a decade, and is an Artistic Associate with the IRNE-award-winning physical theatre troupe imaginary beasts. She is also a Co-Founder of Spectacle Collective, a company which creates and produces multidisciplinary performances that bring classical music, circus arts, and physical theatre into conversation with each other. As an aspiring acrobat, Amy trains in partner acrobatics, aerial silks, and flying trapeze. As a historian, her work focuses on highly physical traditions.
Amy holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University. Her research bridges the fields of theatre studies, circus studies, dance studies, and transfeminist theory. Her scholarship aims to illuminate the ways that moving bodies onstage can shape sociocultural attitudes towards identity. Her particular areas of interest are physical virtuosity, gender in performance, and risk in performance. She has taught courses in acting, movement, voice and speech, contemporary American plays, sport as performance, theatre history, dramatic literature and theory, and circus and culture.
