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Amy Nostbakken
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Amy Nostbakken joined Brian McCorkle's group
Sound in Performance
A space for Composers, Sound Artists, Designers, and Performers to discuss the use of sound in contemporary performance.See More
Amy Nostbakken posted a status"Flares of Life in The Big Smoke : An Interview with Amy Nostbakken
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Amy Nostbakken posted a status"Amy Nostbakken writes about The Big Smoke in the National Post: http://ning.it/AzoXkA"
Amy Nostbakken posted a status"'The show is a feat for performer Amy Nostbakken, and for director Nir Paldi; the pair also wrote the script together'
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Amy Nostbakken posted a status"The Big Smoke gets 4****s from Stage Door ' A solo show unlike any you have ever seen before..This is a must see.'
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Amy Nostbakken posted a status"The Big Smoke 'A must-see for those who like their theatre new and different. An inspired musical tour-de-force'
http://ning.it/AswAbN"
Amy Nostbakken posted an event
The Big Smoke, Ad Infinitum's Canadian Premiere at Factory Theatre
February 5, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm
THE BIG SMOKEBY THEATRE AD INFINITUMFebruary 22 – March 4, 2012 Studio TheatreCanadian Premiere of an award-winning one-woman show inspired by the lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.In a courageous physical performance with a completely original text and score sung a cappella, Amy Nostbakken tells the story of a brilliant young artist from Toronto given the opportunity of a lifetime: a solo exhibit at London’s Tate Modern Art Gallery. Nathalie has everything to live for: good…See More
Amy Nostbakken posted a videoThe Big Smoke - Theatre Ad Infinitum
Stage Award winners - 'Best of Fringe' (Observer). Lecoq-trained company presents the poignant tale of a tormented woman whose search for identity becomes a ...
Amy Nostbakken posted a blog postThe Big Smoke: Canadian Premiere of an award-winning one-woman show inspired by the lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
THE BIG SMOKEBY THEATRE AD INFINITUMFebruary 21 – March 4, 2012 Factory Studio Theatre, Toronto Theatre Ad Infinitum's Canadian Premiere of an award-winning one-woman show inspired by the lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.In a courageous physical performance with a completely original text and score sung a cappella, Amy Nostbakken tells the story of a brilliant young artist from Toronto given the opportunity of a lifetime: a solo exhibit at London’s Tate Modern Art Gallery.…See More
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- Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Ad Infinitum
- Bio
- Amy Nostbakken is a practitioner, writer, performer and musician based in Canada. Amy trained for two years at the École Internationale de Théatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris 2007 and graduated from Concordia University in Montréal with a degree in Theatre Studies in 2005. Amy is an artistic director of Theatre Ad Infinitum, which creates physical, devised theatre including First Class, a play she wrote and performed which played at Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe and toured in 2009. Amy wrote, composed and performed the one woman show The Big Smoke which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010 where it received immense critical acclaim. The Big Smoke has just concluded a three month National tour to venues throughout the UK where it won an Argus Angel Award at the 2011 Brighton Festival Fringe. Amy is now nominated for a 2011 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Studio Performance and was nominated for Best Female Performer in the Latest Awards by Brighton’s Latest 7 Magazine UK. She is making her North American debut with The Big Smoke at Factory Theatre in February 2012. This February Amy is also performing in Barrel Crank with Suitcase In point theatre Company and Every Day is a Beautiful Day directed by Rose Plotek, at the Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.
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Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 4:22pm on March 9, 2012,
Ann Moradian said…
Hi Amy,
Nice to meet you here.
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Ann
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