Member Profiles
Amy Morton
Biography
Amy Morton is an actor and director. She has performed in or directed many plays at Steppenwolf including: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony nomination), August: Osage County (Tony nomination), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (also on Broadway), Hir, Cherry Orchard, The Berlin Circle, Three Days of Rain, The Unmentionables, Space, The Royal Family and many others. She has directed Guards at the Taj (both Atlantic Theatre and Steppenwolf), Glengarry Glen Ross, Clybourne Park, American Buffalo, The Dresser, The Pillowman, Topdog/Underdog, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Alliance Theatre), Awake and Sing (Northlight Theatre), and many others. Film: Rookie of the Year, 8MM, Falling Down, Backdraft, Up in the Air, Bluebird, It Ends With Us. Television: The Bear, Bluebloods, Girls, Homeland, currently a regular on Chicago PD as Sgt. Trudy Platt. Before joining Steppenwolf, Amy was a member of the Remains Theatre for 15 years.
Past Productions
- The Berlin Circle
- The Cryptogram
- The Dresser
- Slavs!
- The Geography of Luck
- Philadelphia, Here I Come
- Penelope
- The Pillowman
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- The Time Of Your Life
- The Way West
- The Weir
- The Well-Appointed Room
- Mizlansky/Zilinsky Or Schmucks
- Men of Tortuga
- Topdog/Underdog
- We All Went Down To Amsterdam
- Love-Lies-Bleeding
- Love Letters
- Last of the Boys
- Homebody/Kabul
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Dublin Carol
- Cross-Town Traffic
- Clybourne Park
- Cherry Orchard
- Betrayal
- August: Osage County
- As I Lay Dying
- American Buffalo
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Lie Of The Mind
- Space
- The Memory Of Water
- The Royal Family
- The Unmentionables
- Three Days Of Rain
- You Can't Take It With You
- You Will Get Sick
- Catch as Catch Can
- Guards at the Taj
- Hir