Member Profiles
Amy Morton
Biography
Amy Morton is a director, actor and associate artist at Steppenwolf. She has directed or performed in over 30 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 Berline 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), Glengary Glen Ross, Clybourne Park, America Buffalo, The Dresser, The Pillowman, Topdog/Underdog, 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. Television: Bluebloods, Girls, Homeland, currently on Chicago PD as Trudy Platt. Before joining Steppenwolf, Amy was a member of the Remains Theatre for 15 years.
Past Productions
- A Lie Of The Mind
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- American Buffalo
- As I Lay Dying
- August: Osage County
- Betrayal
- Bonjour, La Bonjour
- Cherry Orchard
- Clybourne Park
- Cross-Town Traffic
- Death Of A Salesman
- Dublin Carol
- Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Homebody/Kabul
- Last of the Boys
- Love Letters
- Love-Lies-Bleeding
- Men of Tortuga
- Mizlansky/Zilinsky Or Schmucks
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Penelope
- Philadelphia, Here I Come
- Slavs!
- Space
- The Berlin Circle
- The Cryptogram
- The Dresser
- The Geography of Luck
- The Memory Of Water
- The Pillowman
- The Royal Family
- The Time Of Your Life
- The Unmentionables
- The Way West
- The Weir
- The Well-Appointed Room
- Three Days Of Rain
- Topdog/Underdog
- Waiting For Lefty
- We All Went Down To Amsterdam
- You Can't Take It With You
- You Will Get Sick