Amy Clare Tasker

Amy Clare Tasker is a director and theater manager living and working in San Francisco. She is the General Manager of The Cutting Ball Theater, where she has directed Euripides' Medea for the Hidden Classics Reading Series, assistant directed THOM PAIN (based on nothing) (director: Marissa Wolf), and stage managed Cutting Ball’s productions of Avant GardARAMA! 2008 and Victims of Duty. Her work in the Bay Area also includes assistant directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Atmos Theatre, with whom she is an Associate Artist. Most recently she directed All’s Fair, a new play developed by Antistrophe Ensemble (now redefined as Inkblot Ensemble), which premiered at the San Francisco Theater Festival before its limited run at the EXIT on Taylor.

Amy holds a B.A. in Drama from the University of California, Irvine, with honors from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Campus-wide Honors Program. At UC Irvine, Amy co-founded Culture Shock Theatre, a student-run production company dedicated to new work; she wrote, directed, managed, and produced theater with that group for two years. Her writing has also been presented in workshops at the University of Manchester, England, where she spent one year as an exchange student. At both UC Irvine and the University of Manchester, she directed Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues as part of the V-Day campaign to end violence against women and girls.

Future directing projects include: Antigone at the San Francisco Theater Pub; a new adaptation Alice in Wonderland with Atmos Theatre / Theatre in the Woods; Andromache for Cutting Ball's Hidden Classics Reading series; and a number of works in progress with Inkblot Ensemble.