Literary Director

Amy Wegener

Amy Wegener (she/her) is the Literary Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where her current role supports a variety of artistic and administrative projects. Over a career that spans more than two decades with Actors Theatre and four years as Literary Manager at the Guthrie Theater, she has supported the curation, development, and production of new work and has served as a dramaturg on more than 100 plays, ranging from world premieres to reimagined classics. Wegener was part of the selection process and dramaturgical team for 20 iterations of the Humana Festival of New American Plays, working with many wonderful playwrights and leading the literary department during that festival’s final decade. Other credits include projects with the Playwrights’ Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Great Plains Theatre Commons, and she was honored to be recognized for her advocacy for new voices by The Kilroys, a collective taking action for gender parity in the theatre industry, as part of their 2023 Web. Wegener holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. from Northwestern University, and she is the co-editor of 21 published anthologies of plays. (Photo by Jonathan Roberts.)

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