Walking Shadow celebrates the artistic career of co-founder Amy Rummenie! Effective November 1, 2022, Amy has stepped away from being Walking Shadow’s Co-Artistic Director.
Amy says, “Working with Walking Shadow has been one of the very best things I’ve done in my life. I’ve had the chance to work with the best of friends, creating both work and a community that overwhelms me with warmth and pride. It’s also created a better, more rounded Me, and I’ll be taking that support, love, and belief in my ideas and vision to… to whatever the next thing will be.”
About Amy Rummenie
Amy Rummenie co-founded Walking Shadow in 2004 with John Heimbuch and David Pisa. Out of Walking Shadow’s approximately 50 productions since then, Amy directed 32 of them, including 10 world premieres and numerous regional premieres. She adapted for the stage Mark Leidner’s book 21 Extremely Bad Breakups. She was a frequent collaborator on design elements, perhaps most notably [that one room] in Cabal (redacted to avoid spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet).
Walking Shadow’s Board of Directors says, “We love Amy and are so thankful for all the years of magic she’s created with Walking Shadow. While we’ll miss her, we fully support Amy and her need to step down. And we look forward to seeing our newest #1 fan in the front row!”
John remains Walking Shadow’s Artistic Director, and David the Executive Director. They say, “It’s impossible to summarize Amy’s immense skill as a director. She has consistently brought her innate sense of playfulness and passion to Walking Shadow’s entire 18-year history.”
“We will profoundly miss Amy’s enthusiasm, heart, and humor in our future creative processes; but we are also proud to send her off with immense love and gratitude for all she’s done, assured in the knowledge that she will continue to brighten the world wherever her path takes her.”
Amy’s directing credits for Walking Shadow: Gilgamesh, Beowulf, The Ugly One, Open, Equivocation, 21 Extremely Bad Breakups, Red Velvet, The River, The Christians, A Midwinter Night’s Revel, The Coward, The Whale, Gabriel, The Three Musketeers, The Sexual Life of Savages, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Eurydice, An Ideal Husband, reasons to be pretty, Saboteur, after the quake, The Crowd You’re In With, Mojo, Squawk, Caligula, Amazons and Their Men, William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead, The American Pilot, Fat Pig, 1926 Pleasant, 10-Speed Revolution, The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen.
Awards:
- 2012 Director of the Year by Lavender Magazine for An Ideal Husband
- 2013 Director of the Year by Lavender Magazine for Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
- City Pages’ Best Director of the Twin Cities for 2014
- 2015 Ivey Award for Overall Excellence for Gabriel
You can revisit all of Amy’s works in the Walking Shadow Production History