All About Amy

Amy Wolk is a performer, writer, host, director, and singer based in New York City. Her most recent cabaret show, Hungry Like the Wolk played an extended run at both The Duplex and Don’t Tell Mama. A 4-time MAC Award winner, she was the recipient of the 2014 Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy for her show A Wolk on the Wild Side. Amy has won 2 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) Awards for her cabaret performances, including the 2011 MAC for Musical Comedy, and the 2004 MAC Award for Best Female New York Debut for her show Different For Girls. She was also named one of the best in cabaret by ShowBusiness Weekly. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts/CAP21, Amy has appeared in shows at The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama's, The Metropolitan Room, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, and Town Hall in New York, as well as at Davenport's in Chicago. She has also appeared in many regional productions including Evil Dead (Cheryl), Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Dori), and The Taffetas (Peggy). Her solo shows include A Wolk in Progress, We Can Wolk It Out, and Wolk This Way. Her fifth solo show, Amy Wolk Sings Bette Midler's Divine Madness was a hit in the Under the Covers series at Don't Tell Mama, and received 4 stars in Next Magazine.

Amy is also a cabaret director, having directed shows for many performers, including Gerard Salvador (Mamma Mia), Matthew Marks (The Book of Mormon), and Tony-Award winner Nikki M. James. Amy is the co-producer and host of the cabaret series Friends With Benefits, which has raised over $15,000 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. With collaborator William TN Hall, she hosts and directs the series Puttin’ On the Brits , which celebrates her love of British pop music. She and Hall wrote the award-winning “The Brit Song” which won both the Dirty Little Songs contest and the MAC Award. Other songs include the MAC-nominated “Hey, Hey, It’s Ok” (written with Lorinda Lisitza) and “The Ladies Who Tony”, written for Nikki M. James.In July 2021, she joined with Aaron Swenson and Martine Kei Green-Rogers to write the #SLACabaret for the Salt Lake Acting Company, which was named Best of Utah 2022 by City Weekly Magazine.

With collaborator Nikki M. James, Amy is the creator, producer, and MAC-Award winning host I Only Have Lies For You, a new live gameshow that pits Broadway panelists against each other in a lying contest. Two teams of three go head-to-head telling stories, some of which may not be true---it is up to the other team to guess, Truth or Lie. Featuring musical direction by Nate Buccieri, and William TN Hall, panelists defend their stories by all means possible, including song and dance. Now in its third season at the Laurie Beechman Theater, I Only Have Lies For You can be heard as a podcast, and is also being played live at home on Facebook until the world goes back to normal.

A certified New York City school teacher, Amy has a master’s degree in education from Fordham University. She works as a freelance teacher with On Location Education as an on set tutor on films and Broadway shows. This job has given her the opportunity to meet great people, teach amazing kids, and has allowed her to eat for free at opening night parties and from craft service tables.

Amy has also worked extensively on Broadway as an assistant merchandise manager for over 40 Broadway shows, including Annie Get Your Gun, Les Miserables, Gypsy, Equus, Anything Goes, Chicago, and The Phantom of the Opera.