About me

Amy Shoshana Blumberg is a theater director, writer, choreographer, and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also an anti-Zionist Jew and a former professional dancer.

Amy co-founded and co-leads the after-image, with whom she creates experimental audience-interactive theater that wrestles with building trust and solidarity between strangers, neighbors, and communities. Amy was lead writer, director, and choreographer for the after-image’s four evening-length original physical-theater works and one interactive multimedia installation. the after-image has twice been selected to be a SU-CASA Artist through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2025 & 2026), creating devised theater works with elders in Washington Heights. With the after-image, Amy was a Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Movement Lab at Barnard College.

She is currently co-creating SEDER alongside Eliana Fabiyi, an anti-Zionist Jewish work that asks how we, as American Jews, can help end the cycle of violence in Palestine/Israel.

Amy also regularly freelances as a director and dramaturg, collaborating with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Kyle Gerry, SAXYN Dance Works, among others. She has been a teaching artist and story coach for The Moth since 2021, teaching the art and craft of true personal storytelling to high schoolers, college students, and adults across NYC and the country.

She holds an MFA in Theater Directing from Temple University and a BA in Africana Studies and Dance from Barnard College.