Amy Nostbakken

Toronto-based Amy Nostbakken is an award-winning playwright, performer and composer. Mouthpiece, a play she directed, co-wrote, composed and performed in won three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Canadian Play and the Stage Award for best performance at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017. With co-writer Norah Sadava, she worked with writer-director Patricia Rozema to adapt Mouthpiece into a screenplay, which was selected to have its World Premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. She is co-creator, co-director and musical composer for theatre company Quote Unquote’s production of Now You See Her, which is scheduled to premiere in Toronto in October 2018. A graduate of École Internationale de Théatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Amy Nostbakken also teaches physical theatre for both adults and young people.