About me

AMY SHOSHANA BLUMBERG is a theater director, writer, and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also an anti-Zionist Jew and a former professional dancer.

She co-founded and co-leads movement-theater company the after-image and regularly collaborates with other radical women, femme, and non-binary theater and dance-makers. Her collaboratively created experimental productions which she’s directed or associated directed, have been presented by a Lower East Side bar and at Lincoln Center, at a historic off-off Broadway theater and at an indoor children’s play space, in a grandiose university hall and in a state of the art dance and technology space.

With the after-image, she is currently a 2025 SU-CASA Artist through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and has been lead writer and director for four evening-length performance works and one interactive multimedia installation.

Other collaborations include: co-creator of SEDER with Eliana Fabiyi (in development, Subcircle Residency July 2025), associate director for What Does PURPLE Sound Like (Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University, February 2025) and PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (June 2023, Lincoln Center premiere), dramaturg for SAXYN Dance Works’ Seolh (November 2024), dramaturg for When the Sky Separated from the Earth by Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach, and co-director for Chaos Theory and Chaos Theory: Digital Edition by Jessica Ellen Creane, among others.

Recent creative non-fiction writing includes: “Ready, Set” about Esmé Boyce Dance’s creation of The Humbling or Chapter of Mama: Part 1 (May 2024), and a BAC Story for choreographers Baye & Asa about their creation of HotHouse (September 2022).

Amy has been a teaching artist 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.