Amy Saltz is a director on and Off-Broadway and worldwide.  Her Off-Broadway Assistant Director credits include:  HAIR (1967), ERGO (1968), HENRY IV PART I and II (1968), PEER GYNT (1971), and many others with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and KING LEAR (1968 - Lincoln Center).   After her assistant directing experience, she went on to direct Off-Broadway plays including: PLAY ON THE TIMES (1970), ROMANIA, THAT’S THE OLD COUNTRY (1970) at NYSF/The Public;  TOUCH (1970) at the Village Arena Theatre and the Martinique Theater (Grammy Nominee); THE MINSTREL SHOW (1977) at Interart Theatre; A VOICE OF MY OWN (1979) with The Acting Company at the Lion Theatre; FISHING (1981) at Second Stage;  GHOSTS OF THE LOYAL OAKS (1981) at the WPA;  HOW WOMEN BREAK BAD NEWS (1981) at Circle Repertory; WIN/LOSE/DRAW (1983) at Provincetown Playhouse (Drama Desk Nominee); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1984) at Theatre for a New Audience; RAW YOUTH (1985) at Playwrights Horizons; TINY MOMMY (1987) at Young  Playwrights  Festival at Playwrights Horizons; and NEDDY (1990) at American Place Theatre.  She directed at most of the major regional theaters in the country including: Actors Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage, Asolo Theater Repertory,  Boise Contemporary Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Ivanhoe  and St. Nicholas Theaters (Chicago), Napa Valley Theater Company, Long Wharf, Playmakers Rep, Seattle Rep, St. Louis Rep, Theatreworks USA (Hartford), and Yale Repertory Theater. She also directed new plays in Russia and Estonia, and directed and taught at Juilliard, NYU Tisch School of the Arts,  North Carolina School of the Arts at Yale.

Born in Brooklyn, Saltz first worked with The Heights Players (Brooklyn, NY) as a stage manager. She persuaded Bernard Gersten to hire her as a P.A. for The Shakespeare Festival and was director Gerald Friedman’s assistant on HAIR when it became the first show done in the new Astor Place location. After assisting and directing at NYSF/The Public for seven years, Saltz worked with The Acting Company in its earliest years [John Houseman, Gerald Freedman, Alan Schneider, Kevin Kline,  Patti  Lapone], the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference [George White, Lloyd Richards, August Wilson]  for 17 years, and The Women’s Interart Center  serving as Head of MFA Directing Program  at Rutgers University.   Amy has worked with  (and helped develop plays by) numerous playwrights including: August Wilson, Robert Schenkkan, Adam Rapp, Lee Blessing,  Sam Hunter, Jeffrey Hatcher, Kara Lee Corthron, John Cariani, Jeni Mahoney, Glenn Alterman, Michael Weller, John Patrick Shanley

Her productions have won and been nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Grammy Award, Connecticut Critics Circle (multiple),  Handy Awards (multiple), Helen Hayes, Time Out,  Joseph Jefferson (multiple) From 2001-2013 she was Head of the Graduate Program in Directing at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and is a member of SDC. She is among the few women who paved the way for the many women who are directing now.