Amy Matysio
Amy Matysio is a Canadian Theater, TV & Film actress born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.[1]
Education
She holds a BFA in Theatre (Performance) from the University of Regina and has studied at York St.John University in York, England.
Awards
2013 Recipient "BEST ACTRESS - inSAYSHAble" HollyWeb Festival
2013 Recipient "BEST COMEDY - inSAYSHAble" HollyWeb Festival
2013 Recipient "BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY - inSAYSHAble" LA Web Festival
2013 Nominee "BEST LEAD FEMALE TV/WEB PERFORMANCE - inSAYSHAble", Canadian Comedy Awards
2013 Selected as one of CBC Saskatchewan's "Future 40"
2012 Nominee "BEST LEAD FEMALE TV PERFORMANCE - Single White Spenny", Canadian Comedy Awards
2010 Named to Playback's “TEN TO WATCH"
2010 Nominee "LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ARTS AWARD - Achievement in the Arts Under 30"
2010 Nominee "YWCA WOMAN OF DISTINCTION AWARD - ARTS"
2010 Nominee "BEST FEMALE IMPROVISOR" Canadian Comedy Awards
2010 Nominee, Writer / Voice Artist "BEST RADIO CLIP - First Generation Urbanite" Canadian Comedy Awards
2010 Nominee "BEST IMPROV TROUPE - General Fools" Canadian Comedy Awards
2009 Nominee "LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ARTS AWARD - Achievement in the Arts Under 30"
2009 Nominee "BEST FEMALE IMPROVISOR" Canadian Comedy Awards
2008 Nominee "BEST IMPROV TROUPE - General Fools" Canadian Comedy Awards
2008 Nominee "BEST FEMALE IMPROVISOR" Canadian Comedy Awards
2005 Recipient "RBC EMERGING ARTIST AWARD - Amy Matysio" Regina Mayor's Arts & Business Awards
Career
Amy has attended several improv festivals across Canada in her 13 years of improvisational theatre and she is an active member of General Fools Improvisational Theatre.[2] She also starred in the romantic comedy film Just Friends, the crime thriller Dolan's Cadillac, the horror thriller Chained and as well in the Comedy horror film Wolf Cop.[3]
Stage
- HONK! (Globe Theatre)
- Loud & Queer (Globe Theatre)
- On the Line (Globe Theatre)
- Over (As-Q Theater Collective)
- The Shape of Things (Theatre Ecstasis)
- Measure for Measure (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)
- Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)
- Love’s Labor’s Lost (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)
- Pageant (On the Verge, National Arts Centre, Saskatchewan Playwrights Center, Hot House Theatre).
- Just So (Globe Theatre)
T.V and Film
- Just Friends
- The Tommy Douglas Story
- The Risen
- I Accuse
- I’ll be Seeing You
- The Unsaid
- Television series Corner Gas
- Incredible Story Studio and renegadepress.com.
- Vampire Dog
- Stranded (2013)
- WolfCop (2014)
Amy is an ACTRA and Canadian Actors' Equity Association member.