Preview of CATF Season with Amy Wratchford

Amy’s personal mission is to help create a more joyful, wholehearted, courageous world through the power of her example. In 2021, Amy founded The Wratchford Group, an arts management consulting company with the vision to transform nonprofit arts organizations, creating a stable, thriving, empowering, and equitable industry. Amy specializes in interim executive leadership, financial stabilization plans, Board governance, organizational analysis, and executive coaching.

She spent over ten years as Managing Director of the American Shakespeare Center. As the company’s chief administrative and financial officer, Amy oversaw finance, marketing, development, and other business management functions for ASC. Before joining ASC, Amy served as Managing Director of Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta. Previously, spent 13 years in New York City as a producer, director, and actor. Amy regularly serves on grant panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts and Virginia Commission for the Arts, as well as adjudicating panels, including EdTA China’s 2019 National Young Thespian Festival in Shanghai, as well as state, regional, and national community theater festivals.

Amy holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in Acting from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University and a master of fine arts degree in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College. When not supporting all manner of performing arts, Amy enjoys reading, crocheting, baking, hiking, and riding her motorcycle through the back roads of the Shenandoah Valley.