Amy Kaissar is a theatre producer and manager. She was named Co-Producing Director of Bristol Riverside Theatre (brtstage.org) starting with the 2020-2021 season alongside her husband Ken Kaissar.
In New York, she produced Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost (Drama Desk Nomination), Midsummer: A Banquet (Drama Desk Nomination), Telephone (“Inspired and utterly original” – Ben Brantley, New York Times), was a Co-Producer of The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway (starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, and Bryce Pinkham) and raised funds for the Broadway productions of Fun Home (winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Musical), and Shuffle Along (nominated for 10 Tony Awards) and the acclaimed Off Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish (winner Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards).
In addition to being the Co-Producing Director of Bristol Riverside Theatre (BRT) since 2020, her other work in the not-for-profit theatre includes serving as Managing Director of BRT from 2009-2014, where she restructured the company, leading to a doubling of overall revenue, a 35% increase in subscribership and the erasure of the accumulated deficit. She returned as Interim Managing Director in 2016 and also served as Interim Managing Director at Philadelphia Theatre Company (Suzanne Roberts Theatre) in 2017, setting the stage for their successful turnaround. From 1999 - 2008, as Producing Director of the Epiphany Theater Company, which she co-founded to assist the work of early career theatre artists, Kaissar supported the work of over 200 emerging artists, among them the future winners of the Tony Award as well as Richard Rodgers, Jonathan Larson, and other prestigious awards.
Kaissar holds a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Producing from Columbia University where she was a Dean's Fellow, Presidential Scholar, and Rudin Foundation Fellow. She was on the faculties of The University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and has been a guest lecturer at NYU and Carnegie Mellon University.
Past board service includes The Bucks County Arts and Culture Council, The Bucks County Commissioner’s Economic Development Committee, The Bristol Borough Strategic and Economic Development Committee, Bristol Riverside Theatre and Third Rail Projects.