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Amelia Doyle
Amelia was hands down the best actress in my high school. She played Titania to my Oberon our junior year and I was very honored when she agreed to play the lead in my first produced play, The Escapist. We made her a beautiful, cranberry 14th century grown out of an old prom dress and then threw her around the stage for an hour. Fun times. But really, she was an enchanting Beatrice, very powerful, very vulnerable, very passionate and very calculating all at the same time. The play isn't all that great, from my perspective, but her performance remains a highlight of my life for me. I just wish I could have given her something better. For the next couple years after high school she kept popping up in my life- playing Lucy/Selene/Valeria in Endymion and Louka in Arms And The Man when Quicksilver produced it in 1998. She read the role of Marina in both of the workshops for Rumpelstilskin and it was arguably for her that I wrote the speech about loneliness which is Marina's best moment. I still remember her reading it for the first time, sitting in a hammock on the back porch of John Shuttleworth's house, back when I could spend all day writing plays and all night getting drunk. The magic summer after high school and before life. These days, I don't know what's become of Amelia Doyle, but I hope whatever she does, she's stuck with acting. She was good.
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