Acting
Amy Conachan
Born 1990-11-19 · Glasgow, Scotland
Amy is a stage and television actress. Since graduating with a BA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2015, Amy's production credits include: Coriolanus, The Hypochondriak and 13 (RCS); Skeleton Wumman (Play, a Pie and a Pint); Blood Wedding (Graeae) and Redefining Juliet (Barbican, Open Lab). Amy Conachan has a rare spinal condition that means her legs are “really small” and “don’t work”, as she describes them, because her spinal cord “doesn’t go all the way down”. As a result, she uses a wheelchair.
Acting credits
NRThe Skeleton Wummin rests at the bottom of the cold sea, withering away in the passing tides and dreaming of life above the waves, in this vivid and poetically eerie Scots-language fable.
Skeleton Wumman
2020
NRAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
National Theatre Live: Oliver Twist
2022