Amy Oestreicher

Gutless and Grateful (2012 - 2016)
Theater by Amy Oestreicher Self Amy Oestreicherwas an ambitious, audacious teenager who had her life all planned out: go to college, win a Tony, and conquer the world. But life took an unexpected detour when the week before her high school senior prom, she found herself in unusual pain. She was rushed to the emergency room, and due to a blood clot, Amy’s stomach exploded to the ceiling of the operating room. After both lungs collapsed, she almost died. Months later, she awoke from a coma covered in tubes, bags, and drains, and was told that she had no stomach anymore, she could not eat or drink, and it was not certain if or when she would ever taste one bite ever again. It took 27 surgeries and over three years, but eventually, Amy was miraculously reconstructed, and with the intestines she had left, was given a system that digests food.

Imprints
Drama by Stage Love Theater Playwright With her sights set on Broadway, Patricia is alarmed to wake up in a surgical ICU and to find her world forever changed. Patricia is forced to come to terms with a dark past kept hidden from her family, as well as another self who has grown from a trauma which she had hoped to forget. Imprints explores the bondage of secrets, the re-membering of a life broken open by trauma and the healing power of art. A poignant story of a family, ripped apart, reassembling with the imprints of a heartbreaking past. A trauma creates imprints on the soul and leaves us forever changed. But how do we to reclaim who we are after these imprints have tested our resilience and leave us with scars that are sensed, but not seen?