CHICAGO THE MUSICAL - BROADWAY
As an Actress, Amra-Faye played Velma Kelly for 23 years in the hit musical, Chicago on Broadway, London's West End, Japan, Europe and South Africa
Chicago's longest playing Velma Kelly!
as an ARTIST, Amra-Faye draws inspiration from her LONG care
Amra-Faye is a New York-based artist, currently studying for her MFA at the New York Academy of Art.
Born and raised in South Africa, Amra-Faye has led a nomadic lifestyle, settling for periods in the UK, South Africa, and America.
Amra Faye Wright is a South African American visual artist whose work merges Camp aesthetics with the subversive lineage of Carnival, Weimar era cabaret, Vaudeville and the British clown. Together, these traditions form a continuum of performative resistance in which humour, spectacle, and theatrical exaggeration become tools for critiquing authority and destabilizing social expectations. Drawing on these various forms as well as from her career as a theatre actress, she creates colour saturated figurative oil paintings where role playing, masking, and fractured identities unfold in fantastical scenarios. Her South African roots often surface through the presence of African animals as quiet witnesses within these heightened, chaotic worlds.
Studies at the New York Academy of Art, the University of South Africa and the Art Students League of New York laid the foundation for her creative development.