BIO: AMY WEST

"You got the job!" : Those 12 letters put together can be so incredibly powerful, those letters make up the single, most incredible phone call you can possibly get! It seriously does make all the tears and hardship melt away.

If you had told me when I started college doing a degree in Musical Theatre at the Urdang Academy, that I would have booked a job 2 months into my third year, and I would be sat in a technical rehearsal sat at my laptop in costume struggling to write a 10,000 word essay... I probs would of told you to "Do one" in a more explicit manner...

I can't lie, I’ve had a successful career. I’m in no way arrogant or big headed, I’m

actually getting '50p-5p bum' as I cringe writing this, but I have loved every.... n

o ..... NEARLY every element of my life in this career. My career has been UNREAL, it’s the actual LIFE part that makes it hard. Being an adult in this crazy MT world is hard.

I have never been out of work longer than 2 months. That in itself is an achievement and whoever is watching over me is doing a cracking job, but it does come with an extreme pressure of delivering and keeping to the standard you have previously set.

I left college a girl who worked my little finger to the bone. I wasn’t a favourite, I got my head down and grafted. I left in the February of my 3rd year to go onto the UK tour of "Ghost". I wasn’t even 21, I was still a kid. Then onto the UK tour of "Tophat", and the UK tour of "Jersey Boys". Then I was lucky enough to go onto "Mamma Mia" and "Annie" on the West End and am currently off to Toronto with "Annie" (Phew that part is out the way-- like I said I’m shy about laying out what I’ve done, I’m not arrogant in the slightest) I have been in the ensemble, I have covered leading and supporting roles, I have been a Swing and am now about to become a Dance Captain, which is all I have ever wanted to

happen in my career so I am so excited!

Even though I’ve had a very successful career that I am extremely proud of, it’s been a difficult journey. My career has been incredible, I cannot and will not deny it, and never will I ever take it for granted, I’ve loved it and I adore what I do , I know how lucky I am to call my first love my job, but dealing with REAL things like missing weddings, anxiety through the absolute roof, dealing with good and SERIOUSLY S*** relationships whilst on the road, dealing with panic attacks, being away from family and friends, the dramas within a job/contract, things you don’t actually think about until you’re in a job because all you have been worried about is GETTING THAT JOB!!

My role on this blog is to give you more of an insight about what its like living your life and career from one year to the next. An honest insight to what it’s like living out of a suitcase and being on the road for 3 years of your life. Leaving people you genuinely connect with and having to start completely fresh with new friends on a job. Although you never know what is around the corner, it’s so exciting!!

People forget how hard this industry is. People think it’s easy. But I’ve never experienced anything harder. And even though I’ve only been in this career for 5 short years, it has already changed SO MUCH!