Executive Team

Amy Simon
Founder & President

Amy Simon

Amy Simon, mother, actress, playwright, improviser, published writer, producer, and self-proclaimed Cultural Herstorian; is the founder, visionary and president of She’s History! The seed for She’s History! was planted when her ten-year-old daughter came home from school one  March and stated she wanted to do her Women’s History Report on Cher. She’s History! The Most Dangerous Women In America, Then and Now… debuted in May 2010 at The American Jewish University at The Skirball Cultural Center.

Amy has been acting, improvising and producing theater for most of her adult life.  Her play Cheerios In My Underwear (And Other True Tales Of Motherhood) www.cheeriosinmyunderwear.com holds the record as the longest running solo show in Los Angeles, debuting in 2003 and has been performed all over the Los Angeles area, from The Santa Monica Playhouse to The California Center For The Arts Escondido.

A New Yorker, and hopeless theater junkie, Amy “caught the bug” in kindergarten snagging the starring role in “Susie The Duck”. After college, Amy moved to New York City and, like Madonna, had thirty-five dollars in her pocket and stars in her eyes. Amy helped start The Intrepid Theatre Company (Go Boldly Forth!), where she got her producing chops working on productions such as Beowulf where she did publicity, took the tickets and played Grendel’s (the monster’s) mother.  After ten years in the New York theaters and comedy clubs including the famed Palace Theater, Duplex, Folk City and Manhattan Punch Line, doing plays, sketch and improv comedy, Amy moved west.  Always interested in hearing and presenting what women have to say, she directed, co-produced and performed with GAL-O-RAMA and OVARYACTION at The Improv, The Laugh Factory and The Upfront Comedy Theatre in Santa Monica.  She was the creative force and co-producer behind Heroine Addicts, the hit all-girl variety show (co-starring Jane Lynch among others) at Hollywood’s bang Studio.  She created and produced Motherhood Unplugged and Moms Who Write, a mom written and performed story and music salon and stage show (to benefit Beyond Shelter) with LA Parent Magazine and Mamapalooza (Moms In The Arts).  It inaugurated and is featured on KPFK Radio’s Pacifica Performance Showcase. She was a guest commentator for American Woman In Fact And Fiction, a three part series that aired on Pacifica Radio Archives FromTheVault.org series. Working as a consultant on the launch of the Broad Stage Theater in Santa Monica, Amy performed a variety of duties, including stage-managing the thirteen member cast of American Voices: Spirit of the Revolution, Stephanie Glass Solomon’s original play based on The Federalist Papers, directed by and starring Dustin Hoffman, a truly wonderful man, whom she assisted.  As the cast understudy she actually got to play Abigail Adams going in for Annette Bening in dress rehearsal. A frequent guest on local and national radio, she is also a regular guest on the Nicole Sandler Show at www.radioornot.com.

Amy has also worked in the classroom, as an educational specialist teaching improvisation and theater games, and has created a curriculum related interactive presentation of SHE’S HISTORY! for middle school.  (See School Programs) As an “Herstorical” humorist, Amy writes, blogs, performs and entertains on the radio, online, and onstage and is working on a book to further her mission to turn the world on to all the fabulous females no one knows anything about.  Amy spends a lot of time dodging hormones as a single mother of two glorious and “challenging” teenage daughters who can tell you all about the first woman to run for President.