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BIOGRAPHY
Amber has been performing her signature performance in a One Woman Show as Sally Rand; bringing to life all the wit and charm of the American icon for over 10 years. She has performed from coast to coast and for four generations of Sally’s family. Her portrayal includes the beautiful and ethereal Fandance. Amber has been dubbed “The Master of the Historic Double-Take”! Her most unusual performance....Amber was a “Mermaid in a Fishbowl” an illusion by Kansas City Magician Steve Payton. She also traveled one Summer with a Professor Stu’s World of Magic as a featured dancer and the Professor “burned her alive” as Darth Vader in an over the top illusion!
She has a dance and theater background of 20 years, dancing professionally as a Middle Eastern Belly Dancer, Polynesian and Fandancer, dance teacher, co-hosted the lively and informative Talk Radio show “What’s Cooking!” for 4 ½ years, established the first scholarship for Search and Rescue Dogs in America, has appeared on film in the HBO Movie “Truman” with Gary Sinese and was the director and founder of the Sally Rand Museum in Sally’s native Missouri.
In addition, Amber has also portrayed the Hollywood star: Ginger Rogers and the blonde bombshell: Jean Harlow in One Woman Shows. The Sally, Harlow and Ginger shows made up her “Famous Missouri Women of the 30’s” Series.
Amber is was a regular feature on the local ABC Affiliate’s “Hometown This Morning” program with a culinary segment. She authored her first cookbook in 2006, has written three children’s books, tentatively slated to be out for Christmas 2010 and served her Country in the United States Air Force Reserves as an Air Passenger Specialist.
APPEARANCES....just to name a FEW!
- KC Fringe Festival Mardi Gras Event 2010
- The American Jazz Museum “Vine Street Boogie”
- Saxton Riverside Retirement Community, Saint Joseph, MO
- Independence Manor Nursing Home
- Armour Oaks Retirement Community, KCMO
- Village Shalom Retirement Community, Overland Park, KS
- Rolling Hills Library Series
- Claridge Court Retirement Community
- Red Square, Bing Bamboo Room Burlesque, Albany, NY
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, KCMO
- Café Acoustic, SJMO
- YWCA, SJMO
- KCUR NPR Radio, The Walt Bodine Show
- The Folly Theater, KCMO
- The Saint Joseph Museum, SJMO
- Wyeth-Tootle Museum, SJMO
- Pomme de Terre Rendezvous, Sally Rand’s Birthplace Hickory County Missouri
- Burlesque Review with Sugar Puppy & the Lovely Dumplings
- UMKC’s Outside the Box Series
- Paseo Arts Festival, OKC
- Martunis, with Houston Allred, SFCA
- ABWA Spring Conference, OKC
- The Historic Savoy, KCMO
- TWA Heart of America Seniors
- 451 Bombardment Group Reunion
- 41st Infantry Reunion
- The Missouri Theater
- Army and Air Force Officers Clubs
- Starlight
- Kansas City Renaissance Festival
- Worlds of Fun
- Dorcy Productions
- St Joseph Museum
Famous folks who have been entertained by Amber...
- John Denver
- Lou Rawls
- Ginger Rogers
- Orson Bean
- Heather McRae
- Charleton Heston
- Victor Borge
- Barry Williams “Greg Brady”
- Roberta Flack
TRAINING
- Middle Eastern Belly Dance with Zaina Ali, Morocco and others
- Actors Craft Studio with Richard Alan Nichols………………3 Years
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Ballroom Dancing
- Fandancing
- Middle Eastern Belly Dancing
- Hula & Tahitian Dancing
- Acting
- Voice Overs
- Public Speaking
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT AMBER
A FEW PUBLICATIONS THAT HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT AMBER
- Star Magazine
- St Joseph News Press
- Discover Mid-America
- The Riverfront Review
- The Index
- St Joseph MO CVB
- Kansas City Star
- The Pitch
- Oklahoma Woman Magazine
- Kansas City Magazine
- The Daily Oklahoman
- Denver Post
- Sedalia Democrat
- Independence Examiner
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