The Agreeable Husband

Scene from The Agreeable Husband

The Agreeable Husband is a collaborative live cross-discipline arts piece based on Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The Agreeable Husband reminisces — through dance, theater, music and media arts — about growing up with social etiquette.

Through the course of an hour, the audience is guided through becoming young adults, dating, getting married, starting a family and entertaining guests.

Ami Sallee Corley, Shana Perkins and Christopher Rutherford designed this intriguing piece featuring dancers: Katrina Asmar, Marion Baldeon, Casey Hicks, Bryn Lenny and Tina Tidwell. Jazz Musician James Crumbly conducts a live jazz combo and Bonnie Agan narrates these fantastic lessons in growing up.

To someone who lives in the generation raised by the women who were raised by Amy Vanderbilt or Emily Post or ladies of that ilk, it offers great insight into to why we turned out the way we did.

Ami Sallee Corley

Ami Sallee Corley is a freelance Actor/Director/Designer/Educator and Administrator in the field of Performing Arts with a specialization in Theater.

Ami has become known for being responsible for initiating programs and contributing to the "starting up" years of many companies, including The Jobsite Theater and The Patel Conservatory in Tampa, Triad Stage in Greensboro, American Stage in St. Petersburg and The Sarasota Film Festival.

She has studied theater — directing, performance, management and design — in schools and theaters across the country and holds an AA in theater arts from St. Leo University.

Highlighted acting credits include: "Woman in Mind" (voted 2007 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress) and "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" for Jobsite; "Jane Eyre" for The Gorilla Theatre; and "Romeo and Juliet" for American Stage’s Shakespeare in the Park.

Directing credits include: "Venus Descending and Line" (STPB); "Voices" (Frank Dog); "Tapestry and Floridians" (American Stage); and "The Acropolis Project", Cloud 9 (voted 2003 Weekly Planet Best of the Bay – Best Director), "A Girl's Guide to Chaos" and "This is How it Goes" (Jobsite).

Ami also directed a Job-side Project "Bondage", as well as acted in and directed pieces part of the Job-side Project "Short Comings". You may also catch her at the 2008 Sunscreen Film Festival in Vanishing Point Films’ trailer for "Karma: The Price of Hope".