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Born in a rural town of Indiana, Amy grew up in a legendary family of Grammy-Award winning singers and songwriters, performing for live audiences since she was three, and recording professionally in the studio from the age of six.
She has acted all over the country in iconic roles from Lady Macbeth to Gypsy Rose Lee to Veronica in God of Carnage (Nebraska Rep). Amy played Gertrude in Hillary Dennis' Hamlet at La Mama.
Amy studied acting at Interlochen Center for the Arts, received her B.A. in Theatre and English from Vanderbilt University, and her MFA in Acting from the University of Nebraska.
She has directed over two dozen plays including Romeo and Juliet, Romulus Linney's Sand Mountain, Art which she created for Indyfringe Festival, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, Impressionism, and Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
Film and TV credits include The Celebrant opposite Rae Dawn Chong, Reparation with Marc Menchaca and Jon Huertas, and CBS's Bull opposite Chris Jackson.
She created the role of Pastor Patti in Life Jacket Theatre's America Is Hard to See at HERE Arts Center (NYTimes Critics' Pick), which went on to a sold out Pick-of-the-Fest run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019.
Amy has recorded two music CD's (Some Things Never Change and Hidden Graces) both for Spring House. Her book A Collection of Wednesdays was published in 2010 by Zondervan Press (Harper Collins).
She taught acting and Shakespeare courses at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and was the founding director of The Fall Festival of Shakespeare at DePauw, a program which brings Shakespeare alive to Putnam County teenagers through their performance of his plays, and served as Artistic Director for Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project in Indianapolis for two years.
She created Duende Productions in 2019: "Illuminating Theatre that is classics-inspired, language-driven, and actor-focused." Duende produced Twelfth Night in 2019, New York Actors Reading Series during the pandemic, and the New York premiere of Lauren Gunderson's Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight in 2023.
She is a voiceover artist, has narrated three books for Audible, and has created three cabarets for Oldcastle Theatre.
She splits her time between New York City and Vermont. When she's not acting, Amy is tending her cottage garden and designing container gardens. She has three adult children, a gray tuxedo cat and four ukuleles.
