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GREAT LEAP : ARTISTS : AMY HILL
Her film and television credits include: "Dim Sum," "Scroged," "Ghostdad," "Singles," "Rising Sun," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Night Court," a regular role as "grandma" in the ABC series "All American Girl" and this year's "Maybe This Time" with Betty White and Marie Osmond. Her award winning one-woman show, "Tokyo Bound" played to sell-out houses and was critically acclaimed in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, was part of the "Festival of New Voices" at the Public Theater in New York and continues to tour nationally and to Canada. Its recent production on the International Channel was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. She just completed developing the final chapters of her solo trilogy; "Reunion" - which had limited runs at both the Japan America Theater and Highways Performance Space, was part of the L.A. Festival, the '94 Montreal Fringe Festival and was critic's choice during it's run at Theater Geo in May and "Beside Myself" - which has been seen in various incarnations including The Mark Taper's "Out in Front" mainstage performance series and which premiered in 1993 at East West Players. She is a former member of the Mark Taper Forum's Mentor Playwrights Program as well as a current member of the classical repertory company Antaeus. One of the writers of "The Puzzle Place" a children's show for PBS, she is currently developing her own programming geared for children and was nominated for a regional Emmy as writer/host of "Get Real" an Asian American Teen talk show on KSCI. Born in Deadwood, S. Dakota, Amy's mother is a native of Japan and her father, a Finnish-American. As a child, isolated in the countryside, Amy began to explore her creativity by becoming all the characters she came in contact with on television or among her friends and family. Changing voices, speech patterns and mannerisms, she found herself to be her own best companion and playmate. Years later, after the family moved to Seattle, she discovered a rapt audience of Italian neighbors as she danced and performed on her family's front porch. She traveled to Japan at eighteen and stayed for six years, studying at Sophia International University in Tokyo and working part-time in radio and television. By the time she was twenty one she had traveled around the globe through Asia, the middle East and Europe, alone. Upon her return to the U.S., she studied theater at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater, became one of the top voice over talents and improvisors in the Bay Area and finally moved to the Los Angeles area where she has worked steadily and is very involved with the Asian Pacific American community as an artist and activist. |
Amy Hill is an actor/writer/improviser whose theatrical background includes eight years and over thirty productions at San Francisco's Asian American Theater Company, The Eureka Theater, LA's Mark Taper Forum and The Los Angeles Theater Center. In addition to her television career, her one-woman shows TOKYO BOUND, REUNION and BESIDE MYSELF tour nationally.