Amy and her parents at Opening Night of Company © Bruce Glikas/www.broadway.com

A graduate of Yale University and Manhattan School of Music, Amy's roles have included Young Heidi in Follies (Maine State Music Theatre), Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (Forestburgh Playhouse), Martha in The Screams of Kitty Genovese (NYMF), and the United Kingdom premiere of Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns (Edinburgh Fringe). She was a winner of the 2004 Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Competition and has been a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra at both Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center and the Bard Music Festival.

Amy with Theatre Three group

Raised in Port Jefferson, New York, Amy started playing piano at the age of 3, later adding vocal study after an auspicious debut in her elementary school chorus' performance of a Phantom of the Opera medley. At age 11, she made her professional theatrical debut as Fan in A Christmas Carol at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, where she continued to perform through high school, studying acting with Artistic Director Jeffrey Sanzel and piano and voice with Resident Music Director Ellen Michelmore.

As well as frequently performing with Long Island theaters, Amy also trained at USDAN Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Stagedoor Manor and New York State Summer School for the Arts, run by the (now-defunct) Circle Repertory Company. She continued her piano studies with concert pianist Jeffrey Marcus, also working as a musical director at Kids for Kids in Centereach, NY, and playing auditions and rehearsals for other local theaters. After appearances with All-State and All-Eastern Choirs, Amy spent Saturdays of her senior year at Manhattan School of Music's Preparatory Division, where she was a voice major and piano minor.

At Yale, Amy received her BA in music and graduated cum laude with distinction in her major. She was the winner of the Friends of Music Recital Competition as well as a recipient of the Wrexham Prize, awarded to a senior music major for highest achievement in performance. Besides performing principal roles in several musicals and plays, including Cinderella in Into the Woods and the title role in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Amy musical directed the co-ed a cappella group Mixed Company. She arranged several pieces (some of which remain in the group's current repertoire), co-produced their album, Change of Plans, and performed everywhere from San Francisco to Miami to Montreal. She continued her vocal training with Richard Lalli and famed contralto Lili Chookasian and was a soloist with such groups as Orchestra New England, New Haven Unity Big Band, and the Ken Todd Quartet. Her performance in The Stardust Road, an evening of Hoagy Carmichael songs at New Haven's Sprague Hall, is preserved on the Urban Disk recording of the concert.

During her summers, Amy went to London where she participated in LAMDA's Summer Shakespeare Program, played the title role in Little Mary Sunshine at Mammoth Lakes Summer Repertory Theatre, and was an apprentice at Forestburgh Playhouse, where, besides her role in Guys and Dolls, she was Frances in No Sex Please, We're British.

After graduation from Yale, Amy returned to Manhattan School of Music for her master of music in classical voice. A recipient of the President's Award, Amy studied voice with department chair Maitland Peters. She was a member of the American Musical Theatre Ensemble for two years and covered the role of Jenny in Robert Ward's Roman Fever, helmed by Metropolitan Opera director Robin Guarino.

Her time at MSM was immediately followed by two fantastic theatrical experiences — working at Barrington Stage Company as Dinah in South Pacific and then heading to Edinburgh for Myths and Hymns. She then earned her Equity card in the first (and only) national tour of The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Classics with Theatreworks/USA written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Finding Nemo) and James-Allen Ford. Among other roles, Amy played Hester Prynne, but she wasn't allowed to tell the middle- and high-schoolers what the red "A" stood for.

Amy's solo work includes Carmina Burana, Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio and appearances with the Bard Community Chorus (Fisher Center), Berkshire Bach Society, New York Virtuoso Singers and Central City Chorus. After winning the Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Competition, Amy performed at Lincoln Center Library in New York and the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau, Germany, where her concert of Unsung Weill with co-winner Richard Todd Adams (The Woman in White, The Pirate Queen) received critical acclaim. She was a Young Artist at Natchez Festival of Music and a principal artist at Light Opera Oklahoma, where she was seen as Peep-Bo in The Mikado, The Sandman in Too Many Sopranos, and Doña Inez in a concert version of La Périchole. Amy has also performed solos with several major New York City churches and synagogues, including St. Bartholomew's, Marble Collegiate, Church of the Holy Family, and Park Avenue Synagogue.

Amy and Dave

Her other theatrical credits include Doris (understudy) in Miracle on 34th Street (Westchester Broadway Theatre), Chava in Fiddler on the Roof (Light Opera Oklahoma), Heather in Infertility (Dillon's), Sara in Taxi Cabaret (Prospect Theater Co. (NYMF)), as well as many readings and workshops with groups such as NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing and the BMI Workshop.

In the fall of 2005, Amy received the thrilling news that she had been cast in the Cincinnati Playhouse production of Company, directed by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle. She was excited to return to her roots as a pianist — and thankful that she'd kept up her playing all these years! After an incredible experience in Cincinnati, with a phenomenally talented cast and inspirational creative team, Amy learned that she would finally achieve her dream of performing on Broadway when Company came to New York in the fall of 2006.

Since Company's run, which included an Original Revival Cast Recording, a broadcast on PBS Great Performances, and a Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, Amy has been busy with concert, recording and theater work. Her recent roles include Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Mary Turner in Of Thee I Sing, as well as concerts at Carnegie Hall, the C.R. Smith Museum in Dallas and Joe's Pub. She can also be heard on two CDs from composer Larry Gelb, I'll Remember Love and Songs for Pickles.

Amy currently lives in the East Village of Manhattan, where she maintains an active vocal coaching studio. She will be married this fall to Dave Itzkoff, a writer and editor for the New York Times and author of Lads: A Memoir of Manhood.