About
Amy Heidt is a Los Angeles based actor and writer. She is a recent transplant from New York, where she spent many years at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. While there, she performed with the house sketch team Dweeb and the two-person sketch show The Last Resort (co-written & performed with Jeff Hiller), as well as in various other sketch shows and one-acts. UCBT has also been home to her two solo shows, Booze Cruise and Dominate Yourself!, the latter of which was also featured in the New York International Fringe Festival.
Amy has appeared in “The Office“, AMC’s “Life Coach” starring Cheri Oteri, the feature film “Jim”, the HBO award-winning short film “Smell the Coffee”, numerous Comedy Central projects, and the upcoming short “Chin Up” from filmmaker Michelle Walson.
Amy grew up in Mount Airy, NC, the youngest and most obnoxious regular performer at the Andy Griffith Playhouse (that’s right). She studied Theater and Communication Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. While there, she directed an infamous production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, from which she cut the song “The Ladies Who Lunch”. Many in the local homosexual community expressed outrage, but she stands by her decision. She also spent a year in an a cappella group, but asks that you withhold judgment and chalk it up to the misguided exuberance of youth, and also to the powerful narcotic force of unaccompanied eight-part vocal harmony.
Upon arriving in New York City, Amy attended GATE, a one-year acting conservatory founded by former Stella Adler teacher Gregory Abels. She spent the year immersed in acting, breath work, Alexander technique, yoga, tai chi, and other actory things that are fun to do but not to talk about. It bears mentioning that GATE no longer exists and that Mr. Abels is now a Zen Sensei.
Amy spent several years performing in some of the best and worst Off-Off Broadway theaters in the city before finding a home at the UCB. As a writer, she has contributed pieces to The Soundtrack Series, Bailout Theater at Judson Memorial, and the sketch team Funny But Mean, and is currently working on several new projects, including the screenplay for a dark comedy set in a Southern Baptist church.
