Amy French works as a director, writer, and actress in the city of Los Angeles. She also works as a chef, EMT, and comfort object for her family inside her own house.
Amy directed and co-wrote the improvised musical feature EL SÚPERSTAR, executive produced by Norman Lear and George Lopez. As an AFI Directing Workshop for Women fellow, Amy’s short film HOLD FOR LAUGHS won the Jean Picker Firstenberg Award, and subsequent shorts have played at top festivals nationwide. In TV, she directed HYPERLINKED, a single camera sitcom for YouTube Originals and Disney Digital, and the dramedy pilot THE HIGH LIFE, which premiered in competition at Bentonville. Amy has written and directed branded and web content for The Skimm, Umami Burger, Aetna Insurance, NickMom and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Amy and comedy writing partner Kerry Carney have amassed a ton of television development experience together, including deals at Sony, Lionsgate, and Warner Brothers. They’ve had both single and multicam projects, working with Mandeville, Discount Sushi, Stoopid Buddy, and Counterbalance, as well as television legend Norman Lear, with whom they got to take out a multicam. In film, they did punch up on the Hulu feature PLAN B, and wrote the live action feature script POPPY HOPKINS for Nickelodeon. Kerry and Amy currently have two original feature length comedy scripts available, and a third with Gulfstream Pictures.
Amy was a founding member of the Elephant Theater company, performing on stage in many celebrated productions, and winning an LA Weekly Award as a member of the ensemble cast of the play BLOCK NINE. Over the years she occasionally popped up in films like Miranda July’s ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW and Ari Aster’s TURTLE’S HEAD, and tv shows like ABCs COMMANDER IN CHIEF and HBO’s THE NEWSROOM. To date Amy has appeared in over 100 network and streaming commercials.