About Amy
Amy Friedlander is a 24-year-old Atlanta native. She received her BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Dance from the University of Memphis. When Amy is not performing she working as a professional makeup artist. She is a certified makeup artist and has been with working with Sephora for almost four years and has worked as a makeup artist for the new NBC TV show Bluff City Law where she has done makeup and touch ups for Jayne Atkinson, Michael Luwoye, background artists and more. As well, you can find Amy listening to her favorite Kpop artists, in an art museum, reading a good book, indulging her love for cinema, or walking and enjoying nature. Amy also finds a love and passion in linguistics. She has learned Spanish in the past, and is attempting to teach herself American Sign Language and Korean, and was taught to read Hebrew as a child and hopes to further her studies. Three things Amy could never live without: music, she is ALWAYS listening to music and always has her headphones on her; her favorite book, there is absolutely nothing better than rereading your favorite book; and finally an oversized sweatshirt or an incredibly soft blanket. Amy is also a proud activist for Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQIA+ community, and gun control and gun reform after she lost her childhood friend she'd known since kindergarten, Maura Binkley, in a senseless shooting in a Florida yoga studio on November 2nd, 2018.
Amy with actress Jayne Atkinson at the People Magazine premiere party for NBC's Bluff City Law where Amy worked as a makeup artist for NBC and for Jayne (2019)
"Performing is a part of who I am, and has made me who I am today. I love to tell stories and inspire people in the audience that come to a theatre and suspend all disbelief and immerse themselves into a story." One thing that inspires Amy is being able to tell the stories of those who don't have a voice, placing people in a world they normally wouldn't. Possibly putting them into the shoes of another person and expand their views. "I believe that storytellers have the most significant jobs in the world. We get to become another person and share their feelings, experiences, their life for a brief moment and that is the most beautiful thing to me. We as human never stop learning and growing, and I feel so blessed to do what I love for a living."
Amy quickly knew from the time she was 2 or 3 years old that all she ever wanted to do was to perform for and entertain people. Her performances started as a child playing dress up in crazy costumes with sequins, wearing high heels that were much too big for her, and parading through her house singing and putting on shows for anyone willing to watch. Amy's family took her to her first musical, West Side Story, at the Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta and she was astonished by the story, the performers, the singing, and immediately knew that she wanted to be on the stage. She wanted to move audiences with a story the way she had been moved, to inspire that one person in an audience and touch them with a performance. Amy's first production she ever did was the Second Grade Circus at her elementary school where she proudly played a bear trainer.
Growing up, she began to sing in choirs at her temple and in school. Amy grew such a love for music and singing that she still carries with her today. She began to play piano during middle school and her passion for music grew even more. In her temple, she became a choir leader, singing at services and even sang with famous Jewish singers such as Rick Recht and Sheldon Lowe at Song Leader Boot Camp in Atlanta. She continued her choir training through middle and high school, and she even started an all female a cappella group in high school! Through college, she was in the University Singers with the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and in the Musical Theatre Vocal Ensemble Group under the direction of Tracy Thomas with the Department of Theatre & Dance.