HART PRODUCTIONS
Little Stories - Big Picture

HART PRODUCTIONS
She founded Hart Productions in the early '90s as a theater company and performed her original plays around the world including the UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the World Social Summit in Copenhagen. In 2002 ventured into film and television production after gaining experience in the industry while working in New York City. She held staff positions in PR and marketing at Miramax Films, New Line Cinema, Fine Line Features where she worked on the release of several Academy Award-winning films including The English Patient, Il Postino, Sling Blade and Good Will Hunting to name a few. She also spent 2 years working as a freelance writer/producer in broadcast news.

SUNY SPH
Previously, Hart was the producer/director of broadcast programs at the University at Albany School of Public Health (UA SPH) where she produced more than 120 educational programs on topics ranging from AIDS to Zoonoses, Minority Breastfeeding to Violence Prevention, Health Literacy to Emergency Preparedness. Her programs earned five national Telly Awards and a Gold Award from the USDLA. See www.t2b2.org for more information.

BACKSTAGE
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Amy's parents met in the theater and the ability to tell a story with enough flair to command an audience was required if you wanted a voice at the dinner table. At the age of seven her parents separated and her mother took the troupe back to her home in Hawaii. Growing up as a 'haole' (literally meaning 'stranger' but the common term for a white person), she had a crash course in the study of dialects, and quickly ditched her nasally mid-western accent for 'local' da-kine pigeon english. As the only haole girl in her class, she experienced first hand the painful reality of growing up as a minority - memories are especially vivid on 'Kill Haole Day."

Influenced by her actress mother, Sylvia Hormann-Alper, a regular on the stages of Honolulu, she made her stage debut at the age of seven at the University of Hawaii's Kennedy Theater. She returned to Wisconsin and finished high school at Walden III while living with her father and step-mother, John and Mary Hartl. At the age of 16 she toured professionally with the Friends Mime Theater in Milwaukee and earned her degree in theater and music at Bennington College in Vermont.

AT HOME AROUND THE GLOBE
Hart began creating original theatrical productions with the Enchanted Circle Theater and went on to write/direct and perform one-woman shows - both comedies and dramas - in the 90's. She was honored to perform Mother Maroon, her original one-woman drama about motherhood and reproductive issues, at several international conferences and theater festivals in the states and abroad. It was at these global forums, with thousands of people all passionately trying to make the world a better place, that Hart became certain that this was the audience she most interested in telling stories to -either through theater or film.

WATER WATER WATER
Hart was born on Valentine's Day in a city located on the shores of Lake Michigan and then moved to Hawaii where she became a competitive swimmer. As a fundraiser for her first trip to Africa she swam 3 miles across Saratoga Lake. She has done other open water swims in Hawaii and Massachusetts.

LIFE
Hart has a wonderful son named Jay who is a tremendous source of joy and inspiration every day. She also has two beautiful God-children in Malawi, Sarah Miriam and Prince Kamanga. She currently lives and works in New York City.