Amy Poux - Do Nothings Film

Filmmaker/Producer/Screenwriter
Summary: Amy Poux is a director, skilled at eliciting honest, riveting performances from actors. Extensive experience with youth actors and non-actors. 
Filmmaker/Producer
Do Nothings pilot, Director, Writer, Producer
Do Nothings is a coming-of-age musical comedy about "Tamarin", a non-binary teen singer-songwriter with crippling stage fright. Do Nothings is currently being submitted to the festival circuit.
Sunday at Il Posto Accanto, Producer 
Current: Post Production
Producer, Ultra Low Budget SAG feature. Filmmaker, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s (“The Get Down” Netflix, “THEM” HBO). 6-Day shoot in Lower East Side, Manhattan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Responsible for all aspects of producing, in particular AD, line producing/budgeting, SAG contracts/administration, locations, crew hiring, contracts. 
I’m Okay short, Writer & Director
August – December 2020 
Producer HUDSY-TV, NYWIFT iWoman Awardee 2022, NewFilmmakers NY Awardee 2021, Distribution: Echelon
WEiRD, Writer & Director
January - November 2020 
Zoom Teleplay, written and directed by Poux for the new theatrical normal of Covid19 pandemic.
Zoom School, Writer & Director
July 2020
Web series spoof on remote learning.
Do Nothings ultra-short, Writer & Director
April - December 2019
Producer: Northguild, NYWIFT iWoman Awardee 2022, NewFilmmakers NY Awardee 2021, Distribution: Echelon
Air bro n bro, 2018
Test pilot, reality TV show, Producer: Is or Isn’t Entertainment, Dan Bucatinsky.

STAGE DIRECTING - Off Broadway & Off-Off Broadway
THE RESTAURANT, Director, Site-specific unscripted play about the world of a restaurant. [currently in development for NYC off-bway production.)
DRIVE, Director, Improvised unscripted series of one act plays set within the boundaries of vehicles., Greenkill Space, Kingston, NY
TO:FROM, Director, Intergenerational Ensemble, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
TO:FROM, Director, Intergenerational Ensemble, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
AFTERLIFE, Director, Intergenerational Ensemble, Devised theater piece, High Meadow Performing Arts Center
BOUND, Director, Intergenerational Ensemble, Devised theater piece, High Meadow Performing Arts Center
THE BLACK-EYED BROTHERS, Director, by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, West Beth Theater Center, NYC 
TAKE TO THE BED, Director, Playright, Joan Rater, Theatre for The New City, NYC
MAKE THE BROTHERS STOP, Producer, Directed by Tony Phelan, Playright Joan Rater, The Greenwich Street Theatre, NYC
KING OF PLEASURE, Producer, Directed/Written by Abigael Sanders, Teatro La Tea, NYC
BABY LUV, Producer, Directed by Tony Phelan, Playright Joan Rater, Primary Stages, William Redfield Theater, NYC
MOTIVATION FOR THE MEAT OF LIFE, Producer, Written/Directed by Kaethe Fine, Primary Stages’ William Redfield Theater, NYC
SYLVIA PLATT, Producer, by Rebecca Cohen Alpert, West bank Café 
MOTIVATION FOR THE MEAT OF LIFE, Producer, written/directed by Kaethe Fine, Primary Stages’ William Redfield Theater.
Educational work
Art Society of Kingston
Managing Director October 2024 – Present
Responsible for the daily operations, development, and performing arts programming at the Art Society of Kingston's theater venue. 
Stockade Works 
Advisor for Educational Development & Youth Access, September 2022 – June 2024
Development, design and launch of the Stockade Works Career Awareness & Youth Access Initiative which is a new program created especially for high schools, junior colleges, and colleges, to teach youth and young adults entering the workforce about the film crew industry and the growing professional opportunities available in the Hudson Valley. 
Stockade Works 
Development & Educational Specialist, June 2017 – July 2019
Created curriculum for Stockade Works signature boot camps that provide film crew workforce opportunities for underserved populations and support the economies of the Hudson Valley. 
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, NYC
Director of Education, September 2014 – November 2017
Accomplishments: Design, launch and implementation of Educational Division of Film at Lincoln Center, providing more than 2000 young people and teachers citywide with filmmaking and visual literacy programs. Curriculum design, teacher trainings, infrastructure and funding to magnify the work of Film at Lincoln Center and inclusive approach to education.  
Youth Ensemble Theater, Ulster County, NY
Executive Director/Theater Director, September 2010 - Present
Director/teacher, providing youths and young adults with opportunities to play close the edge in their art form, and gain pre-professional acting/performance skills. Venues: Off-Broadway in NYC Labyrinth Theater Company, Hudson Valley: Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College, partnership with The Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., High Meadow Performing Arts Center, NY Stage & Film/Powerhouse Theater.
Working Playground, Inc. AKA: Urban Arts Partnership, NYC                                   Founder. Executive Director. Educator, September 1991 - May 2003
Founder of non-profit arts education company that provided intensive long-term and sustainable arts programs in New York City public schools. Responsibilities included teaching theater program which culminated in performances on NYC professional stages and in community venues, curriculum design, training of teaching artists, fundraising and development, building highly resourceful board of directors, event production and design.
AWARDS RECEIVED:
Theatrical: NYC Thespian Festival (2019) Best Play, NYSTEA (2019) Excellence in Theatre.
Arts Education: NYSCA Award of Merit and has also been recognized by the NY Times’ Neediest Fund, The US Department of Education and the Consortium of International Arts Educators, and the NYC Department of Education for her work in disenfranchised school populations in New York City. Poux has served as a panelist for NYSCA, the US Department of Education, Open Society Institute, The Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, The Center for Arts Education, and the Juilliard School’s Theater Arts Symposium.