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Amy Kersten

Screenwriter | Actor

Biography

Amy spent the last decade developing multiple digital series including Lady Parts Justice, run by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, and three seasons of the award-winning digital series HOT MESS.  Her pilot In Case of Emergency was a top-rated short in the Amazon All Voices Film Festival. Other short film credits include After The March, honored during the centennial, and HOYT. Amy has associate produced and edited dozens of web series and pilots including Cntrl Alt Delete starring Ed Begley Jr., streaming on WhoHaHA and BUDS, a Sundance pilot finalist. She is also the in-house producer for the Geena Davis Institute and has worked on various feature films including Sandy Wexler starring Adam Sandler, The Spy Who Dumped Me starring Kate McKinnon, and The Week Of directed by Robert Smigel. She was selected to join the Entertainment/Media #50WomenCan Cohort, with women across the industry working together towards parity in Hollywood by 2025. She is a founding member of Clutch Productions a non-profit devoted to producing new female voices with gender-balanced casts. In 2015 and 2016, She worked as an actor in Shanghai and discovered the work of Emily Hahn while there, which resulted in her first feature-length screenplay A Woman Abroad. In 2018, Amy joined Exec. Producer Margaret Bramwell Doyle to form MUCH ADO, an entertainment development company, and partnered with Kampfire films to produce A Woman Abroad. Other projects in production and development are the Sci-Fi podcast SOUTHBRIDGE, the rom-com podcast Pink Slipped, a mockumentary web series set on a military unit in Afghanistan, and Knockoffs: a single-cam comedy pilot with Auju Entertainment.

Amy spent the last decade developing multiple digital series including Lady Parts Justice, run by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, and three seasons of the award-winning digital series HOT MESS.  Her pilot In Case of Emergency was a top-rated short in the Amazon All Voices Film Festival. Other short film credits include After The March, honored during the centennial, and HOYT. Amy has associate produced and edited dozens of web series and pilots including Cntrl Alt Delete starring Ed Begley Jr., streaming on WhoHaHA and BUDS, a Sundance pilot finalist. She is also the in-house producer for the Geena Davis Institute and has worked on various feature films including Sandy Wexler starring Adam Sandler, The Spy Who Dumped Me starring Kate McKinnon, and The Week Of directed by Robert Smigel. She was selected to join the Entertainment/Media #50WomenCan Cohort, with women across the industry working together towards parity in Hollywood by 2025. She is a founding member of Clutch Productions a non-profit devoted to producing new female voices with gender-balanced casts. In 2015 and 2016, She worked as an actor in Shanghai and discovered the work of Emily Hahn while there, which resulted in her first feature-length screenplay A Woman Abroad. In 2018, Amy joined Exec. Producer Margaret Bramwell Doyle to form MUCH ADO, an entertainment development company, and partnered with Kampfire films to produce A Woman Abroad. Other projects in production and development are the Sci-Fi podcast SOUTHBRIDGE, the rom-com podcast Pink Slipped, a mockumentary web series set on a military unit in Afghanistan, and Knockoffs: a single-cam comedy pilot with Auju Entertainment.

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A Woman Abroad
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  • Biography .
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IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
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  • Comedy
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After the March
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  • Historical
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Amy Kersten

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