Biography of Amy Hill

Born in Deadwood, S. Dakota, Amy's mother is a native of Japan and her father, a Finnish-American. As a child, isolated in the countryside, Amy began to explore her creativity by becoming all the characters she came in contact with on television or among her friends and family. Changing voices, speech patterns and mannerisms, she found herself to be her own best companion and playmate. Years later, after the family moved to Seattle, she discovered a rapt audience of Italian neighbors as she danced and performed on her family's front porch. She traveled to Japan at eighteen and stayed for six years, studying at Sophia International University in Tokyo and working part-time in radio and television. By the time she was twenty one she had traveled around the globe through Asia, the middle East and Europe, alone. Upon her return to the U.S., she studied theater at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater, became one of the top voice over talents and improvisors in the Bay Area and finally moved to the Los Angeles area where she has worked steadily and is very involved with the Asian Pacific American community as an artist and activist.