Amy Lockwood

Life and career

Lockwood (born Amanda Clare Lockwood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) attended Nepean High School in Ottawa. She was heavily involved in theatre and competed on their improv team at the Canadian Improv Games in 2004 and 2005. After high school, Lockwood studied musical theater at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, ME.

Lockwood moved to New York City in 2006.

Television

Lockwood began making short films with her family's video camera as a teen. In 2004, a junior in high school, she submitted a three-episode outline of a sketch-comedy series "made for youth, by youth" to Rogers Television, which became The Amy Lockwood Project. The show aired weekly on Rogers Television in the 2004–2005 season. Her work on the show earned her the Donna Murdie Award to recognize an "outstanding woman in the media" at the 2005 Spirit of the Capital Youth Awards.

Film

After graduating from Circle in the Square Theater School, Amy appeared in the film Listen To Your Heart as Nicole, who aids the lead character in a plot to outsmart her mother (Cybill Shepherd) and reunite the two lovers.

Amy also recently appeared in the film "I Hate Toronto: A Love Story", in which she plays the leading lady and love interest to a suicidal young man who she aids in finding a reason to live.

Comedy/Songwriting

Lockwood regularly performs at Broadway Comedy Club, Eastville Comedy Club, and New York Comedy Club. In July 2010, her songs were featured on CBS Radio's Rock Chicks Live! podcast.

In August 2010, Lockwood was hired to write a song for Discovery Hill Productions The Global Village Project, a documentary about The Global Village School for refugee women in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent a week at the school teaching the students her original piece Song For Another. The documentary was released on February 2011 and narrated by actor Matthew Lillard.