Amy Walker

Amy Walker (born September 1, 1982) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is also a teacher of her techniques. Amy currently resides in Seattle, Washington where she is working on her latest endeavor, the ConnectedFilm project.
Early life
Walker was born in Seattle, WA, and grew up on Whidbey Island, where she graduated from South Whidbey High School in 2001. Her mother, Claudia Walker, is a music therapist and musician, singer and composer. Her father, Tom Walker, is the head of Social Services for the NW division of the Salvation Army, and is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and spiritual speaker. Growing up, Walker performed in many plays and musicals, including The Miracle Worker, as Helen Keller, and Much Ado About Nothing, as "Hero".
Education abroad
Walker studied Performance: Acting and Singing at the University of Wollongong in Australia in 2002-2003. From Australia, she flew to Wellington, New Zealand, where she lived and worked for a year and a half. She also played "Joan" in the short film Dead Letters, by Paolo Rotondo. . Amy honed her Australian and New Zealand accents, quickly absorbing and adopting the local sounds.
Connected
Inspired by the response to her videos, Walker wrote a screenplay for a film called Connected, with help from her script adviser, Marilee Jolin. The film follows the story of the Russell family in the midst of an 80th birthday celebration. Soon, the entire family is wrapped up in arguments about the
inadequacies of each other's personal lives. In the ensuing shouting and arguing, a mysterious stranger arrives who jars their focus off of themselves. The family then begins the process of reconnecting to their spouses, children and siblings. Each character is flawed but genuine in their mutual bonds of love. Connected shows the conflict and harmony that comes about when a diverse group of people express love in their own personal ways. Together with Sander Kallshian, the three co-founded the production company SoulFire Films in order to produce the film. To promote the theme of the film, they decided to fund Connected by dollar donations from 1 million people around the world, listing the names of every donor in the credits of the finished film "to show the importance of every gift, no matter how small".
One-woman shows
Walker performed her first original one-woman show, Amy Walker: Inside Out, in November 2007 at the age of 25. Her second show was produced in Seattle in July 2008. In the the late months of 2009, she performed her first live-streaming internet show, where people were able to tune in from living rooms across the globe. With the growing success of the show, Amy introduced her first Live Interactive Vlog Experience in March of 2010 entitled "Amy Walker: LIVE".

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