AMY ENGELHARDT recently led a choir of silly, rock-belting nuns
across Hollywood, Austin, New York and London as the Mother Superior
of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl (promo campaign for Amazon Prime
Video’s GOOD OMENS). Their red carpet/screening/flashmob antics propelled
the immersive campaign to win seven Clio Awards. Amy also
produced the nuns’ EP Unholy Night for Amazon Music.
Amy spent a ton of time in rental cars from 1998-2012 as the female
voice/primary writer/arranger for Grammy®-nominated, genre-busting
vocal "band without instruments" The Bobs. She recorded 4 CDs and
toured extensively with the band, from Lincoln Center’s American
Songbook to Northwest Folklife to the Pori (Finland) Jazz Festival. Her
brainchild, Rhapsody in Bob - Gershwin's masterwork re-arranged for
vocal orchestra (The Bobs) and blues-infused piano premiered at Wolf Trap.
As composer/lyricist, Amy made her Off-Broadway debut with BASTARD JONES at the cell theatre,
nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Musical Award (and a Richard Rodgers Award
Finalist). Other theatrical work includes TRIPTYCH (book/music/lyrics) for the NY Transit
Museum’s PLATFORM series, lyrics/vocal arrangements for TESLA, commissioned adaptations of
Carl Sagan's CONTACT with Hungarian rocker Peter Sipos (Puget Sound Theater Award), NICHOLAS
NICKLEBY with violinist Eyvind Kang (Seattle’s CenterStage) music/lyrics for the Bobs/Flying
Karamazov Brothers’ A COMEDY OF ERAS at ACT Seattle and music/lyrics for A COLLECTIBLE
SENSATION, which recently workshopped in Minnesota, Custom material includes
multiple event commissions for The Cooper Union in New York City.
IMPACT, Amy’s solo one-act play with music about the personal and global legacy of the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103, focused on the kindness and compassion that can emerge from tragedy. The show has
been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Tank NYC and London's Voila Festival.
Amy also co-created TUNE IN TIME, New York City’s Musical Theater Game Show (York Theatre
Company - “…musical theater, cerebral fun and games pushed to 11… a joyous, hilarious romp.”).
She has received the Burman Award for Songwriting from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets
(MAC) and was a resident composer at the Nautilus Composer/Librettist Studio in Los
Angeles, the Creative Center of ICELAND and the National Winter Playwrights Retreat in Colorado.
As a session/concert singer, her credits include Jurassic World, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jim
Henson's Animal Jam (Discovery Kids/TLC), The Little Rascals Save the Day, Christmas Without Tears
(Harry Shearer - 2005-2019 tours/Disney Hall/BAM), Barbra Streisand's Timeless, and Neil Young's
Living With War. Her first solo CD, Not Gonna Be Pretty was called “the unlikely and intriguing
marriage of Nellie McKay and Meat Loaf." She still swears that her second album,
Finish What You, will be released in 2020.
A graduate of Syracuse University (Musical Theatre) and Berklee College of Music (Songwriting/
Arranging), Amy is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, Maestra NYC and
the “Great Army of Tuxedo Cats” Facebook group.. and the only honorary female member
of the Vienna Boys Choir. Amy splits her time between Los Angeles and New York City.
