Amelia was nominated for a Tony Award for her first Broadway play, Our Country’s Good in 1991. Additional select theater: Broadway: A Small Family Business; Translations; The Herbal Bed; Waiting in the Wings; A Streetcar Named Desire. Off B’way: Coal Country (The Public/Cherry Lane ): Middle of the Night (Keen Company); Taking Care of Baby(MTC); The Exonerated (Culture Project); The Fall to Earth (59E59); Philip Roth in Khartoum (LAByrinth); The Misanthrope (NYTW); Tryst (Promenade); Love, Janis (Village Theater). Regional: A Midsummer Nights Dream (La Jolla); The Night of the Iguana (B.T.F.); Desire Under the Elms (A.R.T), and most recently What Keeps Us Going (Schoolhouse Theater).
Film &T.V. includes: “Name”;“Sender”; “Things Like This” (upcoming); “I Am Michael”; “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors”; “Coming Up Roses”; “Leaves of Grass”; “The Paper”; “The Chair Company”; “Bull”; “Mindhunter”; “The O.A.”; “Alpha House”; “Third Watch”; “Law&Order”/“Law&Order Criminal Intent”; “A Dog Year”(HBO) “My Louisiana Sky”(Showtime).
Amelia has been an acting coach since 2005. She co-created the audition workshop “What’s Stopping You?” with Jack Doulin at HB Studios. She also co-created the groundbreaking on-set/on-camera workshop “Being On Camera” with Anthony Arkin, which they have been teaching together since 2012. They currently teach their workshops at Primary Stages school ESPA, and HB Studio.
Amelia has also taught at Pace University and Brooklyn College.