At five-foot-one, Amy DePaola is a director and writer with a tall personality. Her work is comedy that tugs at your heartstrings by tenderizing dark times and uncomfortable moments with humor and farce.  She is a  2023 Yes And Laughter Lab Finalist, a 2023 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, and a 2023 Screencraft and Shore Scripts Comedy TV Pilot Semifinalist. She has studied the craft of television writing with Derek Simmonds (creator, The Sinner), several classes with Writing Pad and more recently with The Groundlings. As a filmmaker, Amy’s produced writing and directing credits have garnered several awards and have screened at dozens of film festivals around the world. She is also a 2023 Blackmagic Collective Future Women of TV Fellow, a networking and career development  program where she spent a year meeting with some of the industry's top showrunners.   A producing member of the Television Academy, Amy has produced television, podcasts and films for outlets such as Participant Media, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and The CW, to name a few. Ask her about her integral role in Joe Jonas’ first-ever stand-up comedy show. Amy has an MFA in Film from Emerson College and has studied acting as far and wide as the Moscow Art Theater. However, it was the drama club within her New Jersey public school system where her career really took off with  roles like “Charlotte, the sluggish daughter,” in Oliver and Peggy Tempest in Gone With The Breeze. She now resides in Los Angeles with her husband, with whom she hosts the podcast, Save the Last Pod, a rewatch podcast that aims to explain a generation one teen movie at a time. She continues to make fun, bold comedy  films  that center on women’s coming of age, at any age.