Biography

Amy Teitter was born in Albany, NY, the oldest of 6 siblings. She graduated from Saugerties High School and worked as a psychiatrist assistant while earning a BFA in film directing from School of Visual Arts. Inspired by Christopher Guest films and Milos Foreman's "Man on The Moon", she directed and edited a mockumentary, Circle of Death, with Dechen Thurman, Alison Ball and Aria Pullman, followed by a documentary, "Gone in 30 Seconds: The Lee White story" about an aspiring comedian and Tony Clifton impersonator who gets kicked out of every bar he ever enters and has been to prison more times than he can count. His story provides a look into how trauma results in chronic self-sabotage by an otherwise, highly talented and skilled person with the best intentions. Amy has also worked in several departments, from editing to props and continues to develop her own projects.
- IMDb mini biography by: Amy Teitter

In the 90s, Amy was known to steal her father's video camera to film situations, in which she would terrorize friends using an 'evil clown mask'; a bald version of Stephen King's IT. Her friends later referred to these as the "Clown Chronicles". Her obsession with capturing people's genuine reactions to threat and discomfort on camera phased into an obsession with Andy Kaufmann's alter-ego character, Tony Clifton. Amy connected with Bob Zmuda over this while in preproduction for her thesis film "Gone in 30 Seconds". 16 years later, Amy achieved her goal of being screamed at by Tony Clifton when she did props for his live performances at the Iridium Theater on Broadway in Manhattan.