Amy Renée Garcia

Amy Renée Garcia is an actress, writer, educator, and NYWIFT member. She also works in public education. She wrote the screenplay If I Should Die (2017) based on her six years working in an underprivileged, urban high school. She served as a screenwriting consultant for the 2013 feature Natural Rejection, and serves as a screenwriting consultant for a feature going into production in the summer of 2018. In 2007, she wrote and directed the original full-length stage play Rats and Alleycats in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. As an actress, she played the principal character in an independent feature which filmed in the summer of 2018 and is in post-production. Her other acting credits include a role & voice-over for two characters in Cupid's Guillotine, which came out on Amazon Instant Video & Roku TV in February of 2017, and will soon come out on all BLU-RAY, DVD and VOD platforms; a role in Natural Rejection, which played in LA and NYC theaters in October of 2013; a role in The Ungodly, starring Wes Bentley, which was released in national theaters in 2007 and internationally in 2008; and she played the principal character in the feature Teen Idol Tom, which won a 2007 Aegis Award in Drama/Entertainment, received honorable mentions in the categories of Feature Films and Original Screenplay from the Accolade Competition, and was a finalist at the National Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle, Washington and the Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival in 2008. She has numerous collaborations with JEV Productions. Before working in education, she majored in acting for film & stage at Temple University, where she participated in a variety of independent projects.