Amy Tofte won the 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her play Righteous Among Us won the 2020 Todd McNerney Playwriting Award. Recent productions include the short opera The Course We Set (Boston Opera Collaborative) and her plays Cardboard Castles Hung on Walls (Wild Imaginings in Waco, TX) and Parts & Pieces (Larking House in Santa Ana, CA). Her short The Vagina Read was at the 2022 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Play Festival at Playwrights Horizons in NYC. She has been in residence at the Autry Museum of the American West, Brush Creek, Monson Arts, The Kennedy Center and Yaddo with work produced and developed throughout the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild. MFA, CalArts. She was raised on a farm and lived her best summers on a tractor or selling sweet corn from the back of a pick-up.