Amy Poux (She/Her) Director, Playwright, Educator
Amy Poux is a theater and film director, and veteran arts educator based in the Hudson Valley. Throughout her career, Poux has focused on creating scripted and unscripted contemporary theater and film in traditional and non-traditional settings. As a theater director, Poux has worked Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway as well as nontraditional theater spaces including heatre for the New City, Angel Theatre, Primary Stages, WestBeth Theatre Center, The Greenwich Street Theatre in New York City and Old Stone House, Brooklyn and Teatro La Tea, NYC. Most notable NYC work includes The Black-Eyed Brothers by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, West Beth Theater Center, and Take To The Bed by Joan Rater, Theater For The New City.
In the Hudson Valley, Poux formed Intergeneration Ensemble (I.E.) and Youth Ensemble Theater (Y.E.T), directing 40+ productions at The Richard B. Fisher Performing Arts Center, NY State & Film/Powerhouse Theater Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Byrdcliffe Theater (Woodstock, NY), Denizen Theatre (New Paltz, NY) among others. YET has garnered awards from the American Academy for the Dramatic Arts (Featured performance/Youth Theatre Conference 2018), the NYC Thespian Society (Best Play), NYS Theatre Education Association (Award of Excellence 2019).
As a filmmaker, Poux’s recent work includes the pilot, Do Nothings (2024), [AWARDS: Best Composer – LA Independent Film Awards, Best Series -Chicago Indie Film Awards, Official Selection – Amsterdam Movie Fest, Official Selection – Denver Indie Film Fest, Official Selection – Big Apple Film Fest, Official Selection – San Diego Independent Cinema Awards, Official Selection – Miami Women Film Festival, Official Selection – Tokyo Independent Film Festival, Best TV Pilot -Toronto Indie Shorts Filmmaker Awards], Do Nothings (Proof of Concept) & its sequel, I’m Okay, (Northguild Productions/HUDSY-TV) (Awards – NewFilmmakers NY 2021, NYWIFT iWoman Fest, 2022). Poux has also directed Master class projects with Zone 2 Productions and produced the feature, Sunday at Il Posto Accanto, by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld.
As an educator, Poux has been recognized for her work as a pioneering arts educator, integrating multi arts into classroom studies to reach a broad range of learners. She is the recipient of the NYSCA Award of Merit and has been recognized by the NY Times’ Neediest Fund, The US Department of Education and the Consortium of International Arts Educators, and the NYC Department of Education for her work in disenfranchised school populations in New York City. Poux has served as a panelist for NYSCA, the US Department of Education, Open Society Institute, The Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, The Center for Arts Education, and the Juilliard School’s Theater Arts Symposium.
As Director of Education, Film at Lincoln Center, Poux designed the education division, benefiting more than 2000 students annually. She also founded the pioneering youth arts organizations, Urban Arts Partnership (NYC), and created the curriculum for Stockade Works’ Access Youth program, as well as co designing the curricular model for their adult workforce development trainings for under-employed Hudson Valley residents. Formerly as the Coordinator of Arts in Education at Ulster BOCES, Poux oversaw arts education activities and arts education professional development for participating districts across Ulster County.
Poux is thrilled to be working at Arts Society of Kingston!