AMie’s first mermaid tail

About Amie

They say I was brought home in a Christmas stocking.
I know the truth — it was my first mermaid tail.

I didn’t ask for baby dolls. I asked for mermaids. I grew up on animation — Sleeping Beauty on repeat — practicing Aurora’s forest song until I could almost feel the birds harmonizing. I was furious when I couldn’t sing it perfectly the first time. So I practiced. Relentlessly.

When I saw The Little Mermaid in 1989, it was over. I didn’t just want to be a mermaid — I wanted to voice and sing one. At eight years old, I wrote Disney a letter telling them to “watch out,” because I was coming.

I devoured animation history and “how-to-draw” books, studying how animators observed Mary Costa (Aurora’s voice) for movement reference. Ballet. Dance. Voice. I made them all part of my education. I wanted to be the first animator to voice and sing her own Disney character.

I grew up performing everywhere — orchestras, choirs, pageants (Miss Kane County), and every national anthem opportunity imaginable. I graduated valedictorian and attended Southern Utah University on scholarship studying art, music, and dance before transferring to UVU and later Brigham Young University, where I graduated with honors and a minor in Japanese.

A lifelong fascination with accents led me to serve in Japan, where immersion sharpened my ear to native-level pronunciation and honorific nuance. I later won a statewide collegiate Japanese speech competition with a comedy piece performed in advanced honorific form.

Throughout motherhood (four extraordinary humans), I continued performing — singing, dancing, directing choirs, playing violin and piano — and eventually bringing my mermaid persona to life professionally through immersive character and event performance.

Then came voiceover.

Through mentorship with industry leaders Jesse Carroll, Marc Graue, and J. Michael Collins, I refined my craft in animation, video games, and conversational commercial performance.

Today, I work across animation, video games, commercial, character, creature, and singing performance.

My mermaid life isn’t metaphorical. I perform in a 32-pound full silicone tail crafted by The Mertailor, along with two professional silicone monofins. In my personal art, I sculpt realistic flowers from seashells, using the language of flowers to create layered, meaning-driven arrangements — visual storytelling shaped by the sea.

I still dive into the deep end.
And yes — I still plan to voice and sing a Disney character someday.

Disciplined craft. Unrestrained imagination.