Amber Edwards

Amber Edwards is the Producer and Director, with Co-Producer and Director of Photography Dave Davidson, of the PBS series Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, now in its second season. Season One of the three-episode series (national premiere, October 2010) received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Broadcast Award for Outstanding Musical Content and was nominated for two International Documentary Association Awards. The three new episodes of Season Two premiere on PBS in February, 2012

Other recent PBS documentaries include A Place Out of Time - The Bordentown School (Co-Producer/Writer, 2010) which told the story of the rise and fall of an exceptional African-American public boarding school; and she produced and directed Words and Music by Jerry Herman about the legendary Broadway composer/lyricist, which premiered on PBS on January 1, 2008. Amber has been a partner in Hudson West Productions since 1989, and for 21 years was also Senior Producer and Host of NJN Public Televisionʻs long running weekly series State of the Arts, where she earned 13 regional Emmy Awards as well as 8 CINE Golden Eagles and numerous other honors for her national PBS documentaries.

Earlier PBS documentaries include George Segal: American Still Life (Producer/Director, 2001,) a portrait of the pioneering Pop Art sculptor;  Quicksand and Banana Peels: A Year in the Life of Two Principals (Producer/Writer, 1998;) Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance which examined African-American visual art during the 1920s and ‘30s (Producer/Director/Writer, 1994;) Vladimir Feltsman: Journey From Home which followed the refusenik pianist on his first trip back to the Soviet Union after he had emigrated to the USA (Producer/Director/Writer, 1993;) and The Dancing Man - Peg Leg Bates (Co-Producer, 1992) about the one-legged black tap dancer and Catskills resort owner.

Amber is also a singer. She has performed in the long-running "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at the 92nd Street Y, and can be heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire." She is a graduate of Yale University where she serves as a Fellow at Branford College. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the novelist Justin Scott.