About

TAMELA D’AMICO is an award-winning American recording artist, actress and filmmaker (writer, producer and director), as well as a Telly Award-winning social influencer. A true multi-hyphenate whose career spans film, television, music and original content, D’Amico founded her production company, Bellona Entertainment, to create vehicles for the many facets of her own career while helping bring the work of other artists and filmmakers to life. Audiences have come to know D’Amico in different ways, but whether she is in front of the camera, behind it, or behind a microphone, storytelling has always been at the center of her work.

Most recently, D’Amico produced and directed Bed/Time, a domestic dramedy written by and starring Cooper Barnes, alongside Liz Stewart Barnes and their daughter Ripley Barnes. What begins as a nightly father-daughter bedtime negotiation evolves into a tender portrait of time, presence and the fleeting nature of childhood. The film premiered at The Long Island International Film Expo where it took home the JURY AWARD. It has continued its festival run, earning awards and recognition along the way, with an upcoming screening at the Catalina Film Festival.

She recently completed production on LIGHT AS A FEATHER, a supernatural psychological thriller that she wrote, produced and directed. Centered on three young girls whose seemingly innocent sleepover game takes an increasingly unsettling turn, the film is currently in post-production.

D’Amico has also returned to the electro swing world with her new single, “Here Come The Robots,” her latest collaboration with Berlin-based producer Wolfgang Lohr and Electro Swing Thing. The follow-up to their streaming success “Boring 20s,” the new record playfully explores our increasingly complicated relationship with artificial intelligence through a retro-futuristic electro swing lens. D’Amico is currently supporting the release with press and appearances in Los Angeles and New York.

D’Amico honed her storytelling instincts as an actress across television, film and theater. She starred in the Indian-American drama ONE LITTLE FINGER, directed by Rupam Sarmah, a film centered on the theme “Ability in Disability” that employed more than 80 performers with disabilities and premiered during the Cannes Film Festival. Her television work includes a recurring role on CBS’s BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Disney’s BEST FRIENDS WHENEVER as Janet Smythe, the younger counterpart to Nora Dunn’s character. Some feature credits include WALT BEFORE MICKEY, opposite Thomas Ian Nicholas and Jon Heder, and Raymond De Felitta’s ROB THE MOB, for which D’Amico also recorded the Bond-inspired theme song “Love and the Gun” in both English and Italian. 

She starred in the award-winning series ENGLISHMAN IN L.A. alongside Cameron Moir and Eddie Jemison, earning the LA WEB FEST award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Web Series.

Behind the camera, D’Amico gained national recognition as one of the top 24 filmmakers selected for the FOX filmmaking competition ON THE LOT, produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. Her entry film, VOLARE, starring Federico Castelluccio and inspired by her father’s life, caught the attention of the show’s producers and led to a first-look opportunity with DreamWorks.

D’Amico studied film at Florida State University’s highly selective College of Motion Picture Arts, while also studying theater and psychology. She continued her acting training in Los Angeles at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute while working for prominent producers, including Charles Roven and Atlas Entertainment, and simultaneously creating her own films and series.

She went on to produce and direct the groundbreaking digital comedy SEX ED: THE SERIES, starring Joanna Cassidy, Matt Barr and Angela Sarafyan. The project earned D’Amico the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant and became a major digital success, generating more than 180 million views during its original YouTube run. The series received both Streamy and Webby Award nominations and was recognized by TV Guide among its notable shows worth watching.

Her additional directing and producing work includes the music video “How Does a Moment Last Forever,” inspired by Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, in which Joanna Cassidy resurrected her iconic BLADE RUNNER character Zhora decades after the original film; THE MODERN FUNDAMENTALIST; and FEVER, a Twilight Zone-inspired short conceived and filmed during the pandemic.

As a recording artist, D’Amico made her jazz debut with GOT A LITTLE STORY, recorded at the legendary Capitol Records studios and executive produced by Peter Krause, with production by six-time Grammy Award winner Jimmy Hoyson and arrangements by Grammy-nominated arranger Chris Walden. Released through LML Records/The Orchard, the album introduced D’Amico to jazz and adult-standard audiences internationally.

She was named Clear Channel’s Best New Jazz Vocalist and has been heard across more than 140 radio, cable and streaming outlets. D’Amico also executive produced Grammy winner Billy Vera’s BILLY VERA: BIG BAND JAZZ, released through Varèse Sarabande/Universal, and duets with Vera on “I’ll Never Be Free.” She continues to perform with Vera and his big band as well as with her own ensemble.

Her collaboration with Wolfgang Lohr expanded her musical world into electro swing. Their single “Boring 20s,” released through Electro Swing Thing, became a streaming success with millions of plays and established a creative partnership that now continues with “Here Come The Robots.”

Through BELLONA ENTERTAINMENT, D’Amico develops and produces film, television, music and original content, with a growing slate of feature films and series in development. She was also selected for a first-look relationship with Stars Collective/Starlight Entertainment.

Across each facet of her career, D’Amico remains driven by the same impulse that first brought her to filmmaking and performance: finding entertaining, unexpected and deeply human ways to tell stories.