She worked at the National Theatre of England during its formative years alongside Laurence Olivier, as artistic director of Downstage Theatre in the 1970s and the director of New Zealand's national drama school Toi Whakaari in the late 1980s.
Her first trip in the early 1950s included her taking courses in London with Brian Way in children's theatre.
[1] On the second trip, which was funded on a New Zealand Internal Affairs bursary, she ended up working with Laurence Olivier as production assistant on his newly formed Chichester Festival Theatre.
[5][1] After Downstage, Amey took a position of Curriculum Officer for Drama at the Ministry of Education in New Zealand.
[8] In 1989 Amey became an interim director of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and was there until 1991.