Amos Kamil, LCSW is a therapist, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. As a writer his work deals with giving large, difficult subjects a human face.

In 2012, “Prep School Predators”, his cover story for The New York Times Magazine documented decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by the staff of the Horace Mann School against dozens of students. Kamil was awarded a MacDowell fellowship where he completed Great is the Truth, a book that provides an insider’s look at the HM survivors’ legal efforts to seek damages and get some kind of official apology out of their alma mater. 

His play, The Flame Keeper, ran off-Broadway for five months, and has been performed regionally and internationally. Kamil’s work has also appeared in numerous media outlets including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, Newsweek, The Jerusalem report, Good Morning America, ABC, NBC, TNT, and ESPN.  

He received his BA from the University of Vermont, an MFA from the American Film Institute, and an MSW from New York University. He lives, writes, and practices therapy in Montclair, New Jersey.