AMANDA LERNER
SAG Eligible
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 140
FILM (selected)
- Vamperifica / Supporting / Dir. Bruce Ornstein
- Murt Ramirez Wants To Kicks My Ass / Supporting / Dir. Dan Lee
- The Years of the Locusts / Lead / Dir. Carlo Mignano
- hItec! / Supporting / Dir. Donari Braxton
- I Got a Story to Tell / Lead / Dir. Akua Agyemang
- Re: Israel / Supporting / Dir. Akua Agyemang
- Mac n’ Cheese / Lead / Dir. Emre Lufte Cicek
- No-besity / Supporting / Dir. Emre Lufte Cicek
- Memoir / Supporting / Dir. Samuel Gonzalez, Jr.
- Letting Go / Lead / Dir. Joel Campbell
- Alex Madegar’s Tongue / Supporting / Dir. Moebius Simmons
- Meet the Makers / Lead / Dir. Derek Simon
- Herb’s Last Stand / Supporting / Dir. James Morse
TV (selected)
- Nintendo Wii (commercial) / Principle / National: Food Network/HGTV
- True Blood (promo) / Principle / HBO: Online Viral Campaign
- World’s Most Astonishing News (reenactment) / Lead / NTV: Nippon Television Network/Japan
- LiQuifix (infomercial) / Principle / Dir. Jeff Uncapher/Blue Chip Films
- Bloomingdales B-Flix (short film) / Featured / Dir. Emily Abt/ TBS, Web, In Stores
- Job Seekers (sizzle/teaser) / Principle / Dir. Louis Rebecchi/ UBA TV
- Doritos (spec) / Supporting / Dir. Demetry Fayzi/Transfat Productions
- Snuggle (spec) / Principle / Dir. Elena Shpak/Fedatova Productions
- Love Judge (pilot starring Judge Karen) / Principle / Dir. Rich Goldman/RGP Ltd.
NEW YORK THEATRE & TOURS
- Re: Last Night - Dir. Bruce Ornstein Carla Roy Arias/Wednesday Repertory Company
- Live Broadcast - Dir. Melissa Attebury Jane Forge NY International Fringe Festival
- No Reins - Dir. Tiffany Little-Canfield Margarette SRT at Blue Heron Arts Theatre
- Belle & Angel - Dir. Marc Castle Angela Tada!/Emerging Artists Theatre
- Take Me You Fool – Dir. Diana Amsterdam Lainie Rothstein The Players Theatre/TRU staged reading
- Your Money or Your Art - Dir. Robyne Parrish Hedda/Lula NY Artists Unlimited
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Titania / Shakespeare in the ParkING LOT
- The Great Plastic Surgeon of Oz Stupid Bitch of The West NY International CringeFest
- The Shoestring Players - Dir. Joseph Hart Multiple Roles/Improv European Tour
COMMERCIAL
List available upon request.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- B.F.A. ACTING, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - Under the Direction of William Esper
- CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE SUMMER THEATRE PROGRAM
- ACTING: BILL ESPER, MAGGIE FLANIGAN, SCOTT FREEMAN, BRUCE ORNSTEIN, VICTORIA PALEY HART, ALAN LANGDON
- VOICE/SPEECH: NANCY MAYANS, MAI LOUGHRAN
- MOVEMENT: LOYD WILLIAMSON
- COLD READING: DEB JACKEL, WILLIAM ESPER STUDIO
- AUDITION: DEB JACKEL, WILLIAM ESPER STUDIO
- IMPROVISATION: JOSEPH HART, LEONARD PETIT
- SHAKESPEARE: NANCY MAYANS, LOUISA PROSKE, HAL SCOTT
- ON CAMERA: ANTHONY GRASSO, BETH WICKE
- ACTING COACH: SCOTT HUDSON, DEB JACKEL, ANTHONY GRASSO
SPECIAL SKILLS
Improvisation, Dialects, Yoga, Softball, Basic Acoustic Guitar, Certified Holistic Health Counselor and
Healthy Chef, Singing: Alto, Founding Member of Wednesday Repertory Company.
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