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12/17/08
Recorded a radio spot for Geico today! No, I didn't get to mee the Geico
Gecko- maybe one day.
11/21/08
Booked and shot a Super Bowl commercial for Cars.com! We filmed for
three days and it was so much fun. Look for me on Super Bowl Sunday!
11/05/08
Booked and recorded a radio spot for Smyth Jewlers. Click
here to listen.
10/18/08
Desperate Writers opens at the Edgemar Center in Santa Monica.
09/23/08
My State Farm commercial is running! I'm the voice for the spot with
the woman in the airport waiting for her business flight. It's part
of the red dot "I'm there" campaign. You can click here to
listen.
09/22/08
Tickets are now on sale for my play, Desperate Writers, at
www.desperatewriters.com.
Hope to see you at the theater. The show opens October 18th!
09/12/08
Good day today! I booked a Cox Communications commercial (on-camera),
and booked and recorded a voice match for AnnaSophia Robb in the trailer
for Race
to W itch Mountian.
09/02/08
The voting period has ended for the Mad Men competition. Thank
you to everyone who voted for me! You can still watch the scene on my
video
page.
08/26/08
I could be on Mad Men! If you vote for me that is: click
here!
08/16/08
What a great week! I booked and recorded two voice over jobs. The first
was for a national TV commercial for State Farm. The second, voice matching
Terri Hatcher to play the role of the "Mother/Other Mother"
in the upcoming video game based on the movie Coraline.
Written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Henry Selick (he also directed
Nightmare
Before Christmas), Coraline
will be in theaters in Feb '09.
07/28/08
Booked the play Desperate Writers, to be performed at
the Edgemar
Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, and directed by Kay Cole! It
opens mid-October.
07/09/08
Recorded a radio spot for Clearwire Media. Listen for the commercial
where a teenage girl (me) rants about her brother's annoying band practice
and how she needs a mobile high speed internet connection for laptop.
06/30/08
I'm so proud of our theater company's benefit, Murder, Mayhem
and Music: Showstoppers from the Dark Side of Broadway.The whole
evening was wonderful, and the guests loved the show, the dinner, silent
auction, and we got the word out about how fantastic Interact
Theatre Company is!
06/02/08
Act
Your Age will be screening at the Breckenridge
Festival of Film this Friday the 6th. If you happen to be in Colorado,
why not check it out!
05/14/08
When Boogeyman
2 comes to cable, you can hear me voice matching character
"Alison's" swear words away. Recorded that job last week.
Also the Amy
Arbus portrait of me is featured in The
New Yorker's review of The
Fourth Wall.
04/13/08
Photographer Amy
Arbus currently has her work on display at the Lincoln
Center, including the picture she took of me during Interact's
production of Guys and Dolls. It will be on display through
April 30th, so if you're in New York, check it out! The same picture
is also in her new book, The
Fourth Wall; a portion of the book sales supports Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
03/19/08
The
Spiderwick Chronicles is still in the top 10 at the box office!
I also just wrapped up performances of Lettice and Lovage and
The Clearing (got to play with an Irish accent!) through InterACTivity
'08.
03/02/08
InterACTivity
'08 is going really well. The first two peformances of my show,
Mr. Marmalade, were awesome- the audiences love it! Only one
more show, tonight at 7 PM, but I hope to mount a full stage production
in the near future.
02/22/08
My new demo reel is online. Check it out on the video page.
02/14/08
The
Spiderwick Chronicles opens today!
02/01/08
I just booked a national Huggies commercial! We shoot next week.
01/15/08
My Applebee's commercial is playing. Look for a commercial that begins
with the Applebee's Apple (voiced by Wanda Sykes) giving a house tour.
I'm in the Applebee's restaurant at the end of that spot.
11/28/07
I just booked a national Applebee's commercial! We shoot this weekend.
11/25/07
The
Spiderwick Chronicles comes out in February '08. If I did my
job well, you shouldn't be able to tell I'm in the film at all, even
though my voice is in almost every scene.
10/11/07
Booked a day doing voice matching for The
Spiderwick Chronicles. Fun!
10/02/07
Resilience
is getting a one week run at the Laemmle Grande, 345 S. Figueroa
in Downtown Los Angeles, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11. The film also got a great
write up in Variety!
09/16/07
Bury
My Heart at Wounded Knee won an Emmy! So my ADR was a minor
part of the film... I still get bragging rights!
09/12/07
September is a month for readings: On Monday the 24th I'll be playing
a 12-year-old boy in Touch as part of The Blank Theatre Company's
Living
Room Series. Then on Wednesday the 26th I'm in Theopolis North
as part of Interact
Theatre Company's regular readings.
09/05/07
Voice over mania! People say this town slows down over the summertime,
but I've been auditioning like crazy for voice over, and I've started
back doing walla for The Simpsons.
08/25/07
My wonderful friend Jenny
Martin made short film, Wedding For One, and I got to be
in it! I played a trash-talking bridesmaid and had a great time.
06/20/07
I am now a proud member of Actor's Equity!
06/19/07
I am back from Canada's
National Voice Intensive. WOW, what an amazing program. I cannot
recommend it highly enough, and I can't wait to try out what I've learned!
04/10/07
The Boarding House opens this Friday at the WriteAct Theater
in Hollywood. Previews begin Wednesday night. Please come out and see
the show! It's a really beautiful production, with excellent direction,
writing and acting (if I do say so myself). For more info or to buy
tickets, click here.
P.S. Don't wait to see the play! I am only performing
until May 11th when I leave to participate in Canada's National Voice
Intensive.
04/09/07
My theater company, Interact,
won two LA Weekly awards tonight for our production of Urinetown!
04/05/07
I've been working on The Simpsons! On a regular basis I get
to head over to Fox for a "sneak peek" at upcoming episodes
while doing Walla-Walla. If you see a crowd scene and think you hear
my voice... well, it's probably me!
03/06/07
Saving Sam will officially screen as part of the Newport
Beach Film Festival. I got to go to the NBFF last year with An
American Vampire and had such a great time. Saving Sam is
a short romanic comedy in which I play the title role! Hope you can
make it.
02/26/07
Just one day after we close A Splintered Soul, and I've been
cast in a lead role in another play! The Boarding House is
being mounted by my theater company, Interact,
at the Write
Act Theater. The Boarding House is a new work, and it
will be my second time working with director Darrin Anthony.
01/25/07
I get to voice match for Anna Paquin in the movie Bury My Heart
at Wounded Knee.
01/24/07
Look Ma! My picture is in Variety! A
Splintered Soul got a review in the trade magazine, and you
can read it by clicking here.
01/19/07
A
Splintered Soul opened at The Odyssey Theatre! The audience
response has been tremendous; don't miss your chance to see this important
work of theater.
01/15/07
Check out the feature trailer for The Strange Case
of Carl Weber (formally known as American Vampire in America)
on the movie's MySpace
Page!
01/10/07
Tickets are now on sale for A
Splintered Soul. Previews begin on January 12th, and we open
on January 19th. It's a truly powerful production, and I hope you'll
be able to make it.
01/09/07
Recorded the Shrek job; it was so much fun! On top of playing
Cinderella, I also got to be a Baby Ogre, and a "Dronkey..."
which is what happens when a Donkey and Dragon make a baby.
12/15/06
Booked Shrek the Third... the video game! I'll be voice
matching Amy Sedaris as Cinderella and I know it'll be a blast to record.
11/21/06
Just got cast in A Splintered Soul, a world premiere opening
at the Odyssey
Theater in late January '07. It's a darkly beautiful play about
concentration camp survivors trying to come to terms with what they
had to do to survive the Holocaust.
11/14/06
After I'm Gone, a short in which I play the ghost of a Shirley
Temple-type actress, is going to screen this Sunday the 19th at Cinespace.
The screening starts at 4:30. Cinespace is located at: 6356 Hollywood
Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Hollywood, CA. Click
here for the trailer. You can also see stills from the movie on
my images page.
10/02/06
American
Vampire in America screened twice this weekend as part of the
San
Diego Film Festival. I went to San Diego for the screenings and
had a great time. The audiences loved the film and I'm looking forward
to our next festival screening.
09/12/06
Signed with Synergy
Talent for new theatrical representation!
08/22/06
The Angst movie site is now live. Click
here to visit the site and watch the trailer.
08/15/06
It's a great month for movies! Film
Threat gave Resilience
a wonderful review, and An
American Vampire in America is going to screen at the San
Diego Film Festival. The showtimes for the fest aren't up yet, so
check back soon.
08/14/06
Dead
Ronnie will screen as part of the LA
Shorts Fest, at 7:30PM, Thursday September 7th at the ArcLight.
It's a dark comedy about a memorial service for someone that no one
liked and having to "say something nice." Tickets will go
on sale one week before the start of the festival and cost $10. Go to
the ArcLight
site to order, and enter program #27. Hope to see you there!
08/10/06
I just signed with CESD for animation and commercial voice over! I am
so excited to be represented by one of the top agencies in the VO field.
Check
out their site.
08/10/06
Hey all you MySpace groupies: An
American Vampire in America is a featured film on MySpace Film.
Check
it out.
07/27/06
An
American Vampire in America will be screening on Friday, August
4th at 7PM as part of the Sacramento
International Film and Music Festival. If you're in the area, try
and catch the film!
07/05/06
Booked a Boston Market industrial!!! We shoot this weekend. It's a hillarious
spot in the style of the TV show The Office.
07/03/06
Recorded VO for the trailer for Maestro, a new animated feature
by Fred Calvert. Even at this early stage, the animation looks beautiful
and I know it will be an incredible film.
07/01/06
New trailers for Resilience, Dead Ronnie and After I'm
Gone (formerly Hollywoodland) are up on the video page.
06/30/06
Signed with Visionary Artists for theatrical representation! Their
contact info is on the contact page.
06/18/06
Just flew in from Illinois where I attended the premiere of Disconnect!
The film looks great and I can't wait 'til it's out. Check back here
for showtimes!
06/14/06
You can now watch the trailer for Dead Ronnie, one of the shorts
I filmed this year. Check
out their site!
05/28/06
Wrapped Saving Sam! It was an amazing experience. Worked
with an awesome crew (many from the TV show Cold
Case), terrific director
Scott William Alvarez, and talented fellow actors Bethany
Pagliolo and Robert
Wu.
04/04/06
Tickets are now for sale for the
Newport Beach Film Festival's presentation of An
American Vampire in America. The film is screening on Thursday,
April 27th at 9PM at the Edwards Island theater. Click
here for more info and to buy tickets. *As a side note, I just
found out that our film was featured in an article about the Newport
FF in Fangoria!
Check it out.
03/30/06
An American Vampire in America had it's first screening last
night at Universal Studios, and it was a big success; we had a lot of
great audience feedback and I'm looking forward to when it screens at
Newport Beach FF. Mark your calendars for the evening of April 27th!
03/27/06
Just got cast in yet another short film, my fourth this year! This one
is called Saving Sam and I get to play Sam. We're filming at
the end of the month at LA Center Studios. The director, cast and crew
all sound wonderful and I'm thrilled to be a part of the project.
03/02/06
An American Vampire in America has been accepted into the Newport
Beach Film Festival! This is the same festival that premiered "Crash"
last year. For you LA folk, the fest is just in the OC, from April 20-30th.
I'll post the screening times/dates later and I hope you'll make the
drive.
02/28/06
The official An American Vampire in America
website has launched! Please visit the site and spread the word
and hopefully a Vampire will be moving into your local theater soon.
02/21/06
Just booked dark comedy short film Dead Ronnie. Will shoot
in March.
02/06/06
Bookends premiered in Florida today. I heard it went great.
01/14/06
I shot two shorts within a month! First Bookends which
filmed while I was home in Florida for the holidays, and also Dream
which I just wrapped back in LA.
11/23/05
The teaser for An American Vampire in America is up on the
film's website.
Please check it out, and check back for the trailer. I'm very proud
of the work we did in this film and will post new developments as they
arise.
11/15/05
This is the month for staged readings! I'll be performing in another
reading this coming Monday, the 21st, with Interact. The play is Vincent
in Brixton by Nicholas Wright and I'll be sharing the stage with
Dominic Bogart, John Hemphill, Sione Ballard, Robyn Cohen and Oscar
nominee Lindsay Crouse! Click here
for details.
11/03/05
I'll be presenting two staged readings with the Interact Theatre Company
this month. The first one is Two for the See-Saw, by William
Gibson on November 7th and the second is an original work by Stephanie
Satie, Leon's Dictionary, on November 28th. Info on
attending the readings can be found on Interact's website.
10/31/05
Amazing photographer and artist Amy Arbus (daughter of Diane Arbus)
has posted a picture she took of me on her website! Amy visited us backstage
during Interact's run of Guys and Dolls; click here
to view, and check out the other portraits.
08/26/05
I signed with Michelle Leeds of Analogy Entertainment! She is an awesome
manager and I'm very excited to be working with her. Check out her contact
info on the contact page.
07/21/05
I booked and recorded a voice over job for The
Jensen Living Historical Farm, an educational program for school
children when they go on field trips to see a real working farm from
1917. As Elizabeth Wyatt I help guide their experience from the perspective
of a young woman who lived and worked during that time period.
06/19/05
New cast members joining Angst include daytime Emmy winner
Adrienne
Frantz and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber
Benson.
06/09/05
In a few weeks I'll be starting work on location in Illinois on a new
film from Dreamscape
Cinema, Angst, with Eddie
Jones, Michael
Muhney, Max
Gail and Pat
Morita!
05/04/05
Check out the clips from An American Vampire in America
now up on the video page!
04/22/05
Project
601 is an amazing new group of actors and directors working to advance
"modern voices in contemporary American theater," and I'm
proud to be one of their new members. We will soon be doing play readings
at the Mark Taper Annex. Check back for dates.
04/21/05
I will be doing voice over for several characters in a recorded
reading of a feature length animated film in development, Pillow
Maker. For the production company site, synopsis of the film and
storyboards, click here.
03/15/05
I finish filming American Vampire and return to Los Angeles.
Check back here for news on this exciting project.
02/28/05
Principle photography begins in Greenville, CA on An American Vampire
in America.
02/16/05
Cold/Tender, a play I was in last year at The
Theater @ Boston Court, has just been nominated for quite a few
LA
Weekly Awards: Production of the Year, Best Direction, Best Ensemble,
Best Playwrighting, and Best Production design!
02/13/05
The Interact
Theatre Company is back on stage after losing our theater last year.
Please support us at the NoHo Arts Center (formerly Renegade) as we
launch into our new season. We've named it 2x4
because we'll be doing four plays, running two nights a week, for four
weeks each. First up, The
Dastardly Ficus and Other Comedic Tales of Woe and Misery.
02/03/05
Booked lead in feature An American Vampire in America!
Will start shooting on location in Northern California at the end of
February. Check out their last film, Fandom.
01/17/05
Feature Resilience is now filming, and I will begin work as
"Mayra" this week.
01/04/05
I've been invited into the Groundlings Writing Lab! It's a six
week course that culminates in a performance of our work at the Groundlings
Theater. For more information on the Groundlings, click
here.
01/03/05
Come see me in a staged reading of Return to Morality
by Jamie Pachino, with the Interact Theatre Company. The reading will
be at Hallenbeck's General Store, 01/10/05. Doors open at 7 and the
reading starts at 8. This is our 14th season of readings, and a rare
opportunity to see great theater in an intimate setting. For more information,
click
here.
12/10/04
My animation demo is now up on the voice
over portion of this website. Check it out!
12/07/04
Booked feature film Resilience, to start shooting in January
2005. Directed by Paul Bojack, with Lost
Battalion Films.
12/06/04
Will be performing in two play readings. First in Leon's Dictionary
by Stephanie Satie at the Lex Theatre on 12/10, 7PM, then in Dualities
by Sara Cody as part of a one-act play competition at First Stage on
12/11, 8PM.
11/15/04
Finished filming Hollywoodland. Pictures from set now
up on the images page.
11/08/04
The trailer for Disconnect
is now up! To download click here.
10/29/04
Amanda books lead in Medical Mathmatics, a film in the same
vein as A Mighty Wind or Waiting for Guffman but
revolving around the medical industry. Will film on location in Naples,
FL in December.
10/26/04
The official launch of AmandaTroop.com! Get the latest news, sign up
for my mailing list, view pictures and film clips and enjoy my brand-new
website.
10/24/04
Amanda books the role of a Lolita/Shirley Temple-type ghost, "Anne,"
from the 1930s in short film Hollywoodland. Filming starts in
November.
10/01/04
Score! screens as part of the LA Korean International Film Festival.
09/15/04
Amanda begins recording her new voice over demo.
08/10/04
Principle photography for feature Disconnect
finishes and Amanda returns to Los Angeles.
07/04/04
Amanda begins shooting lead role "Cathy" in feature Disconnect
with Eddie Jones and Holmes Osborne in Champaign, Illinois.