Amanda Goodyear

by Amanda Goodyear
(Bloomington, IL)

Amanda Goodyear

Hello, thanks for having a look-see! I am graduating with a BS in Acting in May (moving from rural farmland back to Chicago) so here's the resume!

Amanda Goodyear
Height: 5'7" Phone: 708.724.7289
Weight: 125 Email: Staged1216( at )comcast.net
Hair/Eyes: Red/Brown
Vocal Range: Mezzo Soprano

THEATER
Catholic School Girls/ Elizabeth/ Illinois State Theater
4.48 Psychosis/ Pedestrian/ Illinois State Theater
Lost and Delirious/ Paulie/ Columbia College
Bloody Poetry/ Harriet/ Illinois State Theater
The Vagina Monologues/ "I was 12" &"Moan"/ Moraine Valley Theater
You Can't Take it With You/ Penny/ Moraine Valley Theater
Laugh, Clown, Laugh/ Mother/ KCACTF Playwrights' Fest
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/ Martha/ Moraine Valley Theater
The Adding Machine/ Daisy/ Moraine Valley Theater
Sleeping Beauty and the Seven Z's/ Xenia/ Lincoln Way Theater
Anything Goes/ Mrs. Harcourt/ Lincoln Way Theater
The King & I/ Topsy/ Curtain Call Theater

FILM/TV
Return to Me/ Mary/ Columbia College Chicago
MVCC Summer 2006/ Student/Self/ Moraine Valley Television
Timeserver/ Kala/ Sole Productions
LWTV/ Anchor/ Lincoln Way Television
Get Over You/ Girl/ Chicago Student Film Fest

TRAINING
The Second City-Acting: Michael Pieper
All About Music-Voice: Joy Richards
Illinois State University-Dialect: Marian Hampton
Illinois State University-Movement: Paul Denhardt
Illinois State University-Voice and Shakespeare: Chris Marino

AWARDS
- 2009 Illinois State School of Theatre scholarship recipient
- Forensics: 2007 National Gold medalist in Prose Interpretation, Silver medalist in Duo Interpretation, 2006 Silver in Speech to Entertain, Bronze in Dramatic Interpretation and Prose Interpretation
- 2007 Irene Ryan Nominee and participant

SPECIAL SKILLS
Some dance, childcare experience, bartending, petsitting, stand-up comedy, improvisation
Dialects: British, Irish, Cockney, Spanish