Amy Van Horne is a producer, screenwriter, actor, audition coach, and acting educator with more than 30 years of professional experience in film, television, commercials, and higher education.

Her work lives at the intersection of story, performance, and production. She has produced more than 20 short films and dozens of stage productions, guiding projects through development, casting, rehearsal and production.

Produced 20+ short films
Best Original Screenplay, East Village Film Festival
30+ years in film, television, and actor training
Former Creative Director, Acting for Film

Amy’s producing work grew out of years spent inside story, performance, and actor training. She brings a strong actor’s eye to production, along with a practical understanding of set dynamics and a clear sense of what makes a scene work on screen. One of the short films she co-wrote and produced won Best Original Screenplay at the East Village Film Festival.

A graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, Amy trained with William Esper and Maggie Flanigan. Her screen credits include The City, for which she received a Best Newcomer nomination, Two Guys and a Girl, Cold Case, Judging Amy, Veronica’s Closet, The Big Easy, and the Emmy-nominated miniseries The Beach Boys: An American Family.

Amy spent eight years as Creative Director of the Acting for Film Department within a college-level BFA program, where she shaped curriculum, mentored faculty and students, led on-camera actor training, and oversaw film and stage production.

Whether she is producing a film, developing a script, coaching an audition, or working with actors on set, Amy approaches the work through behavior, subtext, and playable action. Her focus is always on the specific choices that make a story feel alive on screen.