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

Trained at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts with William Esper and Maggie Flanigan, Amy brings a rigorous actor’s foundation to every part of her work. 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.

As an educator and creative leader, Amy spent eight years as Creative Director of the Acting for Film Department within a college-level BFA program. In that role, she shaped curriculum, mentored faculty and students, guided on-camera actor training, and produced more than 15 short films and dozens of stage productions.

Amy’s work is rooted in behavior. Whether she is coaching an audition, teaching a scene, developing a script, or working on set, she approaches story through action, rhythm, subtext, and the specific choices that make a performance feel alive on screen. Her teaching and writing share the same belief: truth is not an idea. It is something an actor can play.