Amanda Zarr

Amanda Zarr is a professional actor, director, and adjunct theatre professor. She earned her BFA from Chapman University and her MFA from the prestigious PATP program at the University of Washington. She currently directs and teaches at Chapman University, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and CSArts in Duarte, CA.

Notable directing work includes She Kills Monsters and Measure for Measure (Director, Chapman), Elephant’s Graveyard (CSARTS), Hamlet and Merchant of Venice (Associate, Chapman), and The Crucible (Long Beach City College), and collaborated and directed the new musical Undiscovered Country. She was proud to work with Santa Fe playwright Joanna Garner on her new work Gutting as a part of the OTR series with Chance Theater, where she is a resident artist. She is excited about the release of the upcoming online show Chance Encounters which she produced, directed and starred in for the theater. She was a member of Shakespeare Orange County for over 10 years and briefly served as associate artistic director. She has been a guest artist with Ophelia’s Jump, Pensacola Shakespeare Company, ACTC, Need Theater of Los Angeles and Santa Fe University of Art and Design, where she worked with Jon Jory and Robert Benedetti.