Amanda Reyes is a second-generation Mexican American actor and director from Denton, Texas. Amanda has devoted her life to the visual arts from studying method acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood, California and working as a professional actor in L.A., Austin, Dallas, and N.Y. areas, to currently working on her M.F.A in Directing Narrative Cinema at the Brooklyn College Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.
Amanda’s artistic focus centers around social realism as she uses the medium of film as a catharsis for the hardships she’s experienced. Amanda continues to create work that comments on the rights of prison inmates and inmate loved ones, women’s rights issues, immigration and many other social issues within the United States. Amanda was cast as the title role of the feature length independent film called 'Marisol' about an undocumented U.S. student which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Her latest directing endeavor was directing the pilot for a new comedy series called “Half-Life” that follows Patty, a working mom trying to balance her home life with working in the movie industry. Amanda’s next short film is her thesis project called "Rosa’s Esperanza”; the story about a mother who tries to reconnect with her daughter one night after bringing her home from serving ten years in prison. Production is scheduled to shoot in October 2017.
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