Amanda Lyn Cullen

Born Amanda Lyn Toan in Clearwater,FL. Amanda moved when she was 2 years old with her family to southern, Indiana where she lived for 19 years before moving back to Florida, this time to the Ocala region. This move however was short due to some unfortunate circumstances and she was forced to move back home to Evansville, Indiana. Amanda found her love for film and theatre at a young age and dreamed being on the stage or the big screen. She began her career when she was 14 years old where she auditioned for a high school musical called Bye Bye Birdie. A high school she would later attend and graduate at. Pursuing theatre throughout her high school career she also pursued her interest in music with the high school's marching and concert bands. After high school she attended Ivy Tech in Evansville, IN where she is currently pursuing online her Associate of Arts. She stopped her theatre career for the first couple years in college till an opportunity in a theatre class presented itself. Ivy Tech's association with the Evansville Civic Theatre brought her once again back to the stage with her first production of the old time Christmas classic, "It's A Wonderful Life". This was no ordinary version of the classic because it was actually the Radio Play version and Amanda was honored to play one of the stars of Radio Play's, the Foley Artist. Her career with Evansville Civic Theatre went on with the play "Noises Off" and most recently the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" where she graced the Lincoln Amphitheatre stage as Dan's Wife and an Egyptian Dancer. During that time she also started her film career! Taking on a project with Director Jakob Bilinski with Cinephreak Pictures in his feature film "Three Tears on Bloostained Flesh" (post-production) where she was an actor and Production Assistant. There she met fellow Director Lewis D. Chaney, co-founder of KeyChain Productions where he offered her the position of Properties Manager as well as Production Assistant on their music video "Nightwatch" by singer Mina Fedora. Amanda is currently residing in Evansville, Indiana (as of November,2012) and is once again active in the film and theatre world working on many projects and still attending Ivy Tech and later plans to transfer to the University of Southern Indiana to pursue her Bachelor's in Film and Theatre and also Minor in Journalism.