Amanda Dieli is an NYC based actor, comedian and writer. Most recently in 2020, she created, wrote and performed the storyline of wannabe fitness influencer Ashley Bancroft, part of the alternate reality game component of the film I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life (in other words: professional catfish). Amanda created, wrote, and produced her first short series, 18 Grand: A Personal Space Odyssey, which had its world premiere at NYC Web Fest in 2018 where it took the top prize of Best Web Series, later appearing in several other festivals in 2019. She performed in Under the Radar in 2015 in The Orpheus Variations, a piece she also co-wrote with The Deconstructive Theatre Project. Amanda is a veteran sketch and improv performer of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. She gave over 300 performances of a 75-minute comedy haunted history tour as Celine, the Ghost with the Most Dad Jokes for Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours in Brooklyn between 2018 and 2020. And, most notably, in 2012 Amanda had a scene with Sigourney Weaver in a pilot and they only cut one of her two lines. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
Amanda is currently a student at the University of California Los Angeles, studying television writing. She has also studied screenwriting at Columbia University. Amanda has a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California and has trained professionally with The School at Steppenwolf (Chicago, IL), Upright Citizens Brigade (NYC), LAByrinth (NYC), and NYU (Florence, Italy).
Amanda enjoys a lot of things, but she likes dancing in her kitchen while cooking, Halloween novelty music, and Chicago-style hot dogs the most.
Photos by Sandy Honig.
