Amanda Jane Stern is an actress, writer and director from New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University in 2015 with a BA in Film, Television & Interactive Media and Theater Arts. Her senior thesis "Coerced: A Documentary Play" which detailed the true story of a teenage girl who was illegally interrogated by police and coerced into confessing to murder received press attention from WBUR: Boston's NPR News Station.