Amy Earhart, a native Texan and classically trained pianist from an early age, first stumbled onto the stage in 1997 at the urging and direction of fellow GRT member Brent Beerman, who was her favorite high school English teacher. What began as a simple invitation to take theater as an elective her senior year propelled Amy into a lifelong love of acting and the stage.

Amy attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts West and excelled in her studies of Shakespeare, period styles, and accents/dialect training. Upon graduation in 2000, she found herself working in the newly-minted digital playground of internet short films.

Most notably, Amy starred as the titular character in the Star Wars fan film trilogy “Pink Five.” The first film—a 4-minute, one-woman-show—was selected by George Lucas himself as the grand-prize winner of the Star Wars Fan Film Awards in 2003, calling Amy “quirky!” The second film in the trilogy, “Pink Five Strikes Back,” won the Audience Choice Award in 2004.

The next decade was a blur as Amy deviated from theatrical work and spent time becoming a mom and an overall more well-rounded and interesting person; she considers this a work in progress. After working for lawyers for 10 years, she felt ready for a career change. She missed having art in her life too much and found herself reaching out to her former mentor, Brent Beerman, who would once again offer her an avenue back to the stage.

Amy has spent the last nine years teaching theater at her alma mater, Crescenta Valley High School, alongside Beerman and his wife, fellow GRT member Kathi Chaplar, both of whom Amy now counts among her closest friends. In 2017, Amy first worked as a guest on the GRT main stage in the role of Julie in Beerman’s A Dull Pain Turned Sharp, directed by Kay Cole, and now in 2024, she is happy to make the world premiere of Beerman’s Mourning Song, directed by Mareli Mitchel-Shields, her first official role as a GRT company member.

Aside from her work in teaching and theater, Amy is a member of SAG-AFTRA and works as a television voice actor. She has worked with various loop groups on over 100 episodes of television and recently voiced the Starfleet computers in the critically acclaimed third season of “Star Trek: Picard.”

Amy has been married since 2006 to her husband Terry Matalas. Together they have one son, Sam, and three doodles.