Amanda is a performer of care whose storytelling work integrates expertise in interdisciplinary theatrical practises and abolitionist psychological theory, traipsing across worldwide fringes, Victorian operating theatres, pop-up prohibition bars, shipping containers, festival tents, arts collectives, and storied stages and screens.
Amanda specialises in the cultivation of mad empathy, creating worlds worth hoping in from one-on-one experiences like Love In (Best Site-Specific Show, Orlando Fringe; Show of the Week Nominee, VAULT Festival) to site-specific touring work, such as Trephination for the Twenty-First Century (Old Operating Theatre, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Thackray Museum of Medicine). Her work is informed by a neurodivergent, queer, migrant, trauma-experienced lens, and is woven with sustainability of people and planet in mind, partnering with and signposting to local organisations wherever possible.
Offstage, Amanda works to ensure the long-term wellness of all care performers. She facilitates with Wellbeing in the Arts, oversees Access, Care & Inclusion for Equity London South, and Represents the Disability Network at the National Theatre. Amanda has curated theatrical wellbeing workshops for clients including Spotlight, Rose Bruford College, and the Arden School of Theatre. She is a member of Graeae’s Writers Network.
