Actor, director, writer and teacher with a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Ottawa. She was the Directing Intern at the National Arts Centre for their 2007/2008 season, and has since directed projects for Geordie Productions, Repercussion Theatre, the Montreal Baroque Festival and the Centaur Theatre. Amanda has also performed with all of those companies, as well as at Theatre Lac Brome in Knowlton and with Third Wall Theatre in Ottawa. She often teaches Introduction to Performance and Drama in Education at McGill University, acting classes for the Geordie Theatre School, and has led drama workshops at various places such as the Lester B. Pearson School board, the Dorval Community Centre, and The University of Pinar Del Rio in Cuba.
