Ghost Quartet (2018)
“A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries." Amanda directed this Torn Ticket II Orientation Show at Tufts University.
Ben Nissan as Shylock and Steve Seaman as Antonio in The Merchant of Venice: A Tufts Drama Department Capstone (May 2018)
Producer
Specializing in experimental and student-written theater, Amanda partners with upcoming and freelance artists to celebrate and promote their newest works, especially when they’re outside the box.
Main graphic for Do You Hear Yourself, a new immersive sound play (December 2019)
Sara Dakin as Lia in The Little Things (April 2018)
Actor
At Tufts University, Amanda acted in plays, musicals, and Shakespeare productions. She earned starring roles in her first semester and beyond, portraying Teacher (Defying Gravity), Emma (After the Revolution), Deb (Ordinary Days), and Leading Player (Pippin). She originated the role of Angela in an original adaptation of The King Stag through the Department of Drama and Dance in 2017. Amanda also played the mother of humanity as Eve in Children of Eden with Concord Youth Theater in 2016.
In New York City, Amanda never planned to pursue the performing arts, but was pulled into the theater world by a kind friend (Megan Rivkin) at Columbia University. Since 2022, she has been featured as Masha in Three Sisters, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and various roles in new works created by MFA candidates in the Playwrighting and Directing programs.
Amanda as Angela in Tufts University Drama Department’s production of The King Stag (February 2017)
Teacher in Defying Gravity (November 2015)
Leading Player in Pippin (November 2017)
Emma in After the Revolution (March 2016)
Ursula in the Lord Barnum Players’ Much a-Prom About Nothing (December 2018)
Deb in Ordinary Days (September 2016)
Masha in Three Sisters directed by MFA Directing student Miguel Bregante (November 2022)
Thane of Ross/Lady Macduff in Macbeth (April 2016)
Eve in Children of Eden (July 2016)
Director & Choreographer
Amanda has directed and choreographed for herself, for others, and for complete strangers during her time at Tufts and beyond, for both the stage and the screen. She conceptualized an original staging of Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet in one week as an orientation production, and the following spring she choreographed and assistant-directed Heathers the Musical for Torn Ticket II.
Cast of Ghost Quartet (September 2018)
Title characters of Heathers the Musical (March 2019)