...is fascinated by the relationship between audience and performer and has an unhealthy obsession with the tambourine, of which she has no formal training. Currently she is trying to wean off the tambourine with her new Tibetan symbols.

After moving to the states from South America, Amanda was shy, quiet and unprepared for US public schools. Her parents enrolled her in their small Texas town’s community theatre at the age of 7 and the rest, they say, is history. Now the once shy, tacit and demure child Amanda was has been replaced with a very loud, brazen and on occasion outgoing adult Amanda. Through grade school, junior high and high school she played around in theatre and found her niche with the weird “theatre” kids. With the amazing support of her extraordinary high school drama teacher, she decided to major in Theatre at an affordable public university. There, she helped co-found Blank Line Collective.

Amanda has enjoyed creating and performing in past BLC main events, such as The Helpless Doorknob, The Fete, Lots of Guns, I Believe, A Mother, A Daughter and Epigrafo. She is also proud to have co-written A Mother, A Daughter, a project dear to her heart. She collaboratively created mini-events for Looptopia and MusiCircus as well. Some of her favorite performances have been in Laughing Wild, Lear Experience, The Country Wife, Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All To You, The Boy Who Sought Fear and As You Like It. Amanda has performed overseas in England as well as the Setkani International Theatre Festival in Brno, Czech Republic. She was a scholarship student at the University of North Texas where she graduated with a BFA in Theatre Performance. She has also trained and interned at the University of Hull, Theatre Three and Victory Gardens. Most recently Amanda has trained with Augusto Boal and Julian Boal in the methods and pedagogy of Theatre of the Oppressed.

To pay her bills Amanda is a case manager for adults with developmental disabilities. Her workdays are mostly filled with smiles and laughter from the people she advocates for. In her recreation and leisure time she enjoys her French bike, gardening, traveling, bartering beer for furniture, second hand stories and of course, her tambourine.