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Director and Music Director, Into the Woods
OSF: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Timon of Athens (also adaptation & score), Into the Woods (also music director/conductor, 2014), My Fair Lady (also music director), Julius Caesar (Thomas Theatre 2011); Composer & Arrangements, Much Ado About Nothing (2024). Works with Andre Pluess include The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass Theatre Co.), Matchbox Magic Flute (Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre D.C.), both adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman, and Love’s Labor’s Lost (OSF, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). Off-Broadway: West Side Story (Carnegie Hall/Knockdown Center); Kate Hamill’s Pride & Prejudice (world premiere, Cherry Lane). Regional: Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon, Eastland: A New Musical, and Peter Pan, a Play (all world premieres, Lookingglass Theatre Company); Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (world premiere, McCarter Theatre, Arena Stage), Richard III (with Ron Cephas Jones, Public Theatre Mobile Shakespeare); The Verona Project (also book, music, lyrics; world premiere, California Shakespeare Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Dallas Theatre Center); The Fantasticks (Trinity Rep, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, and South Coast Rep); Cabaret (Stratford Shakespeare Festival Canada). Amanda is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University.