Amanda Nicholls
WRITER/MENTEE
Amanda Nicholls is a graduate of Humber College’s Performance Program, bcurrent’s razin ensemble, and completed the 2014 Obsidian Theatre Company’s Apprentices Program under the Directing stream. Amanda’s main focus is to provide arts programming for underprivileged youth in the GTA, and to create/direct diverse pieces that dive deeper into our understanding and biases of Canadian current issues and worldly affairs. Amanda worked as Program Coordinator for The Jump Theatre Project for several years and is now the Artistic Director of reConnexion: Arts & Community Collective and General Manager of the Piece of Mine Festival.
Recent directing credits include:
- IFT Theatre’s Motherland, 2015 Workshop (Assistant Director)
- Sasky Louison’s Dario Et La Diablesse, 2015 Piece of Mine Festival (Dramaturge/Director)
- The AMY Project SummerWorks Production of Aperture (Assistant Director)
Amanda is a DD 2016 playwrights alum and worked with Jennifer Brewin