Amanda is a playwright and actress from London. In 2020 she won the Verity Bargate Award for her play Shedding a Skin. The play was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2022, and she is now developing it for television. Her play Recognition was Talawa's headline show as part of Croydon's City of Culture 2023. And I Dreamt I Was Drowning was selected for Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt to have a reading as part of the festival in Germany in May 2022, and a new work will be staged at the Schauspiel Leipzig as part of the 2023/2024 season. Amanda is also under commission to Audible as part of their Emerging Playwrights Programme and to Headlong Theatre Company. She is also writing her first feature for Joy Productions / Film 4.