About Amanda
Amanda Card (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist from Nashville, TN currently based in New York. A Jill of all trades, Amanda tells stories about glitter, death, and radical girlhood that embrace disruptive emotional honesty. She has worked as an actor, producer, director, playwright, puppeteer, deviser, movement director, and teaching artist. She has worked with Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre, Nashville Story Garden, Sideshow Fringe, and The Kindling Arts Festival. Her play The Lil Amanda Show premiered at the 2019 Kindling Arts Festival and received a full production as part of Sarah Lawrence College’s New Works Festival in February of 2020. In July of 2020, Kindling Arts Festival commissioned a digital adaptation of The Lil Amanda Show which became Lil Amanda is a Potty Mouth. She is pursuing her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, where she worked as a production assistant and swing puppeteer for the workshop production of Dan Hurlin’s Bismarck. Most recently, her work has appeared in Great Small Works’ Virtual Toy Theater Festival, Kindling Arts Festival’s Kindling Sparks, Verge Theater Company’s Virtual Cabaret (winner of the Nashville Scene’s Best Theatre At Home Award), and Nasty, Brutish & Short’s Virtual Puppet Cabaret. Amanda is a Resident Artist with the Spring 2021 Object Movement Digital Puppetry Festival.
Amanda Card is a theatre artist from Nashville, TN currently based in New York. A Jill of all trades, Amanda has worked as an actor, producer, director, playwright, movement director, intimacy choreographer, and teaching artist. She is passionate about telling stories and creating the space for other theatre artists of all shapes and sizes to tell their stories. Her work is characterized by emotional honesty with a Riot Grrrl sensibility. She is an alum of Sewanee: The University of the South and is currently pursuing her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. She has worked with Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre, Studio Tenn, The Party Nashville, Actor’s Bridge Ensemble, Verge Theatre Company, Blackbird Theatre, Pipeline Collective, Nashville Story Garden, Sideshow Fringe, Lyceum Theatre, and Kindling Arts Festival.