Amanda Chennell
Director Actor Writer Creative Collaborator Workshop FacilitatorI trained as an actor and began my career in West End musicals. I now combine acting, directing and writing.
I have just graduated from an MA at RADA and have just finished my first short film, The Armchair.
I am interested in taking theatre to communities who don't think theatre is about them and telling their stories, especially women's stories. I am interested in making theatre that explores human behaviour through both classic and modern text. I also love working with new writing and devising processes.
My Pronouns are She/Her
Credits
DIRECTING:DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Anna and The Sting, a workshop of a new musical.
DIRECTOR/WRITER, The Armchair, short film, 2021
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Under The Influence, one woman show, Pavilion Dance.
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Musical Mania 1-4, charity galas, De La Salle Theatre & Regent Centre Theatre.
ACTING:
Fi, Holiday (rehearsed reading), Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
Nurse, Pram Talk, The Hope Theatre.
Lillian, The only Way Out (Workshop), NDT Broadgate
Anne Bennett, Dead Gulity, Shelley Theatre
Choir, Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert, O2 Arena
Woman 1, Closer Than Ever, Bridewell Theatre
Sister Sophia, The Sound of Music, Leicester Curve
Ensemble, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lyceum Theatre
Ensemble/Cover Eponine, Les Miserables, Palace Theatre
Choir, 10th Anniversary Concert Les Miserables, Royal Albert Hall
Ensemble, Out of The Blue, Shaftesbury Theatre
Training
MA (Distinction)Text and Performance, Directing pathway RADA/Birkbeck (2021)BA (first class) Performance Studies - Arts Educational (City, University of London) (2019)
Three Year Musical Theatre course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (1994)
Location
LondonExperience
10+ years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Comedy
- Film - short
- Music
- Opera
- Theatre / Live perfomance
What I do
- Devising
- Dialect / Voice Direction
- Directing
- Dramaturgy
- Facilitating
- Music - Can learn by ear
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Singing
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Producing
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Teaching / Coaching
- Theatre making
- Verbatim theatre
- Working with young people
- Working with young people with special educational needs
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
Social
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