about amanda
I’m a writer / performer working the shadows of the human heart, sharing my findings with audiences, frequently lensed through the lives and careers of problematic historical figures. The anti-hero is the bread-and-butter of my work. Human folly is my true love, how we fool ourselves, how we err, how we tumble through the full catastrophe of our lives.
Amanda Moody is a specialist in the creation and performance of new stage works, a writer and actor with a wide range of comedic and dramatic skills, winning the Dean Goodman award for Outstanding Achievement in Theater, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Upstage/Downstage Award for Great Solo Performance. Best known for her multi-disciplinary music theater solo shows, including Serial Murderess, The Winchester Rosary, and D’Arc: woman on fire, she is also a songwriter, composer and librettist (Caliban Dreams, West Edge Opera; Bitter Harvest, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra). Her poetry has been published in literary journals in the US and Ireland.
As an interpretive artist, she performed in Samuel Beckett’s Not I, under the direction of Octavio Solis in the Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival. She will reprise her interpretation at the Fringe of the Woods Festival in August 2025.
Amanda’s works tend toward avant-garde spaces, composers, singers, visual artists and theater makers, including collaborations with John Sanborn, Rinde Eckert, Paul Dresher, Jay Cloidt, Joël Lindheimer, Anna Deavere Smith, Melissa Weaver, Kurt Rhode and many others.
“Moody’s virtuosity as writer, singer and actor is awesome.” Back Stage West
“Intense, profound. Not to be missed! Amanda Moody is a virtuoso performer at the height of her powers.” Curtain Call, KRCB Radio
“Her performance is riveting … suffused with aching poetry …” San Francisco Bay Guardian
Photo by Lisa Keating