Amanda Wilkin
Amanda is a playwright, actress and jazz and blues singer-songwriter from London. In 2017 she was on the Royal Court and BBC London Writersโ Groups. After touring HAMLET to 188 countries with Shakespeare's Globe, she wrote her first play AND I DREAMT I WAS DROWNING, which was developed as part of the Talawa Firsts Festival 2018. She has since written and performed short pieces at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, THE LITTLE SOB as part of Dark Night of the Soul in early 2019, and BESSIE COLEMAN about the first African American female pilot as part of Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves in early 2020. She is under commission to Audible as part of their Emerging Playwrights Programme 2020 and is writing an audio play called RECOGNITION about the C19thโs famous mixed race composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for 45North Ltd/Ellie Keel Productions, as well as a monologue called THE ECHO which she will perform about the history of protest songs. She is the winner of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award 2020 for her play SHEDDING A SKIN.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 ยทSpentas Jo
- 2024 ยทUntil I Kill Youas Leah
- 2021 ยทEmiliaas Alphonso Lanier/River Woman/Emilia in Othello
- 2021 ยทFinding Aliceas Leanne
- 2018 ยทMamma Mia! Here We Go Againas Ensemble Performer
- 2016 ยทThe Girlfriend Experienceas NGM Tech
- 2014 ยทThe Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globeas Spirit
- 2007 ยทGavin & Staceyas Nightclub Girl
- 1999 ยทHolby Cityas Jemima Thomas