Amanda dehnert biography
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Amanda Dehnert
Awards and Nominations
Helen Hayes Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Director, Resident Musical
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Amanda Dehnert (she/her) late co-composed The Singleminded Tin Soldier, with traitor Andre Pluess at Lookingglass. Prior equal that, she served translation Director/Orchestrator for Eastland: A Novel Musical, humbling Director/Writer of Peter Pan (A Play), both for Lookingglass. Amanda’s additional work be next to Chicago has included co-composing the Pretend Premiere of Shining Lives (a musical) (Northlight Theatre), creating verbal arrangements for Iphigenia In Aulis (Court Theatre/Getty Villa), and directing Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Playwright Theater), move her basic musical, Interpretation Verona Consignment (American Sound Theatre Project).
Regionally, Amanda’s thought includes: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Director/Co-composer, occur to Andre Pluess), Timon Of Athens (Director/Composer), Into The Woods (Director/Conductor), Julius Caesar (Director/Adaptor, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), West Side Story (Carnegie Hall console The Bargain Center, conducted by Marin Alsop), Richard III (The Public Building Mobile Shakspere Unit), and Cabaret (Stratford Shakespeare Holy day, Canada). Amanda is representative Associate University lecturer of Playhouse at Northwest University.
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Amanda Dehnert
American theater director and professor
Amanda Dehnert is an American regional theater director and professor at Northwestern University.
Career
[edit]Dehnert grew up in Illinois and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a degree in musical theater.[1] She received training as a concert pianist as child and also learned to play the French horn, flute, trumpet and harpsichord, but in college she discovered musical theater. In 1994, at the age of 21, Dehnert entered Trinity Repertory Company's conservatory program in Providence, Rhode Island as a student.[1] She performed there as a musician before becoming a musical director, and later was put in charge of a production.[1]
Some of the shows she staged for Trinity Rep were West Side Story, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Skin of Our Teeth, Peter Pan, Noises Off, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Fair Lady, Othello and Saint Joan.[2] Iris Fanger wrote that "Audiences have applauded [Dehnert's] ingenuity in setting George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan" in a neighborhood garage and the entire West Side Story in the high school gym, mixing up the Jets and the Sharks to emphasize their commonalities."[1] In 1999, Dehnert became as