Education
M.A. Theatre & Performance Studies, King’s College London, 2013
Dissertation: “An Utterance Unheard: Examining the Rhetoric of Community Art in Detroit”

B.A. Theatre & English, Music Minor, Alma College, 2011
Graduated Cum Laude

Training & Certifications

  • Theatrical Intimacy Education (28 Total Hours): Best Practices; Consent in the Acting Classroom; Foundations in Race, Intimacy, and Consent; Trauma Informed Practices; Modesty Garments, Barriers, and Masking; Race and Choreography; Intimacy Choreography; Qualifications: Building Your Intimacy Resume
  • TimeSlips, Certified Facilitator
  • Allies for Change, Doing our Own Work (16 Hours: Interrupted due to Covid-19)
  • Incorporating Dialogic Practice into your Facilitator Toolbox
  • Toward an Anti Racist Michigan Theatre, BLAQN
  • Neo-Toolbox Classes: Neo-Body; Theatrical Cleanse Through a Joy Lens; Writing Yourself into a Corner; Diatribes, Rants, and Inane Mutterings: A Guide to Creating the Neo-Futurist Monologue; What’s a Wrench, and What Does it Do?; This One’s for the Emos
  • CPR/First Aid Certified

Publications
Ewing, Amanda G. “Spatiality and Stories: Staging Memory in Post September 11th Performance.” The Arts and Popular Culture in History: Proceedings of the Role of the Arts in History Cross-Disciplinary Conference. Plymouth: University of Plymouth, 2013. 251-64.

Conference Presentations

  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Detroit 2022
    • Pre Conference Planner, Theatre and Social Change Focus Group
    • Member at Large, Theatre and Social Change Focus Group
  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Virtual 2021
    • “Performing What Really Matters; Virtual Connection, Social Distancing and the Process of Creation”
  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Virtual 2020
    • Pre Conference Planner, Theatre and Social Change Focus Group
    • Member at Large, Theatre and Social Change Focus Group
    • “Applied Theatre vs. Sexual Harassment”
    • “(Re)forming Community: Imagining Social and Emotional Resilience through Collaborative Theatre Making”
  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, FL 2019
    “Expect Respect: Centering the Student Voice”
  • Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Chicago, IL 2019
    “Expect Respect: Centering the Student Voice”
  • Flint Symposium, University of Michigan, 2019
    Applied Theatre Workshop Facilitator

Professional Associations
Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas, Member
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Member at Large, Pre Conference Planner (’20, ’22)
Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Member
Actor’s Equity Association, Equity Membership Candidate

Selected Credits
Directing/Dramaturgy
Kilo Batra, Dramaturg/Intimacy Choreographer, A Host of People
Fire in the Theatre, Dramaturgy Team, A Host of People
He Said Yes, Director, Planet Ant Theatre
Kayak, Director, Matrix Theatre Company
Valerie: A Cosplay Monologue, Director, BoxFest Detroit 2017
Hamtown Races, Director, Planet Ant Theatre
Young Playwrights Festival Lansing, Dramaturgy Mentor, Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University
Young Playwrights Festival Traverse City, Mentor, Wharton Center for the Performing Arts/City Opera House
Lysistrata, Director, Wayne State University (Bonstelle Theatre)
Precious Little, Director, Matrix Theatre Company
Boy Gets Girl, Director, Dark Nights in Billtown, Williamston Theatre
The Glass Menagerie, Director, Puzzle Piece Theatre
Rumpus Repartee, Moderator/Director, RUMPUSROOM
Sixteen Jackies, Director, BoxFest Detroit 2014
Small Hours Serenade, Dramaturg, Puzzle Piece Theatre
The Red King’s Dream, Dramaturg, Tipping Point Theatre
The Chekhov/Detroit Project, Dramaturg, RUMPUSROOM
Life is Happening to Us Again, Stage Manager & Dramaturg, A Host of People
Peaches, Director, BoxFest Detroit 2013

Technical
BoxFest Detroit, Artistic Director
A Host of People, Production Manager
Cleopatra Boy, Production Stage Manager, Special Filming
Food & Fadwa, Production/Stage Manager, MOVE Conference
Notes on Territory, Production Manager, University of Michigan Daring Dances
Patriot Acts, Bad & Nasty Events, Co-Curator/Production Manager
Not my President’s Day, Bad & Nasty Events, Co-Curator/Production Manager
Institute for the Humanities Living Room Series, Production Assistant, University of Michigan
STAMPS School of Art and Design Interarts Performance, Production Assistant, University of Michigan
BoxFest Detroit, Producer
Art as a Weapon, Stage Manager, Concert of Colors @ Detroit Institute of Art
Cultural Scripts, Production Manager, Heritage Works
The Rainmaker, Properties Designer, Tipping Point Theatre
Into the Wind, Production Manager, University of Michigan & Grand Valley State University
Ernie, Production Assistant, The City Theatre
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s, Sound Designer, Tipping Point Theatre
Ebenezer, Assistant Stage Manager, Tipping Point Theatre
No Child…, Stage Manager, Matrix Theatre Company
Looking, Properties Designer, Tipping Point Theatre
Ordinary Days, Assistant Stage Manager, Tipping Point Theatre
Sandbox Play Festival, Assistant Stage Manager, Tipping Point Theatre

Teaching Experience
Director, University of Michigan Educational Theatre Company
Program Coordinator, University of Michigan Educational Theatre Company
Part Time Instructor of Theatre, Liberal Arts Department, Schoolcraft College
Ensemble Administrator, Heritage Works
Winter/Spring Plymouth Uptown Players, Director/Instructor, Plymouth Community Arts Council
Audition Intensive, Co-Instructor/Coordinator, Tipping Point Theatre
Word of Mouth, Workshop Facilitator, Turtle Key Arts
Key Moves, Workshop Facilitator, Turtle Key Arts
Key Club, Workshop Facilitator, Turtle Key Arts