C. Amanda Maud, Artistic AssociatE

C. AMANDA MAUD (Artistic Associate) has more than 40 years’ experience performing, teaching and developing workshops for all ages in both the U.S.and the U.K., dividing her time between New York City and England. She has been a core NPTC Company member and teaching artist since 1995 and has served as associate artistic director from 2002 to 2020. For NPTC, Ms. Maud has assistant-directed a number of Shakespeare productions (Othello, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet), and was a regular performer in NPTC’s Shakespeare Made Simple and World Voices programs. Her professional performing credits with NPTC are numerous, including appearances as The Woman (Jihad: The Play), Gertrude (Hamlet), Friar Laurence (Romeo & Juliet), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Emilia (Othello) and various roles in On Her Shoulders readings, most recently the virtual productions of Gabriel by George Sand, Slaves in Algiers by Susannah Rowson, and The Necessity of Divorce by Olympe de Gouges. . Roles in England include Shih Yang, a 19th century female Chinese pirate in Asian Pirate Musical which was part of the Vaults festival. She has also done considerable work with New Earth Theatre (Formerly Yellow Earth Theatre) in projects such as Tamburlaine and creating the central role of Eileen Cunningham in The Last Days of Limehouse, a site-specific piece exploring the history of London’s first Chinatown. She has worked throughout England in professional productions and arts-in education pieces with companies that include New Perspectives Theatre Company/UK; Forest Forge, The Contact Theatre in Manchester, the Chester Gateway,  Shakespeare’s Globe Education Centre, The Natural Theatre Company at the Millenium Dome, the Soho Theatre Studio, the Albany Theatre, the Apothecary Theatre Company, Mu-Lan Arts, and Theatre Adad. Maud recently caused an international sensation when her role in  Zach Snyder's Justice League was restored and comments on the scene went viral.