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California Institute of the Arts

Amanda Shank

Pronouns: School of Theater

Associate Dean

Associate Artistic Director, Center for New Performance

Faculty

Amanda Shank headshot
Email address: ashank@calarts.edu
Phone number: 661-291-3055
Office address:
E123-V
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • MFA
    Writing for Performance, California Institute of the Arts
  • BFA
    Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College

Amanda Shank is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. With an experimental practice rooted in the interplay between text, image, and performance, her work frequently explores themes of women’s identity and sexuality while also dismantling traditional notions of form, genre, chronology, and performativity.

Amanda has developed projects with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, the National New Play Network, CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP), the Henson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Industry, the Prototype Festival, Los Angeles Performance Practice’s LAX Festival, Circle X Theatre, and many more. She has presented work at venues such as the Ace Hotel DTLA, the Hammer Museum, Z Below, and Automata Arts. As a playwright, her work has been published in the U.S. and translated internationally.

Amanda received her BFA in Writing, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College and her MFA in Writing for Performance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).