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As well as being an actress Amanda Waring is a writer and
theatre and film producer/director.
Amanda adapted and directed The Education of Little Tree which
premiered at the Weald and Downland Museum and performed in the
USA, Bahamas, Turtle key Arts London and at venues across the South
of England as well as lecturing with the play at schools and
colleges.
Amanda is Artistic Director of Walk Our Talk Productions and has
devised and directed The Gift of Christmas, Life, Love and
laughter, The Business Revue, Funny Valentines , The Twentieth
Century Revue, Home is where the Heart is, The Spirit of Nature and
Now We Are Sixty for the company. Her entertainments of words and
music have toured the U.S.A ,France, Spain, Bermuda headlining
international festivals and attracting such artistes as Virginia
McKenna, Dorothy Tutin, Robert Powell, Martin Jarvis, Hugh
Bonneville and Derek Waring. There have been over three hundred
performances of these shows at prestigious theatre and venues
throughout the UK too.
In Jan 2005 Amanda was asked to direct the holocaust play And
Then they Came for Me to be performed at The House Of Commons to an
invited audience of political and theatre dignitaries as the main
event of Holocaust Memorial Day. Her production will also be
performed in front of Bill Clinton and the senate in the USA
2006.
Amanda directed, produced and devised for the theatre Summoned
by Betjeman. The play starring Robert Daws tells the life of the
poet Sir John Betjeman and has toured very successfully throughout
the Uk including The Yvonne Arnaud theatre Guilford, Theatre Clwyd
and Northampton.
Amanda's poems and short stories have been published in several
collections and used in drama colleges too as theatre pieces.
Amanda has lectured and taught drama at Schools and colleges
across London and West Sussex.
Amanda has written seven short film scripts and her film
directorial debut has been her short film WHAT DO YOU SEE? Starring
Virginia McKenna. This powerful ten minute short raises awareness
about how we treat older people and is also raising revenue for the
charities Help the Aged and MacMillan Cancer relief. The film was
completed in mid 2005 and was a finalist in the New Producer
Alliance awards. It has been screened at Bafta, and the Purbeck
film festival, and privately at The Hospital cinema and the UCG
cinema Shaftesbury Avenue. The film was featured on BBC breakfast
and Amanda is talking about the film on Woman's hour, LBC radio,
Meridian TV and Richard and Judy later this year.
Amanda has been asked to make a film highlighting our attitude
to people with learning difficulties for 2006.
Amanda is in early pre-production for her feature film Looking
for Magic which she has co- written and hopes to direct in
2006.
AUDIO
Amanda devised, produced and directed the audio recordings of
Now We Are Sixty and Now we are Sixty and a bit for Hodder
(starring Geoffrey Palmer, Martin Jarvis) They were nominated for a
NIBI Award and have been the highest ever selling poetry audio
tapes for Hodder. Amanda is producing and directing the audio
recording of Christopher Matthew's next book of poetry Summoned by
Balls in 2006
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