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SEASON TWO Episode Three with Amanda Berg-Wilson "You Always Want to be the Exporter not the Importer"
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Amanda Berg-Wilson is the co-founder and artistic director of The Catamounts Theatre Company, an immersive theatre experience in the Boulder/Denver area. She has directed over fifteen productions, including God’s Ear (2011 Camera Eye Award, Best Director), Failure: A Love Story (2013 True West Nomination, Best Director), and Rausch (2018 True West award, 2019 Henry Award nomination).
Under her direction, The Catamounts have received eight Westword Best of Denver awards, four True West awards, thirteen Colorado Theatre Guild nominations, and six Daily Camera Eye Awards, among other awards. She has also doubled the Catamounts’ operating budget two and a half times in just eight years.
Before The Catamounts, she co-founded and served as Artistic Director of Striding Lion, a Chicago-based performance group that operated for sixteen seasons.
She was a finalist for the 2018 True West Theatre Person of the Year, was highlighted in Westword magazine as one of “100 Colorado Creatives,” received a 2014 BCAA Theatre Fellowship, and her work has been profiled in American Theatre magazine. Elsewhere in Colorado, she has performed with the Curious Theatre Company and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center wing. She directed the hit immersive staging of The Wild Party and conceived of and created Between Us: The Whiskey Tasting for DCPA’s Off-Center, and is Assistant Director on Off-Center’s Theatre of the Mind, a new immersive theatre piece by Mala Gaonkar and Rock n Roll Hall of Famer David Byrne. She directed 9 to 5 and Pride and Prejudice at Creede Repertory Theatre in Creede, Colorado.
Amanda graduated cum laude with a BA in English and Drama from Kenyon College in Ohio.
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