FAVORITE ROLE WITH THE CATAMOUNTS: Ellen in There Is A Happiness That Morning Is
FAVORITE ALL TIME ROLE: Mama to Eloise Berg Wilson
FAVORITE ADVENTURE (Real or Imagined): Hiking through the jungle in Mexico, ending on the beach at sunset with a taco in one hand, Michelada in the other.
BIO: Amanda Berg Wilson is co-founder and Artistic Director of The Catamounts, where she has directed fifteen productions, including God’s Ear (2011 Camera Eye Award, Best Director), Failure: A Love Story (2013 True West Nomination, Best Director), Rausch (2018 True West award, 2019 Henry Award nomination), Men On Boats (three 2019 Henry Award nominations), and United Flight 232 (Denver Westword’s Best Productions of 2019). With The Catamounts, she has performed as Ellen in There Is A Happiness That Morning Is (2014 True West Award, 2015 Westword Best of Denver Award), and Warrior #1 in Beowulf, A Thousand Years of Baggage (2017 Colorado Theatre Guild Nomination, Best Choreography.)
Under her direction, The Catamounts have been the recipients of eight Westword Best of Denver awards, four True West awards, thirteen Colorado Theatre Guild nominations, and six Daily Camera Eye Awards, among others. She has doubled The Catamounts’ operating budget two and half times in just eight years.
Prior to 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 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.