Amanda Quaid works extensively with heightened language, accents and dialects as an actor and in her work as an educator, she teaches dialects and verse skills to performers from around the world. She was selected by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to be a 2012 artist-in-residence with SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide, placing her in NYC senior centers to lead workshops in Shakespeare. Actors are drawn to her unique and holistic approach, rooted in her performance background, which places emphasis on the speaker finding his or her individual voice within a dialect.

Her acting credits are diverse and substantial. Broadway: Equus. Off-Broadway: U.S. premiere of Cock directed by James Macdonald, Luck of the Irish  (Lincoln Center/LCT3, Lucille Lortel nomination), Thomas Kilroy’s Irish adaptation of The Seagull directed by Max Stafford-Clark (Culture Project), A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney  (Soho Rep), Galileo opposite F. Murray Abraham (CSC), The Illusion dir. Michael Mayer (Signature), The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull); Banished Children of Eve  (world premiere), W.B. Yeats’ A Full Moon in March and other plays in The Yeats Project (Irish Repertory Theatre); world premiere of Christopher Durang’s Not a Creature Was Stirring (The Flea).

Regional: Vivie in Mrs. Warren’s Profession opposite Elizabeth Ashley (Shakespeare Theatre), Rosalind in As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: Non-Stop with Liam Neeson, Law and Order: SVU opposite Patricia Arquette.

Film and television work includes: Masters of Sex and the upcoming I’m Dying Up Here.

Raised in Greenwich Village, Amanda received her B.A. in English from Vassar College and trained with Scott Freeman post graduation.