Amanda Rountree has been performing improvisational theatre professionally since 1992, teaching since 1998, and directing since 2002. She relocated to Chicago in 2007 from Seattle where she was a performer and instructor with Unexpected Productions and a performer and co-artistic director of Playback Theater Northwest. Amanda has entertained audiences in seven countries and countless North American cities utilizing a wide variety of styles, disciplines, and formats. (She’s performed everything from improv games in Kentucky and improvised Shakespeare at the Colorado Shakes Fest to drama therapy in Japan and breakthrough formats in Germany). Chicago audiences have seen her in Impress These Apes 2, Damascus Steel, Don’t Spit the Water, Soiree DADA: Shmukt die Hallen, and The (Edward) Hopper Project. In addition to being a company member of WNEP Theatre, she can be seen performing her original solo pieces around town, with The Beast Women Cabaret, This Much is True Storytelling, and The Kates. She is a resident teaching artist for Lifeline Theatre and the Second City Training Center. She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory, coaches improv groups around the city, and has directed for Theatre Momentum. She is currently writing her next one-woman show, after several successful runs and tours of The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey.
To contact Amanda, please email her at andthemonkey at gmail dot com.
