Amanda Baxter

Amanda was born in Indiana and started her career at the age of seven, playing Gretl in The Sound of Music and famously losing both of her front teeth right before opening night. The tooth gap eventually went away, but her love for performing did not. She continued to belt her face off in musical theatre until heading to Indiana University, where she discovered a passion for Shakespeare. It was around this time that she made friends with her inner language geek, studying French, Russian, and Italian.

After college, Amanda had the good fortune to study with the Moscow Art Theatre School, where she began a long (and sometimes tumultuous) love affair with the work of Chekhov. This passion led her to New York City, where she fulfilled some Off-Broadway dreams, working for three seasons with the brilliant resident actors at the Pearl Theater Company as an understudy for productions such as Aaron Posner’s Stupid F**king Bird and Terrence McNally’s And Away We Go.

Amanda’s passion for the classics eventually led her to London, where she spent a year articulating, sword fighting, and pavane-ing her way through the graduate conservatory program in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Amanda is a fiend for mystery novels and loves serving her famous wild mushroom tart to friends and family. She has an affection for sci-fi, gained from years of watching The X-Files with her father, and she learned to draw and sew at an early age thanks to her mother, a double-threat visual artist and seamstress. Amanda is a fervent believer in universal access to education and devotes time to a school that provides individualized education to students with learning disabilities.