About Amanda

Amanda Hart is a theatre performer and producer who has created work in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. She is currently based in London, UK.

Holding an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College London (2023), Amanda primarily uses her expertise to stage new and innovative interpretations of Early Modern plays. She is passionate about making theatre accessible to young people and new audiences. Her practice centres transformative work, conversing with well-known stories to draw out themes that are often considered contemporary, but are undoubtedly present in classic texts. In doing so, she works to bolster the onstage representation of underrepresented, particularly young, queer, and neurodivergent, identities.

Amanda’s appreciation of Shakespeare originated from her participation in the Shakespeare at Winedale programme in Round Top, Texas, through which she spent several summers performing a variety of Shakespeare’s plays in repertory at a historical centre in central Texas. The programme inspired her to continue studying and performing in Early Modern plays, motivating her to move to the UK to pursue a Masters degree in Shakespeare.

Once in London, Amanda continued performing in Early Modern plays. Highlights include The Convent of Pleasure (2023), a queer reinterpretation of Margaret Cavendish’s closet drama, and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2024), an Original Practices production of Shakespeare’s early comedy.

Amanda now works in-house at Shakespeare’s Globe, contributing to the creation of theatre both by and for young people. In addition to her work producing various Globe Youth Theatre and Globe Young Company productions, she has performed community outreach and wraparound work for the Olivier-nominated Rough Magic (2024, 2025), as well as Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank’s Romeo and Juliet (2024) and Macbeth (2025). Her work has been integral in allocating tens of thousands of free theatre tickets to families and young people throughout the UK, especially in London and Birmingham. Working with the Globe has also given her the opportunity to aid in producing the Camaiore Shakespeare Festival in Camaiore, Italy.

In addition to her work at the Globe Theatre, Amanda works as a freelance producer, continuing to platform new voices and stories that interrogate classic texts. Highlights include Puck: A Fairy’s Tale (2025), a new play reimagining Shakespeare’s Puck as a neurodivergent young person, shortlisted for Best New Show at Brighton Fringe 2025. She has also served as an associate producer on Mary’s Daughters (2025), a reimagining of the work and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughters, playing at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025.