About

Amanda Jensen graduated from Hartwick college in 2006 and made her way to Long Wharf Theatre where she was the lighting and audio resident for the Next Stage Program for the 2006/2007 season. While at Long Wharf Amanda designed the lights for that season's Next Stage Production of Swimming in the Shallows by Adam Bock. Once her year in New Haven was complete Amanda moved to Philadelphia. After a short hiatus from theatre Amanda began working as a lighting designer in the Philly theatre community.

Amanda has designed for The Arden (No Child, Treasure Island, Snow White), Theatre Exile (Abandoned, Really), Gunner Montana Productions (Kink Haus, Wroughtland), Inis Nua (A Hundred Words For Snow, The Monster in the Hall, Love Lies & Taxidermy, The Swallowing Dark, Radiant Vermin, Spine), Almanac Dance Circus Theatre (Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, XOXO Moongirl), The Lantern (The Wanderers, The Lifespan Of A Fact, The Heir Apparent), and Robi Hager’s New Musical Basic Witches. Her work for the 2017 production of Kink Haus was exhibited at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial as part of the USITT/USA exhibition of professional designers.