Olá! I’m an interdisciplinary artist, balancing flow and structure (or chaos/order). The medium depends on the project and people I am working with. Often found collaborating/conceiving a piece through costumes, space, and playful experiences.

As an artist producer, I center agency, wellness, transparency, and anti-oppression. What strategies can we use to cultivate a sense of grounding and mutual respect in our work environment?

The “hard” skills I am good at include: making lists, planning ideas out, creating timelines, budgeting, writing contracts, bookkeeping, and financial literacy. And the “soft” skills I practice include approaching conflict with a trauma-informed intersectional lens, active listening, and learning in public.

I translated a friend's labor, love sleeping, and my first word was não (no).

I’m a multidisciplinary artist working across dance, theater, and film. I am a member of the Shakespeare in the Ruff Leadership Collective and self producer under the name LastName FirstName Productions. Working within a Disability framework, my core value when producing work is dignity over everything.

My hard skills include Social Media (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, The Metaverse), Marketing (Artist Brand Management, Show / Event Promotion etc.), Team Organizational Systems (Trello, Slack, Monday, etc.), Goal Setting (Both project and career), and Emerging Artist Mentorship. I am the lead producer for ArtistProducerResource.com

A fun biographical fact about me is that one afternoon when I was in high school I completed a Bop It! Extreme. The highest level you can reach is 250. I have not managed to do it again since and my Bop It button on my original Bop It! Extreme is sticky / messes up my flow.

Amanda Baker is a producer, theatre artist, and creative technologist based in Katarokwi (Kingston) and T’karonto (Toronto). She holds a BAH in Computing and the Creative Arts and a Certificate in Business from Queen’s University, as well as a Master’s in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. As a multidisciplinary artist specializing in immersive and interactive theatre, she has worked in a variety of creative and administrative roles with companies including Soup Can Theatre, Convergence Theatre, Volcano Theatre, Single Thread Theatre, Colliding Scopes Theatre, and commonplacetheatre. She was a recent participant in the 2021 Paprika Festival as part of the Festival Creative Producers and Administrators program, and Theatre Gargantua’s winter 2020 Emerging Artists Roundtable.

Amanda is currently the Festival Administrator for The Kick & Push Festival, and an Associate Artistic Producer with Single Thread Theatre. She is also the Quality Assurance Lead for Cohort, an open source coding framework that allows artists to use smartphones to run live events, administered by adelheid. As a disabled artist, accessibility is a strong aspect of her practice, and she is currently working on an autobiographical verbatim show exploring the humour and realities of living with chronic illness.