Amanda Dehnert

Ms. Dehnert most recently directed the new musical Asphalt Beach (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by T.C. Smith and Peter Spears) for the American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University, where she serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre. Prior to that, she directed My Fair Lady for Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Cleveland Playhouse (with company members Rachael Warren and Tim Crowe) Ms. Dehnert held various positions with Trinity Repertory since 1996, culminating in her serving as the theatres Acting Artistic Director for the 2005-2006 season, in which she directed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Christmas Carol, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Past productions for Trinity include Henry IV; the world premiere of Charles Strouse's You Never Know; West Side Story; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Annie; The Skin of Our Teeth; Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up; Noises Off; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The New England Sonata; My Fair Lady; Othello; Saint Joan; We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!; and A Christmas Carol (1997). She also directed Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III for the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project. Ms. Dehnert has served as musical director for The Merry Wives of Windsor; Annie; My Fair Lady; A Christmas Carol (since 1998); The Threepenny Opera; As You Like It; The Music Man; and The Cider House Rules, Part 1&2; and as co-musical director for Master Class. She also composed new music and lyrics for Trinity Rep's Boston production of A Christmas Carol. Ms. Dehnert is a graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory, and taught directing for the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium as a Clinical Associate Professor. In 2001, she received a Gielgud Fellowship (SDFC) and an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director (My Fair Lady and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).