Amanda Quaid is an artist and teacher based in New York. Her creative work is multifaceted. She has won awards for writing, acting and animation. As a teacher, she coaches actors and others from around the world in diction and dialects. What unites her work is a deep love of language.

Most recently, Amanda wrote the libretto of The Extinctionist, which premiered at Heartbeat Opera in 2024, the company’s first new works commission. In 2023, she was awarded the Bridport Prize for Poetry, selected by Roger Robinson, one of the UK’s largest awards for a single poem. Her debut collection, No Obvious Distress, is forthcoming with John Murray Originals (UK) in 2025.

In her past life as an actor, she ran a brothel, invented AI, murdered for money, danced with a man’s severed head, rolled in the literal hay with Daniel Radcliffe, and spent many hours crying in cardigans.

She was raised in New York and lives on the Upper West Side.