Amanda Quaid was raised in New York City. She first began performing as a child dancer at the Joffrey Ballet. She was inspired to pursue theater after seeing performances by Cherry Jones in The Heiress and Janet McTeer in A Doll’s House.

Her first professional stage role was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival at age 18, and she got her Equity card playing Rosalind in As You Like It at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. She made her Broadway debut in 2008 in Equus opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, as the standby for Anna Camp, playing Jill Mason in numerous performances throughout the 6-month run at the Broadhurst.

Other theater credits include: OFF-BROADWAY: U.S. premiere of Mike Bartlett's Cock directed by James Macdonald, Brecht's Galileo opposite F. Murray Abraham (CSC), world premiere of Ethan Coen's Happy Hour directed by Neil Pepe (Atlantic), The Illusion, Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique, directed by Michael Mayer (Signature), The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull), world premiere of Banished Children of Eve, the Queen in W.B. Yeats’s A Full Moon in March and other plays in The Yeats Project (Irish Rep), world premiere of Christopher Durang's Not a Creature Was Stirring (Flea). REGIONAL: Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession oppostie Elizabeth Ashley (Shakespeare Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (HVSF), Three Tall Women (Kitchen). READINGS & WORKSHOPS: Irish Rep, MCC, The Vineyard, The Flea, Geva Theatre, and Culture Project.

As a writer, her play Wake of the Wolf was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award in playwriting. Woman Rebel, based on the writing of Margaret Sanger, was presented as the opening night of the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival and starred Lynn Cohen. Amanda also appeared in her play Hymns of Hate and Sentiment, based on the writing of Dorothy Parker, at Culture Project.

She works extensively with accents and dialects as an actor and is on the faculty of HB Studio, teaching dialects to performers from around the world. She was selected by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to be a 2012 participant in SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide, placing her as an artist-in-residence at NYC senior centers to lead workshops in Shakespeare's verse. For more on her work as a teaching artist, visit coaching.

Amanda graduated from Vassar College and holds a B.A. in English.

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