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BIO

Amanda Green is a Tony-nominated lyricist and composer. Broadway: On The Twentieth Century (Additional Lyrics) starring Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher; Hands On A Hardbody (Lyrics, Co-Composer) working with guitarist Trey Anastasio and Doug Wright (Tony Award Nomination for Best Score, 2 Drama Desk Award Nominations for Music & Lyrics, Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Score); Bring It On (Co-Lyricist) working with Lin Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt, and Jeff Whitty (Tony Award Nomination for Best Musical, Drama Desk Nomination for Lyrics); High Fidelity (Lyrics) working with Tom Kitt and David Lindsay-Abaire. Amanda is the first woman to win the Frederic Loewe Award for Outstanding Composition from the Dramatists Guild. TV: Peter Pan Live (NBC; Additional Lyrics) starring Christopher Walken and Allison Williams; The Kennedy Center Honors 2014 (CBS; Special Lyrics) for the Tom Hanks Tribute; The Wonder Pets (Nick, Jr). Amanda writes songs with and for Trey Anastasio for his bands PHISH and TAB. Also a performer, she and Broadway friends perform her songs at nightclubs and theaters around the city (Birdland, 54 Below, Joe's Pub, Second Stage Theater, etc.) and she is the winner of two MAC Awards. Other awards: Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theater Wing, Abe Olman Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She is an alumna of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop and a graduate of Brown University and the Professional Actors Training Program at Circle in the Square. She is a Council member of the Dramatists Guild.

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STAGE CREDITS

Wonderful Town
[Off-Broadway]
New York City Opera Production, 1994
Violet
Pilot Episode and Selected Scenes and Songs
[New York]
Reading, 2000
Performer

Productions

Hallelujah, Baby!
 
[Off-Broadway, unknown]
Lyrics
Mr. Saturday NightMr. Saturday Night
 
[Broadway, 2022] [Replacement]
Lyrics[Replacement]
Kiss Me, KateKiss Me, Kate
 
[Broadway, 2019]
Additional Material
On the Twentieth CenturyOn the Twentieth Century
 
[Broadway, 2015]
Additional Lyrics
Hallelujah, Baby!
 
[New York, 2004]
Lyrics

Writing

Hands on a Hardbody
Lyricist
Composer

Awards and Nominations

Drama Desk Awards - 2022 - Outstanding Lyrics

Amanda Green, Mr. Saturday Night

Drama Desk Awards - 2022 - Outstanding Lyrics

Amanda Green, Mr. Saturday Night

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Amanda GreenMr. Saturday Night

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Amanda GreenMr. Saturday Night

Drama Desk Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Lyrics

Amanda Green, Hands on a Hardbody

Drama Desk Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Lyrics

Amanda Green, Bring It On: The Musical

Drama Desk Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Music

Amanda Green, Hands on a Hardbody

Tony Awards - 2013 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Amanda Green, Hands on a Hardbody

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Review: REGENCY GIRLS at The Old Globe Photo
Review: REGENCY GIRLS at The Old Globe
by ErinMarie Reiter - Apr 12, 2025

“Regency Girls' is The Old Globe's hilariously clever and entertaining new musical, which is playing through May 11.
Photos: Isabelle McCalla, Kate Rockwell And More In REGENCY GIRLS At The Old Globe Photo
Photos: Isabelle McCalla, Kate Rockwell And More In REGENCY GIRLS At The Old Globe
by Joshua Wright - Apr 8, 2025

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at photos of The Old Globe's pre-Broadway engagement of the world premiere of Regency Girls. This raucous and daring new musical comedy features a book by Emmy-winning writers Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan (“Seinfeld,” “Scrubs,” “Veep”), music by three-time Emmy-nominated composer Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), and lyrics by two-time Tony and Grammy nominee Amanda Green (Mr. Saturday Night, Hands On A Hardbody, Bring It On: The Musical). 
Photos: Isabelle McCalla, Kate Rockwell and More in REGENCY GIRLS at The Old Globe Photo
Photos: Isabelle McCalla, Kate Rockwell and More in REGENCY GIRLS at The Old Globe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 8, 2025

The Old Globe is presenting Regency Girls. BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first look at the cast in costume here! Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
Playlist: The Best of Jason Robert Brown Photo
Playlist: The Best of Jason Robert Brown
by Sidney Paterra - Apr 5, 2025

The Last Five Years will officially open on Broadway for the first time since the beloved musical premiered  in 2001. The man behind the music is none other than Jason Robert Brown. We are celebrating with a playlist of 50 of our favorite Jason Robert Brown songs.
Video: World Premiere Musical REGENCY GIRLS In Rehearsal At The Old Globe Photo
Video: World Premiere Musical REGENCY GIRLS In Rehearsal At The Old Globe
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 28, 2025

The Old Globe has shared a peek inside the sitzprobe for its world premiere new musical, Regency Girls. Performances for the Broadway-bound musical comedy run from April 2 to May 4, 2025, with the opening on April 10. Watch the video.
Video: Inside the Sitzprobe For Broadway-Bound REGENCY GIRLS Musical Photo
Video: Inside the Sitzprobe For Broadway-Bound REGENCY GIRLS Musical
by Michael Major - Mar 27, 2025

Watch a video from inside the sitzprobe for the new Broadway-bound musical Regency Girls. The cast includes Isabelle McCalla, Krystina Alabado, Kate Rockwell, Ryann Redmond, Nik Walker, Gabe Gibbs, Janine LaManna, and more!
Interview: Theatre Life with Rayanne Gonzales Photo
Interview: Theatre Life with Rayanne Gonzales
by Elliot Lanes - Mar 24, 2025

Today’s subject Rayanne Gonzales is currently living her theatre life onstage at Signature Theatre in a role she is very familiar with. Through May 4th in Signature’s MAX space, Rayanne is portraying Abuela Claudia in In The Heights.
BRING IT ON at the Muny Will Include 16 University of Kentucky Cheerleaders Photo
BRING IT ON at the Muny Will Include 16 University of Kentucky Cheerleaders
by Stephi Wild - Mar 20, 2025

Sixteen athletes — current squad members and alumni — from the nationally renowned University of Kentucky cheerleading program will be part of the ensemble in this summer's Muny premiere of Bring It On: The Musical. 
Joriah Kwamé and More Named as 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients Photo
Joriah Kwamé and More Named as 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 24, 2025

The American Theatre Wing has revealed the recipients of the 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant, the annual prize awarded to exceptional emerging musical theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, or writing teams. Learn more!
PETER PAN To Play The Fox Theatre; Tickets On Sale Today Photo
PETER PAN To Play The Fox Theatre; Tickets On Sale Today
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 22, 2025

Tickets for the all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway classic, PETER PAN are on sale now for a limited one-week premiere engagement at the Fox Theatre from April 29 – May 4.
2025 Richard Rodgers Awards Recipients Revealed Photo
2025 Richard Rodgers Awards Recipients Revealed
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2025

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has revealed the three recipients of its 2025 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater. Learn more about the recipients here!
Dramatists Guild 'Outraged' By Canceled Show at the Kennedy Center Photo
Dramatists Guild 'Outraged' By Canceled Show at the Kennedy Center
by Sidney Paterra - Feb 15, 2025

The Kennedy Center recently canceled the tour of the new children's musical 'Finn,' composed by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, following an administrative overhaul led by the Trump administration. This cancellation has sparked outrage from the Dramatists Guild of America, who are concerned about the implications for arts funding and freedom of expression.
Wake Up With BroadwayWorld February 14, 2025 Photo
Wake Up With BroadwayWorld February 14, 2025
by - Feb 14, 2025

Happy Valentine's Day, BroadwayWorld! It is February 14, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Isabelle McCalla, Krystina Alabado, Kate Rockwell, Nik Walker & More Join Old Globe's Photo
Isabelle McCalla, Krystina Alabado, Kate Rockwell, Nik Walker & More Join Old Globe's REGENCY GIRLS
by Joshua Wright - Feb 13, 2025

Casting and the creative team has been announced for The Old Globe's pre-Broadway engagement of the world premiere of Regency Girls. This raucous and daring new musical comedy features a book by Emmy-winning writers Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan, music by three-time Emmy nominated composer Curtis Moore, and lyrics by two-time Tony and Grammy nominee Amanda Green.
Newly Imagined Production of PETER PAN Comes to Toronto in May Photo
Newly Imagined Production of PETER PAN Comes to Toronto in May
by Stephi Wild - Jan 28, 2025

The all-new production of the hit Broadway musical PETER PAN directed by Lonny Price, with additional book by Larissa Fasthorse and choreography by Lorin Latarro is flying over to Toronto's CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.
Review: Re-Imagined PETER PAN Takes Flight at Citizens Opera House Photo
Review: Re-Imagined PETER PAN Takes Flight at Citizens Opera House
by R. Scott Reedy - Jan 24, 2025

Theater fans have a long and affectionate history with the musical “Peter Pan,” and the J.M. Barrie play, “Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” and subsequent novelization, “Peter and Wendy,” of the classic story of the little boy who can fly that inspired it.
John Tartaglia, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Rob Ruggiero & More Join The Muny 107th Season Photo
John Tartaglia, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Rob Ruggiero & More Join The Muny 107th Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 17, 2025

The Muny has revealed the teams of directors, choreographers, music directors and lead designers whose creative visions will bring the theatre’s bold 2025 season to life. Learn more about the upcoming season!
PETER PAN Will Fly Into The Bushnell In February Photo
PETER PAN Will Fly Into The Bushnell In February
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 16, 2025

Tickets for the premiere Hartford engagement of the all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway classic, PETER PAN are on sale now. This eight-performance run February 4 through 9, 2025 at The Bushnell is part of a major national tour. 
Review: PETER PAN at Bass Concert Hall Photo
Review: PETER PAN at Bass Concert Hall
by Sabrina Wallace - Dec 13, 2024

Peter Pan dazzles with stunning sets, magical flying effects, and catchy new songs. This Peter Pan may never want to grow up, but it certainly deserves to be part of the conversation on how we tell timeless stories for modern audiences.
Photos: Go Inside the N'Kenge Foundation Inaugural Benefit Gala Show Photo
Photos: Go Inside the N'Kenge Foundation Inaugural Benefit Gala Show
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Nov 24, 2024

The N'Kenge Foundation hosted its inaugural benefit gala on Friday, November 22, 2024, at The Cutting Room. Check out photos from inside the event below!
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Amanda Green written?

Amanda Green has written 3 shows including High Fidelity (Lyricist), Bring It On: The Musical (Lyricist), Hands on a Hardbody (Lyricist).

What awards has Amanda Green been nominated for?

Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Mr. Saturday Night, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Mr. Saturday Night, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Mr. Saturday Night, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Mr. Saturday Night, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Hands on a Hardbody, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Bring It On: The Musical, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Hands on a Hardbody and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Hands on a Hardbody.

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