Amanda’s World…

“An enigmatic treat for loved ones and hated ones alike…”

I am a rabbit— I mean I’m a HUMAN… close call… jesus christ

My name’s Amanda. I am a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer and experimental storyteller. I am best known for my nontraditional comic book art, 8mm and 16mm filmmaking, and my increasingly psychedelic live fantasy performance art worlds with extravagant musical numbers and homemade props/costumage.

My audiovisual work has been performed and projected in major institutions such as Carnegie Hall, the CICA Museum (South Korea), and the Music Gallery (Toronto), as well as in tiny art collectives and punky basements across America. As a composer, I’ve been featured on WNYC’s New Sounds and have had the opportunity to create commissioned work for artists such as Tune-Yards, Tim Story, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Michael Gordon.

Me and Austin Stolz are the creators and wizards behind Magic Wand Productions, our celluloid filmmaking and experimental theater performing company. My latest comic book Hal was released by Buckman Publishing here in town on February 8th, 2025; for the book release, we created and performed a full-length musical show, which sold out the Echo Theater in Southeast Portland. I wrote all the music and was director of the show. We have a reprise performance slated for April 4th at the Portland Art Museum’s Tomorrow Theater. Our feature-length, super-8 debut filmmaking project, Houndsville, premiered at the Clinton Street Theater last autumn, and was awarded Best in Filmmaking Achievement at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival. Houndsville was originally based on a comic book I self-published two years ago, and then later a stage production I put on as an honorarium recipient at the Oregon Fringe Festival in Ashland, OR. 

Magic Wand received an RACC grant in February 2025 and we are using these funds to work towards completion our next project, a 16mm feature titled Snail Lunch.

I have been a lucky Duck to receive the Oregon Fringe Fest Honorarium (2023), the Robert Hirsch Memorial award (2019), the Etchings Fellowship in Auvillar, France (2018) and the G.A.N.G Scholarship at gamesound con (2017), among some other odds and ends. I hold a B.M. in music theory & composition from New York University, where I practiced in the studio of pulitzer-prize winning composer Julia Wolfe, graduating with honors. I’ve also studied with composer Michel Merlet at L’ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, in addition to studying sound spatialization at IRCAM (institut de recherché et coordination acoustique/musique) in Paris, France.

Peace!

Amanda