American Voices

Amanda Dehnert

“I’m passionate about what makes us who we are. How do we learn to live, to love and to survive the beautiful and the strange things that happen to us? Within The Fantasticks, we all take this journey together starting from a time of innocence when our life is nothing more than an untraveled road. Then the road twists and turns. In one of the greatest American musicals, we come to understand that we cannot know joy without knowing pain. The Fantasticks draws across the curtain covering the human heart and tells us about how we become who we are, and how we can make a life.”

Amanda Dehnert is known for her innovative approach to classic musicals and plays. She has worked in the US and Canada and is an assistant professor with Northwestern University in Chicago, where she currently resides.