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EP 9: Amanda Whittington
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Amanda Whittington’s work is widely performed by theatre companies across the UK. Be My Baby has been a popular GCSE and ‘A’ Level choice for 20 years. She had three titles in Nick Hern Book’s Top Ten Most Performed Plays of 2018: Ladies Day, Be My Baby and The Thrill of Love. She also works extensively in radio drama, with 16 titles for BBC Radio 4. D for Dexter won Best Series/Serial in the 2016 BBC Audio Drama awards and ran for seven years.
Amanda began her writing career as a freelance journalist for titles including The Face, New Statesman and Nottingham Evening Post. She was awarded a PhD by Publication at the University of Huddersfield, her thesis Bad Girls and Blonde Bombshells: Lived Feminisms in Popular Theatre exploring the diffuse and sometimes contradictory feminisms in her work. She is currently an Associate Artist at Nottingham Playhouse and member of Northern Broadsides Arts Squad.
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