Amanda Stuart Fisher
Amanda Stuart Fisher is a senior lecturer at Central School of Speech & Drama. Prior to coming to Central in 1999, Amanda taught drama and dance at a secondary school in Haringey, before moving into the field of theatre education in 1996 when she worked as Education Coordinator at the Royal Court Theatre. She subsequently worked freelance as an applied theatre specialist on a number of projects, including playwriting in schools at Hoxton Hall (funded by Carlton) and Seven Sacraments by Neil Bartlett (Artangel/Gloria Theatre Company, 1998). In 1997-1998 she also worked as a drama workshop leader at a mental health centre in East London. Amanda‘s areas of research and practcie include: playwriting, verbatim theatre and theatre of testimony. Her applied theatre work is both practical and theoretical, focusing currently on the use of stories derived from lived experience and the ethics of practice
