Amanda Masterpaul
Amanda Masterpaul is a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, applied theatre artist, activist, educator based out of South Carolina. With 20+ years in academia, non-profit work, and community organizing, Amanda has been dedicated to co-creating visions and solutions embedded in community well-being, radical imagination, and equity. Her passion is to nurture processes where people cultivate their creative power by repurposing experiences of injustice and stewarding them towards collective action and liberation. She’s received grants from Alternate Roots for community-based civic artistry projects with young people, presented on Theatre of the Oppressed at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, receiving awards for inclusive pedagogy teaching excellence. Throughout her career, she has organized various community-centered initiatives in areas such as gender equity, anti-violence, LGBTQ+ia equality, housing insecurity, and systemic racism.