Amanda Morton is an award-winning music director, writer, and educator who has worked on Broadway as well as several notable regional theatres such as the Wilma Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Goodspeed Musicals.
She is the music director for a forthcoming Broadway production of Crazy Rich Asians (being adapted by Helen Park, Amanda Green, Leah Nanako Winkler, and Tat Tong) and serves music supervisor for a new adaptation of Anne of Green Gables by Matte O'Brien and Matt Vinson.
As a writer, Amanda was awarded a 2023 Pew Grant in the area of “Contemporary Expressions of Culture & Identity” to develop an original piece that investigates her experience as an adopted Korean American through the lens of satire and musical comedy. Wishing To Grow Up Brightly - an original musical - will be produced this Fall 2025 in the Philadelphia region at Theatre Horizon.
Broadway Credits: Operation Mincemeat, Tommy, Gutenberg! The Musical!, KPOP
Other Select Credits: Diary of A Wimpy Kid (by Kevin Del Aguila, Michael Mahler, and Alan Schmuckler), Other World (by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, and Ann McNamee), Music Director/Conductor/Keys 1 for the first national tour of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical; RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), Into the Woods (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special), The Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals, The REV Theatre Co.), Passing Strange (Barrymore award recipient, Wilma Theater), KPOP (Ars Nova), A Period of Animate Existence (Pig Iron Theatre Company), The Color Purple (Barrymore award recipient), Peter and the Starcatcher, A New Brain, Into the Woods (Barrymore award recipient), and Spring Awakening (Theatre Horizon), Do You Want A Cookie? (Bearded Ladies Cabaret), A Year With Frog & Toad (Barrymore award nominee), The Secret Garden, Passion, and Parade (Arden Theatre Company).