Rate My Professor Amanda Martin

Since relocating to New Zealand, Martin has directed and devised several local productions, including Yellow Coal and $19.95, for which she served as devising director and script writer; White Men as director; Dayboy as co-director; and Heathers: The Musical in 2021 at New New New Corporation Brewery in Dunedin. At the University of Otago, she teaches a range of courses in the Theatre programme, including THEA 241 Writing for Stage and Screen, THEA 341 Advanced Writing for the Stage and Screen, THEA 424 Aspects of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, THEA 457 The Working Dramaturg, THEA 153 Voice and Movement, and THEA 351 Performing Shakespeare. Her scholarly work includes book reviews in Australasian Drama Studies: Performing Dramaturgy (2018, issue 72, pp. 238-243) and Birds; Urban Hymns; The Gangster's Paradise; Still Life with Pigeons (2024, issue 85, pp. 250-256). She co-created The Anderson Localization for the 2025 Dunedin Arts Festival and delivered a verbal presentation titled Beyond Surrealism: The Theater of Robert Wilson at the 2017 Mediating the Real 2 Conference in Dunedin. Martin also supervises postgraduate theses in Theatre and Dance and contributes to the Master of Creative Writing programme.