Amanda Boekelheide received her BA in theatre from Pitzer College in Los Angeles, and Marymount College in London, then continued her study in Decroux based physical theatre at L'ecole de Mime Corporeal Dramatique in London. Since 1997 she has been a core member of Liminal Performance Group, working as an actor and the company's movement director. She worked intensively with Thomas Leabhart for three years, taught with him in Lectoure, France, and hosted Thomas for a Portland workshop in 2000. Boekelheide studied Alexander Technique for the last ten years and taught theatre at The Catlin Gabel School. In 2002, Boekelheide received several regional grants to study technique with theatre ensembles and artists in Germany, France and Poland. In March 2003, Boekelheide traveled to China on a grant to study Peking Opera and modern Chinese dance theater. She won a Drammy award for her work in Three Plays, Five Lives in 2003. Boekelheide teaches workshops in mutual physicality, articulated physicality and impossible architecture. She currently resides in NY where she was the 2003-2004 artist in residence at the International House. She studied Suzuki and Viewpoints at SITI Company Training in 2004, and she will graduate from Columbia University's MFA program in Acting in 2006.
