Biography
Amanda Wilkin is a playwright, actress and jazz and blues singer-songwriter from London. In 2017 she was on the Royal Court and BBC London Writers’ Groups. In 2020 she won the Verity Bargate Award for her play SHEDDING A SKIN, which she performed at Soho Theatre in summer 2021, before reviving it there in March 2022. The play was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2022. Her play RECOGNITION was produced with Talawa and headlined Croydon’s City of Culutre 2023 initiative. She has since been commissioned by Germany’s Theatertreffen Stückemarkt for their 2023/2024 season and she is now developing work for television and film.