Amy Amantea

Artist

Amy Amantea (she/her) is a white settler on the stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-waututh first peoples. Living with blindness, dyslexia and chronic pain, Amy aims to increase representation of disability within the Canadian theatre/arts/dance landscape. Her background is in acting having attended VFS and private acting academies before her sight loss. Amy has had to reinvent herself as a performer and has integrated access, advocacy, and activism into her work.

Also working as an accessibility consultant, Amy works with theatre companies and independent artists on a creative access approach to their work in the hopes of opening to doors of accesses to more arts lovers who live with disability.