A theater director and a theater maker, Mandy's practice focuses on developing and staging works in innovative ways that respond directly to our world.

 

"I strive for that perfect balance of joy and rigor in the process and in the product. I believe that audiences look for two things in a production: One, they want to get lost in the story and believe in the honesty of the characters, and two, they want to feel the love of performing radiating off of the actors and the entire production. Audiences want, simultaneously, a suspension of disbelief and a desire to get up on stage themselves to sing and dance."

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