Amanda Weis is Twin Cities-based music director, stage director, teaching artist, performer, and private vocal instructor. Regionally, Ms. Weis has performed, stage directed, or music directed with such companies as Minneapolis Musical Theatre, History Theatre, Lyric Arts, Duluth Playhouse, St. Croix Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, Journey North Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, Children's Performing Arts, Masquers Theatre, Eden Prairie Players, Opera Reading Project, The Seasons Dinner Theatre, Open Window Theatre, The Phipps, Really Spicy Opera, and the Paul Bunyan Playhouse, among other notable houses.

 

Amanda stage-directed Verdi’s Rigoletto for Really Spicy Opera’s tenth season and assistant directed Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Waimea, Hawaii, for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Ms. Weis music directed High Fidelity for Minneapolis Musical Theatre at the infamous Electric Fetus, earning herself a Broadway World Minneapolis regional nomination for best musical direction and a nomination for Favorite Musical Director with the Twin Cities Blogger's Theatre Awards. Ms. Weis was the vocal director the 2019 national tour of Nick Jr Live, a collaboration between Nickelodeon and VStar Entertainment.

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She has been a teaching artist or vocal coach with Totino Grace Fine Arts Academy, Lundstrom Performing Arts, Young Actors Academy, and at the Guthrie.

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Amanda Weis is a member of NATS - National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Amanda is also a solo and ensemble contest judge for the

Minnesota State High School League under the name Amanda McGivern.

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Ms. Weis' private music studio is located in Lino Lakes, MN, where she resides with her husband Patrick McGivern, two cats (Thors & Sif) and certified therapy dogs (Lucilla and Bucky.) Her dogs are certified through Helping and Healing Paws, and frequently volunteer at the their local library, nursing homes, and have volunteered at Hamline University and University of Northwestern.

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*Please ask for current performing or directing resume.