Amanda Berg Wilson

(Bio as of December 2025)

Amanda Berg Wilson (Assistant Director) is the Artistic Director of The Catamounts, a Colorado company she co-founded in 2011 dedicated to theater for the adventurous palate (TheCatamounts.org). In addition, Wilson is a freelance theater artist specializing in site-specific, immersive and boundary-pushing works. Directing credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Utah Shakespeare Festival); 9 to 5, Pride and Prejudice, Steel Magnolias and Young Frankenstein (Creede Repertory Theatre); The Wild Party and Between Us: The Whiskey Tasting (DCPA Off-Center); God’s Ear, Failure: A Love Story, Rausch, Men On Boats, United Flight 232, Land of Milk and Honey and Ghost Quartet, among others (The Catamounts). Performance credits include: Sweet & Lucky, Sweet & Lucky: Echo (DCPA Off-Center); Detroit (Curious Theatre Company); There is A Happiness That Morning Is and Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (The Catamounts). Select awards: 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021 True West awards; 2017 and 2018 Henry nominations (Best Choreography and Best New Work). She served as the Assistant Director for and performed as the Guide in Theater of the Mind by Mala Gaonkar and David Byrne with DCPA Off-Center. Prior to founding The Catamounts, she founded the Chicago-based interdisciplinary performance and education company Striding Lion, where she served as Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director from 2001–2010. While in Chicago, she also worked for Steppenwolf Theater, Collaboraction, the Strange Tree Group and the Side Project. Wilson graduated cum laude from Kenyon College with a BA in English and Drama.