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Amanda Verlaque is a writer for stage, screen, audio and VR based in Belfast. Amanda’s recent and current work includes commissions for the Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre, and the National Theatre Connections 2025 season. The Grand Opera House staged a new production of This Sh*t Happens All the Time in March 2024. Amanda enjoyed an ...
View Amanda Verlaque’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Repped by Jasmine Daines Pilgrem @Lisarichards. Writer of Distortion & This Sh*t Happens All the Time · I'm a writer for stage, screen, radio and VR.
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Oct 17, 2021 · Amanda Verlaque says it was imposter syndrome that almost stopped her but now, age 54, her first play Distortion is being staged online. Today's top videos The Lurgan-born writer has previously enjoyed a career in television drama, albeit outside the area of writing.
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Writer. Amanda Verlaque is a writer for stage, screen and VR. The MAC, Belfast produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion, and her radio play Lolly , which featured in their On the Street Where We Live audio series (which she also executive produced). She’s just made her debut as a director for VR with her short film Egg ...
Amanda Verlaque has showcased work at Outburst Queer Arts Festival and is an ACNI SIAP recipient. Amanda’s idea for Hatch & Scratch, A Kink in The Brain, explored how injustice and inequality impact the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community. Amanda’s career in the creative industries began as an arts and entertainment ...
L-R: Amanda Verlaque, Nicky Harley, Rhiann Jeffrey The Grand Opera House has announced details of its production of This Sh*t Happens All the Time , a powerful take on a true love story set in 1990s Belfast, which will form part of its new programme strand ‘The Studio Series’, designed to champion local writers, artists, and creatives from Northern Ireland.
Tue Mar 29 2022. Writer Amanda Verlaque discusses the real-life experiences that inspired her new one-woman play 'This Sh*t Happens All The Time'. "This Sh*t Happens All The Time relates to an incident when I was an undergraduate at Queen’s and the target of a homophobic hate crime. It was 1992, when this term didn’t exist or the laws now ...
