Amelia Workman is an actress, singer, and writer in Brooklyn. An originator of many groundbreaking roles in the American theatre, she’s helped reimagine several rarely seen theatrical masterpieces with award-winning playwrights and Tony-winning directors. Intellectual rigor and emotional honesty are a hallmark of her work and process.

She is attracted to storytellers with distinct voices and visions. Her knack for identifying, understanding, and ultimately aiding such collaborators took her to the Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Award-winning feature A Thousand and One from writer/director A.V. Rockwell, Hillman Grad (Lena Waithe), and Focus Features.

Amelia has worked with Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, David Cromer, Kenny Leon, Liesl Tommy, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Rachel Chavkin, Daniel Sullivan, Young Jean Lee, Leslye Headland, Dave Malloy, Annie Kauffman, Neil Pepe, Leigh Silverman, Trip Cullman, Kate Benson, David Adjmi, and Eisa Davis (selected).

She has performed at and/or developed work for Second Stage, The Public, Lincoln Center, The Delacorte, Soho Rep, Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Atlantic, Signature Theatre, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Goodman, The Humana Festival, Summerscape at Bard, New Georges, Julliard, and Theatre for a New Audience (selected). She debuted on Broadway as Kerry Washington’s understudy in American Son and was an original cast member of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

As an original cast member of Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment Amelia played The Barbican (London), The Hebbel (Berlin), The Festival D’Automne (Paris), The Zurich Theater Spektakel (Zurich), The Rotterdam Seschouwburg (Rotterdam), The Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), The Contemporary Drama Festival (Budapest), The Vienna Festival (Vienna), and The Sydney Opera House (Sydney) by invitation of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (selected).

She has performed at The New Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Institute of Contemporary Art.

She studied Commedia del Arte in Avignon and Shakespeare in London. She has a BA in Theatre from Fordham University and graduated from the Duke Ellington School for the Arts.