Amanda
Morgan
Amanda Morgan (she/her) is from Tacoma, Washington. She studied at Dance Theatre Northwest and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and she attended summer courses at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Boston Ballet School, and the School of American Ballet. She participated in PNB School’s exchange with the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden, where she also performed with Dresden Semperoper Ballett. Amanda joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2016, was promoted to corps de ballet in 2017, and promoted to soloist in 2022.
As a choreographer, Amanda has created works for PNB’S NEXT STEP, including Pages (2018) and The Argument (2019). She has choreographed for the Seattle International Film Festival and created her own show at Northwest Film Forum through a residency with Northwest Film Forum and Velocity Dance Center (2019). That same year, Amanda launched The Seattle Project, an artist collaborative that creates new works to highlight and uplift BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists. In 2020, The Seattle Project premiered two works; The How of It Sped at Northwest Film Forum and Musings as part of Seattle Dance Collective’s Continuum Program. In 2020 Amanda choreographed and directed This Space Left Intentionally Blank for PNB’s digital season. In 2021, Amanda presented “truth be told”, a night of six new works, highlighting choreographers of color at Northwest Film Forum. Amanda was named one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2020.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Hippolyta)
The Nutcracker
(Sugar Plum, Hot Chocolate, Coffee, Dewdrop)
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Myrtha)
Ulysses Dove
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven
Red Angels
Alexander Ekman
Cacti
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(The Fairy of Beauty)
Alonzo King
The Personal Element
Crystal Pite
Emergence
(Trio)
Plot Point
(Mrs. Jones)
The Seasons’ Canon
Jerome Robbins
West Side Story Suite
(Rosalia)
Eva Stone
F O I L
Kent Stowell
Cinderella
(Stepsister)
Swan Lake
(Trio)
Twyla Tharp
Waiting at the Station
(Golden Girl)
Original Roles
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Jessica Lang
Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee
Nia-Amina Minor
And yet here we are
Dwight Rhoden
Catching Feelings
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
Dani Tirrell
Suckle