Amanda Vander Hyde graduated from Western Oregon University in 2018 with a B.F.A in Technical Production. She is currently a freelance Intimacy Choreographer in Portland, specializing in working with youth and young professionals. She has recently worked at Linfield University on their production of Heathers: The Musical and was also Intimacy Coordinator for multiple productions at Portland Center Stage in the year of 2022 including RENT; the ripple, the wave…; and tick…tick… BOOM. She is currently the resident Intimacy Choreographer for Valley Shakespeare Company. She is also a Stage and Production Manager in the Portland Area. Currently, she is the Production Manager of MediaRites Productions, one of the Stage Managers in rep at Oregon Children’s Theatre, and on the Stage Management team at Portland Center Stage. In her ample spare time, she is also a friend, a wife, and a cat mom.