Amanda N Spaanstra is a costume technician, working primarily in theatre and opera.  After being based in Chicago for four years, she now works in the costume shop at the University of Delaware in Newark, and now spends her summers as a draper at The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY.  

She graduated with an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She recieved a BA with a concentration in costume design at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

While in Chicago, Amanda primarily worked as a draper at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Ilinois.  She has spent the past eight summers at The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York, and has served as stitcher, first hand, and draper throughout her time there.  She has also worked with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival for their summer seasons.