Amanda Parris is a Canadian broadcaster and writer. An arts reporter and producer for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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, she hosts the
CBC Television
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series '' The Filmmakers'' and has hosted the CBC Television series ''
Exhibitionists
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CBC Music
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Now
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to the present time.
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'', November 2, 2016. She was cohost with
Tom Power
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of the
2016 Polaris Music Prize
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.
''Other Side of the Game'', her debut as a theatrical playwright, was staged by Toronto's Obsidian Theatre and Cahoots Theatre in 2017. After it was published in book form, it won the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama
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Because the awa ...
at the
2019 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,Charles Officer, is a short, filmed, stage monodrama set in the near-future where premature Black death is an inevitability. Commissioned by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, Obsidian Theatres’s artistic director, for '' 21 Black Futures'', an anthology series featuring 21 Black playwrights which began streaming on CBC Gem in February 2021. ''The Death News'' responds to the question “What is the future of Blackness?” Parris was inspired by TV and radio broadcasts in Grenada, where hosts provide information on who has died and funeral details. Parris imagined her work as a tool of resistance to mainstream media and its failure to tell nuanced stories of Black people.
Prior to joining the CBC, Parris co-founded Lost Lyrics with Natasha Daniels, an arts education program that used theatre, dance, poetry, film and music to reach youth at risk of dropping out of school.
In 2022, she was named alongside
Kathleen Newman-Bremang
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She has also worked as a television produ ...
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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's inaugural Changemaker Award at the
10th Canadian Screen Awards
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ET Canada
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Deadline Hollywood
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