About Amontaine

Amontaine is a Seattle-based writer and performer. Having been drawn to creativity from a young age, she is grateful for an evolving artistic path from which to explore her mind, create worlds and investigate the complexities of human nature. As an actress, she has performed on stages and on sets in Seattle, Montana, Los Angeles and New York, and is the winner of a national acting competition sponsored by Inspirational Productions. Since 2006, Amontaine has written and performed in her own original solo plays, including Waiting for Billie Holiday, and My Name is Trazar. In 2008, she toured her solo performance show, Queen Rita’s Blues Alley to New York and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She is the recipient of the Creation Project grant, a year-long professional development program which culminated in an excerpted performance of her newest solo piece, The Year The Revolution Came to White High School High, now titled Free Desiree. In 2012, the full-length production of  Free Desiree will play March 9, 10, 16, and 17 at the Founders Theater @ Velocity Dance Center on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

Amontaine’s articles and essays have been published in Calyx Journal, Colors, The Raven Chronicles and Essence Magazine, among others. Her essay, The Gift of Breath, appears in the Seal Press anthology, Sometimes Rhythm, Sometimes Blues: Young African Americans on Love, Relationships, Sex and the Search for Mr. Right.

Amontaine has a degree in Writing from Antioch University, and has lived and/or studied in Los Angeles, New York, Italy, Egypt and Bali. She has been a resident at the Hedgebrook Writer’s Retreat for women on Whidbey Island in Washington State.

Most recently, Amontaine was honored to be chosen as a participant in People, Passion, Purpose: A Learning Odyssey, which will track 25 participants over a 9-month period as they identify and reach for their greatest passions. This event is a part of the 50 year celebration of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.