Amelia is a blind and neurodiverse artist, academic, facilitator and theatre practitioner and a co-founder of Quiplash CIC.
They’re an experienced and charismatic facilitator, speaker and host. They develop and deliver the majority of the training, consulting, workshops, etc for Quiplash.
Amelia moved to the UK from New Mexico, USA in 2006 and has worked for around 20 years in the field of performance and audio description (AD), contributing to research and writing, supporting artists and companies to find exciting and creative ways to utilise this access tool. They have their own methodology ‘Queer AD’ which is used by audio describers in projects and theatres across the UK and abroad.