During her MacDowell residency, Amanda Green worked on the score for the musical Hands on a Hardbody, based on the documentary, in collaboration with MacDowell Fellow and Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Doug Wright. She wrote the lyrics for High Fidelity (Broadway, 2006) and is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Award.
Amanda Green
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Hands on a Hardbody (Musical)
Studios
Monday Music
Amanda Green worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…