Credentials:
Master Screenwriting Certificate (in progress)
ScreenwritingU
Television Drama Certificate Program (in progress)
Writing Pad
ProSeries
ScreenwritingU
Core Training - Sketch Comedy
Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center
Certificate of Directing with Distinction
UCLA Extension Film Program
Corey Mandell Professional Screenwriting Workshop
Media Arts - Screenwriting & Directing
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Los Angeles Valley College
Bachelor of Art - Theater
Columbia College Chicago
Certificates
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Safe Sets COVID-19 (Level A)
Safe Sets International
COVID-19 Compliance Officer
Health & Education Services
Pandemic Compliance Officer for Event Professionals
Health & Education Services
COVID-19 Awareness
OSHA
COVID-19 Contact Tracer
John Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
COVID-19 Mass Gathering Risk Assessment
World Health Organization
Accolades:
2020 - Undeveloped Script Quarter Finalist | Clowns in the Kitchen
TSL Free Screenplay Contest
2020 - Undeveloped Script Winner | Cabin Fever
Hollywood Screenwriters & Actors Script Contest
2019 - Diversity Scholarship Recipient
Upright Citizens Brigade
2019 - Undeveloped Script Quarter Finalist | Ethereality
Screencraft Film Fund
2018 - Best Technique (Nominated) | Ethereality
Monkey Bread Tree Film Festival
2015 - Best Student Film | Sumtin' Like 'Dat
Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
2015 - Official Selection | Sumtin' Like 'Dat
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival
2012 - Ovation Award
Best Fight Choreography | Hearts Like Fists
Los Angeles Stage Alliance
2012 - LA Weekly Theater Award
- Best Fight Choreography | Hearts Like Fists | Theater of Note
- Best Production Design (Fight and Stunt Choreography) | Stoneface | Sacred Fools Theatre
- Production of the Year (Fight and Stunt Choreography) | Stoneface | Sacred Fools Theatre
2012 - Scenie Award
Stage Scene Los Angeles
- Best Fight Choreography | Hearts Like Fists | Theater of Note
- Best Fight Choreography | Stoneface | Sacred Fools Theatre
2001 - Founder's Award
Society of American Fight Directors
Best Unarmed Fight
2001 - Examiner's Award for Excellence
Society of American Fight Directors
Hand-to-Hand Combat | Rapier & Dagger | Broadsword
Athletic Accomplishments:
1999 - 2-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Chicago Sport & Social Club
1998 - 2-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Whale of Spike
1997 4-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Chicago Sport & Social Club
1986 - Gold Medal | Ice Hockey | Team USA
Asian Games
Critical Acclaim:
Andrew Amani once again proves himself a stunt/fight choreographer par excellence...
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA | Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini | Sacred Fools Theatre
Andrew Amani's choreography for this fight was beautiful and had all the potential to finally set the bar for a good fight in Los Angeles.
Kat Michels, Culver City News | Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini | Sacred Fools Theatre
One of the highlights of the productions is a superbly choreographed fight between Phelan and Roberts (fight coordinator Andrew Amani).
Arts in LA | Dead Man's Cell Phone | International City Theater
A salute must go to Andrew Amani, the no-holds-barred fight coordinator.
Ingred Wilmot, Will Call | Dead Man's Cell Phone | International City Theater
...fight choreographer extraordinaire Andrew Amani has designed a knock-down drag-out confrontation between Jean and a character known only as The Stranger that is one of his best - funniest.
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA | Dead Man's Cell Phone | International City Theater
The fight choreography: Wow - Was this unexpected! I've been to many plays featuring fighting, but when Hunter appeared on the stage, the battles became amazing! A body flip in a bodyguard auditioning sequence was incredible! Major kuddos to Andrew Amani!
Sci Fi Pulse | Neverwhere | Sacred Fools Theatre
...thanks to Andrew Amani's witty fight choreography ... "Hearts Like Fists" is the perfect summer date show: exhilarating, nerdy-sexy, and silly-smart.
Charlotte Stoudt, LA Times | Hearts Like Fists | Theater of Note
No small part of the comedy spring from fight choreographer Andrew Amani's smartly calibrated staging.
Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly | Hearts Like Fists | Theater of Note
As for those fight sequences, expertly choreographed by Andrew Amani, they are as high-energy and precision as they come, and executed to comic book perfection by good girls and bad guy alike ... topnotch team of L.A.'s best."
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA | Hearts Like Fists | Theater of Note
The physical inventiveness is always top-notch ... for the movement and staging it seams I have my choice of which artist to complement, from director Jamie Robledo ... to stunt/fight choreographer Andrew Amani.
Brian Sonia-Wallce, LA Theatre Review | Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton | Sacred Fools Theatre
Nearly continuous pratfalls and hilarious choreographed bits keep the play alive...
Travis Michael Holder, Backstage Review | Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton | Sacred Fools Theatre
Physically, the production owes much to its talented team of designers
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA | Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton | Sacred Fools Theatre
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the hard-working actors and many, many people behind the scene who brought this play, however discouraging, to life. Among the notables are ... Andrew Amani's stunt choreography ... some of the scenes, in and of themselves, are brilliantly funny and entertaining.
Tony Frankel, Stage and Cinema | Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton | Sacred Fools Theatre
I had quite the time Friday night basking in the theater glow of unique and inspiringly innovative ... to the daring moves of Andrew Amani ... this show is a well-oiled machine.
Lucy Grifffien, Arts Beat LA | Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton | Sacred Fools Theatre