Amarantha
Amarantha
Amarantha is a Jamaican playwright, producer, performer and arts ecology consultant. Her writing channels the sacred storytelling traditions of her Indigenous American bloodline, West African ancestry and Jamaican culture, alchemised through a contemporary Caribbean diasporic lens. Blending mythology, ritual, humour and Afro-futurism, she creates rich worlds that interrogate how ancestral knowledge and mysticism challenge systems of power, science and empire. Her plays are grounded in embodiment, rhythm and cultural memory, wrapping audiences into immersive experiences that are intimate, visceral and expansive. Through her work, she lights pathways for reconnection to the magic of lineage and imagination. She has been selected for La Mama Theatre’s Pathways Writers Program, Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Writers Program (2023), and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric program (2025). She mentors emerging writers through Arts Centre Melbourne's New Writers Collective and La Mama Theatre's Immerse programs. She is a 2026 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.